Arris Enterprises LLC

Ruckus IP Holdings LLC

Andrew Wireless Systems Gmbh

Arris International IP Ltd

Kurt Alan Lumbatis

Jay William Strater

Mark Alan Hamilton

Gregory Nobutaka Nakanishi

Carol J Ansley

Navneeth N Kannan

Ali Negahdar

Wade E Carter

Mark Hamilton

Charles R Hardt

John Randolph Bestermann

William Charles Hare, Jr

Jian Ding

LiDan Chen

Yu Zhang

Ruilu Zeng

Christophe Piel

Bradley Thomas Howard

Xi Chen

Angela Lyda

Loc Quang Le

Ju Li

Jr William Charles Hare

A client device is provided for use with a user, a network extender device and a gateway device. The client device includes: a memory; a graphic user interface configured to provide an instruction to the user to place the client device within a predetermined distance from the network extender device; and a processor configured to execute instructions stored on the memory to cause the client device to: obtain the backhaul credentials from the wireless network; obtain the extender identification data from the network extender device; instruct the graphic user interface to provide the instruction to the user to place the client device within a predetermined distance from the network extender device; communicate with the network extender device based on the extender identification data; and provide the backhaul credentials to the network extender device to enable the network extender device to join the wireless network.

Practical easyconnect onboarding of extenders

Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate an exchange of messages between an access point and a station, wherein the access point requests a unique identifier that meet certain requirements of a unique identifier configuration from the station. The station initiates a secure connection with the access point prior to associating with the access point. The station may either respond with a message declining to provide a unique identifier or respond with a message including a unique identifier, along with a response unique identifier configuration, to be used by the access point for the station via the secure connection. The response from the station may include additional limitations on the use of the unique identifier by the access point. The access point may enforce different policies against the station depending upon how the station responds to the unique identifier request.

Communicating types of private identifiers supported in a WLAN network

Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate an exchange of messages between an access point and a station, wherein the access point requests a unique identifier from the station. The station initiates a secure connection with the access point prior to associating with the access point. The station may either respond with a message declining to provide a unique identifier or respond with a message including a unique identifier to be used by the access point for the station via the secure connection. The response from the station may include additional limitations on the use of the unique identifier by the access point. The access point may enforce different policies against the station depending upon how the station responds to the unique identifier request. A station can provide a user interface for the configuration of the unique identifier based on one or more configuration parameters.

Protected pre-association station identification

An exchange of messages between an access point and a station can be facilitated, wherein the access point requests a unique identifier from the station. The station initiates a secure connection with the access point prior to associating with the access point. The station may either respond with a message declining to provide a unique identifier or respond with a message including a unique identifier to be used by the access point for the station via the secure connection. The response from the station may include additional limitations on the use of the unique identifier by the access point. The access point may enforce different policies against the station depending upon how the station responds to the unique identifier request. A station can provide a user interface for the configuration of the unique identifier based on one or more configuration parameters including a unique identifier requirement message.

A client device for use with a wireless network controller device, a connected wireless APD and a second wireless APD, the client device including: a memory; and a processor configured to execute instructions stored on the memory to cause the client device to: associate with the wireless network; and transmit an onboard new APD instruction to the wireless network controller device to cause the wireless network controller device to: transmit a restricted mode instruction to instruct the connected wireless APD and to instruct the connected wireless APD to transmit a beacon; receive a notification of the probe request; transmit the onboarding instruction to instruct the connected wireless APD; and transmit the primary mode instruction to instruct the connected wireless APD, wherein the onboarding instruction causes one of: the connected wireless APD to transmit the beacon; and the connected wireless APD to not transmit the beacon only on the assigned channel.

Functionality to improve extender onboarding prior to country code determination

During operation, an access point aggregates communication-performance information and behavior information in a wireless local area network (WLAN) corresponding to an electronic device, where the communication-performance information and the behavior information are aggregated over a time interval that is longer than an instance of a connection or association of the electronic device to the WLAN. Then, the access point provides the communication-performance information and the behavior information to a second electronic device. After receiving information about another instance of a connection or association of the electronic device to the WLAN, the access point provides a request to the second electronic device for historical information about communication performance and behavior of the electronic device in the WLAN. Moreover, after receiving the historical information, the access point selectively provides the transition recommendation in the WLAN to the electronic device, where the transition recommendation is based at least in part on the historical information.

