US Patent Issued to Canon on April 22 for "Restored fairness in an 802.11 network implementing resource units" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,676, issued on April 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Restored fairness in an 802.11 network implementing resource units" was invented by Stephane Baron (Le Rheu, France), Patrice Nezou (Liffre, France) and Pascal Viger (Janze, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "802.11ax nodes benefit from additional medium accesses through multi-user uplink provided by an AP, compared to legacy node. To restore fairness in medium access, the invention proposes to update node's EDCA parameters, in particular EDCA backoffs, using penalty values each time the node successfully transmits data to the AP over OFDMA resource units. This is to red...