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Troubleshooting link and protocol in a wireless network

  • US 8,040,835 B2
  • Filed: 02/17/2006
  • Issued: 10/18/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A wireless client, comprising:

  • one or more processors;

    a memory;

    a network interface;

    a diagnostic supplicant application, physically stored in the memory, comprising instructions operable to cause the one or more processors and the wireless client to;

    responsive to a failure to establish a wireless connection with a wireless network, identify a diagnostic link to a diagnostic manager based on access information transmitted by a wireless access point in one or more wireless frames advertising the availability of the diagnostic link, wherein the diagnostic link is a communications link supported by a network access node and dedicated to exchange of diagnostic information between diagnostic supplicants and diagnostic managers;

    establish, using the transmitted access information, a diagnostic link connection to the network access node; and

    exchange diagnostic information with the diagnostic manager through the network access node over the diagnostic link, wherein the diagnostic information relates to the wireless connection with the wireless network.

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