Device steering based on profile and historical behavior

To improve the network experience in a network, a unique device identifier (UDID) can be generated by a UDID generation module of a client device. The UDID generation module utilizes one or more device parameters as well as a service set identifier (SSID) as input(s) to the UDID generation module. The UDID can be reported to an access point device of the network so that the access point device can track, monitor, control, etc. the client device within the network, for example, when media access control randomization (rMAC) is utilized by the network to protect the privacy of the client device or a user of the client device. The same UDID is generated each time the client device joins the network so that the client device need not store the UDID.

Generation of a unique device identifier for a client device in a wireless network

Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate an exchange of messages between an access point and a station, wherein the access point requests a unique identifier from the station. The request can include a network requirements field that indicates that a unique identifier is required for access to the network. The station initiates a secure connection with the access point prior to associating with the access point. The station may either respond with a message declining to provide a unique identifier or respond with a message including a unique identifier to be used by the access point for the station via the secure connection. The response from the station may include additional limitations on the use of the unique identifier by the access point. The access point may enforce different policies against the station depending upon how the station responds to the unique identifier request.

Using a network requirements field to provide a station access to a network

The present disclosure relates to a network device, a method executed by the network device, and a computer-readable medium. Some aspects of the present disclosure relate to a first network device, including a memory, on which instructions are stored, and a processor configured to execute the instructions stored on the memory to cause the first network device to execute the following operations: executing channel scanning on a main working channel of a second network device coupled to the first network device to detect a beacon frame broadcast by the second network device; determining whether a beacon frame broadcast by the second network device is detected within a first predetermined time duration; and at least partially in response to the determination that no beacon frame broadcast by the second network device has been detected within the first predetermined time duration, causing the second network device to automatically restart its Wi-Fi module.

Network device and method executed by the network device and computer-readable medium

Aspects of the present disclosure are drawn to a client device for use with an access point device. The client device includes: a memory; and a processor configured to execute instructions stored on the memory to cause the client device to: obtain a plurality of values associated with a respective plurality of capabilities of said client device, create a response including a header and a payload, the header including a reserved field including a plurality of bits, each of which reporting that the payload of the response includes a respective one of the plurality of values associated with the respective plurality of capabilities, and transmit the response to the access point device.

Method of reporting received signal strength on per frame basis in Wi-Fi network

Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate an exchange of messages between an access point and a station, wherein the access point an unsolicited unique identifier response that comprises a unique identifier from the station. The station provides the unsolicited unique identifier response to the access point after a secure connection is established between the access point and the station such that the unsolicited unique identifier response is sent via the secure connection. The response from the station may include additional limitations on the use of the unique identifier by the access point. The access point may provide different features a station or allow or disallow access to a service or a feature depending upon the unsolicited unique identifier response received from the station.

Unsolicited handling of unique identifier for stations

Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate an exchange of messages between an access point and a station, wherein the access point requests a unique identifier from the station. The station may either respond with a message declining to provide a unique identifier or respond with a message including a unique identifier to be used by the access point for the station. The response from the station may include additional limitations on the use of the unique identifier by the access point. The access point may enforce different policies against a station depending upon how the station responds to the unique identifier request.

Handling of unique identifiers for stations

A method for anonymizing user identifiable information to be transmitted outside of a local network includes generating a network entity hash input based on (i) a first MAC address assigned to a client station of the local network, (ii) a second MAC address assigned to the network gateway device of the local network, and (iii) an identifier of a cloud entity of an external network to which data of the client station is to be transmitted. The method further includes generating a hash value output based on the network entity hash input and a random token value using a hashing function, generating an anonymized MAC address associated with the client station based on the hash value output, and transmitting the anonymized MAC address associated with the client station to the cloud entity of the external network.

Method to anonymize client mac addresses for cloud reporting

Aspects of the present disclosure are drawn to a client device for use with an access point device. The client device includes: a memory; and a processor configured to execute instructions stored on the memory to cause the client device to: obtain a value associated with a capability of the client device, create a response including a header and a payload, the header including a reserved field including a bit reporting that the payload of the response includes the value associated with the capability, and transmit the response to the APD.

A network access device, such as an extender or a multi-AP device, includes one or more backhaul stations providing one of a wireless backhaul connection and a wired backhaul connection to communicate with a root device, one or more of Fronthaul Basic Service Set (fBSS) radios initially configured in a downstate, a memory storing computer-readable instructions and includes a factory default or non-operative country code, and a processor configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to initiate an onboarding process through the root device using the one or more backhaul stations, during the onboarding process, receive a country code in a predetermined type of message, store the country code received in the predetermined type of message in the memory, and configure the one or more fBSS radios using the country code received in the predetermined type of message.

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Kurt Alan Lumbatis