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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2007
Gary D. Zimmerman, Garden Valley, ID (US);
Lyman Leonard Hall, Meridian, ID (US);
Gregory F. Carlson, Corvallis, OR (US);
Jeff James, Escondido, CA (US);
Gary D. Zimmerman, Garden Valley, ID (US);
Lyman Leonard Hall, Meridian, ID (US);
Gregory F. Carlson, Corvallis, OR (US);
Jeff James, Escondido, CA (US);
Marvell International Ltd., , BM;
Abstract
An apparatus and method are disclosed to communicate, from a first device to a wireless device, information by which the wireless device may identify an access point as a potential network device. The information is encoded in a packet stream by the first device, and wirelessly communicated from the access point to the wireless device. The information may be encoded by varying a packet characteristic, such as packet length, that is preserved even if the packets are encoded by the access point. The information may include a beacon, a SSID and/or a key.