Atheros Communications, Inc.

Plume Design, Inc.

Qualcomm Incorporated

The Connectivity Patent Trust

Hewlett-packard Company

Qualcomm Atheros Inc.

Other

William John McFarland

Paul J Husted

Yoseph Malkin

Adam R Hotchkiss

Balaji Rengarajan

Liem Hieu Dinh Vo

Ning Zhang

John S Thomson

Brian Nam

David Kuochieh Su

Miroslav Samardzija

Richard Chang

Aman Singla

James Simon Cho

Jeffrey M Gilbert

Chaohuang Zeng

Patrick Hanley

Lars E Thon

Ardavan Maleki Tehrani

Teresa H Meng

Nipun Agarwal

Sandeep Eyyuni

Na Hyun Ha

Sameer Vaidya

Qinghai Gao

Paul White

Xiaoru Zhang

Michael Richard Green

Evan Jeng

Jeffrey ChiFai Liew

Duc Minh Nguyen

Vikram Chandrasekhar

Kiran Kumar Edara

Andrea Goldsmith

Richard Clayton Walker

Ritesh Kumar Madan

Yi-Hsiu Wang

Thomas Hornak

Santhosh Krishna

Hao-Ren Cheng

Chik Patrick Yue

Yusuke Sakamoto

Sai Venkatraman

Rohit Thadani

Ming-Tsung Su

Siu-Weng Simon Wong

Murugesan Guruswamy

Nora Yan

Scott D Willingham

Evan Rusackas

Kaixiang Hu

Manolis Terrovitis

David J Weber

Arie Shor

Jian Lu

Qifan Chen

Hong Fan

William W Si

Christina Xu

John Thompson

Atul Divekar

Masoud Zaragari

Irene Yang

Andrew Z Grzegorek

Tao Fei Samuel Ng

Shu-Chun Shen

Robert Miller

Patrick Li

Lawrence W Yonge, Iii

Abhishek Kumar

Srinivas Katar

Danlu Zhang

Ken A Nishimura

Chin-Hung Chen

Qinfang Sun

Kai Shi

Craig H Barratt

Athanasios Agamamnon Kasapi

Manikanden Balakrishnan

Masoud Zargari

Yin Huang

Guining Shi

Deepak Dhamdhere

Gaspar Lee

Steven Kuhn

Hirad Samavati

Bevan M Baas

Justin Huang

Keith K Onodera

Arthur Tung

Qiang Lin

Mike Galles

Srinivasa Tagirisa

Michal Kazior

Kuang-Chung Ou

Bruce Busby

Louis P Moffa

Jae Min Shin

Mojmir Tuljak

Soner Ozgur

Systems and methods for Wi-Fi network optimization include receiving inputs related to signal strength and interference during operation of the Wi-Fi network; performing an optimization to determine operational parameters of one or more access points in the Wi-Fi network, wherein the optimization is based on the inputs and is configured to address an objective associated with the Wi-Fi network; and providing outputs comprising the operational parameters for configuration of the Wi-Fi network, based on the optimization, wherein the operational parameters include channel and bandwidth selection, and topology of the one or more access points.

Optimization of distributed Wi-Fi networks

System and methods for managing a Wi-Fi network of a plurality of Wi-Fi networks from a cloud-based Network Operations Control (NOC) dashboard include, subsequent to creating an account for a user of the Wi-Fi network, receiving data associated with the Wi-Fi network from the one or more access points; providing a display associated with the Wi-Fi network based on the data, wherein the display comprises a network topology and one or more tabs providing information related to operation of the Wi-Fi network; updating the display based on one or more inputs received, wherein the updating updates one or more of the network topology and the one or more tabs; and performing one or more operations via the NOC dashboard to one of manage, control, and troubleshoot the Wi-Fi network.

Network operation center dashboard for cloud-based Wi-Fi systems

System and methods include obtaining Wi-Fi network data, over the Internet, associated with a plurality of Wi-Fi networks each Wi-Fi network having one or more access points and each Wi-Fi network being associated with a customer of one or more service providers and obtaining customer data for each customer associated with the plurality of Wi-Fi networks, the customer data including call-ins made by customers; aggregating and filtering the data; analyzing the aggregated and filtered data including correlating the call-ins made by customers to the Wi-Fi network data; predicting customer call-ins based on correlations made between the call-ins made by customers and the Wi-Fi network data; and initiating a customer outreach workflow prior to a predicted customer call-in.

Intelligent monitoring systems and methods for Wi-Fi metric-based predictions for cloud-based Wi-Fi networks

Systems and methods include obtaining measurements from a Wi-Fi network that includes i) a plurality of access points interconnected to one another and at least one connected to a gateway, and ii) a plurality of Wi-Fi client devices that each connect to an access point of the plurality of access points; learning usage patterns in the Wi-Fi network through analysis with one or more machine learning algorithms; and providing a configuration to the Wi-Fi network based on the learned usage pattern where the configuration includes a topology of the plurality of access points.

