公开(公告)号：US11184319B2

公开(公告)日：2021-11-23

申请号：US16892437

申请日：2020-06-04

Applicant: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Inventor： Zhiyuan Hu ,  Duan Chen ,  Yueming Yin ,  Zhigang Luo

IPC: H04L29/12 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: A method, a device, an apparatus and a computer-readable storage medium for MAC address conflict detection. The method includes: in response to detecting a wireless local area network, transmitting, at a first device, a dummy MAC address of the first device to a second device in the wireless local area network, the dummy MAC address being different from a real MAC address of the first device; transmitting an address conflict detection request for the dummy MAC address to the second device; and in response to an address conflict detection response from the second device indicating that there is no conflict for the dummy MAC address, establishing a connection with the wireless local area network. The method may effectively protect privacy information for a user of a terminal device, while avoiding a MAC address conflict, such that the user can communicate in a secure network environment.