US 12,267,101 B2
Access point (AP) ranging and placement on a floorplan
Matthew Aaron Silverman, Shaker Heights, OH (US); Robert E. Barton, Richmond (CA); Brian D. Hart, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Jerome Henry, Pittsboro, NC (US); Ardalan Alizadeh, Milpitas, CA (US); Vishal S. Desai, San Jose, CA (US); and John Matthew Swartz, Lithia, FL (US)
Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc.
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/301,511.
Prior Publication US 2024/0348284 A1, Oct. 17, 2024
Int. Cl. H04B 1/7183 (2011.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04B 1/7183 (2013.01) [H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
ranging, by a host Access Point (AP), each neighbor AP of the host AP;
categorizing one or more neighbor APs that failed to range with the host AP in a failed neighbor AP list;
re-ranging, by the host AP, each of the one or more neighbor APs in the failed neighbor AP list with a modified ranging parameter; and
categorizing at least one neighbor AP of the one or more neighbor APs in the failed neighbor AP list that succeeded in re-ranging with the host AP in an extended range neighbor AP list.