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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2015
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Brian D. Hart, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John Matthew Swartz, Lithia, FL (US);
Joshua Suhr, Lenexa, KS (US);
Matthew A. Silverman, Shaker Heights, OH (US);
Tak Ming Pang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In response to receiving a probe request from a mobile client, an access point determines whether it should suppress a probe response. The access point receives a probe request from a wireless client device, and prepares a probe response to respond to the probe request. The access point determines whether the wireless client device is likely to associate with the wireless access point. Responsive to a determination that the wireless client device is unlikely to associate with the wireless access point, the access point suppresses the transmission of the probe response.