US Patent Issued to Malikie Innovations on July 1 for "Indicating support for a broadcast service" (Canadian, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,045, issued on July 1, was assigned to Malikie Innovations Ltd. (Dublin).

"Indicating support for a broadcast service" was invented by Stephen McCann (Southampton, Great Britain), Michael Peter Montemurro (Toronto) and James Randolph Winter Lepp (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A source wireless device sends an indication of support for one or more broadcast services that broadcasts information over a wireless local area network (WLAN). The source wireless device determines, based on one or more factors, whether to use a broadcast stream of a broadcast service or a unicast stream to deliver information to one or more receiving w...