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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2011
Parag Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Vitaly Kruglikov, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robert Haitani, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Parag Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Vitaly Kruglikov, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robert Haitani, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Network connectivity may be managed on a computing device. An identifier of each wireless access point or network that is available at a given location is determined. The identifier determined without the device attempting to connect to any available wireless access point or network at the given location. Each determined identifier is compared to one or more network identifiers that are known to the device. The device connects to an available wireless access point having the identifier that is known and detected.