US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 21 for "Automated neighbor discovery techniques for hybrid environments" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,778, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automated neighbor discovery techniques for hybrid environments" was invented by Vishal S. Desai (San Jose, Calif.) and Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments herein disclose coordinating neighbor discovery between access points (APs) with auxiliary radios and APs without auxiliary radios. A corresponding wireless controller comprises a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the controller to perform operations. The operations comprise grouping APs into a first group of more flex...