ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,951, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Discovery for neighbor awareness networking" was invented by Daniel R. Borges (San Francisco), Lochan Verma (Danville, Calif.), Su Khiong Yong (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yong Liu (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects of this disclosure are directed to implementing a discovery procedure including one or more of single channel publish phases, multi-channel publish phases, and single channel subscribe phases. For example, a method includes determining, by a publisher device, a first time period for a single channel publish phase and determinin...