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Adaptive wireless network feature support

US10687338B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

Cisco Technology, Inc. · US

Inventors

Jerome Henry · Pittsboro, US
Sudhir Kumar Jain · Milpitas, US
Aries Kuttiyan · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 26, 2017
Grant date	Jun 16, 2020
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 25, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04W88/08
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques to adaptively support/enable a wireless network feature for certain wireless client devices without hampering the performance or connectivity of wireless client devices which do not support that wireless network feature. An access point or wireless network controller adaptively enables a wireless network feature without advertising support for the wireless network feature in a wireless network-standard compliant manner to allow one or more wireless clients that support the wireless network feature to use the wireless network feature when associated to the access point while enabling association of one or more wireless clients that do not support the wireless network feature.

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