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Transmitting a communication from a wireless access point indicating hidden networks

  • US 8,116,287 B2
  • Filed: 07/29/2005
  • Issued: 02/14/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A communication protocol for communicating between a wireless access point of a communications network and one or more mobile user devices, the protocol comprising an act of:

  • (A) transmitting, from the wireless access point to the one or more mobile user devices, a single beacon communication specifying a plurality of wireless networks available to the one or more mobile user devices through the wireless access point, the single beacon communication specifying one service set identifier (SSID) for a first of the plurality of wireless networks and another SSID for a second of the plurality of wireless networks, the plurality of wireless networks comprising a non-hidden wireless network and one or more hidden wireless networks, the non-hidden wireless network employing a different security context than at least one of the one or more hidden wireless networks, the single beacon communication including an indication whether at least the non-hidden wireless network provides wireless provisioning information in accordance with Wireless Provisioning Services (WPS);

    wherein, prior to (A), the wireless access point had not received a probe request frame or request to establish a connection from any of the one or more mobile user devices;

    wherein the act (A) comprises transmitting a plurality of information elements within the single beacon communication, a first of the plurality of information elements specifying the non-hidden wireless network and a second of the plurality of information elements specifying at least one of the one or more hidden wireless networks; and

    wherein the single beacon communication specifies each of the plurality of wireless networks available to the one or more mobile user devices through the wireless access point.

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