US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 18 for "Operating channel change without wi-fi direct network re-establishment protocol" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,400, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Operating channel change without wi-fi direct network re-establishment protocol" was invented by Ofer Hareuveni (Haifa, Israel), Elad Oren (Tel Aviv, Israel), Emily H. Qi (Gig Harbor, Wash.), Matan Levy (Zur Moshe, Israel) and Eli Tsikinovsky (Hod-HaSharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and system of switching channels between a group owner (GO) and a group client (GC) in a Wi-Fi Direct (WFD) network are described. After establishing the P2P connection via a P2P channel, a request is sent from the GC to the GO to switch from the P2P chann...