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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019

Filed:

Mar. 30, 2017
Applicant:

Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:
Assignee:

Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 84/18 (2009.01); H04W 28/08 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01); H04W 88/00 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/08 (2013.01); H04W 88/00 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

Network packet are steered to a particular processor of multiple available processors on an access point. Multiple WLAN interfaces can include at least one WLAN interface dedicated to network packets in compliance with IEEE 802.11ac and at least one WLAN interface dedicated to network packets in compliance with IEEE 802.11bgn. Responsive to a determination of a single station destination, a packet distribution index is determined for the network packet with respect to each of the multiple processing cores. The packet distribution index is based on at least whether a network packet is formatted according to IEEE 802.11ac or to IEEE 802.11bgn, among other factors. The network packet is processed by the processing core having the lowest packet distribution index.


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