ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,398, issued on May 13, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"QoS management for multi-user EDCA transmission mode in 802.11ax networks" was invented by Pascal Viger (Janze, France), Stephane Baron (Le Rheu, France) and Patrice Nezou (Liffre, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to wireless network comprising an access point and non-AP stations. The station has traffic queues and associated a backoff counters which are decremented over time upon continuously sensing the medium as free during more than respective AIFS durations. To compensate additional opportunities provided by OFDMA RUs, a queue switches to an M...