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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2005
Mousumi Hazra, Beaverton, OR (US);
Mustafa Demirhan, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Nandakishore Kushalnagar, Portland, OR (US);
Mousumi Hazra, Beaverton, OR (US);
Mustafa Demirhan, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Nandakishore Kushalnagar, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a transceiver capable of recovering from disjoint clusters in a mesh network by adding an additional Extended Service Set number (ESS Number) information element (IE) in the Beacon and Probe Response frames in at least one access point (AP) in said mesh network and all newly joining APs performing a scan of all channels to detect what channel the extended service set (ESS) is running on its ESS Number and putting this ESS number into their beacons Probe responses.