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US 10,856,208 B2Granted
Identification and suppression of network beacons
AssigneeMotorola Mobility LLC
InventorsBinesh Balasingh, Mary Khun Hor-Lao, Ranjeet Gupta
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Abstract
In embodiments of identification and suppression of network beacons, a wireless device scans for wireless network beacons and receives a beacon frame from a wireless network beacon. The wireless device identifies the beacon frame is from a network beacon of non-interest and suppresses the network beacon and terminates reception and processing of the beacon frame.
Claims20
A method implemented by a wireless device, the method comprising:
- scanning for wireless network beacons;
- receiving a beacon frame from a wireless network beacon;
- identifying that the beacon frame is from a wireless network beacon that is non compatible with the wireless device,
- the wireless network beacon being a compatible mesh network beacon and the identifying by skipping the beacon frame until a mesh control byte is encountered and
- determining that a mesh control bit is set;
- and
- suppressing the wireless network beacon that is non-compatible and terminating reception and processing of the beacon frame.
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A method implemented by a wireless device for identification and suppression of network beacons of non-interest comprising:
- scanning for wireless network beacons;
- receiving a beacon frame from a wireless network beacon;
- skipping a predetermined number of bytes of the beacon frame and determining whether the beacon frame is from a wireless network beacon that is compatible with the wireless device as a compatible mesh network beacon,
- the determining by skipping until a mesh control byte is encountered and determining that a mesh control bit is set;
- responsive to the determining that the beacon frame is from a wireless network beacon that is not compatible with the wireless device,
- suppressing the non-compatible wireless network beacon, and terminating reception and processing of the beacon frame;
- and
- responsive to the determining that the beacon frame is from the wireless network beacon that is compatible with the wireless device, continuing the reception and the processing of the beacon frame.
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A wireless device comprising:
- a network interface configured for communication in a wireless network;
- a memory and processor system configured to:
- scan for wireless network beacons;
- receive a beacon frame from a wireless network beacon;
- identify that the beacon frame is from a wireless network beacon that is non compatible with the wireless device,
- the wireless network beacon being a compatible mesh network beacon and identify that the beacon frame is from the compatible mesh network beacon by the beacon frame being skipped until a mesh control byte is encountered and
- a determination that a mesh control bit is set;
- and
- suppress the wireless network beacon that is non-compatible and terminate reception and processing of the beacon frame.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.