US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Dec. 30 for "Using 802.11v action report messages to enhance roaming" (American, Canadian, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,511, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Using 802.11v action report messages to enhance roaming" was invented by Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Federico Lovison (Fontanelle, Italy) and Indermeet Singh Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for using 802.11v action report messages to enhance roaming. In one embodiment, a method includes transmitting, to a station, a transition management message that identifies a recommended access point for roaming for the station, receiving, from the station, an action report in resp...