US 11,943,701 B2
Neighbor report for an access point multi-link device
Laurent Cariou, Milizac (FR); Po-Kai Huang, San Jose, CA (US); Necati Canpolat, Beaverton, OR (US); Carlos Cordeiro, Portland, OR (US); Daniel F. Bravo, Hillsboro, OR (US); Arik Klein, Givaat Shmuel (IL); Danny Ben-Ari, Hasharon Hatichon (IL); and Robert J. Stacey, Portland, OR (US)
Assigned to Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 22, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/131,545.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/984,625, filed on Mar. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0112490 A1, Apr. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 48/20 (2009.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/16 (2013.01) [H04W 48/20 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus of an access point (AP) the apparatus comprising: processing circuitry; and memory, the AP being one of a plurality of APs affiliated with a first AP multi-link device (AP MLD),
wherein when the AP is configured to operate as a reporting AP, the processing circuitry is configured to:
encode a Basic-Service Set (BSS) Transition Management (BTM) request frame for transmission to one or more associated non-AP stations (STAs), the BTM request frame to include a neighbor report element encoded to include information about one or more reported APs,
wherein the processing circuitry is to encode the neighbor report element to indicate:
using a first predetermined value, whether any of the one or more reported APs are APs of the plurality that are affiliated the first AP MLD; and
using a second predetermined value, whether any of the one or more reported APs are APs that affiliated with a second AP MLD, wherein the reporting AP is not affiliated with the second AP MLD, and
wherein to report APs from multiple AP MLDs including at least one AP that is affiliated with the first AP MLD with which the reporting AP is affiliated and at least one AP that is affiliated with the second AP MLD with which the reporting AP is not affiliated, processing circuitry is configured to encode the neighbor report element to:
identify the at least one AP that is affiliated with the first AP MLD with which the reporting AP is affiliated; and
identify the at least one AP that is affiliated with the second AP MLD with which the reporting AP is not affiliated.