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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
May. 02, 2006
David Gurevich, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jose Gonzalez, San Ramon, CA (US);
Scott Burke, Los Altos, CA (US);
David Gurevich, San Mateo, CA (US);
Jose Gonzalez, San Ramon, CA (US);
Scott Burke, Los Altos, CA (US);
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Wireless network devices discover individual mesh nodes and networks of mesh nodes. An association is formed on the basis of peer-to-peer interactions at layer-1, layer-2 and/or higher layers of the Open System Interconnect (OSI) model. In particular, the system uses Beacon, Probe Request, Probe Response, Association Request, Association Response, and Disassociation frames and introduces a new Extensible Mesh Information Element (EMIE) used by mesh nodes to discover, authenticate, and associate with other peer nodes.