US Patent Issued to Orange on Sept. 9 for "Switching between physical access points sharing the same virtual access point identifier" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,040, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Switching between physical access points sharing the same virtual access point identifier" was invented by Jean-Philippe Javaudin (Chatillon, France), Jean-Michel Bonnamy (Chatillon, France), Jose Saldana (Chatillon, France), Jose Ruiz Mas (Chatillon, France) and Julian Fernandez Navajas (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing switching of a terminal between a plurality of physical access points to a Wi-Fi network, a virtual access point identifier dedicated to the terminal being assigned by a controller to a first physical...