Patent ID: 8522353

Claim:
A method of disrupting IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 802.11-type wireless network traffic with dual-mode access point, the method comprising: connecting the dual-mode access point to a wireless network; operating the dual-mode access point in a first mode to transmit and receive IEEE 802.11 network traffic over the wireless network for connected stations using an IEEE 802.11 radio; responsive to a programmatic switch, operating the dual-mode access point in a second mode to disrupt IEEE 802.11 network traffic over an entire IEEE bandwidth that comprises a set of channels, wherein disrupting traffic comprises alternating between a subset of the set channels to transmit a plurality of interference signals with the IEEE 802.11 radio, each interference signal sent over a channel and affecting neighboring channels, and wherein operating in the second mode further comprises alternating between the subset of channels with a frequency that overlaps at least a portion of each frame sequence and at least one data frame; and responsive to a subsequent programmatic switch, returning the dual-mode access point to operate in the first mode.