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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. 25, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2006
Applicants:
Huizhao Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Roman M. Arutyunov, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Huizhao Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Roman M. Arutyunov, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Tropos Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus and method of a method of an access point determining whether to transmit a response to a client device probe request is disclosed. The method includes the access point receiving a probe request from a client device. The access point determines a quality of a link between the access point and the client device based on the probe request. The access point sets a delay time for transmitting a probe response to the probe request depending upon the quality of the link.