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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:
Dec. 24, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 06, 2022
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Srinath Gundavelli, San Jose, CA (US);

Vimal Srivastava, Bangalore, IN;

Timothy Peter Stammers, Raleigh, NC (US);

Ravi Kiran Guntupalli, Cumming, GA (US);

Assignee:

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/00 (2018.01); H04W 60/04 (2009.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04W 76/30 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/30 (2018.02); H04W 60/04 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02);
Abstract

Presented herein are techniques to provide a network-initiated group disconnect for wireless devices belonging to one or more device group(s). In one example, a method may include determining, by a control element of a network, that at least one device group is to be disconnected from the network, wherein the at least one device group comprises a plurality of wireless devices connected to the network; identifying one or more access network radios through which the plurality of wireless devices are connected to the network; and triggering a disconnect command for the at least one device group to be broadcast from each of the one or more access network radios to trigger the plurality of wireless devices to disconnect from the network.


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