Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

Gogo LLC

Gogo Business Aviation LLC

Cable Laboratories, Inc

Kevin E Mahoney

Stephen G Glennon

John Charles Bahr

Mufaddal Makati

Ronald A Wahler

Stephen Arendt

Jon Worosylo

Neeharika Allanki

A method for providing continuous wireless communication service includes (a) transmitting a first UniCast beacon from a first wireless termination point (WTP) to a first user equipment (UE) station, (b) after transmitting the first UniCast beacon to the first UE station, handing off the first UE station from the first WTP to a second WTP, and (c) transmitting a second UniCast beacon from the second WTP to the first UE station, each of the first and second UniCast beacons including a common first basic service set identifier (BSSID).

Continuous wireless communication systems and associated methods

A method for customizing wireless communication beacons includes (a) transmitting a first Unicast beacon from a first wireless termination point (WTP) to a first user equipment (UE) station, (b) receiving, at the first WTP, an acknowledgement data frame from the first UE station, (c) determining one or more characteristics of the first UE station from the acknowledgement data frame, (d) customizing one or more second Unicast beacons for the first UE station, based at least in part on the one or more characteristics of the first UE station, and (e) transmitting the one or more second Unicast beacons from the first WTP to the first UE station.

Systems and methods for customizing wireless communication beacons and transmitting wireless communication beacons

A multiple access point system includes a wireless network including a first channel and a second channel. The system further includes a first access point and a second access point co-located within a single physical location environment, a wireless backhaul connecting the first and second access points to the wireless network, and a processor configured to (i) assign the first channel as a primary channel of the first access point and the second channel as a primary channel of the second access point, and (ii) assign the first channel as a secondary channel of the second access point and the second channel as a secondary channel of the second access point. The primary channel of the first access point does not overlap with the primary channel of the second access point, and the secondary channel of the second access point overlaps with the first access point.

Systems and methods for coordinated access point channel assignment

Steering clients between access points (APs) or other sources of wireless signaling is contemplated. The client steering may be used to supplant or augment roaming capabilities of the clients with independent steering decisions made at the APs such as by utilizing information shared between the APs to generate a steering threshold for use in assessing whether clients should be steered from one AP to another.

Client steering

Devices and nodes associated with a vehicle may communicate using a higher-level, common messaging protocol over an ad-hoc network to publish and subscribe to services, even though different nodes may utilize different types of links and channels. The network includes a rules node that is fixedly connected to the vehicle and that stores a set of rules. Given a possible publisher, subscriber, and/or a service, a node action is allowed or denied based on the set of rules. The rules may be generated or updated based on priorities, security levels, and/or characteristics of publishers, subscribers, their respective users, and/or services; a current dynamic condition; and/or user input. The rules node and at least one other node may be transported by the vehicle, and both transported nodes and nodes external to the vehicle may use the common messaging protocol to join the ad-hoc network, discover other nodes, authenticate, and publish/consume services.

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Kevin E Mahoney