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Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 09, 2024
Applicant:

Tp-link Systems Inc., Irvine, CA (US);

Inventors:

Dong Shen, Chengdu, CN;

Yang Jiang, Shenzhen, CN;

Rui Wang, Shenzhen, CN;

Bin He, Shenzhen, CN;

Assignee:

TP-Link Systems Inc., Irvine, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/30 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/302 (2023.05); H04W 36/0069 (2018.08); H04W 36/0072 (2013.01); H04W 36/08 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

This disclosure provides a method for ping pong roaming control performed by an access point (AP), a method for ping pong roaming control performed by a controller, an AP, a controller, a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and a computer program product for processing/identifying ping pong roaming. The method for ping pong roaming control, performed by an AP includes: determining association switching behaviors of a station (STA) based on association and/or disassociation behaviors of the STA; identifying one or more connection instability events of the STA based on the association switching behaviors of the STA; and reporting at least one of the one or more connection instability events of the STA to a controller for the controller to identify a ping pong roaming event of the STA between multiple APs.


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