Patent ID: 8315197
Filing Date: 2012-11-20
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, at a wireless access point of a computer network, a wireless advertisement frame having a source address field storing a source address of a reachable node being advertised, a destination address field storing a destination address to which the reachable node is to be advertised, a transmitter address field storing a transmitter address of a transmitting node from which the wireless advertisement frame is received, and a receiver address field storing a receiver address of the access point; and transmitting, from the wireless access point, a reflected wireless advertisement frame having a source address field storing the source address of the reachable node, a destination address field storing the destination address to which the reachable node is to be advertised, a transmitter address field storing a transmitter address of the access point, and a receiver address field storing a receiver address that combines a range of multicast media access control (MAC) addresses that are to accept the reflected wireless advertisement frame and an association identifier (AID) of the transmitting node that is to be excluded from accepting the reflected wireless advertisement frame.