Patent ID: 11924857
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. An apparatus implemented as a physical machine, the apparatus comprising:
non-transitory machine readable media configured for storing executable machine readable code;
a device interface circuit configured for receiving data having been forwarded via a wireless local area network (WLAN); and
a processor circuit configured for executing the executable machine readable code, and when executing the executable machine readable code operable for:
first causing wireless access points (wireless APs) to allocate first non-interfering wireless channels for a prescribed reliable data service for wireless client devices in a wireless local area network (WLAN);
second causing the wireless APs to allocate a second shared channel having a bandwidth that is greater than a corresponding bandwidth of any of the first non-interfering wireless channels;
allocating for each wireless client device a corresponding location service interval on the second shared channel for transmission of at least a corresponding identifiable wireless data unit for locating a corresponding wireless client device between two or more wireless APs of the wireless APs; and
determining a location of at least one wireless client device of the wireless client devices based on reception of at least a corresponding wireless data unit between the at least one wireless client device and the two or more wireless APs during the corresponding location service interval.