Patent ID: 11882467
Assignee: FORTINET, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method, in a Wi-Fi controller coupled to a plurality of access points on a data communication network, for artificially intelligent Ethernet uplink monitoring based on 6 GHz uplink availability of a Wi-Fi network and based on 6 GHz uplink capability of a plurality of stations connected for uplinking to the plurality of access points, the method comprising the steps of:
detecting a probe to a specific access point of the plurality of access points from a specific station requesting access to the data communication network over the Wi-Fi network;
identifying one or more capabilities of the specific station, wherein the specific station has an uplink capability of 6 GHz according to IEEE 802.11AX;
fetching an Ethernet uplink load status of a WLAN system from a monitoring module to an assignment module, wherein the Ethernet uplink load status comprises an uplink load value for each of the plurality of access points;
identifying an RSSI (Radio Signal Strength Indicator) strength of the specific station relative to the specific access point and a second access point of the plurality of access points; and
assigning the specific station to the second access point based balancing an Ethernet uplink load status of the specific access point relative to the uplink load status of the WLAN system, wherein the RSSI strength of the specific station relative to the specific access point is higher than the RSSI strength of the specific station relative to the second access point.