US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 24 for "AP controlled peer-to-peer multi-link operations signaling" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,547, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"AP controlled peer-to-peer multi-link operations signaling" was invented by Pooya Monajemi (San Jose, Calif.), Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada), Juan Carlos Zuniga (Montreal), Malcolm M. Smith (Richardson, Texas) and Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improved peer-to-peer communication are provided. A wireless access point (AP) may initiate peer-to-peer communication between multilink peer-to-peer devices by sending a trigger frame addressed to the peer-to-peer devices to hand over a transmission opportunity...