Patents by Inventor Timothy S. Olsen

Timothy S. Olsen 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).

  • Publication number: 20080107090
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes identifying, responsive to a triggering event, one or more radio frequency (RF) firewall transceivers that neighbor a data wireless access point to which a given wireless client is communicating; configuring one or more of the identified neighboring RF firewall transceivers to detect RF frames transmitted by the wireless client; causing the data wireless access point to transmit one or more wireless messages operative to cause the wireless client to transmit RF frames; collecting RF signal data corresponding to the RF frames transduced by one or more of the identified neighboring RF firewall transceivers; transmitting the collected RF signal data to a location system; receiving from the location system an indication of the location of the wireless client; and applying one or more network access policies based on the indication of the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Publication date: May 8, 2008
    Applicant: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Allan Thomson, Brian Donald Hart, Mark Paul Yankowski, Christine Andiazabal, Timothy S. Olsen