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20080276303 | Network Type Advertising - A technique for network type awareness involves providing network type information associated with a wireless network to stations. The stations, or users of the stations, can then select which network best meets their needs. | 11-06-2008 |
20090067436 | NETWORK ASSIGNMENT BASED ON PRIORITY - Systems and methods for network assignment based on priority are described in this application. In one aspect, a technique for network assignment based on priority relates to establishing a connection between a client and a virtual local area network (VLAN), based on an explicit or implicit network priority preference of the client. In an embodiment, multiple VLANs can be combined into one network bundle, the network bundle being a unit network for priority specification. In addition, multiple network bundles may be available for network assignment on a particular network controller (e.g., network switch). For example, the preferred network of a client may be comprised of several individual VLANs. Thus, the client can be assigned to any of the constituent VLANs included in the preferred network bundle. | 03-12-2009 |
20090073905 | HIGH LEVEL INSTRUCTION CONVERGENCE FUNCTION - A convergence engine may provide a high level message for a high level engine representative of multiple messages received by a network interface or other physical layer transmission device. The high level engine may access one or more high level messages via functions describing the state of a non-network-portal station. | 03-19-2009 |
20090131082 | WIRELESS STATION LOCATION DETECTION - A technique for locating a device uses connectivity to find a distance between an access point (AP) and a device. The AP transmits a frame to a device and receives an acknowledgement frame from the device. The amount of time for a signal to pass between the AP and the device is estimated and multiplied by the speed of light to find the distance between the AP and the device. | 05-21-2009 |
20090287816 | LINK LAYER THROUGHPUT TESTING - A technique for testing a network path involves making use of feedback enabling parameters. Values for the feedback enabling parameters can be generated from a measurement of path performance. The technique can be implemented for wireless paths. The technique can also be implemented for multi-hop paths. | 11-19-2009 |
20120300708 | WIRELESS STATION LOCATION DETECTION - A technique for locating a device uses connectivity to find a distance between an access point (AP) and a device. The AP transmits a frame to a device and receives an acknowledgement frame from the device. The amount of time for a signal to pass between the AP and the device is estimated and multiplied by the speed of light to find the distance between the AP and the device. | 11-29-2012 |
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20080226075 | Restricted services for wireless stations - A technique for providing restricted access to a wireless network involves recognizing a service descriptive identifier (SDID). The SDID may be transmitted to wireless stations that query the wireless network so that the wireless stations can at least gain access to restricted services provided by the wireless network. The SDID may include quality of service (QoS) parameters, as well, thereby facilitating dynamically restricted access to the wireless network. | 09-18-2008 |
20100195549 | THROTTLING ACCESS POINTS - A technique for controlling the amount of power consumed by access points (APs) of a wireless network involves implementing throttleable APs (TAPs). It would be desirable for the TAPs to be in a relatively low power mode during periods of low activity, and switch to a high power mode in response to increased wireless activity. To that end, a throttling engine can be implemented to throttle TAPs up in power in response to increases in wireless activity, and throttle TAPs down in power in response to decreases in wireless activity. | 08-05-2010 |
20110255466 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATION AND QUEUING IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - A technique for improved throughput at an access point (AP) involves when frames are received for transmission by the AP, queuing the frames for a particular station. A system constructed according to the technique may include an aggregation and queuing layer. Station queues may be processed by the aggregation and queuing layer before being given to radio hardware for transmission. In an illustrative embodiment, when frames are received by the aggregation and queuing layer, the packet will be assigned a target delivery time (TDT) and an acceptable delivery time (ADT). The TDT is the “ideal” time to transmit a frame, based on its jitter and throughput requirements. Frames are mapped on to a time axis for transmission by TDT. In an illustrative embodiment, each frame is mapped by priority, so that there are separate maps for voice, video, best effort, and background frames. There will be gaps between frames for transmission that can be used for aggregation. | 10-20-2011 |
20120250600 | THROTTLING ACCESS POINTS - A technique for controlling the amount of power consumed by access points (APs) of a wireless network involves implementing throttleable APs (TAPs). It would be desirable for the TAPs to be in a relatively low power mode during periods of low activity, and switch to a high power mode in response to increased wireless activity. To that end, a throttling engine can be implemented to throttle TAPs up in power in response to increases in wireless activity, and throttle TAPs down in power in response to decreases in wireless activity. | 10-04-2012 |
20140068707 | Internetwork Authentication - A technique for network authentication interoperability involves initiating an authentication procedure on a first network, authenticating on a second network, and allowing access at the first network. The technique can include filtering access to a network, thereby restricting access to users with acceptable credentials. Offering a service that incorporates these techniques can enable incorporation of the techniques into an existing system with minimal impact to network configuration. | 03-06-2014 |
20140280461 | PROVIDING STATELESS NETWORK SERVICES - In various systems and methods, there can be received a request for a network service. A query for the network service can be formulated based on the request. A remote access device can be instructed to interrogate remote devices coupled to the remote network access device for the network service. Access parameters related to the network service can be received in response to the interrogation. The user device can be configured to access the network service based on the access parameters. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281027 | GATEWAY USING MULTICAST TO UNICAST CONVERSION - A multicast frame directed to a plurality of devices coupled to a network can be received, where the plurality of devices comprising at least one intended recipient device and at least one unintended recipient device. A destination unicast address corresponding to an intended recipient device can be identified. The multicast frame can be converted into a unicast frame directed to the intended recipient device, the unicast frame configured with the destination unicast address. The unicast frame can be blocked from accessing the unintended recipient device. The unicast frame can be provided to the intended recipient device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140282916 | ACCESS AUTHORIZATION THROUGH CERTIFICATE VALIDATION - Managing access for a client device to services or data provided through a network using a certificate received from a client device that is either an employee owned device or an employer owned device. User information of a user of the client device and device information of the client device is determined from the certificate. Access rights for the client device are determined based on the user information and the device information. Access to services or data provided through a network for the client device are managed using the determined access rights. | 09-18-2014 |
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20150160793 | PROVIDING TRENDING INFORMATION TO USERS - A system may provide, via a user interface, information identifying two or more of trending search-related information, trending video-related information, trending image-related information, or trending news-related information. The two or more of the trending search-related information, the trending video-related information, the trending image-related information, or the trending news-related information are visually presented as graphical items. Each graphical item, of the graphical items, is visually identified as corresponding to the trending search-related information, the trending video-related information, the trending image-related information, or the trending news-related information. The user interface presents multiple graphical items simultaneously. The system may further receive information identifying a topic, and provide, based on receiving the information identifying the topic, a subsequent group of graphical items, on the user interface. The subsequent group of graphical items relates to the topic. | 06-11-2015 |