ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,945, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Scalable personal device sharing" was invented by Vinay Gopi (Bangalore, India), Anjanish Pandey (Bangaluru, India) and Suresh Vaidya (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point (AP) receives a network-access request comprising a first multi-pre-shared key (MPSK) password and queries an authentication server to determine an owner of a first device based on the first MPSK password. The AP receives, from the first device, an advertisement packet indicating a service provided by the first device and forwards informati...