MUMBAI, India, Oct. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202617090077 A) filed by Cisco Technology, Inc. on July 24, 2026, for Augmented Wireless Environment Reporting.
Inventors include Barton, Robert; Henry, Jerome; Saini, Vinay; and Desai, Vishal S..
The application for the patent was published on October 23, 2026, under issue no. 43/2026.
Abstract: Devices and methods for augmenting wireless environment reporting are provided. The information provided by 802.11k reports may have limited functionality, as they do not offer extended details that could be beneficial to the network infrastructure. Augmented wireless environment reporting allows network devices and client devices to request for Wireless Environment Reports (WERs) based on several augmented parameters. A device, such as a network device or a client device, generates a WER request including at least one of a condition, a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology specification, a non-IEEE 802.11 technology specification, or an element restriction and transmits the WER request to another device such as a client station. The other devices generates the WER with augmented information as requested and transmits to the device. The information included in the WER report may be processed and utilized to perform network analytics, network management tasks, and other functions useful to the network infrastructure.
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