Multiplex communications – Communication over free space – Having a plurality of contiguous regions served by...
Reexamination Certificate
2007-03-07
2010-11-02
Chang, Kent (Department: 2617)
Multiplex communications
Communication over free space
Having a plurality of contiguous regions served by...
C370S338000, C370S328000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07826426
ABSTRACT:
AP's associated with a communication network and any wireless devices desiring contact, operated according to a protocol in which each wireless device selects AP's with which to communicate. A system coordinator causes the AP's to operate so as to guide each wireless device to an AP selected by the system coordinator. This has the effect that, notwithstanding that the protocol involves having the wireless device make the selection of AP, functionally, the AP's make the selection for it. In a 1sttechnique, multiple AP's share an identifier, with the system coordinator directing one particular AP to respond to the wireless device, thus appearing to wireless devices as a “personal cell”. In a 2ndtechnique, AP's each maintain identifiers substantially unique to each wireless device, with the system coordinator directing only one particular AP to maintain any particular wireless device's identifier, thus appearing to wireless devices as a “personal AP”.
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Balasubramanian Saravanan
Bharghavan Vaduvur
Dunsbergen Berend
Epstein Joseph
Han Sung-Wook
Chang Kent
Hammonds Marcus
Meru Networks
Swernofsky Law Group PC
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