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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2008
Hemant Chaskar, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Murthy Jonnalagadda, Pune, IN;
Sharad Mittal, Delhi, IN;
Pravin Bhagwat, Kendall Park, NJ (US);
Hemant Chaskar, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Murthy Jonnalagadda, Pune, IN;
Sharad Mittal, Delhi, IN;
Pravin Bhagwat, Kendall Park, NJ (US);
AirTight Networks, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method is provided for detecting wireless access devices coupled to local area network of computers. The method includes coupling a sniffer device to a local area network. The method includes transferring one or more packets to be directed to a selected device over the local area network. The selected device is preferably coupled to the local area network. The method includes intercepting the one or more packets to be directed to the selected device at the sniffer device. Moreover, the method includes deriving information from the intercepted one or more packets using the sniffer device. The method can generate one or more marker packets in a selected format using the sniffer device. The marker packets are provided based upon at least a portion of the information derived from the intercepted packets. The method includes transferring the one or more marker packets from the sniffer device over the local area network to the selected device and monitoring an airspace within a vicinity of the selected device using one or more sniffer devices.