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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2014
Hussain Zaheer Syed, Ashburn, VA (US);
Muhib Taiye Oduwaiye, Germantown, MD (US);
Sunmeel Meelind Bhumkar, Rockville, MD (US);
Hussain Zaheer Syed, Ashburn, VA (US);
Muhib Taiye Oduwaiye, Germantown, MD (US);
Sunmeel Meelind Bhumkar, Rockville, MD (US);
Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A mobile communication device generates a respective discovery request (probe request) in a wireless network. The mobile communication device generates the probe request to learn of available access points providing access to a network such as the Internet. Any access points within range of the mobile communication device receive the discovery request generated by the mobile communication device. In lieu of each of the access points immediately generating a respective probe response to the mobile communication device, each of the access points receiving the discovery request provides notification of the receipt of the discovery request to a wireless network controller controlling communications in the wireless network. The wireless network controller controls which of the multiple access points in the network responds to the discovery request, reducing a number of probe responses collectively generated by the wireless access points to the mobile communication device.