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US 10,477,509 B2Granted
Site model selection for a wireless access point
AssigneeHewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
InventorsAllan Delgado Campos, Fabiel Zuniga Gallegos
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Abstract
Techniques are provided for placing wireless access points on a site model. An indication of a newly detected wireless access point is received. Perceived signal strengths are received from the newly detected wireless access point or located wireless access points. A site model is selected based on the received perceived signal strengths. The newly detected wireless access point is placed on the selected site model.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a management computer, an indication of an unknown wireless access point that is newly detected in a wireless local area network;
- receiving, at the management computer, from the unknown wireless access point a report comprising a plurality of signal strengths associated with wireless signals received by the unknown access point from a plurality of access points with known locations on a particular site model, wherein the particular site model represents a view of the plurality of access points at a particular site and comprises physical locations of the plurality of access points and a physical layout of the particular site;
- selecting, by the management computer, the particular site model from a plurality of site models based on the plurality of access points from which the wireless signals in the report are received by the unknown wireless access point;
- presenting, by the management computer, the selected particular site model to an administrative user of the unknown wireless access point;
- and
- placing, by the management computer, the unknown wireless access point on the selected particular site model in response to the administrative user accepting the presented particular site model.
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A network device comprising:
- a memory;
- a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor executes instructions stored in the memory to:
- receive an indication of an unknown wireless access point that is newly detected in a wireless local area network;
- receive from the unknown wireless access point a report comprising a plurality of signal strengths associated with wireless signals received by the unknown access point from a plurality of access points with known locations on a particular site model, wherein the particular site model represents a view of the plurality of access points at a particular site and comprises physical locations of the plurality of access points and a physical layout of the particular site;
- select the particular site model from a plurality of site models based on the plurality of access points from which the wireless signals in the report are received by the unknown wireless access point;
- present the selected particular site model to an administrative user of the unknown wireless access point;
- and
- place the unknown wireless access point on the selected particular site model in response to the administrative user accepting the presented particular site model.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions which, when executed by at least one hardware processor of a network device, cause performance of operations comprising:
- receiving an indication of an unknown wireless access point that is newly detected in a wireless local area network;
- receiving from the unknown wireless access point a report comprising a plurality of signal strengths associated with wireless signals received by the unknown access point from a plurality of access points with known locations on a particular site model, wherein the particular site model represents a view of the plurality of access points at a particular site and comprises physical locations of the plurality of access points and a physical layout of the particular site;
- selecting the particular site model from a plurality of site models based on the plurality of access points from which the wireless signals in the report are received by the unknown wireless access point;
- presenting the selected particular site model to an administrative user of the unknown wireless access point;
- and
- placing the unknown wireless access point on the selected particular site model in response to the administrative user accepting the presented particular site model.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.