US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on June 24 for "Automated configuration of device wake schedules for satellite communications" (Canadian, American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,278, issued on June 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automated configuration of device wake schedules for satellite communications" was invented by Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada), Francesco Basile (Pisa, Italy), Michael Freed (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Yen Chih Lee (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, a first device in a network may obtain a satellite communication schedule indicative of when a satellite will be in communication range of the first device. The first device may communicate with the satellite according to the satellite c...