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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:
Aug. 20, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 27, 2017
Applicant:

Aerohive Networks, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);

Inventors:

Huizhao Wang, San Jose, CA (US);

Chris Scheers, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Changming Liu, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Aerohive Networks, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04W 16/10 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/085 (2013.01); H04W 16/10 (2013.01); H04W 72/0493 (2013.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

Wireless networking devices scan for available channels and gather data about the channels and the RF environment. Using this information, each wireless networking device determines a cost value for each available channel and a quality value for its overall RF neighborhood. Each wireless networking device select the channel with the best cost value as a candidate channel for use. The wireless networking devices may submit channel requests to the arbiter for approval. If two or more wireless networking devices are requesting the same channel, the arbiter assigns the channel to the wireless networking device with the worst RF neighborhood quality. The arbiter informs the wireless networking devices if their channel requests are approved. If a wireless networking device's channel request is not approved, the wireless networking device will rescan the remaining available channels to select a different candidate channel to be approved.


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