Management of wireless access points via virtualization

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9936059
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14290434

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Wireless access point (AP) and methods for providing wireless connectivity to wireless client are provided. According to one embodiment, a wireless AP includes a host hardware platform and a hypervisor for providing a first virtual machine where a first guest operating system (OS) is configured to run on the first virtual machine. A wireless module is configured to run on the first guest OS for managing the wireless connection to at least one wireless client. A wireless AP management console is configured to run on the wireless AP but outside the first guest OS and to manage operations of the wireless module and the first guest OS.

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  • FORTINET INC.

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Gorajala, Chandra Sekhar Sumanth San Jose, US 15 139
Lee, Chih-Hao Fremont, US 15 64

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