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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7986956 | Supporting mobile voice clients in a WLAN Operation of a mobile voice client utilizing a WLAN for access is enhanced by controlling the rate at which transmission power is changed by the access point with which the mobile voice client is associated. The access point calculates a target transmit power level ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7970408 | Wireless switched network An access point in a wireless network includes an external indication of the access point's proximity to another access point. The external indication can be a LED that blinks at a rate that is related to the proximity of the access point to the other access point. ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965686 | Selecting a wireless access point when load information is not provided by all access points When a station is within range of at least one AP that advertises load information and at least one AP that does not advertise load information, the station selects the best AP in terms of probable data rate. The probable data rate is determined based on signal stre... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7869822 | Wireless network apparatus and system field of the invention The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7813370 | Facilitating wireless spectrum migration Migrating from a legacy spectrum allocation to a target spectrum allocation can be accomplished by adding new access points and, at a selected time, activating the new access points and deactivating the legacy access points with a remote network manager. Alternative... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7774028 | System and method for stateful representation of wireless network devices in a user interface to a wireless communication environment planning and management system A system for providing multiple graphical representations for wireless network devices indicating status of the devices. The generated graphical representations of the devices are indicative of radio frequency channels the devices are operating on, as well as whethe... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7774013 | Program for adjusting channel interference between access points in a wireless network The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7773944 | RF domains A wireless access point broadcasts a unique RF domain identifier for each supported service set per radio. Within a wireless local area network (“WLAN”) the RF domain identifier is unique for each supported service set, and hence identifies the service set. In a... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7684783 | System and method for authenticating devices in a wireless network A system and method for securing communications in a wireless network includes the steps of authenticating members of the wireless network, generating a member private key to be used by the members of the wireless network, and distributing the member private key to ... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7660263 | Graphical representations of associations between devices in a wireless communication network indicating available throughput and channel selection A system and method for graphically representing associations between wireless network devices in a way that visually indicates the maximum amount of throughput between the associated devices, as well as a channel that is currently selected for communications betwee... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7656839 | Apparatus for associating access points with stations in a wireless network The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7653407 | Program for adjusting channel interference between devices in a wireless network The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7636576 | System and method for determining and representing one or more potential physical locations of a newly detected wireless network device A previously unknown wireless device, which may be either an access point or a station, is detected by receipt of transmissions from that device at one or more access points that are currently operating within a managed wireless network. A graphic representation of ... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7636550 | System and method for determining channel quality in a wireless network A system and method for Access Point (AP) channel selection based upon a Channel Quality Index (CQI) is described. The Channel Quality Index (CQI) is a value which quantifies a transmission quality of a channel. The transmission quality is evaluated based on a combi... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7633901 | Co-channel congestion method and apparatus A system and method for Access Point (AP) channel selection based upon a Channel Quality Index (CQI) is described. The Channel Quality Index (CQI) is a value which quantifies a transmission quality of a channel. The transmission quality is evaluated based on a combi... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7606573 | Wireless switched network An access point in a wireless network includes an external indication of the access point's proximity to another access point. The external indication can be a LED that blinks at a rate that is related to the proximity of the access point to the other access point. ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7505751 | Wireless mesh architecture A wireless mesh network architecture includes a plurality of wireless nodes, with each wireless node in the network is connected to every other wireless node in the network. Each pair of wireless nodes is coupled by a link dedicated to exchange of data by the pair o... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505441 | Method for selecting an optimum access point in a wireless network on a common channel The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7505434 | VLAN tagging in WLANs A wireless access point is operable to tag packets received from mobile clients. For example, a VLAN tag or Layer-3 tunnel tag for a packet is determined based at least in-part on a mapping between a mobile client and tag maintained by the access point. In one embod... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7502347 | Program for selecting an optimum access point in a wireless network The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically... | 03/10/2009 |