Cloud-based control of a Wi-Fi network

System and methods include obtaining data, over the Internet, associated with a plurality of Wi-Fi networks each Wi-Fi network having one or more access points and each Wi-Fi network being associated with a customer of one or more service providers; aggregating and filtering the data; analyzing the aggregated and filtered data based on one or more use cases; determining any of predictions and alerts for the one or more use cases based on the analyzing; and performing one or more actions based on the any of predictions and alerts.

Intelligent monitoring systems and methods for cloud-based Wi-Fi

Systems and methods of detecting a parallel Wi-Fi network or a parallel Wi-Fi access point include operating a new Wi-Fi network at a location; analyzing Wi-Fi at the location; determining whether there is a parallel Wi-Fi network or a parallel Wi-Fi access point operating at the location with the new Wi-Fi network based on the analyzing; and, responsive to determining there is the parallel Wi-Fi network or the parallel Wi-Fi access point at the location, performing one or more of i) causing resolution of the parallel Wi-Fi network or the parallel Wi-Fi access point and ii) providing a notification to a user associated with the location.

Detection of parallel operating Wi-Fi networks

System and methods include obtaining data, over the Internet, associated with a plurality of Wi-Fi networks each Wi-Fi network having one or more access points and each Wi-Fi network being associated with a customer of one or more service providers; aggregating and filtering the data; analyzing the aggregated and filtered data for Wi-Fi metric based alarms, each Wi-Fi metric based alarm being associated with detection of one of an offline Wi-Fi network of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks, an offline node of the Wi-Fi network, instability of the Wi-Fi network, congestion in the Wi-Fi network, and interference in the Wi-Fi network; determining the Wi-Fi metric based alarms based on the analyzing; and performing one or more actions based on the determined Wi-Fi metric based alarms.

Intelligent monitoring systems and methods for Wi-Fi metric-based alarms for cloud-based Wi-Fi networks

An antenna element includes an outer conductor and an inner conductor. The outer conductor forms a perimeter of the antenna element. The inner conductor is physically and electrically connected to the outer conductor only at an intermediate connection at an inner portion of the outer conductor. The outer conductor and the inner conductor are arranged to form a slot therebetween. The slot extends around the inner conductor such that each end of the slot is adjacent to the intermediate connection.

Antenna with uniform radiation for ultra-wide bandwidth

Systems and methods for operating a radio system include configuring a first antenna of a plurality of antennas in a wireless device to operate in a configured mode of a plurality of modes, wherein the plurality of modes include a first mode of operating as a quarter wave for operation in a 2.4 GHz band, a second mode of operating as a half wave for operation in a 5 GHz band, and a third mode of operating simultaneous as a half wave and a quarter wave for operation in both the 2.4 GHz band and the 5 GHz band; and operating a first radio of a plurality of radios connected to the first antenna in the configured mode of the first antenna.

Tunable antenna system for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi bands with electronically-reconfigurable and mechanically-identical antennas

Systems and methods include communicating to one or more access points configured to form a Wi-Fi network, wherein at least some of the one or more access points utilize Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), and determining Resource Unit (RU) reservations at the one or more access points that utilize OFDMA.

Resource unit reservation in Wi-Fi networks

Systems and methods for visualization and troubleshooting of a distributed Wi-Fi network, implemented through one of a mobile application and a web page, include, responsive to obtaining data from the distributed Wi-Fi network, providing a map of the distributed Wi-Fi network based on the obtained data, wherein the map includes a first icon designating a gateway node, one or more second icons each designating one or more nodes, and connectors between the gateway node, wherein the gateway node and the one or more nodes are in a tree topology; providing a visualization in the map based on a current operational status of the distributed Wi-Fi network from the obtained data, wherein the visualization comprises a plurality of visual indicators of the current operational status; and providing notifications based on the current operational status.

Distributed Wi-Fi network visualization and troubleshooting

A method for manufacturing a dual-band antenna includes stamping a metallic sheet to form an antenna plate having at least one antenna element with a low frequency section and a high frequency section having a slot; and folding the at least one antenna element about a portion of a perimeter of the stamped metallic sheet forming an upper surface, a side wall and a lower surface of the at least one antenna element.

Dual band antenna plate and method for manufacturing

A compact electronic device for wireless communication is disclosed. The compact electronic device includes a main printed circuit board, one or more antennas, at least one conductor, and a shell. The one or more antennas are configured for wireless communication. The at least one conductor being configured to provide at least one of control signals and power to a fan. The shell mounts the fan relative to the main printed circuit board. The shell includes walls forming a cavity. The walls encapsulate the conductor in the cavity.

Electronic shielding of antennas from fan controls in a compact electronic device

Systems and methods include obtaining data associated with operation of a Wi-Fi network, via a network interface connected to the one or more processors; analyzing the obtained data to determine one or more of forecasts, predictions, trends, and interference associated with the Wi-Fi network based on the obtained data and correlations determined therein; and causing configuration of the Wi-Fi network based on the determined one or more forecasts, predictions, trends, and interference, wherein the configuration includes at least one of channel selection, bandwidth selection, topology selection of access points in the Wi-Fi network, and client associations with the access points.

Optimization of distributed Wi-Fi networks estimation and learning

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