Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Neighbor report for an access point multi-link device
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Application No.: US17131545Application Date: 2020-12-22
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Publication No.: US11943701B2Publication Date: 2024-03-26
- Inventor: Laurent Cariou , Po-Kai Huang , Necati Canpolat , Carlos Cordeiro , Daniel F. Bravo , Arik Klein , Danny Ben-Ari , Robert J. Stacey
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: H04W48/16
- IPC: H04W48/16 ; H04W48/20 ; H04W76/11 ; H04W84/12 ; H04W88/08

Abstract:
An access point (AP) station (STA) (AP STA) that is part of an AP multi-link device (MLD) may be configured as a reporting AP may encode a BSS Transition Management (BTM) request frame for transmission to one or more associated non-AP stations (STAs). The BTM request frame may include a neighbor report element encoded to include information about one or more neighbor APs. The neighbor report element may indicate whether the one or more neighbor APs identified in the neighbor report element are part of an AP MLD and, when a neighbor AP is indicated to be part of an AP MLD whether the reporting AP is part of the indicated AP MLD. The AP STA may decode a reassociation frame from one of the non-AP STAs for transition from one of the AP STAs of the AP MLD to one of the neighbor APs.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210112490A1 NEIGHBOR REPORT FOR AN ACCESS POINT MULTI-LINK DEVICE Public/Granted day:2021-04-15
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