Method for central planning and distributed control of client roaming and reassociation

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A technique for network planning that includes an interface for guiding a network user through the network allocation process such as defining groups , of clients based on their capabilities. Portions of the wireless local area network infrastructure, e.g. access points are allocated among the groups. , When a client attempts to associate with an access point the access point , determines the client capabilities. If the client is supported by the access point, the access point allows the client to associate and sends the client a message that contains a prioritized list of other nearby access points allocated to service that client, otherwise the access point sends a prioritized …