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

Claim 12:
13. The access point of claim 12, wherein the first beamforming arrangement is identified as pollutive in response to at least one of:
the Access Point receiving a response from the second endpoint responsive to a sounding request sent by the Access Point via the first beamforming arrangement;
a second Access Point associated with the second endpoint identifying that the second endpoint is non-responsive to a sounding request sent by the second Access Point, wherein the Access Point and the second Access Point send sounding requests at different rates;
a third device observing signal collisions from signals sent by the Access Point and the second Access Point; or
the second endpoint sending a beacon report to the second Access Point that identifies a sender or a receiver for a downlink data frame received during a beacon frame.