Patent ID: 7917146
Filing Date: 2011-03-29
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless network access device, comprising: a network interface; a processor; a memory; and a wireless network access application, stored in the memory, comprising instructions operable to cause the processor and the network interface to: advertise a network address of the wireless network access device in one or more wireless network management frames; establish wireless connections with one or more wireless stations, one or more of the wireless stations each providing a network address of a wireless network access device with which the wireless station has been associated and a handoff counter value; store the handoff counter values in association with wireless station identifiers; maintain connection state information for the wireless stations in association with the corresponding wireless station identifiers; receive a mobility notification message from a remote wireless network access device, wherein the mobility notification message includes a wireless station identifier and a handoff counter value; and respond to the mobility notification message by transmitting the connection state information corresponding to the wireless station identifier of the mobility notification message, if the stored handoff counter value corresponding to the wireless station is less than the handoff counter value in the mobility notification message.