Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Steering between content streaming devices using derived link metrics and channel utilization information
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Application No.: US15382966Application Date: 2016-12-19
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Publication No.: US11297125B2Publication Date: 2022-04-05
- Inventor: Jay Strater , Gregory Nakanishi , Michael J. Hartman
- Applicant: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
- Applicant Address: US GA Suwanee
- Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
- Current Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Suwanee
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Main IPC: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08 ; H04B17/318 ; H04W16/28 ; H04L67/04 ; H04W40/24 ; H04W36/08 ; H04W40/12 ; H04W88/16 ; H04W84/12 ; H04W36/38 ; H04W88/08 ; H04W36/26

Abstract:
A wireless gateway for steering a client device between content streaming apparatuses in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The gateway provides an access point (GW AP) including a gateway steering controller configured to determine whether a client device should be steered to a content streaming apparatus based on at least one sample measurement on received signal strength between the client device and the content streaming apparatus and at least one other content streaming apparatus, and conduct steering logic calculations. The steering logic calculations are compared against predetermined thresholds, and said gateway steering controller provides an instruction to steer the client device to one of the content streaming apparatuses based on a difference between the steering logic calculations and the predetermined thresholds. Optionally, the gateway steering controller may also provide band steering as well as signal strength steering.
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