Activation procedure for low radiation wireless networks
AssigneeAssumite Gladium Spiritus B.V.
InventorJohan H.R. Schrader
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for operating a low radiation access point in a wireless network and access point adapted thereto. The invention provides an activation procedure to automatically decide whether or not to start the transmission of beacon frames when a probe-request frame is received from an unregistered device. This allows unregistered wireless devices to connect to the access point for the first time and be entered into the registration list.
Claims24
A method for operating an access point, in a wireless network, which network comprises at least one access point and at least one wireless device communicating with one another by means of radio frequency signals, wherein said access point may transmit beacon frames, repeatedly at a beacon interval, wherein no beacon frames are transmitted by the access point in the event that not any wireless device is connected to the access point, and wherein the transmission of beacon frames is started in the event that a probe-request frame is received from a wireless device that is on a register list, characterized by the following steps:
- running an activation procedure in the event that a probe-request frame is received from a wireless device that is not on the register list, to automatically decide whether or not to start transmitting beacon frames;
- adding an unregistered wireless device to the register list automatically in the event that this wireless device has been successfully connected to the access point.
An access point for a wireless network, comprising at least:
- a wireless communication component;
- a data port;
- a processor;
- and a memory;
- wherein the processor is configured to cause the wireless communication component to stop transmitting beacon frames in the event that no wireless devices are connected to said access point, and to start the transmission of beacon frames in the event that a probe-request frame is received from a wireless device that is on a register list, characterized in that said processor is configured to:
- run an activation procedure in the event that a probe-request frame is received from a wireless device that is not on the register list, to automatically decide whether or not to start transmitting beacon frames;
- add an unregistered wireless device to the register list automatically in the event that this wireless device has been successfully connected to the access point.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.