US Patent Issued to Malikie Innovations on Aug. 19 for "Negotiation of quality of service (QoS) information for network management traffic in a wireless local area network (WLAN)" (Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,899, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Malikie Innovations Ltd. (Dublin).

"Negotiation of quality of service (QoS) information for network management traffic in a wireless local area network (WLAN)" 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: "An access point advertises a management frame quality of service (MFQ) policy that defines an access category used for transmitting a first type of management frame. Each mobile station associated with the access point is to prioritize transmission of management frames according to the MFQ policy advertised by ...