Patent ID: 11923937
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. The method of claim 16, wherein the first beamforming arrangement is identified as pollutive in response to at least one of:
the first AP receiving a response from the second endpoint responsive to a sounding request sent by the first AP via the first beamforming arrangement;
the second AP identifying that the second endpoint is non-responsive to a sounding request sent by the second AP, wherein the first AP and the second AP send sounding requests at different rates;
a third device observing signal collisions from signals sent by the first AP and the second AP; or
the second endpoint sending a beacon report to the second AP that identifies a sender or a receiver for a downlink data frame received during a beacon frame.