Patent ID: 9635601
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for generating a unique identifier for a wireless access point within a wireless network, the method comprising: combining, using a combining function, an ID of the wireless access point with channel information of a predetermined channel to generate combined ID/channel information, the combined ID/channel information having a first number of data bits, wherein combining comprises combining the ID with the channel information using an exclusive-OR function; applying a hashing function H to the combined ID/channel information to generate a hashed ID, the hashed ID comprising a second number of data bits and less than the first number of data bits, wherein the ID is at least a one of an SSID and a BSSID, the combined ID/channel information is at least a one of a combined SSID/channel information and a combined BSSID/channel information, and the hashed ID is a one of a hashed SSID and a hashed BSSID; and transmitting the hashed ID wirelessly within a physical layer frame/packet.