US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 24 for "Slot synchronization for stations in overlapping basic service sets" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,061, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Slot synchronization for stations in overlapping basic service sets" was invented by Brian D. Hart (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Pooya Monajemi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for reducing collisions in a wireless network with overlapping basic service sets by synchronizing contention slots among stations (access points or non-access point clients), some of which are out of range, competing for the use of the wireless medium. In some embodiments, the contention slots of competing stations are synchr...