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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:
Oct. 15, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 03, 2014
Applicant:

Guest Tek Interactive Entertainment Ltd., Calgary, CA;

Inventors:

John Thomas Welch, Willow Springs, MO (US);

Gary L. Smith, Lindon, UT (US);

Michael David Drews, Sandi, UT (US);

Wael R. Midani, Farmington Hills, MI (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 16/18 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01); H04B 15/00 (2006.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 48/02 (2009.01); H04B 7/10 (2017.01); H04W 48/20 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 16/18 (2013.01); H04B 15/00 (2013.01); H04W 48/02 (2013.01); H04W 48/18 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01); H04B 7/10 (2013.01); H04W 48/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

A wireless access point includes an antenna, a connection port providing wired communications with a network, one or more processors, and a storage device having software stored therein. When executed by the one or more processors the software causes the wireless access point to respond to a probe from a client device requesting a specific service set identifier according to a wildcard service set identifier response in order to facilitate wireless association of the client device with the wireless access point regardless of the specific service set identifier requested by the client device, and to provide the client device with wireless access to the network. In this way, the client device is enabled to associate with the wireless access point and receive access to the network without a specific service set identifier requested by the client device being preprogrammed into the wireless access point.


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