US Patent Issued to MaxLinear on June 16 for "Advanced dual band virtual concurrent for WiFi" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,945, issued on June 16, was assigned to MaxLinear Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Advanced dual band virtual concurrent for WiFi" was invented by Ying Lu (Eastwood, Australia) and Richard Kinder (Eastwood, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods relate to avoiding beacon collisions between a repeater and a root AP, optimizing traffic flows based on buffers queued within hardware, and/or optimizing transmissions through a trigger-based mechanism.An example method includes determining loads on buffers within a repeater configured to communicate according to a DBVC protocol. The loads on the buffers correspond to data to be t...