公开(公告)号：US11888648B1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-30

申请号：US17956369

申请日：2022-09-29

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Jian Lu ,  QingYun Wei ,  Shao-Cheng Wang ,  Avinash Joshi ,  Zhen Xie ,  Ankita Rajeev Chandrachud

IPC: H04L12/46 ,  H04L45/00 ,  H04L61/103 ,  H04L101/622 ,  H04L101/659

CPC classification number: H04L12/4625 ,  H04L45/66 ,  H04L61/103 ,  H04L2101/622 ,  H04L2101/659

Abstract: A softAP bridge is created to support a mesh network that also works seamlessly with any home Wi-Fi AP routers by using Layer-3 techniques to simulate a Layer-2 bridge. With this softAP bridge, Wi-Fi chipsets with integrated special Wi-Fi MAC Layer-2 mesh network support (e.g., 802.11s), or external gateway hubs, are not required. To accomplish this solution, one of the wireless devices may be designated as a relay device for communicating IPv6 data packets between a home AP router and the remaining wireless devices designated as client devices.