US Patent Issued to Canon on May 20 for "Temporary aids for unassociated stations in communication networks" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,842, issued on May 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Temporary aids for unassociated stations in communication 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: "Association procedure in 802.11 networks is bandwidth consuming because the management frames are sent in the low bitrate Single User mode. Multi-user operations are not available for unassociated stations because they are not assigned association identifiers. The present invention proposes to provide temporary AIDs to unassociated stations sending a frame to the AP,...