Plume Design, Inc.

Yoseph Malkin

William John McFarland

Nipun Agarwal

Adam R Hotchkiss

Sandeep Eyyuni

Na Hyun Ha

Richard Chang

Yusuke Sakamoto

William J McFARLAND

Patrick Hanley

Rohit Thadani

Liem Hieu Dinh Vo

Paul White

Jeffrey ChiFai Liew

Duc Minh Nguyen

Nora Yan

Ali Wahid

Matej Zevnik

Miroslav Samardzija

Manikanden Balakrishnan

Brian Nam

Sachin Vasudeva

Ming-Tsung Su

Shu-Chun Shen

Irene Yang

Michal Kazior

Hiroshi Mendoza

Guan-Heng Chen

Soner Ozgur

Mojmir Tuljak

Prashant Jadhav

Janusz Dziedzic

A method, implemented in a router in a Communication Service Provider (CSP) network, includes connecting to a device via at least two connections where a first connection includes a first Wide Area Network (WAN) interface and a second connection includes a second WAN interface; receiving an encapsulated packet from one of the at least two connections where the encapsulated packet is destined for an Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) address on the Internet; and creating an IPv4 packet from the encapsulated packet by de-encapsulating the encapsulated packet and including an IPv4 public address in an IPv4 packet, wherein the IPv4 public address is associated with the router.

IPv4-in-IPv6 relaying systems and methods to preserve IPv4 public addresses

Systems and methods of frequency planning for a cellular gateway in a Wi-Fi network include connecting to cellular infrastructure at a cellular frequency; providing a Wi-Fi connection at a Wi-Fi frequency selected to coexist with the cellular frequency; and responsive to interference between the cellular frequency and the Wi-Fi frequency, performing one or more actions to reduce the interference.

Frequency planning for Wi-Fi access points with cellular connection

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

Systems and methods for Wi-Fi network failover to cellular connection with throttling of traffic include detecting an outage on wired connections for any of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks; determining the any of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks have switched to a cellular connection as a failover based on the outage; and determining whether to throttle traffic on any cellular connection based on the failover and instructing corresponding gateways accordingly.

Wi-Fi network failover to cellular connection with throttling of traffic

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 a condition of each of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks; determining one or more resolutions for the condition of a Wi-Fi network of the plurality of Wi-Fi networks; and initiating a customer outreach workflow to provide the one or more resolutions to the customer associated with the Wi-Fi network.

Intelligent monitoring systems and methods for wi-fi metric-based resolutions for cloud-based 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

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

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 the network condition of each of the plurality of customers of one or more service providers; determining an internet service provider (ISP) outage based on a plurality of factors; and performing one of a plurality of resolution or notification actions.

Intelligent monitoring systems and methods for Wi-Fi metric-based ISP outage detection for cloud based Wi-Fi networks

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

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

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

The present disclosure relates to thermal management of wireless access points including local thermal management, cloud-based thermal management, and thermal management based on optimization and operation such as in a distributed Wi-Fi network. The objective of the present disclosure is for thermal management in access points allowing small form-factors and aesthetic designs, preventing overheating and without requiring reduced performance or reduced hardware. Generally, the systems and methods detect when access points are nearing overheating and alter their operation so as to minimize the reduction of performance in the network while reducing power consumption.

Thermal management of wireless access points

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Yoseph Malkin