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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2013
Applicant:
Motorola Solutions, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Inventors:
Jeelan Poola, Bangalore, IN;
Somesh Agrawal, Karnataka, IN;
Prasad K, Karnataka, IN;
Sundaresan Sundaram, Karnataka, IN;
Assignee:
Extreme Networks, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/00 (2013.01); H04B 10/116 (2013.01); H04Q 11/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 10/116 (2013.01); H04Q 11/0062 (2013.01); H04W 4/008 (2013.01); H04Q 2011/0064 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
A network, a Visible Light Communications (VLC) controller, and a method relate to a network architecture splitting frame processing functionality between Light Fidelity (LiFi) Access Points (APs) and a VLC controller or virtualized controller. In such configurations, the LiFi APs are so-called thin devices that may be widely deployed through an infrastructure to concurrently provide illumination and network access via VLC protocols such as IEEE 802.15.7 or variants thereof.