Determining the state of a station in a local area network
AssigneeAirMagnet, Inc.
InventorsChia-Chee Kuan, Miles Wu, Dean Au
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Abstract
In a wireless local area network, transmissions exchanged between a station and an access point is received using a detector located adjacent to the station. The received transmissions are analyzed to determine the state of the station, where the state of the station indicates whether the station has authenticated and/or associated with the access point in the wireless local area network.
Claims39
A method of determining the state of a station in a wireless local area network, wherein the state of the station indicates whether the station has authenticated and/or associated with an access point in the wireless local area network, the method comprising:
- receiving transmissions exchanged between the station and the access point using a detector located adjacent to the station,
- wherein the transmissions are exchanged over the wireless local area network;
- and
- analyzing the received transmissions to determine the state of the station.
A method of determining the state of a station in a wireless local area network, the method comprising:
- receiving a transmission exchanged between the station and the access point using a detector located adjacent to the station,
- wherein the transmissions are exchanged over the wireless local area network;
- displaying a list of transmissions on the detector,
- wherein the list includes different types of transmissions potentially exchanged between the station and the access point, and
- wherein the different types of transmissions are indicative of different states of the station;
- determining if the received transmission is one of the different types of transmissions;
- and
- when a received transmission corresponds to one of the different types of transmissions, indicating on the list of transmissions that the type of transmissions that the type of transmission corresponding to the received transmission was received.
An apparatus for determining the state of a station in a wireless local area network, wherein the state of the station indicates whether the station has authenticated and/or associated with an access point in the wireless local area network, the apparatus comprising:
- a detector configured to:
- receive transmissions exchanged between the station and the access point when the detector is located adjacent to the station;
- and
- analyze the received transmissions to determine the state of the station.
A computer-readable storage medium containing computer executable code to determine the state of a station in a wireless local area network, wherein the state of the station indicates whether the station has authenticated and/or associated with an access point in the wireless local area network, by instructing a computer to operate as follows:
- receiving transmissions exchanged between the station and the access point;
- and
- analyzing the received transmissions to determine the state of the station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.