Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Signaling identifiers for multiple basic services sets (BSS)
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Application No.: US16182345Application Date: 2018-11-06
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Publication No.: US10972962B2Publication Date: 2021-04-06
- Inventor: Abhishek Pramod Patil , Jouni Kalevi Malinen , Ravi Gidvani , Alfred Asterjadhi , George Cherian
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Qualcomm Inc (DL)
- Main IPC: H04W48/08
- IPC: H04W48/08 ; H04W40/24 ; H04W84/12

Abstract:
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for signaling basic service set (BSS) identifiers (BSSIDs). A group of BSSs may form a Multiple BSSID set in which one BSS sent management frames on behalf of other BSSs (referred to as non-transmitting BSSIDs). For example, a management frame (such as a Beacon Frame or Probe Response Frame) may include a list of BSSIDs for some or all of the non-transmitting BSSIDs in the Multiple BSSID set. An indicator in the management frame may indicate whether the management frame includes a partial list or complete list of non-transmitting BSSIDs in the Multiple BSSID set. The management frame may include a count or bitmap to indicate the quantity of BSSIDs in the Multiple BSSID set. A station (STA) may indicate which BSSIDs it has discovered and request the remaining BSSIDs in the Multiple BSSID set.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190268825A1 SIGNALING IDENTIFIERS FOR MULTIPLE BASIC SERVICES SETS (BSS) Public/Granted day:2019-08-29
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