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Recognize the mother of Wifi (i.imgflip.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What's your evidence, Richard Easton??!?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (12 children)

https://www.ieee802.org/11/Documents/DocumentArchives/1996_docs/1196049D_scan.pdf

Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum PHY of the 802.11 Wireless LAN Standard

Edit: [email protected] is correct. FHSS was quickly dropped for DSSS and OFDM, and FHSS is not used in any modern WiFi specs. You can see the list in table 7.6 here https://www.pearsonitcertification.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1329709&seqNum=4

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (6 children)

It may be dropped, but it was used in the beginning

Wouldn't that not still make her the mother of Wifi?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

Hehehe, you can call her the mother of early 802.11 and Bluetooth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

For the Bluetooth development, the developers of the technology didn't know about her patent until their IP department was about to file for a patent. They added this patent to the list and then they got connected. As is the case with many, patent and patent connections. It's a quite common way of how patents are connected, and part of the IP industry. R&D people come up with an idea, these people don't read tons of patents but solve issues in an intuitive way. Then IP lawers dig into existing patents and make the legal connections.

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