US Patent Issued to Juniper Networks on June 24 for "Methods and apparatus for performing access and/or forwarding control in wireless networks such as WLANS" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,167, issued on June 24, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for performing access and/or forwarding control in wireless networks such as WLANS" was invented by Randall Frei (San Jose, Calif.), Sujai Hajela (Saratoga, Calif.), Guy Goldstone (Palm Harbor, Fla.), Nicolas Dade (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Linker Cheng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for controlling access to and/or forwarding of communicated information, e.g. traffic, in a wireless communication system are described. The key, e.g., PSK, used to secure data that is transmitted to an access po...