ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,823, issued on Oct. 7.
"Techniques for coordinating device activity" was invented by Scott M. Marshall (Los Altos, Calif.), Darren S. Litzinger (Los Gatos, Calif.), Jeremy A. Wyld (San Diego) and John J. Iarocci (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some techniques are described herein for coordinating device activity, with devices included in one or more different groups of devices. One technique includes coordinating activities among a group as coordinator. For example, in a group of devices, a coordinator device obtains a cluster list of activities from each member device in the group. The coordinator device establishes...