US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Dec. 2 for "Network assisted roaming for multilink clients" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,076, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Network assisted roaming for multilink clients" was invented by Santosh B. Kulkarni (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vishal S. Desai (San Jose, Calif.) and Pooya Monajemi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an MLD AP that attempts to avoid roaming of STAs within its coverage area when one of the links of the STA is about fall out of the coverage area of the MLD AP. When the MLD STA moves in a way that puts one of its links on the verge of a coverage area, its servicing MLD AP attempts to reroute traffic to other in-range links of the...