Expedited authorization and connectivity of client devices
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12095769
Systems and methods are provided for authentication and authorizing a client device on a network. First, one or more packets are received from a computing entity indicating an authentication request from a client device requesting connection at a network. Next, identification information of the client device are extracted from a body of the packets. Credentials of the client device are verified based on the identification information. In response to verifying the credentials, a level of…
Service discovery for wired hosts
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12096511
Examples of techniques for service discovery of wired host devices are described. In an example, a controller may receive a service advertisement message comprising information of a service hosted by a wired host device in a network. Based on a header information of the service advertisement message the controller determines that the service advertisement message is from a switch. The controller maps the wired host device to a set of Wireless Access Points (WAPs) connected to the switch.…
TWT based multi-connection mechanism
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12096358
Systems, methods, and computer readable mediums for a TWT based multi-connection mechanism include sending, by a station, a first request for a first Target Wake Time (TWT) session with a first access point, wherein the first TWT session is established, determining, by the station and based on the first TWT session, a timing for a second TWT session such that a plurality of service periods of the first TWT session do not overlap with a plurality of service periods of the second TWT…
Evaluating cellular channels
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12096343
Examples include scanning for cellular channels from various cellular service providers. Identifying cellular channels corresponding to cellular service providers. Recording a set of operating parameters for the cellular channels. Evaluating the cellular channels based on the set of operating parameters. Sorting the cellular service providers based on the evaluation of the cellular channels.
Dynamic BSS color feature for co-hosted virtual access points
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12096279
A dynamic BSS color feature for co-hosted virtual access points is described. An example of a storage medium includes instructions to operations including enabling, by an access point, a dynamic basic service set (BSS) color feature for operation with multiple virtual access points (VAPs) hosted by the access point; switching a parameter of the access point to indicate that no co-hosted BSS is present; assigning a different BSS color to each of the VAPs; performing access point…
Mitigation of radio frequency (RF) outages on a wireless network
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12096252
A set of AP radios to which configurations are to be deployed is identified. A candidate deployment order for deploying configurations to the set of AP radios is determined by an order-deploy algorithm. The algorithm seeks to spread out configuration deployments to AP radios both spatially and temporally such that APs that are located close to one another in the network receive their configuration updates as part of different deployment batches with delay periods introduced between…
Establishing a backup connectivity between a sensor and a management system
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12096214
Examples described herein relate to a method for establishing a backup connectivity between a sensor and a management system. The sensor may be deployed in an IT infrastructure and configured to execute a one or more predetermined evaluations for the IT network and generate corresponding evaluation result. Thereafter, the sensor may determine whether a connection between the sensor and the management system via a primary connectivity is unsuccessful. In response to determining that the…
Customized code bundle to enable secure communication from internet of things devices at wireless networks
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12096206
Systems and methods are provided for receiving, from an access point, attributes of an Internet of Things (IoT) device connected to the access point, determining a stored device, in a database of a server, sharing a subset of the attributes of the IoT device, and generating a code bundle based on the subset of the shared attributes between the stored device and the IoT device.
