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Techniques to improve multiple collocated device networking over single wireless communication networks

US8332534B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

Tchigevsky Izoslav · Kiryat Motzkin, IL
Oren Kaidar · Or Akiva, IL

Key dates

Filing date	Jul 28, 2006
Grant date	Dec 11, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 5, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04W88/021
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a wireless station (STA) capable of communicating with an access point (AP), wherein the STA is capable of representing itself to the AP as a Group-of-Stations. The Group-of-Stations may be a plurality of networking devices (such as virtual stations) in an embodiment of the present invention and the Group-of-Stations may be defined by adding an Information Element (IE) to an Association/Reassociation request; or the Group of Stations may be defined by using masking operations on a MAC address.

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