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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2005
Applicant:
Ricardo Tomas Farrington, Campbell, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ricardo Tomas Farrington, Campbell, CA (US);
Assignee:
Airmagnet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 20/71 (2008.01); H04M 11/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An ad-hoc wireless network is disrupted by first obtaining a beacon or data frame sent by a station. The beacon or data frame is then examined to determine whether the station that sent the beacon or data frame is operating in an ad-hoc mode on the ad-hoc wireless network. If the station is determined to be operating in an ad-hoc mode, then a blocking frame, which is a beacon frame, is sent on the ad-hoc wireless network to disrupt the ad-hoc wireless network by changing the operational characteristic of the ad-hoc wireless network.