US Patent Issued to Malikie Innovations on April 22 for "Wireless network service transaction protocol" (Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,599, issued on April 22, was assigned to Malikie Innovations Ltd. (Dublin).

"Wireless network service transaction protocol" was invented by Stephen McCann (Southampton, Great Britain) and Michael Peter Montemurro (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device may retrieve service information about a network prior to associating with the network. Utilizing an advertisement protocol to transmit service query messages, a mobile device may receive service query responses from a network that identify the services available prior to establishing network capability. In other words, the messaging is prior to the exchange of any authe...