US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on Oct. 7 for "Client assisted off-channel scan" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,326, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Client assisted off-channel scan" was invented by Taren McCullough (St. Louis Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for using client assisted off-channel scanning. A method includes determining, by an access point, whether the access point or station performs an off-channel scan, selecting, by the access point, a station for each operating frequency supported by the access point when the access point is unable to perform the off-channel scan, sending, by the access point to each selected station, an off-channel scan reque...