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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2012
Pradeep J. Iyer, Cupertino, CA (US);
Keerti G. Melkote, San Jose, CA (US);
Partha Narasimhan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Pradeep J. Iyer, Cupertino, CA (US);
Keerti G. Melkote, San Jose, CA (US);
Partha Narasimhan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Aruba Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Band steering for multi-band wireless clients. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method of operations comprises receiving, at a network device, a request from a wireless client device on a first wireless communication band. Thereafter, the network device identifies a unique address identifier associated with the wireless client device based on the received request and stores the unique address identifier in response to determining that the wireless client device is capable of communicating on the first wireless communication band.