US Patent Issued to Fortinet on April 8 for "BSS (basic service set) fast transitions between access points using opportunistic key generation" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,708, issued on April 8, was assigned to Fortinet Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"BSS (basic service set) fast transitions between access points using opportunistic key generation" was invented by Ankur Jain (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A station initiates fast BSS transition by a station from the source access point to the target access point. The target access point detects a failure by the Wi-Fi controller to retrieve a PMK-RO key for a requested PMKROName is detected. The PMKROName is parsed from an authentication request of the station. The failure can result in requiring a fresh BSS connection by the station. Resp...