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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2017
Applicant:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
QingYun Wei, San Jose, CA (US);
Jin Guo, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/70 (2018.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 12/761 (2013.01); H04W 8/22 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0813 (2013.01); H04L 41/0866 (2013.01); H04L 45/16 (2013.01); H04L 61/2015 (2013.01); H04L 61/6022 (2013.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.02); H04W 8/22 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
A softAP bridge is created to support a mesh network that also works seamlessly with any home Wi-Fi AP routers by using Layer-3 techniques to simulate a Layer-2 bridge. With this softAP bridge, Wi-Fi chipsets with integrated special Wi-Fi MAC Layer-2 mesh network support (e.g., 802.11s), or external gateway hubs, are not required. To accomplish this solution, one of the wireless capable devices may be designated as a relay device for communicating data packets between a home AP router and the remaining wireless capable devices that are designated as client devices.