Signal handling for wireless clients
AssigneeMarvell International Ltd.
InventorsNafea Bishara, Paramesh Gopi
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Abstract
An apparatus having a corresponding method and computer program comprises an input circuit to receive packets of data from a network; a memory to store packet filter criteria for one or more wireless clients; a filter circuit to drop one or more of the packets of data according to the packet filter criteria; and a wireless output circuit to wirelessly transmit, to the one or more wireless clients, only the packets of data that are not dropped by the filter circuit.
Claims16
A wireless network device, comprising:
- a wireless input circuit configured to
- receive first wireless network signals, and
- generate first wired signals based on the first wireless network signals;
- a wireless output circuit configured to transmit second wireless network signals based on second wired signals;
- a processing circuit configured to
- process the first wired signals, and
- generate the second wired signals only when the processing circuit is enabled;
- and
- a control circuit independent of the processing circuit, the control circuit configured to
- receive the first wired signals,
- enable the processing circuit when the first wired signals meet predetermined wireless network criteria, and
- disable the processing circuit when the first wired signals do not meet the predetermined wireless network criteria,
- wherein the control circuit is configured to transmit an enable signal to the processing circuit to enable the processing circuit, and
- wherein the control circuit is configured to generate the second wired signals to be transmitted by the wireless output circuit as the second wireless network signals when the processing circuit is not enabled.
A method for processing signals at a wireless network device, the wireless network device comprising a processing circuit, the method comprising:
- receiving first wireless network signals at the processing circuit and at a control circuit, the control circuit being independent of the processing circuit;
- generating first wired signals based on the first wireless network signals;
- transmitting second wireless network signals based on second wired signals;
- and
- using the control circuit to enable the processing circuit to (i) process the first wired signals and (ii) generate the second wired signals, wherein the processing circuit is enabled only when the first wired signals meet predetermined wireless network criteria,
- wherein the predetermined wireless network criteria includes a protocol type, and the control circuit transmits an enable signal to the processing circuit to enable the processing circuit, and
- when the processing circuit is not enabled, the control circuit is used to generate the second wired signals as the second wireless network signals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.