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Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2013

Filed:

Nov. 17, 2011
Applicants:

Richard Martin, Morgan Hill, CA (US);

Yong Kim, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Richard Martin, Morgan Hill, CA (US);

Yong Kim, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Aspects of the invention may be found in a system and method for hardware acceleration in a hybrid wired/wireless local area network. In according with various embodiments of the invention, hardware acceleration may comprise creating at least one policy to be distributed among one or more of a plurality of access point groups. At least one policy may be associated with a particular one of the access point groups. The associated policy may be identified and distributed to one or more access points in an access point group. The distribution of the policy may be conditioned on the occurrence of an event. An identified policy may be distributed to a particular access point group upon occurrence of the event.


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