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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:
Jan. 09, 2024

Filed:

Feb. 09, 2022
Applicant:

Arris Enterprises Llc, Suwanee, GA (US);

Inventors:

Jay Strater, San Diego, CA (US);

Gregory Nakanishi, San Diego, CA (US);

Michael J. Hartman, Chelmsford, MA (US);

Assignee:

ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC, Suwanee, GA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/04 (2022.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04W 40/24 (2009.01); H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04W 40/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/16 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 36/38 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01); H04W 36/26 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/04 (2013.01); H04B 17/318 (2015.01); H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 36/08 (2013.01); H04W 40/12 (2013.01); H04W 40/24 (2013.01); H04W 36/26 (2013.01); H04W 36/38 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01); H04W 88/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

A wireless gateway for steering a client device between content streaming apparatuses in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The gateway provides an access point (GW AP) including a gateway steering controller configured to determine whether a client device should be steered to a content streaming apparatus based on at least one sample measurement on received signal strength between the client device and the content streaming apparatus and at least one other content streaming apparatus, and conduct steering logic calculations. The steering logic calculations are compared against predetermined thresholds, and said gateway steering controller provides an instruction to steer the client device to one of the content streaming apparatuses based on a difference between the steering logic calculations and the predetermined thresholds. Optionally, the gateway steering controller may also provide band steering as well as signal strength steering.


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