US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 20 for "Adaptive neighbor awareness networking (NAN) data interface" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,230, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Adaptive neighbor awareness networking (NAN) data interface" was invented by Sandip Homchaudhuri (San Jose, Calif.), Sudhanshu Singh (Hyderabad, India), Kenneth Marvin Gainey (Escondido, Calif.) and Alireza Raissinia (Monte Sereno, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for reducing power consumption in neighbor awareness networking (NAN) devices. Some implementations more specifically relate to dynamically adjusting a NAN device link (NDL) schedule to reduce the idle duration of a NAN data interface (NDI). The NDL...