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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2019
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Jerome Henry, Pittsboro, NC (US);
Jagdish Girimaji, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Malcolm Muir Smith, Richardson, TX (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Steering for location-assisted inter-set roaming, between different networks of the same or different types is provided by: identifying a first station connected to a first wireless network in an environment; identifying a direction of travel of the first station; identifying a second wireless network and a third wireless network as candidate roaming targets, based on the second wireless network and the third wireless network neighboring the first wireless network in the direction of travel, wherein the second wireless network and the third wireless network are different from the first wireless network; modifying a neighbor list for the first station to include an Access Point (AP) included in the third wireless network based on environmental knowledge; removing APs included in the second wireless network based on the environmental knowledge; and transmitting the neighbor list to the first station.
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