US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Nov. 4 for "Differential time synchronization and scheduling" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,479, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Differential time synchronization and scheduling" was invented by Malcolm Smith (Richardson, Texas) and Brian Hart (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Differential time synchronization and scheduling may be provided. A first Access Point (AP) may wirelessly receive time-base translation parameters of a second AP. The first AP and the second AP may be neighboring. Next, a first transmission schedule for the first AP and a second transmission schedule for the second AP may be maintained. Then the second transmission schedule for the second AP may be translated ...