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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7346338 | Wireless network system including integrated rogue access point detection Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating automated detection of rogue wireless access points in a wireless network environment. The present invention, in one embodiment, integrates automated detection of rogue access points into wireless network systems. As dis... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342906 | Distributed wireless network security system Methods, apparatuses and systems enabling a distributed wireless network security system. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a wireless network system where security policies are automatically distributed and uniformly implemented across wireless netw... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340247 | Wireless network infrastructure including wireless discovery and communication mechanism A wireless discovery and communication mechanism to facilitate configuration, management and performance tasks associated with wireless network environments. In certain embodiments, access elements transmit and receive neighbor messages on a periodic basis to neighb... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336670 | Discovery of rogue access point location in wireless network environments Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating location or containment of rogue or unauthorized access points on wireless computer network environments. Embodiments of the present invention support one to a plurality of rogue containment methodologies. A first rogue ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7327697 | Method and system for dynamically assigning channels across multiple radios in a wireless LAN In a fixed channel wireless network system with a limited number of channels, assignment of the fixed channels between remote client elements and access elements is made systematically according to a set of criteria accounting for network loading and interference, t... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7313113 | Dynamic transmit power configuration system for wireless network environments Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating the configuration of transmit power and coverage areas corresponding to access points in a wireless network environment. The present invention in one embodiment facilitates the dynamic configuration of coverage boundarie... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7302256 | Viral wireless discovery and configuration mechanism for wireless networks Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to wireless discovery mechanism that facilitates the deployment and configuration of managed access elements in a wireless network system. In one embodiment, the present invention can be utilized to achieve a viral wireless ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301926 | Automatic coverage hole detection in computer network environments Methods, apparatuses and systems enabling real-time analysis of coverage and other performance attributes of distributed or networked systems, such as wireless computer network environments. In one embodiment, the present invention utilizes information obtained from... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7286835 | Enhanced wireless node location using differential signal strength metric A wireless node location mechanism that employs a differential signal strength metric to reduce the errors caused by variations in wireless node transmit power, errors in signal strength detection, and/or direction-dependent path loss. As opposed to using the absolu... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7286833 | Selective termination of wireless connections to refresh signal information in wireless node location infrastructure Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to refreshing signal information in an infrastructure wireless node location mechanism. The wireless node location mechanism selectively terminates connections with wireless clients to refresh signal strength information use... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283534 | Network with virtual “Virtual Private Network” server A distributed network is provided with mobile user devices, a virtual “Virtual Private Network” (VPN) server, and a plurality of physical VPN servers, wherein the virtual VPN server allows all mobile user devices to be configured with a single VPN server address... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7260408 | Wireless node location mechanism using antenna pattern diversity to enhance accuracy of location estimates A wireless node RF Fingerprinting location mechanism that uses multiple antenna patterns to enhance the accuracy of wireless node location in an RF environment. In one implementation, substantially non-overlapping antenna pattern diversity is used to provide a degre... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7251457 | Wireless network perimeter security system using overlaying radio frequency signals Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to securing a wireless network environment from eavesdropping and other unauthorized activities. One implementation prevents or disrupts meaningful access to information contained in WLAN RF signals that escape from a given ... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7212837 | Method and system for hierarchical processing of protocol information in a wireless LAN In a wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system, a hierarchical architecture is provided which employs a protocol which divides protocol processing functions between a plurality of substantially identical access elements in which reside time-critical protocol functio... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7205938 | Wireless node location mechanism responsive to observed propagation characteristics of wireless network infrastructure signals A wireless node location mechanism that dynamically adapts to changes to a surrounding physical environment that affect the propagation of radio signals. The wireless node location mechanism assesses radio signals from transmitters associated with a wireless node lo... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7116988 | Location of wireless nodes using signal strength weighting metric Methods, apparatuses, and systems directed to a wireless node location mechanism that uses a signal strength weighting metric to improve the accuracy of estimating the location of a wireless node based on signals detected among a plurality of radio transceivers. In ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7106271 | Non-overlapping antenna pattern diversity in wireless network environments Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to a wireless network interface supporting directional antenna diversity. Directional diversity, in one embodiment, makes use of antennas with higher gain and non-overlapping patterns to provide communication over a greater ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7047014 | Raster-to-vector conversion operations adapted to modeling of RF propagation Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to optimizing vector models for use in modeling RF propagation in desired physical environments. In one embodiment, the present invention can operate on pre-existing vector models. In other implementations, the present inven... | 05/16/2006 |
