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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2016
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Tak Ming Francis Pang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/177 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 61/2007 (2013.01); H04L 61/2061 (2013.01); H04L 61/6022 (2013.01);
Abstract
Presented herein are systems and methods of dynamically allocating and leasing MAC addresses in a wireless network that ensures a unique MAC address is assigned to a computing device. The exemplified systems and methods ensure that the dynamically assigned MAC address is unique for a given network and that the MAC address is assigned to a give client wireless device prior to the client being granted access to the network and prior to a communication session being established.