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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2022
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Pascal Thubert, Roquefort les Pins, FR;
Alessandro Erta, Licciana Nardi, IT;
Amine Choukir, Lausanne, CH;
Domenico Ficara, Essertines-sur-Yverdon, CH;
Patrick Wetterwald, Mouans Sartoux, FR;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a client device enters an area having an overhead mesh of access points, each access point comprising one or more directional transmitters each configured to transmit a beam cone in a substantially downward direction towards a floor of the area. The client device obtains an area-dependent communication schedule for the overhead mesh that is exclusive or partially-exclusive to the client device for the area. The client device sends, during an arbitrary timeslot of the area-dependent communication schedule, a pull request. The client device receives, from a particular access point in the overhead mesh, a packet in response to the pull request.