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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2014
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jerome Henry, Pittsboro, NC (US);
Allen J. Huotari, Garden Grove, CA (US);
Pooya Monajemi, Irvine, CA (US);
Ahmadreza Hedayat, Allen, TX (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/28 (2009.01); H04W 52/14 (2009.01); H04W 52/32 (2009.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 52/42 (2009.01); H04W 48/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/283 (2013.01); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04W 52/143 (2013.01); H04W 52/327 (2013.01); H04W 48/12 (2013.01); H04W 52/42 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a wireless access point that serves at least one client device in a wireless local area network transmits frames to the at least one client device so that the frames are received by the at least one client device with a receive signal strength so as to control the transmission of probe request messages by the at least one client device.