US Patent Issued to Roku on Oct. 20 for "Device discovery on a local network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,033, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Device discovery on a local network" was invented by Sudipto Nandi (San Jose, Calif.), Ashok Ranganath (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Abhay Bhorkar (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device discovery on a local network can cause suspended devices to not respond or to wake up and respond, both of which may be undesirable. To enable suspended devices to respond to a device discovery request without waking up, network interface controllers (NIC) are programmed with a device discovery protocol. A first device broadcasts a discovery frame that includes informat...