Patent ID: 7634252

Claim:
A system comprising: a plurality of device agents, each device agent being assigned to collect association information from a corresponding set of access points in the wireless network and being operable to collect the association information from the corresponding set of access points by querying the access points in the corresponding set of access points, the association information from an access point comprising information identifying one or more mobile devices currently indicated to be associated with the access point, each of the mobile devices being actually associable with one and only one access point at a time; and a device manager operable to receive the collected association information from the device agents, the device manager comprising a conflict resolution engine for resolving conflicting access point associations, the conflicting access point associations comprising two or more currently indicated associations of one and only one of the one or more mobile devices with respective two or more access points, the conflict resolution engine resolving the conflicting access point associations by identifying a single one of the two or more access points as being actually associated with the one and only one of the one or more mobile devices and identifying any others of the two or more access points as being disassociated with the one and only one of the one or more mobile devices.