Invention Application
- Patent Title: BRIDGING WIRELESS AND WIRED MEDIA IN A COMPUTER NETWORK
- Patent Title (中): 在计算机网络中布线无线和有线媒体
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Application No.: US13589695Application Date: 2012-08-20
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Publication No.: US20120314621A1Publication Date: 2012-12-13
- Inventor: Norman W. Finn , Robert O'Hara , Rohit Suri , Josh Broch
- Applicant: Norman W. Finn , Robert O'Hara , Rohit Suri , Josh Broch
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Current Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Main IPC: H04W48/08
- IPC: H04W48/08 ; H04W4/06

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a wireless access point receives a wireless advertisement frame having a source address field that indicates a reachable node being advertised, a destination address field that indicates a destination to which the reachable node is to be advertised, a transmitter address field that indicates a transmitting node from which the wireless advertisement frame is received, and a receiver address field that indicates the access point. The wireless access point then transmits a reflected wireless advertisement frame having a source address io field that indicates the reachable node, a destination address field that indicates the destination, a transmitter address field that indicates the wireless access point, and a receiver address field that indicates both a plurality of receivers the reflected wireless advertisement frame is to be accepted by, and a node that is to be excluded from accepting the reflected wireless advertisement frame.
Public/Granted literature
- US08774077B2 Bridging wireless and wired media in a computer network Public/Granted day:2014-07-08
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