US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 27 for "Access point coordination using dual network allocation vectors" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,539, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Access point coordination using dual network allocation vectors" was invented by Malcolm M. Smith (Richardson, Texas), Indermeet S. Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.) and Brian D. Hart (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a network that uses dual NAVs. An apparatus includes one or more memories and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the one or more memories. A combination of the one or more processors generates a message that includes (i) a first NAV indicating a first time period and (ii) a second NA...