ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,163, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Scale by using a tiered multi-level scheduling approach" was invented by Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, Texas) and Brian D. Hart (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scaling by using tiered multi-level scheduling may be provided. Connectivity information associated with a plurality of Access Points (APs) may be received by a computing device. A plurality of Connectivity Groups (CGs) may be determined from the plurality of APs based on the connectivity information. Transmissions may be scheduled for the plurality of CGs such that when any of the plurality of C...