The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2018
Plume Design, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Balaji Rengarajan, Campbell, CA (US);
William McFarland, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Qinghai Gao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Andrea Goldsmith, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Vikram Chandrasekhar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ritesh K. Madan, Berkley, CA (US);
Santhosh Krishna, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Plume Design, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A distributed Wi-Fi system includes a first Wi-Fi access point communicatively coupled to a modem/router for connectivity to the Internet and to a cloud controller via the Internet; and at least one additional Wi-Fi access point with wireless backhaul connections to the modem/router via the first Wi-Fi access point, wherein the first Wi-Fi access point and the at least one additional access point cooperatively form a single Wi-Fi network; wherein the cloud controller is configured to receive inputs related to operation of the single Wi-Fi network, perform an optimization based on the inputs with an objective function, and provide operational parameters for the single Wi-Fi network based on the optimization.