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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Srinath Gundavelli, San Jose, CA (US);
Pradeep Kumar Kathail, Los Altos, CA (US);
Eric Voit, Bethesda, MD (US);
David A. Maluf, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ali Sajassi, Alamo, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for establishing connections between user devices and access points to connect to networks. Access points may indicate privacy-support capabilities, enabling a user device to discover privacy-capable access networks, and use this capability for network selection. Furthermore, the techniques enable the user device to request to enable and/or disable privacy support on an on-demand basis. The techniques described herein include the use of an access point that indicates the network's privacy capability to an endpoint device (e.g., source device, user device, etc.) over one or more link-layer messages, IP address configuration mechanisms, and over authentication protocols.