公开(公告)号：US11019564B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-25

申请号：US16511879

申请日：2019-07-15

Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.

Inventor： Mark Grayson ,  Jerome Henry ,  Malcolm Muir Smith ,  Bart A. Brinckman

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04W48/20 ,  H04W8/08 ,  H04W84/12 ,  H04W84/04

Abstract: Roaming Consortium Identifier (RCOI)-based handling of identity requirements may be provided. First, an access device may advertise an identifier. The identifier may identify a roaming federation and an identity type used by a service provider in order to provide service by the access device. Next, a request to associate with the access device may be received from a user device. The request may be compliant with the identity type advertised in the identifier. The user device may then be associated with the access device in response to receiving the request.

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.