MUMBAI, India, Sept. 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617085621 A) filed by Cisco Technology, Inc. on July 13, 2026, for Data Forwarding For Seamless Roaming In Wireless Local Area Networks.
Inventors include Gupta, Binita; Hart, Brian Donald; and Smith, Malcolm Muir.
The application for the patent was published on September 04, 2026, under issue no. 36/2026.
Abstract: Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, processes, and computer-readable media for seamless roaming in networks. For example, an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) includes at least one memory and at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory. The processor is configured to: provide a data forwarding capability of the source AP MLD to a non-AP MLD; during roaming of the non-AP MLD to a target AP MLD, identify a first portion data in the source AP MLD to forward to the target AP MLD based on the data forwarding capability, wherein the target AP MLD and the source AP MLD are configured in a seamless mobility domain; and forward a first portion of data in the source AP MLD to the target AP MLD during roaming.
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