US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on May 12 for "Preemption scheduling for raw deterministic traffic" (Canadian, American, Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,185, issued on May 12, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Preemption scheduling for raw deterministic traffic" was invented by Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Juan Carlos Zuniga (Montreal), Matthew A. Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio), Domenico Ficara (Essertines-sur-Yverdon, Switzerland), Amine Choukir (Ecublens, Switzerland) and Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for managing communications between access points (APs) and stations (STAs) are described herein. In one embodiment, an AP broadcasts a trigger message to a plurali...