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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2022
Filed:
May. 21, 2019
Time Warner Cable Enterprises Llc, St. Louis, MO (US);
Sunmeel Bhumkar, Clarksburg, MD (US);
Muhib Oduwaiye, Clarksburg, MD (US);
Zaheer Syed, Ashburn, VA (US);
Sourabh Gupta, Ashburn, VA (US);
Syed Ahsan, Manassas, VA (US);
Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
To facilitate a handoff of a communication session in a wireless network, a first wireless access point at least temporarily emulates a second wireless access point, spoofing a target communication device that communications transmitted from the first wireless access point appear to be transmitted from the second wireless access point. According to a first configuration, the communication session is handed off from the first wireless access point to the second wireless access point. According to another configuration, the communication session is handed off from the second wireless access point to the first wireless access point.