US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Nov. 18 for "Automated group opt-in method for 802.11 wireless networks" (Swiss, American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,934, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automated group opt-in method for 802.11 wireless networks" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Domenico Ficara (Vaud, Switzerland), Javier I. Contreras Albesa (Barcelona, Spain) and Ugo Mario Campiglio (Morges, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, a method includes establishing, by an access point (AP), a wireless communications link between the AP and a wireless station, wherein establishing the wireless communications link includes receiving a protected association request frame from the wireless station. T...