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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2004
Timothy F. Ahlers, Seattle, WA (US);
Stephen S. Evans, Kirkland, WA (US);
Neal E. Tucker, Kirkland, WA (US);
Timothy F. Ahlers, Seattle, WA (US);
Stephen S. Evans, Kirkland, WA (US);
Neal E. Tucker, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system and methods for joining the correct wireless network are provided. The invention allows a device connecting to an unsecure wireless network to choose the correct network from many available wireless networks which are in range. A piece of code is executed on one of the PCs already on the network, then the device connects to each unsecure wireless network in range and sends a small message. If that message receives a reply from the code running on the PC that is already on the wireless network, that particular wireless network is determined to be the correct wireless network.
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