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Patent US8116275 - System and network for wireless network monitoring - Google Patents
A technique for wireless network monitoring involves scanning channels using clients instead of access points. An example of a method according to the technique may include, for example, receiving from a wireless access point a command to perform a channel scanning function, listening on a channel associated...http://www.google.com/patents/US8116275?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8116275 - System and network for wireless network monitoring
Publication number US8116275 B2
Application number US 12/785,362
Also published as US7724703, US8514827, US20070086378, US20110128858, US20120140705, WO2007044985A2, WO2007044985A3
Publication number 12785362, 785362, US 8116275 B2, US 8116275B2, US-B2-8116275, US8116275 B2, US8116275B2
Inventors Sudheer Poorna Chandra Matta, Manish Tiwari
Patent Citations (563), Non-Patent Citations (163), Referenced by (11), Classifications (11), Legal Events (3)
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U.S. Classification 370/329, 455/41.2, 455/434, 370/338
International Classification H04W4/00, H04W48/12, H04W24/10
Cooperative Classification H04W48/12, H04W24/10
European Classification H04W48/12, H04W24/10