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Samsung patents method to turn strong Wi-Fi devices into extenders

Samsung describes a system that scans a home to find areas with weak Wi-Fi signals. It then identifies nearby devices with strong connections and automatically turns them into Wi-Fi extenders to improve coverage in those weak spots.

Why it mattersThis could make home internet more reliable by using existing gadgets to fill in dead zones without buying extra hardware.

In the filing’s own words

A method for enabling one or more Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi) extenders in a user environment. The method comprises determining signal quality of one or more areas in the user environment, identifying, boundary coordinates of one or more sub-areas around one or more weak strength devices, detecting one or more strong strength devices located in the proximity of the identified boundary coordinates of the one or more sub-areas, identifying one or more candidate strong strength devices from the detected one or more strong strength devices and enabling the identified one or more candidate strong-strength devices to operate as the one or more Wi-Fi extenders

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method for enabling one or more Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi) extenders in a user environment, the method comprising: determining a signal quality of one or more areas in the user environment based on at least one of one or more device parameters, one or more device capabilities, or a Wi-Fi signal strength of one or more devices, respectively; identifying, based on the determined signal quality, the one or more device parameters, and one or more area parameters, boundary coordinates of one or more sub-areas around one or more weak strength devices, among the one or more devices, having a first Wi-Fi signal strength that is less than a predefined threshold signal strength; detecting, based on the one or more device parameters, the one or more area parameters, and the Wi-Fi signal strength of the one or more devices, respectively, one or more strong strength devices located in proximity of the identified boundary coordinates of the one or more sub-areas, the detected one or more strong strength devices having a second Wi-Fi signal strength that is more than the predefined threshold signal strength; identifying one or more candidate strong strength devices from the detected one or more strong strength devices based on one or more extender parameters; and enabling the identified one or more candidate strong strength devices, respectively, to operate as the one or more Wi-Fi extenders.

Facts

Company
Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
Official title
SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR ENABLING WIFI EXTENDER IN A USER ENVIRONMENT
Publication number
US20260281749A1
Application number
19678751
Filed
May 15, 2026
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Inventors
1
Claims
15

Classified under

H04W 24/02 Electricity & electronicsH04W 16/26 Electricity & electronicsH04W 24/08 Electricity & electronicsH04W 84/12 Electricity & electronics
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