US Patent Issued to Apple on June 3 for "Block acknowledgment for a multicast transmission with multiple concurrent streams" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,249, issued on June 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Block acknowledgment for a multicast transmission with multiple concurrent streams" was invented by Yoel Boger (Shoham, Israel), Ido Shani (Shoham, Israel), Koby Vainapel (Herzliya, Israel), Leor Kehaty (Givataim, Israel), Marcelo Senter (Shoham, Israel) and Guoqing Li (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology provides for block acknowledgment requests and block acknowledgment frames that can be used in conjunction with multicast transmissions that include multiple concurrent streams. Thus, the subject technology reduces the overhead ...