Patents by Inventor Mark Shawn Smith

Mark Shawn Smith has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Methods and devices for iteratively determining mobile device-to-access point associations to achieve load balancing
    Publication number: 20060182023
    Abstract: Mobile devices may be associated with access points other than their current access point based on load-balancing objectives of a wireless, local area network during an iterative time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Inventors: Yigal Bejerano, S. Golestani, Seung-Jae Han, Mark Shawn Smith
  • Methods and devices for associating a mobile device to access points within a WLAN
    Publication number: 20060146768
    Abstract: Unique identifiers are assigned to sets of adjacent access points in a wireless, local area network (WLAN). Thereafter, a unique identifier may be forwarded to a mobile device which uses the identifier to associate itself with one of the adjacent access points. Associating a mobile device with an adjacent access point using unique identifiers allows a WLAN to meet its load balancing objectives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2004
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventors: Yigal Bejerano, S. Golestani, Seung-Jae Han, Mark Shawn Smith