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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2012
Applicants:

Neil Robert Diener, Hudson, OH (US);

Abhijit Kumar Choudhury, Cupertino, CA (US);

Brian Donald Hart, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

David S. Stephenson, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Neil Robert Diener, Hudson, OH (US);

Abhijit Kumar Choudhury, Cupertino, CA (US);

Brian Donald Hart, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

David S. Stephenson, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04N 7/14 (2006.01); H04B 7/212 (2006.01); H04J 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04N 7/148 (2013.01); H04W 72/082 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an example embodiment described herein is an apparatus comprising a wireless transceiver and channel selection logic coupled to the wireless transceiver and operable to select an operating frequency for the wireless transceiver. The channel selection logic is configured to reserve a dedicated channel having a special identifier. The channel selection logic is configured to have the wireless transceiver advertise the dedicated service on a normal operating frequency. The channel selection logic is responsive to receiving a request from a wireless device via the wireless transceiver on the normal operating frequency to use the dedicated channel to switch to the dedicated channel and establish communications with the wireless device on the dedicated channel.


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