MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517050438 A) filed by Orange, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, on May 26, for 'short-range radio network with connectivity parameter.'

Inventor(s) include Bonnamy, Jean-Michel; and Hamet, Philippe.

The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention relates to a method for communication between a station (STA) and at least one first access point (APi) belonging to a short-range radio network identified by a network identifier, the network comprising a plurality of access points. The method is implemented by the station and comprises: - receiving (S2), from the first access point (APi), a message (BCNi) comprising the network identifier (SSID), at least one identifier of a second access point from among the plurality of access points and a value of a connectivity parameter for the second access point; - selecting (S3), from among the plurality of access points, according to the at least one value of a received connectivity parameter, an access point to which to connect; and - establishing (S4) a connection with the thus selected access point using its identifier."

The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 22, 2023, under International application No.PCT/EP2023/082648.

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