Patent ID: 7420942

Claim:
An access point configurable to support concurrently a first wireless network having a first network name and a second wireless network having a second network name, the access point comprising: one or more antennae; a radio coupled to said one or more antennae; a memory to store an indication of a first delivery traffic indication message ‘DTIM’ period value associated with said first network name and to store an indication of a second, different DTIM period value associated with said second network name; and a processor, coupled to said radio and to said memory, to transmit via said radio a sequence of beacon frames at regular beacon intervals that are specified in said beacon frames, to include DTIMs for said first wireless network in a first subset of said sequence and to include DTIMs for said second wireless network in a second subset of said sequence, wherein said beacon frames specify said first DTIM period value, the interval between beacon frames in said first subset is the product of said first DTIM period value and said beacon interval, and the interval between beacon frames in said second subset is the product of said second DTIM period value and said beacon interval.