DIAGNOSING AND RESOLVING WIRELESS NETWORK MALFUNCTIONS Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC H04W24/04 H04W8/22 

FIELD: radio engineering, communication.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to wireless communication networks, more specifically to diagnosis and resolution of problems in establishing a wireless connection at a time when a network-compatible wireless device is newly added to an IEEE 802.11 standard wireless communication network. Disclosed is method of detecting problems, which comprises: embedding information associated with the newly added wireless device into a communication protocol, the embedded information including information about the errors encountered by the wireless device when the wireless device is newly added to the wireless communication network, transmitting the embedded information over the wireless communication network to a diagnostic tool using the communication protocol and analysing the received embedded information using the diagnostic tool and determining the cause of the problem and the associated solution.

EFFECT: improved diagnosis and resolution of malfunctions in a wireless communication network.

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