US 12,170,935 B2
Determining orientation of deployed access points
Mohammad Zohoorian, San Francisco, CA (US); Jie C Jiang, San Jose, CA (US); Nagarjun Srinivasan, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Robert J. Friday, Los Gatos, CA (US); Kevin Friday, Los Gatos, CA (US); and Shmuel Shaffer, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Assigned to Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed by Juniper Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/651,526.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/284,517, filed on Nov. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0171561 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 4/029 (2018.02) [H04W 4/026 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a plurality of access point devices (APs) configured to provide a wireless network at a site, each of the plurality of APs having a known location; and
a network management system comprising:
one or more processors; and
a memory comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
for each of the plurality of APs having an unknown orientation angle, determine a distance between a corresponding AP of the plurality of APs and a plurality of anchor APs;
identify one of the plurality of APs having an unknown orientation angle as a nearest AP to the plurality of anchor APs based on the determined distances;
assign the nearest AP as a second AP and one of the plurality of anchor APs as a first AP;
determine, based on a known location of the first AP, a known location of the second AP, and received signal strength measurements of wireless signals transmitted between one or more antennas of the first AP and one or more antennas of the second AP, an orientation angle of the second AP; and
generate an output indicative of the orientation angle of the second AP.