Patent ID: 8300578

Claim:
A method for managing seamless roaming of a wireless node of a plurality of nodes forming a wireless network, the method comprising: detecting, by a first node of the plurality of nodes, receipt of an Association message from the wireless node, the Association message being adapted to establish a new communication path between a second node of the plurality of nodes and the wireless node; recovering, by the first node, addressing information from the Association message by extracting a media access control (MAC) address of the second node targeted for communications with the wireless node from the Association message; placing, by the first node, the MAC address of the second node within a second message; and transmitting, by the first node, the second message to at least two of the plurality of nodes other than the first node and the second node, the second message being a Route Update message, the Route Update message comprises (i) a transaction identifier that identifies a communication session associated with the new communication path that differs from the current communication path, and (ii) the MAC address of the second node that the wireless node to which the wireless node associates after roaming is completed.