Managing dense wireless access point infrastructures in...

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2011-03-15

2011-03-15

Gelin, Jean A (Department: 2617)

Multiplex communications

Communication over free space

Having a plurality of contiguous regions served by...

C370S338000, C455S410000, C455S421000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07907562

ABSTRACT:
Techniques for enhancing the throughput capacity available to client devices connected to a wireless local area network (WLAN) are described. Specifically, existing WLAN resources are converted into wireless access points (APs) to create a dense infrastructure of wireless APs. To leverage this dense AP infrastructure, central management techniques are employed. With client-to-AP mapping, these techniques are used to prevent the discovery of multiple APs in a WLAN by a client device and to select a single AP (using certain policies) to associate with the client device and provide it with an enhanced wireless connection to the WLAN. Additionally, techniques are employed to centrally determine, using central policies, when the AP should disassociate from the client device and when another centrally selected AP should respond to, and associate with, the client device to provide it with an enhanced wireless connection to the WLAN—without interrupting/disrupting the client device's access.

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