Native wi-fi architecture for 802.11 networks

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7698550
APP PUB NO 20040103278A1
SERIAL NO

10306169

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A software based wireless infrastructure system is provided. The system has a driver that communicates with the network stack and a network interface card (NIC), a station server in communication with the station driver and an 802.1X supplicant or an 802.1X authenticator. Each NIC provides station and/or access point functionality support. The driver drops packets that have been received if the packet has not been authenticated and associated. Packets that have been fragmented or encrypted are unfragmented and decrypted. An association manager is used in conjunction with a configuration table manager to associate stations and access points via management packets. A manager receives 802.1X data packets from the packet processor and sends them up to a station server that communicates with user mode applications and an 802.1X supplicant or an 802.1X authenticator that are used to authenticate and deauthenticate stations and access points. APIs are provided to enable communication between the components.

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MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLCONE MICROSOFT WAY REDMOND WA 98052

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Abhishek, Abhishek Woodinville, US 70 2391
Ayyagari, Arun Seattle, US 99 4222
Ganugapati, Krishna Redmond, US 13 685
Ruan, Jiandong Bellevue, US 36 1239
Shen, Hui Redmond, US 168 3035

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