Patent ID: 9240898
Filing Date: 2016-01-19
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method in a switching device of assigning a virtual local area network identifier (VID) to a data unit, the method comprising: receiving, at the switching device, a tunneled packet from a source host via a wireless access point, wherein the tunneled packet includes (i) a data unit (a) that is addressed to a target host and (b) that includes a wireless header, and (ii) one or more headers encapsulating the data unit according to a tunneling protocol; removing, with the switching device, the one or more headers encapsulating the data unit from the tunneled packet; analyzing, with the switching device, the wireless header of the data unit to identify, in the wireless header, an identifier of a wireless network; using (i) the identifier of the wireless network and (ii) at least one additional parameter included in the packet to determine, with the switching device, a VID; and associating, with the switching device, the data unit with the VID.