US Patent Issued to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development on Nov. 11 for "Intra-VLAN traffic filtering in a distributed wireless network" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,519, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Intra-VLAN traffic filtering in a distributed wireless network" was invented by Haifeng Zhang (Beijing), Hao Lu (Fremont, Calif.), Xuanhe Zhang (Beijing) and Hong Song (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access point (AP) in an AP cluster is provided. During operation, the AP can identify a set of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of permitted devices in a virtual local area network (VLAN) of the AP cluster from a first set of packets. The AP can also identify a set of media access control (MAC) addresses corresponding to the set...