Patent ID: 11870838
Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A wireless gateway for steering a client device between content streaming apparatuses in a wireless local area network (WLAN), the wireless gateway comprising:
a gateway steering controller configured to determine whether to steer a client device to a content streaming apparatus based on at least one sample measurement of received signal strength on a first Wi-Fi radio band between the client device and the content streaming apparatus and at least one other content streaming apparatus, and configured to conduct steering logic calculations based on the at least one sample measurement,
wherein the steering logic calculations are compared against predetermined thresholds, and
the gateway steering controller provides an instruction to steer the client device to the first Wi-Fi radio band or a second Wi-Fi radio band of one of the content streaming apparatuses based on a difference between the steering logic calculations and the predetermined thresholds.