Local thermal control of wireless access points
AssigneePlume Design, Inc.
InventorsWilliam MCFARLAND, Yoseph Malkin, Richard Chang, Patrick Hanley
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Abstract
Systems and methods of local thermal control of an access point include determining temperature associated with the access point including one or more radio chips operating therein; responsive to the temperature exceeding a first threshold, performing one or more thermal mitigation techniques to modify operating conditions of the one or more radio chips; and, responsive to the temperature being lower than a second threshold, reverting back the one or more thermal mitigation techniques.
Claims20
A method of thermal control of an access point, the method comprising:
- determining temperature associated with the access point comprising one or more radio chips operating therein;
- responsive to the temperature exceeding a first threshold, performing one or more thermal mitigation techniques to modify operating conditions of the one or more radio chips;
- and
- responsive to the temperature being lower than a second threshold, reverting back the one or more thermal mitigation techniques.
An access point configured for local thermal control, the access point comprising:
- one or more radios;
- a processor communicatively coupled to the one or more radios and configured to:
- determine temperature associated with the one or more radios operating therein;
- responsive to the temperature exceeding a first threshold, perform one or more thermal mitigation techniques to modify operating conditions of the one or more radios;
- and
- responsive to the temperature being lower than a second threshold, revert back the one or more thermal mitigation techniques.
A distributed Wi-Fi network configured to implement local thermal control at various nodes therein, the distributed Wi-Fi network comprising:
- a plurality of access points connected to one another forming the distributed Wi-Fi network;
- wherein each of the plurality of access points is configured to:
- determine temperature associated with one or more radios operating therein;
- responsive to the temperature exceeding a first threshold, perform one or more thermal mitigation techniques to modify operating conditions of the one or more radios;
- and
- responsive to the temperature being lower than a second threshold, revert back the one or more thermal mitigation techniques.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.