Patent ID: 11937174
Assignee: PALO ALTO NETWORKS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. One or more non-transitory machine-readable media comprising program code for a network device to make available a hidden wireless network that is discoverable with multiple service set identifiers (SSIDs), the program code to:
detect first and second probe requests to discover the hidden wireless network transmitted from respective first and second devices, wherein the first probe request indicates a first SSID and the second probe request indicates a second SSID, wherein the second SSID differs from the first SSID;
determine whether the first and second probe requests correctly identify the hidden wireless network based on evaluation of the first and second SSIDs against a set of SSIDs maintained by the network device wherein the program code to determine whether the first and second probe requests correctly identify the hidden wireless network comprises program code to evaluate the first and second SSIDs against the set of SSIDs to determine whether the first and second SSIDs are included in the set of SSIDs, wherein the hidden wireless network was configured with the set of SSIDs and is discoverable with any SSID in the set of SSIDs;
based on a determination that the first SSID is included in the set of SSIDs, transmit a first probe response to the first device, wherein the first probe response indicates the first SSID; and
based on a determination that the second SSID is included in the set of SSIDs, transmit a second probe response to the second device, wherein the second probe response indicates the second SSID.