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US 9,432,862 B2Granted
OTA mobile device classification
AssigneeAirMagnet, Inc.
InventorsGreg Rayburn, Richard Cue, Kevin Chen Wang
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Abstract
A system, method and device for classifying mobile devices based on frame characteristics and frame content provides a network administrator the ability to better understand actual network use by BYOD (bring your own device) type users, which are becoming more common, giving the ability to better understand actual use beyond the planned for stations factored into a wireless network design.
Claims8
A mobile computing device configured to couple to a remote server for classifying devices on a 802.11 wireless network comprising:
- a sensor component having an antenna coupled to a receiver for monitoring raw wireless network traffic data and a decoder coupled to the receiver, the decoder configured to decode the raw wireless network traffic data received from the antenna;
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- a processing component separate from the sensor component having:
- (i) a processor coupled to the sensor component for receiving the monitored wireless traffic network traffic for determining device characteristics data for devices operating on the 802.11 wireless network based on device OUI and 802.11 probe request data frames, wherein the determined device characteristics include Short Guard interval support status for at least two different channels;
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- (ii) a network interface coupled to the remote server for transmitting the determined device characteristic data to the remote server, wherein the remote server is configured to classify the device operating on the 802.11 wireless network based on a pre-qualified list of devices.
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