Authenticating an intermediate communication device
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12095905
Examples disclosed herein include accessing, by a host device, device information corresponding to an intermediate communication device communicatively coupled to the host device. Identifying, by the host device, a unique identifier corresponding to the intermediate communication device from the accessed device information. Query, by the host device, a public key from a remote resource, based on the identified unique identifier. Receiving, by the host device, the public key from the…
Connecting internet of thing (IoT) devices to a wireless network
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12095770
Example implementations relate to connecting an IoT device to a wireless network using Device Provisioning Protocol (DPP). An authentication server receives a DPP network access authorization request including a connector identifier from an Access Point (AP) in communication with the IoT device. The connector identifier is a hash of the public network access key of the IoT device. If the connector identifier is valid, the authentication server determines a configurable policy from a set…
Resource allocation for clients of multiple co-hosted VAPs
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12095681
Implementations of the present disclosure relate to resource allocation for clients of multiple co-hosted virtual access points (VAPs). A method comprises determining, by an access point (AP), a plurality of trigger frames for a plurality of clients connected to a plurality of VAPs of the AP based at least in part on respective workload levels of the plurality of clients. A trigger frame indicates a resource unit of one of the plurality of VAPs available for at least one corresponding…
Failure detection and mitigation in an MC-LAG environment
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12095656
In an example, a failure event is detected in a network, where the failure event is indicative of a network outage in a network device or a peer network device of an MC-LAG. The network device and the peer network device may be configured as a first VTEP in an overlay network. It may be determined that reprovisioning of virtual tunnels in the network device is incomplete. State parameters between the network device and the peer network device is synchronized. The set of virtual tunnels…
Routing table anomaly detection using unsupervised machine learning
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12095648
Systems and methods are provided for detecting changes in network activity that are depicted in a routing table. The routing table may be stored as a search tree data structure (e.g., Merkle Patricia Tree) to mimic a standard routing table and reduce the search time to find the desired route by allowing the router to traverse the search tree data structure more efficiently. Additionally, the metadata of the tree may be provided to an unstructured machine learning model (e.g., K-means) to…
Remote reachability checks in a distributed tunnel fabric
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12095642
A system for facilitating remote reachability checks for a switch. During operation, the system can receive one or more control messages from a management platform. Here, a respective control message can include one or more type-length-value (TLV) data structures. If the system identifies a first TLV data structure associated with validation in a first control message, the system can determine a validating plane based on a value of the first TLV data structure. The system can then…
Network route stability characterization
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12095635
A device may determine sample points associated with network routes within a network during a time interval, wherein each sample point that is associated with a respective network route comprises an amount of uptime for the respective network route during the time interval and a total frequency of state changes for the respective network route during the time interval. The device may generate, using an unsupervised machine learning mechanism, clusters of the sample points and may label…
Methods and systems for filter frequency response shift compensation for WLAN traffic
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12095595
Systems and techniques are described that are directed to filter frequency response shift compensation, including compensating for shifting in the rejection band of the filter. Compensation for the shifting in the rejection band can include applying a pre-distortion to attenuate edge resource units (RUs), and applying PHY Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) scheduling schemes. For example, a PPDU scheduling scheme reduce bandwidth in the channel, thereby dropping the out of band RUs. Front ends…
Integrated optical filter and photodetector and methods of fabricating the same
Granted: September 17, 2024
Patent Number:
12094987
Integrated optical filter and photodetectors and methods of fabrication thereof are described herein according to the present disclosure. An example of an integrated optical filter and photodetector described herein includes a substrate, an insulator layer on the substrate, and a semiconductor layer on the insulator layer. An optical filter having a resonant cavity is formed in or on the semiconductor layer. The integrated optical filter and photodetector further includes two first metal…
Connection structure for coupling with toner cartridge
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12085886
An example connection structure includes a connector and a connector support body. The connector is to engage with a coupler of a toner cartridge at a driving position when the toner cartridge is located at an operable position. The connector support body is rotatable about a rotation axis. The connector is also to support the connector to allow the connector to be inclined toward one side or another side with respect to the rotation axis while moving along the rotation axis with respect…
Computing devices for encryption and decryption of data
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12086076
A computing device is disclosed. The computing device includes a central processing unit and a mass storage bus. The central processing unit includes an application processing unit and an immutable encryption key for use with the encryption of data and the decryption of data. The application processing unit includes an instruction set to perform an encryption of data and a decryption of data stored via the mass storage bus. The immutable encryption key stored in the central processing…
Forecasting device usage using motifs of univariate time-series dataset and combined modeling
Granted: September 10, 2024
Patent Number:
12086000
Systems and methods are provided for compressing a time-series dataset from a monitored device into a compressed dataset representation. Using an unsupervised machine learning model, the system may group a contiguous set of datapoints of the time-series dataset and group, using a distance algorithm, the first cluster to a first motif. Many motifs can be generated to identify different data signatures in the time-series dataset. The plurality of motifs can be used to generate a data…
