ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,946, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Wireless dynamic file exchange" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Sudhir K. Jain (Fremont, Calif.) and Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless dynamic file exchange is provided by, in response to a triggering network condition occurring, initiating an exchange of a parameter file including non-layer two content via a 802.11 message, such as a Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) message between an access point (AP) and a station (STA) connected to the AP; and in response to determining that the exchang...