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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2015
Time Warner Cable Enterprises Llc, New York, NY (US);
Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
Instead of monitoring a wireless region for beacons, to learn of availability of different wireless access points in a particular geographical region, an end user-operated communication device generates a network discovery request message. The communication device initiates wireless broadcast of the network discovery request message from the user-operated communication device to any of one or more listening non-beacon-generating wireless access points in a wireless network environment. Each of the non-beacon generating wireless access points receiving the network discovery request message from the user-operated communication device produces a respective network discovery response message including network identity information (such as one or more SSIDs) associated with the respective non-beacon generating wireless access point. The non-beacon generating wireless access points transmit network discovery response messages to the user-operated communication device, informing the communication device of network availability.