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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2020
Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., New Tech Park, SG;
Russell Speight VanBlon, Raleigh, NC (US);
Robert James Kapinos, Durham, NC (US);
Scott Wentao Li, Cary, NC (US);
Grigori Zaitsev, Durham, NC (US);
LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD., New Tech Park, SG;
Abstract
A computer implemented method, device, and computer program product for managing extender nodes for a wireless device. The method identifies request attributes of interest (AOI) associated with a request to route a communication stream for a wireless device. The method detects, at a current physical location of the wireless device, candidate extender nodes to extend a network signal. The method analyzes the candidate extender nodes, based on the request AOI, to determine one or more of: i) predictive characteristics of interest (COI) associated with the corresponding candidate extender node; and ii) an announced behavior COI broadcast by one or more of the candidate extender nodes. The method determines a resultant extender node from the candidate extender nodes based, at least in part, on one or more of the predictive COI and the announced behavior COI. The resultant extender node is determined pursuant to managing switching during performance of the request.