US 11,706,841 B2
Plug-in network device
George Gang Chen, Fremont, CA (US); Edward Chee, Milpitas, CA (US); and Gururaj Govindasamy, Milpitas, CA (US)
Assigned to Extreme Networks, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Extreme Networks, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/99,136.
Application 17/099,136 is a continuation of application No. 16/351,516, filed on Mar. 13, 2019, granted, now 10,856,361.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/641,946, filed on Mar. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0084712 A1, Mar. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. H04M 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01); H04L 69/08 (2022.01); H04W 84/22 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 88/08 (2013.01) [H04L 69/08 (2013.01); H04W 84/22 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a first plug-in network device, a first mesh pairing request from a second plug-in network device;
in response to receiving the first mesh pairing request, sending, through a front-facing antenna of the first plug-in network device, a first acknowledgment and a second mesh paring request to the second first plug-in network device;
receiving, by the first plug-in network device, a second acknowledgement from the second plug-in network device; and
in response to receiving the second acknowledgement, transmitting, through an up-facing antenna of the first plug-in network device, a report indicating pairing of the first and second plug-in network devices to a network management system configured to establish a wireless communication pairing link between the first plug-in network device and the second plug-in network device.