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US 11,903,064 B2Granted
Network connection management across a multi-band wireless network
AssigneeARRIS Enterprises LLC
InventorPenghui Zhao
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Abstract
An example method includes receiving a connection request from a pending computing device to connect via one of multiple RF communication bands of a wireless network. The method further includes, in response to receiving the connection request from the pending computing device, determining whether a multiple RF communication band utilization threshold is exceeded by the connection request from the pending computing device. The method further includes in response to determining that the multiple RF communication band communication utilization threshold is not exceeded, establishing connection with the pending computing device via one of the multiple RF communication bands of the wireless network to enable communication of the pending computing device over the wireless network.
Claims20
A wireless communication system comprising:
- a wireless access point including:
- a group of multiple radio frequency (RF) communication band interfaces for establishing and maintaining computing device connections and communications over a wireless network having multiple RF communication bands, wherein:
- each RF communication band interface is for RF communication over one of the RF band communication bands, and
- each RF communication band is a contiguous section of RF spectrum frequencies on the wireless network;
- a processor coupled to the group of RF communication band interfaces;
- a memory accessible to the processor and including a multiple RF communication band utilization imposing a combined wireless network capacity utilization limit on at least two of the multiple RF communication bands;
- and
- programming in the memory, wherein execution of the programming by the processor configures the wireless communication system to perform functions, including functions to:
- receive a connection request from a pending computing device to connect via one of the multiple RF communication bands of the wireless network;
- in response to receiving the connection request from the pending computing device, determine whether the multiple RF communication band utilization threshold is exceeded by the connection request from the pending computing device;
- and
- in response to determining that the multiple RF communication band communication utilization threshold is not exceeded, establish connection with the pending computing device via one of the multiple RF communication bands of the wireless network to enable communication of the pending computing device over the wireless network, wherein the determining comprises:
- calculating a total number of currently connected computing devices to the multiple RF communication bands;
- and
- comparing the total number of the currently connected computing devices with the multiple RF communication band utilization threshold, where the multiple RF communication band utilization threshold is a total connection limit across at least two of the multiple RF communication bands of the wireless network.
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A method comprising:
- receiving a connection request from a pending computing device to connect via one of multiple RF communication bands of a wireless network;
- in response to receiving the connection request from the pending computing device, determining whether a multiple RF communication band utilization threshold is exceeded by the connection request from the pending computing device;
- and
- in response to determining that the multiple RF communication band communication utilization threshold is not exceeded, establishing connection with the pending computing device via one of the multiple RF communication bands of the wireless network to enable communication of the pending computing device over the wireless network, wherein the determining comprises:
- calculating a total number of currently connected computing devices to the multiple RF communication bands;
- and
- comparing the total number of the currently connected computing devices with the multiple RF communication band utilization threshold, where the multiple RF communication band utilization threshold is a total connection limit across at least two of the multiple RF communication bands of the wireless network.
4 more elements
A non-transitory machine-readable medium containing machine-readable programming instructions, the instructions causing a wireless communication system to:
- receive a connection request from a pending computing device to connect via one of multiple RF communication bands of a wireless network;
- in response to receiving the connection request from the pending computing device, determine whether a multiple RF communication band utilization threshold is exceeded by the connection request from the pending computing device;
- and
- in response to determining that the multiple RF communication band communication utilization threshold is not exceeded, establish connection with the pending computing device via one of the multiple RF communication bands of the wireless network to enable communication of the pending computing device over the wireless network, wherein the determining comprises:
- calculating a total number of currently connected computing devices to the multiple RF communication bands;
- and
- comparing the total number of the currently connected computing devices with the multiple RF communication band utilization threshold, where the multiple RF communication band utilization threshold is a total connection limit across at least two of the multiple RF communication bands of the wireless network.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.