US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Sept. 8 for "Use-it-or-lose-it resource reservations for roaming" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,871, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Use-it-or-lose-it resource reservations for roaming" was invented by Brian Donald Hart (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for minimizing pre-roaming resource reservations. In one aspect, it is determined that a client device connected to a first Access Point (AP) will roam, based on the determination, generating a list of APs that are roam candidates supportive of one or more resources needed by the client device, issuing a reser...