ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,979, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Fast Wi-Fi roaming" was invented by Xuanhe Zhang (Beijing), Haifeng Zhang (Beijing) and Hong Song (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect can provide a system and method for fast Wi-Fi roaming. The system can identify forwarding data associated with a first active session of a first application running on a client device coupled to a home access point (AP), determine a number of neighboring APs comprising a target AP, maintain a roaming cache on each of the neighboring APs, and synchronize the identified forwarding data asso...