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Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022

Filed:

May. 01, 2020
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jerome Henry, Pittsboro, NC (US);

Sudhir Kumar Jain, Fremont, CA (US);

Aries Kuttiyan, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 72/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/048 (2013.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 72/02 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques to adaptively support/enable a wireless network feature for certain wireless client devices without hampering the performance or connectivity of wireless client devices which do not support that wireless network feature. An access point or wireless network controller adaptively enables a wireless network feature without advertising support for the wireless network feature in a wireless network-standard compliant manner to allow one or more wireless clients that support the wireless network feature to use the wireless network feature when associated to the access point while enabling association of one or more wireless clients that do not support the wireless network feature.


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