US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 10 for "Provision period management for ensuring a low latency service in a BSS" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,193, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Provision period management for ensuring a low latency service in a BSS" 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: "To make effective the usage of network resources and timely handling of low latency traffic, and in particular IEEE 802.11 networks, it is described according to an aspect of the invention a method of communication comprising, at an access-point, AP: contending for access to a wireless medium, a provision period prior a start of a low latency, LL, service perio...