Method and apparatus to intelligently perform scanning and assist scanning by profiling scanning history
AssigneeAvaya Inc.
InventorsHaixiang He, Darwin Engwer
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, a method involves determining whether a wireless connection between a first access point and a wireless station has failed. If so, a partial scanning process is conducted only on a subset of communication channels over which data is transmitted by access points neighboring the first access point. The subset of communication channels, inclusive of zero, is determined by analysis of a scanning history database.
Claims20
A database stored within a storage medium of a wireless station and including a plurality of entries, each entry being accessible by logic to establish an alternative wireless connection with the wireless station when a current wireless connection between the wireless station and an access point has failed and comprising:
- an identifier to identify a specific access point corresponding to the entry;
- and
- a plurality of scanning results associated with the specific access point, the scanning results being information acquired from the specific access point during a prior scanning operation.
A method comprising:
- determining whether a wireless connection between a first access point and a wireless station has failed;
- and
- conducting a partial scanning process on only a subset of communication channels over which data is transmitted by access points neighboring the first access point, the subset of communication channels being determined by analysis of a scanning history database.
A method comprising:
- scanning a plurality of communication channels by a wireless station, the plurality of communication channels being used to transmit data from access points of a wireless network;
- storing data obtained from each scan of the plurality of communication channels into a scanning history database;
- associating with a first access point of the access points;
- determining whether a wireless connection with the first access has failed;
- and if so,
- partially scanning only a subset of the plurality of communication channels selected based on an analysis of the data stored within the scanning history database.
A method comprising:
- scanning a plurality of communication channels by a wireless station, the plurality of communication channels being used to transmit data from access points of a wireless network;
- storing data obtained from each scan of the plurality of communication channels into a scanning history database;
- and
- associating with a first access point of the access points based on information within the scanning history database.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.