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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2011
Raguraman Barathalwar, Portland, OR (US);
Raguraman Barathalwar, Portland, OR (US);
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for assisted network acquisition are described. An apparatus may comprise a wireless transceiver, a processor circuit communicatively coupled to the wireless transceiver, and a memory unit communicatively coupled to the processor circuit, the memory unit to store a network locator application operative on the processor circuit to locate a network for a remote device. The network locator application may comprise a network detector component operative to receive network information for multiple wireless networks via the wireless transceiver, a network selector component operative to select a target network for the remote device from the multiple wireless networks based on the network information, and a network notifier component operative to send network configuration information for the target network to the remote device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.