US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 21 for "Multi-link operation with localized performance of B-ACK functions" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,995, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Multi-link operation with localized performance of B-ACK functions" was invented by Malcolm Muir Smith (Richardson, Texas), Brian D. Hart (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Pooya Monajemi (Irvine, Calif.), Santosh Babaji Kulkarni (San Jose, Calif.) and Vishal Satyendra Desai (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Seamless client roaming for Multi-Link Device (MLD) clients may be provided. First, a Traffic Identifier (TID)-to-link map may be established by an Upper Service Access Point (U-SAP) of a multi-AP MLD entity that assigns subsets of TIDs to at least two links of the ...