Patent ID: 11917430
Assignee: AIRTIES BELGIUM SPRL
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A device for steering wireless stations in a wireless network with a plurality of access points, the device comprising:
a processor connected to a communications interface, the processor and communications interface configured to:
calculate, for each wireless station of a plurality of wireless stations in the wireless network, a score based on at least an availability metric of each wireless station of the wireless stations;
combine the calculated scores for the plurality of wireless stations into a current network score for a present network configuration of the wireless network, wherein network configuration refers to which wireless stations are associated with which of the plurality of access points;
calculate a predicted network score for each of a plurality of potential network configurations, wherein each potential network configuration includes a set of wireless stations of the plurality of wireless stations located at a different access point compared to the present network configuration, wherein the set of wireless stations comprises at least two wireless stations, wherein each predicted network score is a combination of a predicted score for each of the plurality of wireless stations in a respective potential network configuration;
select one of the plurality of potential network configurations based on a corresponding predicted network score that satisfies a criterion; and
steer each wireless station of the set of wireless stations to a same or a different access point based on the selected potential network configuration.