Patent ID: 9356761
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed by one or more hardware processors, causes the one or more hard processors to: operate a particular network device in a first mode, wherein in the first mode, the particular network device is to communicate wirelessly with at least one wireless client device to provide the at least one wireless client device access to one or more resources, receive packets transmitted by the at least one wireless client device and forward the packets to the one or more resources; switch the particular network device from operating in the first mode to operating in a second mode; and operate the particular network device in the second mode, wherein in the second mode, the particular network device is to (a) identify a second network device within a radio frequency range from the particular network device based on the particular network device monitoring data packets transmitted by the second network device to one of the network devices other than the particular network device and (b) report information related to the second network device.