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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:
May. 03, 2016

Filed:

Jan. 20, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Paul J. Stager, Akron, OH (US);

Matthew A. Silverman, Shaker Heights, OH (US);

Zhigang Gao, Richfield, OH (US);

John Blosco, Norton, OH (US);

Raghuram Rangarajan, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/082 (2013.01); H04L 5/0073 (2013.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 72/046 (2013.01); H04W 72/0426 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

In a wireless local area network, each of multiple access points, in a high density deployment, are configured to suppress co-channel interference. A first access point having a plurality of antennas beamforms a transmission to a wireless client device within a null-space or with the weakest singular eigenmodes of a wireless channel between the first access point and at least one co-channel second access point. Techniques are presented herein for situations in which any given access point has two or more co-channel access points. In addition, an access point may perform receive side suppression with respect to a transmission (made by a co-channel access point to one of its associated wireless client devices) that is received from that co-channel access point.


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