US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on June 16 for "Devices and methods for WLAN enhanced broadcast services" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,701, issued on June 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Devices and methods for WLAN enhanced broadcast services" was invented by Stephen McCann (Munich) and Michael Montemurro (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point (AP) is configured to establish an Enhanced Broadcast Services, (EBCS) multicast stream between one or more backend servers and one or more non-AP stations of a wireless local area network (WLAN). The AP comprises a communication interface configured to transmit or receive a frame of the EBCS multicast stream, wherein the frame comprises a content identifier indicative of ...