Patent ID: 8576812
Filing Date: 2013-11-05
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless access point, comprising: a hardware processor; a wireless communications transmit/receive unit; wherein the wireless access point is configured for: operating in a first mode by communicating wirelessly with at least one wireless client device to provide the at least one wireless client device access to resources; wherein providing access to resources comprises receiving one or more data packets from the at least one wireless client device and forwarding the one or more data packets; switching from the first mode to a second mode; wherein the wireless access point is switched, from (i) the first mode in which a lower layer in an Operating System executing on the wireless access point is configured at least for forwarding packets received from devices within a particular Basic Service Set to higher layers in the operating system to (ii) the second mode in which the wireless access point is configured at least for monitoring wireless traffic regardless of network association of the wireless traffic; operating in the second mode by monitoring for data packets addressed at least to wireless devices other than the wireless access point to identify one or more wireless devices within a radio coverage area of the wireless access point and reporting the identified one or more wireless devices.