ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,254, issued on June 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Transparent roaming in virtual access point (VAP) enabled networks" was invented by Pascal Thubert (Roquefort les Pins, France), Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Saint Martin d'Uriage, France), Patrick Wetterwald (Mouans Sartoux, France) and Eric Levy-Abegnoli (Valbonne, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a supervisory device in a network forms a virtual access point (VAP) for a node in the network. A set of access points (APs) in the network are mapped to the VAP as part of a VAP mapping and the node treats the APs in the VAP mapping as a ...