Patent ID: 8363628

Claim:
A wireless network load balancing method for an access point of a wireless network, comprising: receiving a probe request frame from a mobile station; adding a first association record according to the probe request frame; receiving a second association record from each of other access points within a local area network of the access point; and determining whether to accept an association of the mobile station according to the first and the second association records, wherein the second association records are respectively the first association records of the other access points, wherein the added first association record comprises a column of comparison and the step of determining whether to accept the association of the mobile station based on the first and the second association records comprises: replying a first association response frame to the mobile station to accept the association if a comparison value of the added first association record is larger than the comparison value of each of the second association records, wherein the comparison value of the added first association record is directly obtained from the column of comparison in the added first association record or is calculated based on the column of comparison in the added first association record, and the comparison value of the second association record is directly obtained from the column of comparison in the second association record or is calculated based on the column of comparison in the second association record.