ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,405, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Method and system for increasing energy efficiency in a wireless network" was invented by Kuanyue Li (Beijing), Hailong Bai (Beijing) and Hongli Zhang (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for configuring a plurality of access points (APs) providing service coverage to a space is described. The system determines a number of users in the space. Responsive to the number of users exceeding a predetermined threshold, the system can place the plurality of APs in a high-power mode and cause an antenna of each AP to op...