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US 8,428,004 B2Granted
Wireless network facilitator and monitor
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsAmber Sistla, Jeremy Rover, Asha Keddy
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Abstract
Techniques are presented for facilitating and monitoring wireless network connections. Clients and intermediate nodes are configured to interact with one another via network connections. Initially, the clients wirelessly connect to a select one of the intermediate nodes. Tests may be periodically issued to the clients and to the intermediate nodes to measure and track performance and quality of the network connections. Billing records may also be recorded and billing policies verified for client activities occurring during the network connections.
Claims7
An apparatus, comprising:
- a network node having:
- a plug-and-play module adapted to processing on the network node;
- a device configuration module adapted to process on the network node;
- network tools adapted to collect and analyze metrics generated with network transactions occurring a between a client device and or more intermediate nodes;
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- tests adapted to reside in memory or storage associated with the network node;
- wherein the plug-and-play module is adapted to interact with the device configuration module to configure the client device and the one or more intermediate nodes to interact with one another in the network transactions, and wherein the plug-and-play module is further adapted to acquire and to selectively submit a number of the tests to the client device and to the one or more intermediate nodes, and wherein the client device initially wirelessly connects to a select one of the intermediate nodes to establish the network transactions;
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- a network interface device adapted to communicate the network node with a network.
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A system, comprising:
- a network node having:
- a plug-and-play module adapted to processing on the network node;
- a device configuration module adapted to process on the network node;
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- tests adapted to reside in memory or storage associated with the network node;
- wherein the plug-an-play module is adapted to interact with the device configuration module to configure a client device and one or more intermediate nodes to interact with one another in network transactions, and wherein the plug-an-play module is further adapted to acquire and to selectively submit a number of the tests to the client device and to the one or more intermediate nodes and wherein the client device initially wirelessly connects to a select one of the intermediate nodes to establish the network transactions;
- a network interface device adapted to communicate the node with a network;
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- a printer adapted to print metrics generated by traffic that occurs between the client device and the one of more intermediate nodes.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.