US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Oct. 7 for "Application-based transmission opportunity sharing" (California, Florida, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,437, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..

"Application-based transmission opportunity sharing" was invented by Pooya Monajemi (San Jose, Calif.), John Matthew Swartz (Lithia, Fla.), Yeneneh Elfaged Gobena (Cary, N.C.) and Ian Hasund (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Application-based Transmission Opportunity (TXOP) sharing may be provided. First, a sharing AP may receive a request to share TXOPs with a requesting AP. The request may include information associated with an application executing on a client serviced by the requesting AP. Next, a TXOP duration for the requesting AP may be reserved based on the...