Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wireless network steering
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Application No.: US15656184Application Date: 2017-07-21
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Publication No.: US10440031B2Publication Date: 2019-10-08
- Inventor: Derrick Pallus , Eric Maassmann , Simon Barber
- Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Current Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Polsinelli PC
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04W48/14 ; H04W48/16 ; H04W12/08 ; H04W4/21 ; H04W48/00 ; H04L29/08 ; H04W48/02 ; H04W48/18 ; H04W84/12 ; H04W88/10 ; H04W12/00

Abstract:
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for steering authorized wireless clients to preferred or restricted wireless networks. In some examples, an access point associated with a preferred wireless network and a non-preferred wireless network can receive one or more probe requests from a wireless client. The access point can withhold a response to the one or more probe requests from the wireless client until a probe response triggering event is detected. In response to detecting the probe response triggering event, the access point can steer the wireless client towards the wireless network by sending, to the wireless client, a first probe response associated with the preferred wireless network and withholding a second probe response associated with the non-preferred wireless network.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190028482A1 WIRELESS NETWORK STEERING Public/Granted day:2019-01-24
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