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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2012
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Robert C. Meier, Cuyahoga Falls, OH (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/4641 (2013.01);
Abstract
In an example embodiment, an 802.11 or Ethernet work-group local area network (WG-LAN) is assigned a global name. The WG-LAN name is bound to a local virtual local area network identifier (VLAN-ID) in parent access points (APs). A path update protocol is employed to synchronize the WG-LAN/VLAN-ID bindings in a work-group bridge with the bindings of its' parent AP.