US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Jan. 20 for "AP grouping for fast moving roaming along a pathway" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,256, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"AP grouping for fast moving roaming along a pathway" was invented by Alessandro Erta (Licciana Nardi, Italy), Luca Bisti (Grosseto, Italy), Gaetano Catalli (Florence, Italy) and Carmine Benedetto (Pisa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a mobile system receives a group identifier for wireless access points associated with a pathway via which the mobile system is to travel. The mobile system receives, during travel of the mobile system along the pathway, beacons from a plurality of wireless access points. Each of the plurality of w...