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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2012
Norman W. Finn, Livermore, CA (US);
Robert O'hara, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rohit Suri, Fremont, CA (US);
Joshua Broch, San Jose, CA (US);
Norman W. Finn, Livermore, CA (US);
Robert O'Hara, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rohit Suri, Fremont, CA (US);
Joshua Broch, San Jose, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a wireless access point receives a wireless advertisement frame having a source address field that indicates a reachable node being advertised, a destination address field that indicates a destination to which the reachable node is to be advertised, a transmitter address field that indicates a transmitting node from which the wireless advertisement frame is received, and a receiver address field that indicates the access point. The wireless access point then transmits a reflected wireless advertisement frame having a source address field that indicates the reachable node, a destination address field that indicates the destination, a transmitter address field that indicates the wireless access point, and a receiver address field that indicates both a plurality of receivers the reflected wireless advertisement frame is to be accepted by, and a node that is to be excluded from accepting the reflected wireless advertisement frame.