US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 10 for "Flexible-slot scheduling for raw deterministic traffic" (Canadian, American, Swiss, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,132, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Flexible-slot scheduling for raw deterministic traffic" was invented by Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Juan Carlos Zuniga (Montreal), Matthew A. Silverman (Shaker Heights, Ohio), Domenico Ficara (Essertines-sur-Yverdon, Switzerland), Amine Choukir (Ecublens, Switzerland) and Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for managing communications between access points and stations (STAs) are described herein. An access point broadcasts a trigger message to a plurality of STAs...