US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Aug. 4 for "Basic service set resource reservation" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,609, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Basic service set resource reservation" was invented by Malcolm M. Smith (Richardson, Texas), Brian D. Hart (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sanjay Katabathuni (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Basic Service Set (BSS) resource reservation may be provided. BSS resource reservation may include determining a time window for a to accommodate a transmission of a target Station (STA) in a BSS, wherein the BSS further comprises one or more other STAs. An AP may then transmit a reservation scheduling frame, to claim access of a channel, inform the target ST...