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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2015
Arris Enterprises, Inc., Suwanee, GA (US);
John Randolph Bestermann, Suwanee, GA (US);
Wade E. Carter, Johns Creek, GA (US);
Kurt Alan Lumbatis, Dacula, GA (US);
ARRIS Enterprises, Inc., Suwanee, GA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer readable media may be operable to facilitate the management of connections between one or more client devices and an access point over one or more service sets. An access point may maintain a list of client devices that have successfully associated with a private service set broadcast from the access point, and when a client device from the list attempts to connect to a public service set broadcast from the access point, the access point may deny the client device's attempt to connect to the public service set. Attempts by the client device to join the public service set may be denied for a predetermined number of attempts or a predetermined period of time. Denying an attempt to connect to a public service set may provide a client device with more opportunities to connect to a private service set broadcast from a corresponding access point.