Reservation with access points
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
- reservation logic designed to exercise a reservation with an access point to access a network, including logic designed to generate and send a request to the access point to exercise the reservation, with the request having a response to a challenge associated with the reservation earlier posted by the access point when the reservation was earlier made with the access point.
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Abstract
A reservation protocol is provided to enable a client mobile station to make a number of reservations with a number of access points to facilitate its access of a network at a future point in time, as it roams, and subsequently exercise one of the reservations
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1. An apparatus, comprising:
reservation logic designed to exercise a reservation with an access point to access a network, including logic designed to generate and send a request to the access point to exercise the reservation, with the request having a response to a challenge associated with the reservation earlier posted by the access point when the reservation was earlier made with the access point. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method to be performed on a mobile station comprising:
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submitting a reservation request at a first point in time to make a reservation directly with a first access point, or via a second access point, the reservation to reserve resource on the first access point to facilitate the mobile station in accessing a network in a future point in time, and the second access point facilitating the mobile station in accessing the network at the time of submission of the reservation request; and
submitting a reservation exercise request to the first access point at a second point in time subsequent to the first point in time to exercise the reservation with the first access point, including with the reservation exercise request a response to a challenge associated with the reservation posted by the first access point at the time the reservation was made with the first access point. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10)
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11. A system comprising:
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a communication interface;
a mass storage;
a memory;
a controller coupled to the communication interface, the memory and the mass storage;
a processor coupled to the controller; and
reservation logic designed to exercise a reservation with an access point to access a network, including logic designed to generate and send a request to the access point to exercise the reservation, with the request having a response to a challenge associated with the reservation earlier posted by the access point when the reservation was made with the access point, the reservation logic being either disposed in the memory or integrated with the controller. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13)
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14. An apparatus comprising:
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first and second communication interfaces to couple the apparatus to a network and to communicate with a client mobile station respectively;
access logic coupled to the first and second communication interfaces, and designed to facilitate the client mobile station in accessing the network; and
reservation logic coupled to the access logic, and designed to facilitate the client mobile station in making reservation with another apparatus to facilitate the client mobile station to access the network at a future point in time, while the client mobile station is being facilitated by the access logic in accessing the network, including logic designed to regulate at least a number of reservations the client mobile station can made with various apparatuses. - View Dependent Claims (15)
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16. An apparatus comprising:
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first and second communication interfaces to couple the apparatus to a network and to communicate with a client mobile station respectively;
access logic coupled to the first and second communication interfaces, and designed to facilitate the client mobile station in accessing the network; and
reservation logic coupled to the access logic, and designed to facilitate the client mobile station in exercising a reservation previously made with the apparatus to facilitate the client mobile station in accessing the network, including logic designed to determine whether the client mobile station has provided a proper response to a challenge associated with the reservation earlier posted by the apparatus when the reservation was made with the apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (17, 21)
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18. The apparatus of 16, wherein the reservation logic further comprises logic designed to determine whether the reservation has expired.
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19. The apparatus of 16, wherein the reservation logic further comprises logic designed to cancel other unexercised reservations the client mobile station had made with other apparatuses, in response to the client mobile station exercising the reservation the client mobile station made with the apparatus.
- 20. The apparatus of 16, wherein the reservation logic further comprises logic designed to cancel the reservation, if the client mobile station fails to exercise the reservation within a time period.
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