US Patent Issued to Ruckus IP Holdings on Jan. 27 for "Offloading authentication to an authenticator" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,691, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Ruckus IP Holdings LLC (Claremont, N.C.).

"Offloading authentication to an authenticator" was invented by Yuzhou Chen (Shenzhen, China), Zhineng Cui (San Ramon, Calif.), Caiyu Wang (Shenzhen, China), Wenjun Ji (Shenzhen, China) and Tyan-Shu Jou (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device (such as an access point) that selectively performs authentication to a network is described. During operation, the electronic device provides an identity request addressed to the second electronic device. Then, the electronic device receives, associated with the second electronic devic...