公开(公告)号：US10667135B2

公开(公告)日：2020-05-26

申请号：US15868573

申请日：2018-01-11

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mark Grayson ,  Desmond Joseph O'Connor ,  Malcolm Muir Smith ,  Bart Brinckman

IPC: H04W12/08 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04W12/06

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for providing access to wireless networks may include receiving, by a wireless network access provider from a user device, a request to access a wireless network. The method may include obtaining data representing a policy applicable to the access request, sending the access request, augmented with the policy, to an identity provider associated with the user and having no pre-existing relationship with the access provider, and receiving, from the identity provider, an access request response indicating whether or not the policy is met. The method may include communicating, to the wireless device, an indication that the access request has been accepted, if the policy is met, or an indication that the access request has been rejected, if the policy is not met. The access provider and identity provider may be members of an identity and access federation that communicate over a dynamically established secure connection.

公开(公告)号：US10405204B2

公开(公告)日：2019-09-03

申请号：US15581213

申请日：2017-04-28

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Michael Alan Kowal ,  Stephen Michael Orr ,  Robert Edgar Barton ,  Jerome Henry ,  Malcolm Muir Smith

IPC: H04W24/02 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W88/08 ,  H04W28/08

Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for optimizing spectral efficiency in a network. One or more metrics of one or more wireless access points that enable one or more wireless client devices to connect to a wireless network are monitored. The one or more metrics reflect a level of client device activity. Based on the one or more metrics, the level of client device activity is determined to require a change in a number of the one or more wireless access points that are active to serve the one or more wireless client devices. The one or more wireless access points are activated or deactivated to improve a spectral efficiency of the wireless network.