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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 11, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2006
Kamatchi Soundaram Gopalakrishnan, Milpitas, CA (US);
Ajay Malik, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kamatchi Soundaram Gopalakrishnan, Milpitas, CA (US);
Ajay Malik, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Symbol Technologies, Inc., Holtsville, NY (US);
Abstract
Wireless switch licenses are assigned on a cluster basis rather than being limited to individual switches. A switch cluster is made up of two or more wireless switches that each having an assigned number of licenses. Each of the wireless switches is configured to establish the switch cluster with the other wireless switches, and to verify the identity of each other wireless switch in the switch cluster during operation. License restrictions are enforced based upon a total number of licenses for the switch cluster so that the sum of the numbers of licenses assigned to the wireless switches in the cluster are available for use even if one or more of the other wireless switches in the cluster become unavailable.