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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:
Nov. 29, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 25, 2014
Applicant:

Aruba Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Gautam D. Bhanage, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Venkatesh Kannan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Aruba Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 48/10 (2009.01); H04W 48/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/0406 (2013.01); H04L 5/0053 (2013.01); H04W 48/10 (2013.01); H04W 48/12 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment of the invention, a system for providing a dynamic user-customizable beacon information element (IE) is described. One embodiment of the system comprises an access point comprising a hardware processor wherein the system is configured to perform operations comprising: periodically transmitting, by an access point, a first beacon frame comprising a plurality of IEs, based on user input, configuring at least one IE of the plurality of IEs in the first beacon frame, modifying the at least one IE in the first beacon frame based at least on the user input to obtain a second beacon frame comprising a modified IE based on the user input and periodically transmitting, by the access point, the second beacon frame comprising the modified IE.


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