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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 05, 2019
Applicant:

Arris Enterprises Llc, Suwanee, GA (US);

Inventors:

Pratibha Gupta, Mountain View, CA (US);

Peter George Khoury, San Francisco, CA (US);

William S. Kish, Saratoga, CA (US);

Allen Ka Lun Miu, Union City, CA (US);

Victor Shtrom, Los Altos, CA (US);

David Sheldon Stephenson, San Jose, CA (US);

Huayan Wang, Milpitas, CA (US);

Assignee:

ARRIS Enterprises LLC, Suwanee, GA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/20 (2009.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04W 40/12 (2009.01); H04W 40/24 (2009.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/20 (2013.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 40/12 (2013.01); H04W 40/24 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for instituting redistribution of wireless clients to improve service, comprising via access point (AP), multiple APs acting in concert, and/or a central entity, in connection with a network, allowing a client to associate; deciding that an associated client should be redistributed based on a connection metric, wherein the decision is based on at least one of, a probability calculation, network metric and a threshold comparison; and via the AP, sending the associated client a trigger, wherein the trigger is at least one of, a redistribution request and a disconnect message.


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