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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2015
Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sekhar Sumanth Gorajala Chandra, Milpitas, CA (US);
Sashidhar V. Annaluru, Cupertino, CA (US);
Fortinet, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for obtaining and managing network appliance position information are provided. According to one embodiment, a network appliance controller establishes a network connection with a mobile device. The network appliance controller receives via the network connection from the mobile device identification information associated with a network appliance and position information. The network appliance controller associates the identification information with the position information as a deployment position of the network appliance within the wireless local area network (WLAN).