MUMBAI, India, July 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617071900 A) filed by Cisco Technology, Inc. on June 10, 2026, for Handling Address Collisions Within An Extended Service Set.
Inventors include Ficara, Domenico; Contreras Albesa, Javier I.; Henry, Jerome Number; and Orr, Stephen M..
The application for the patent was published on July 10, 2026, under issue no. 28/2026.
Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques for handling MAC address collision within an ESS comprising at least one wireless station and at least one access point (AR). A wireless station selects a first Identifiable Random Media Access Control (MAC) (IRM) address, and sends the IRM address to the AR during execution of a handshake protocol. The wireless station receives a message from the AR indicating the selected IRM address is allocated for use by another wireless station. Responsive to the message, the wireless station selects a second IRM address different from the first IRM address, and transmits the second IRM address to the AR after execution of the handshake protocol. The wireless station uses the second IRM address in a subsequent association with the wireless AR or any other AR in a same extended service set (ESS) of the wireless AR.
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