Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cooperative access points for quality of service (QoS) requirements in wireless local access networking (WLAN)
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Application No.: US16586066Application Date: 2019-09-27
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Publication No.: US11330461B2Publication Date: 2022-05-10
- Inventor: Ravikiran Mahamkali
- Applicant: Fortinet, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Law Office of Dorian Cartwright
- Agent Dorian Cartwright
- Main IPC: H04W28/02
- IPC: H04W28/02 ; H04W28/08 ; H04W28/24 ; H04W84/12 ; H04L12/851 ; H04L12/873 ; H04L47/2441 ; H04L47/52

Abstract:
For QoS (quality of service) requirements of a session at a first access point and a wireless station, a cost function value is calculated for the specific session based on a number of network packets to be processed in the queue and the identified QoS requirement. It is determined whether another of the plurality of access points within range of the specific session can better serve the identified QoS requirement than the first access point by comparing the cost function value for the specific session against at the first access point against at least a cost function value for a second access point.
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