US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 16 for "Filtering broadcast packets in distributed communication systems" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,278, issued on June 16, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Filtering broadcast packets in distributed communication systems" was invented by Bart Brinckman (Holsbeek, Belgium) and Muhammad Shahzad (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, methods, and processes for filtering of received broadcast packets at access points (APs) connected to a controller. Typically, the APs forward all the received broadcast packets to the controller for processing. Many of these broadcast packets may not be subscribed by any application and thus are dropped by the controller. Thus, both the APs and the contro...