US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 15 for "Device to device communications in hybrid networks" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,912, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Device to device communications in hybrid networks" was invented by Mukesh Taneja (Bangalore, India), Indermeet S. Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.) and Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device-to-Device (D2D) communications in hybrid networks are provided by identifying a first dual-mode endpoint seeking to communicate with a second dual-mode endpoint via a D2D communications session; identifying a first communications pattern of network resource usage for the first Radio Access Technology (RAT) and a second communications pattern...