Ruckus Wireless has announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO) have each awarded the company a landmark patent on conversion of multicast to unicast transmissions.
The Ruckus multicast-to-unicast patent is particularly significant to the wireless networking industry as the growing demand for wireless multimedia communications coincides with the rise in Wi-Fi usage everywhere. It has commercialized Smart Wi-Fi solutions and remains the only Wi-Fi supplier with systems deployed in more than a million locations around the world, supporting the distribution of high-definition IP-based television over standard Wi-Fi.
“This patent fundamentally improves the quality of service that can be delivered over Wi-Fi networks,” said Bill Kish, Ruckus Wireless CTO, co-founder and one of the named inventors. “New applications for Wi-Fi are quickly appearing as performance and reliability increase. There is incredible demand for wireless that is as reliable as a wire. Ruckus is taking it there.”
Originally filed in November 2004, the multicast conversion patent is one of nearly two dozen patents granted to Ruckus with dozens more pending approval. Multicast, a one-to-many transmission technique for data communications networks, is frequently used for delivering multimedia information to multiple simultaneous recipients.
