Patent ID: 8064349

Claim:
A method for real-time diagnostics in a wireless local area network, the method comprising: logging, by a reporting station, events to generate event log entries; determining, by the reporting station, whether the reporting station moves to a different extended service set (ESS) or independent basic service set (IBSS); if it is determined that the reporting station moves to the different ESS or IBSS, deleting, by the reporting station, all the event log entries; receiving, by the reporting station, an event request from a requesting station, the event request including a dialog token, an event type and zero or more event request element, the dialog token identifying the requesting station, the event type indicating a type of an event to be reported, an event request element including at least one condition that establishes event reporting when the reporting station experiences problems or failures; and transmitting, by the reporting station, an event report to the requesting station in response to the event request, the event report including a status, the dialog token, the event type and the zero or more event report element, the status indicating a result of the event request and the event report, an event report element including at least one event log entry corresponding to the event type, wherein if there are no available event log entries for the event type specified in the event request, the status indicates success of the event request, and the event report is transmitted without the event report element, and wherein if the event request does not include any event request element, the status indicates the success of the event request, and the event report includes all event log entries available for the event request.