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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2020
Plume Design, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Adam R. Hotchkiss, Dallas, TX (US);
Abhishek Kumar, Hayward, CA (US);
Paul White, Burlingame, CA (US);
Arun Kalmanje, Fremont, CA (US);
Metod Medja, {hacek over (C)}rnivec, SI;
Sandeep Jain, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Plume Design, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods include, responsive to a Wi-Fi client device providing a password for a zone of a Wi-Fi network, determining a status of the Wi-Fi client device; when the status is unknown, placing the client device in a holding area associated with the zone, wherein the client device is connected to the Wi-Fi network while in the holding area and has restricted access that is less than full access to the zone in an allowed zone; responsive to placing the client device in the holding area, causing a notification to an administrator that the client device is in the holding area; and with the client device in the holding area, one of moving the Wi-Fi client device to the allowed area, moving the client device to a rejected area for the zone, and leaving the client device in the holding zone, based on any input or lack thereof.