Patent ID: 9674767
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) having a plurality of Mobility Virtual Local Area Network (MVLAN) servers, breaking said WLAN into a plurality of zones, each zone including at least one MVLAN server; assigning an Identifier (ID) to each of said plurality of zones; and designating at least one MVLAN server in each of said plurality of zones as a MVLAN gateway server, wherein MVLAN servers within a zone communicate directly with said MVLAN gateway server within said zone, wherein said MVLAN gateway servers communicate directly with each other, wherein said MVLAN gateway server advertises itself to other zones as the server for the MVLAN servers in its own zone and also advertises itself within its own zone as the server to the MVLAN servers in other zones, and wherein a MVLAN server within a first zone communicates with a MVLAN server in a second zone by way of the MVLAN gateway server of said first zone and the MVLAN gateway server of said second zone, and wherein said MVLAN servers are arranged in a tiered topology.