Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130103836 | Centralized Configuration with Dynamic Distributed Address Management - The present disclosure discloses a network device and/or method for centralized configuration with dynamic distributed address management. The disclosed network device receives, at a first network node, a range of sub network addresses and a specified size for a sub network. The disclosed network device then divides the range of sub network addresses into a plurality of sub-ranges of sub network addresses based on the specified size. Further, the network device allocates the plurality of sub-ranges of sub network addresses to a plurality of sub networks, and transmits an allocated sub-range of sub network addresses to a corresponding sub network at a second network node through an established secure communication channel. Moreover, the network device can retrieve a profile template that includes the range of sub network addresses and the specified size of the sub network; and create a profile based on the profile template. | 04-25-2013 |
20130201979 | Method and System for Partitioning Wireless Local Area Network - The present disclosure discloses a method and system for partitioning WLAN in order to separate network traffic from different WLANs. Specifically, a network device receives a packet from a client connected to a first network device on an access network. The network device then determines that the received packet is associated with a VLAN that is pre-configured on the first network device based on the access network to which the client is connected. Furthermore, the network device transmits the packet to a MAC layer switching device, which is not configured with the VLAN that is pre-configured on the network device. The packet includes one of a DHCP discovery message, an ARP request message, a unicast message, a multicast message, and a broadcast message. The unicast message will be transmitted to the second network device on the pre-configured VLAN prior to being transmitted to another network device outside the pre-configured VLAN. | 08-08-2013 |
20140082060 | Provisioning Remote Access Points - Provisioning remote access points for use in a telecommunication network. A remote access point contains identity information established during manufacturing; this identity information may be in the nature of a digital certificate. The identity information is stored in the remote access point, and may be stored in a Trusted Platform Module if present. When the remote access node is powered up in unprovisioned state, outside the manufacturing environment, it attempts to establish an internet connection via a first wired interface, and queries a user for information representing the TCP/IP address of its controller via a second wired interface. Once an internet connection is present, and a TCP/IP address has been provided, the remote access point attempts to connect to the controller at that address. Once a connection is established, controller and access point exchange and verify each other's identities. | 03-20-2014 |
20140269648 | Distributed Network Layer Mobility for Unified Access Networks - The present disclosure discloses a method and network device providing distributed network layer mobility for unified access networks. The method eliminates the need for a secure tunnel between a home network device and a foreign network device when a client roams from the home network device to the foreign network device. The disclosed network device receives an association request from a client device in a wireless network; identifies a first wireless virtual local area network (VLAN) that the client device is assigned to; and, allows traffic to or from the client device to be transmitted via the network device on the first wireless VLAN, wherein traffic on at least a second wireless VLAN is transmitted via the network device and segregated from the traffic on the first wireless VLAN. | 09-18-2014 |
20150120864 | NETWORK DEVICE WORKLOAD BALANCING - A method and computer readable medium for network device workload balancing, including: selecting a particular network device for storing client information associated with a client device; subsequent to the client device disassociating with a first network device, receiving, by the particular network device from the first network device, the client information; and responsive to the client device associating with a second network device: transmitting, by the particular network device, the client information to the second network device, where the client device does not associate with the particular network device between associating with the first network device and the second network device. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120911 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK SERVICE HEALTH CHECK AND LOAD BALANCING - A non-transitory computer readable medium includes instructions which, when executed by one or more network devices, causes performance of operations. The operations include sending, to shared devices, one or more status queries regarding one or more device conditions for each of the shared devices, obtaining responses to the one or more status queries from each of the plurality of shared devices, the responses including the one or more device conditions for each of the shared devices, filtering the shared devices based on the one or more device conditions to obtain a subset of the shared devices, identifying the subset of the shared devices as a set of available shared devices, and transmitting information identifying the set of available shared devices to a client device. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120951 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO SHARED DEVICES - A non-transitory computer readable medium includes computer readable program code including instructions for subsequent to a client device associating with an access point, receiving a request for a set of allowed shared devices, removing, by the access point and to obtain the set of allowed shared devices, a shared device from a set of shared devices based on a client device user of the client device failing to have a permission required by a device sharing policy of the shared device, and transmitting the set of allowed shared devices to the client device. | 04-30-2015 |
20150222527 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTING A PRIORITY FOR ACCESS POINTS - A non-transitory computer readable medium includes instructions which, when executed by one or more hardware processors, cause performance of operations including determining a priority level for an Access Point (AP). Subsequent to determining the priority level for the AP, the instructions further cause performance of operations including receiving multiple packets, determining one or more transmission parameters for transmitting the packets based at least in part on the priority level of the AP, and transmitting the packets using the one or more transmission parameters that were determined based at least in part on the priority level of the AP. | 08-06-2015 |