| US 7,539,481 B2 | ||
| Method for connecting a wireless access point to a wired access point by chaining together wireless access points | ||
| Abhishek Abhishek, Woodinville, Wash. (US); Arun Ayyagari, Seattle, Wash. (US); and Hui Shen, Issaquah, Wash. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Wash. (US) | ||
| Filed on Aug. 15, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/504,334. | ||
| Application 11/504334 is a continuation of application No. 10/377462, filed on Feb. 28, 2003, abandoned. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0274792 A1, Dec. 07, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04Q 7/00 (2006.01); H04Q 7/20 (2006.01); H04Q 7/38 (2006.01); H04Q 7/24 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 455—410 [455/411; 455/426.1; 455/432.1; 455/436; 455/442; 370/328; 370/335; 370/338; 717/163; 717/176; 709/220; 709/223; 707/10] | 17 Claims |
| 1. A method for connecting a wireless access point to a wired access point by chaining together wireless access points, the
method comprising:
scanning for a network;
collecting, at the wireless access point, one or more packets from one or more candidate wireless access points, the one or
more packets identifying the network and identifying whether the one or more candidate wireless access points are wireless
or wired, each of the one or more packets including an address identifying an ancestry of a candidate access point of the
one or more candidate wireless access points to an ancestral wired access point, the ancestry comprising a listing of at least
one other wireless access point through which the candidate access point is connected to the ancestral wired access point;
and
applying an access point selection algorithm to configure a parent access point from the one or more access points, the parent
access point having a parent ancestry independent of the wireless access point.
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