Patent ID: 8538439

Claim:
A communications system comprising: a service provider device; a mobile wireless communications device; and a plurality of communication infrastructure nodes configured to determine when a generated communications path is an association mismatch communications path between said service provider device and said mobile wireless communications device, the association mismatch communications path including at least two communication infrastructure nodes in series, the generated communication path being determined to not be an association mismatch communication path by determining, at a given one of said plurality of communication infrastructure nodes, if a destination of communications is said mobile wireless communications device, and determining whether said given one of said plurality of communication infrastructure nodes is coupled to both said mobile wireless communications device and said service provider device, and generate, when the generated communications path is determined to be an association mismatch communications path, a corrected association communications path between said service provider device and said mobile wireless communications device from said mismatch communications path, the corrected association communications path including just a single communication infrastructure node from the at least two communication infrastructure nodes.