US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on May 13 for "Providing an alternative access network indication to a client device in a wireless local area network roaming federation" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,236, issued on May 13, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Providing an alternative access network indication to a client device in a wireless local area network roaming federation" was invented by Mark Grayson (Berkshire, Great Britain) and Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are techniques associated with providing an alternative network indication to a client device in a wireless local area network (WLAN) roaming federation. In one example a method is provided that may include obtaining access network information for each of a plurality of access networks that neighb...