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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:
Oct. 10, 2017

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2014
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Gopal Agarwal, South Talluk Bangalore, IN;

Ramalingeswara Reddy, South Talluk Bangalore, IN;

Sachin Shamrao Sanap, South Talluk Bangalore, IN;

Ashish Vyas, South Talluk Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/021 (2013.01); H04L 67/16 (2013.01); H04L 67/18 (2013.01); H04W 64/00 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure discloses a method and network device for providing precise and custom location based service discovery application for wired and wireless devices. Specifically, a network device determines a location of a client device. The network device also identifies a first region including the location of the client device, and identifies at least one network device associated with the first region. Responsive at least to determining that the at least one network device is associated with the first region that comprises the location of the client device, the network device selects the at least one network device, from a set of network devices, for presenting as an available resource to the client device.


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