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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2003
Paul F. Dietrich, Seattle, WA (US);
David Anthony Frascone, Terrell, TX (US);
Patrice R. Calhoun, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Robert J. Friday, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Robert B. O'hara, Jr., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Matthew Douglas Howard, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Paul F. Dietrich, Seattle, WA (US);
David Anthony Frascone, Terrell, TX (US);
Patrice R. Calhoun, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Robert J. Friday, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Robert B. O'Hara, Jr., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Matthew Douglas Howard, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating containment of the effects of rogue or unauthorized access points on wireless computer network environments. Embodiments of the present invention support one to a plurality of rogue containment methodologies. A first rogue containment type involves identification of the physical connection of the rogue access point to the wired network infrastructure and, thus, allows for disabling of that physical connection to contain the rogue access point. Other rogue containment methods involve wireless techniques for containing the effect of rogue access points. As discussed below, the rogue containment functionality described herein can be applied to a wide variety of wireless network system architectures.