US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on May 27 for "Reconfiguring beacon frames to minimize network outage" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,172, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Reconfiguring beacon frames to minimize network outage" was invented by Nitin A. Changlani (San Jose, Calif.), Abhiruchi Dakshinkar (San Jose, Calif.), Qiang Zhou (San Jose, Calif.) and Myung Cheol Kim (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a method for reconfiguring a beacon by an access point (AP) to minimize or avoid network outages experienced by client devices connected to the AP. The AP transmits a beacon comprising a basic service set identifier (BSSID) field and a Multiple BSSID (MBS...