Removing client devices from association with a wireless access point
AssigneeCisco Technology, Inc.
InventorsPooya Monajemi, Ahmadreza Hedayat, Allen J. Huotari, Jerome Henry
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Abstract
A wireless access point that serves one or more wireless client devices in a wireless network determines that at least one particular client device that is associated to the wireless access point should not be associated to the wireless access point. The wireless access point transmits frames so that they are received at the particular client device with reduced strength so as to provoke the particular client device to transition from the wireless access point.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- at a wireless access point:
- determining that a client device associated to the wireless access point should no longer be associated to the wireless access point;
- and
- in response to determining that the client device should no longer be associated to the wireless access point, provoking the client device to transition from the wireless access point by transmitting a series of frames such that each subsequent frame in the series of frames is received at the client device with a strength that is reduced relative to a previous frame in the series of frames.
A wireless access point comprising:
- a plurality of transmitters, each associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of antennas;
- a plurality of receivers, each associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of antennas;
- and
- a baseband processor coupled to the plurality of transmitters and the plurality of receivers, wherein the baseband processor:
- determines that a client device associated to the wireless access point should no longer be associated to the wireless access point;
- and
- in response to determining that the client device should no longer be associated to the wireless access point, provokes the client device to transition from the wireless access point by transmitting a series of frames such that each subsequent frame in the series of frames is received at the client device with a strength that is reduced relative to a previous frame in the series of frames.
A non-transitory computer readable storage media encoded with instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations for a wireless access point, the operations comprising:
- determining that a client device associated to the wireless access point should no longer be associated to the wireless access point;
- and
- in response to determining that the client device should no longer be associated to the wireless access point, provoking the client device to transition from the wireless access point by transmitting a series of frames such that each subsequent frame in the series of frames is received at the client device with a strength that is reduced relative to a previous frame in the series of frames.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.