US 11,943,824 B2
Apparatus, system and method of transmitting a multiple basic service set identifier (BSSID) element
Laurent Cariou, Portland, OR (US); and Po-Kai Huang, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 24, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/133,971.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/988,480, filed on Mar. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0120599 A1, Apr. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 76/11 (2018.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/11 (2018.02) [H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04W 88/08 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a processor comprising logic and circuitry configured to cause a reporting Access Point (AP) of an AP Multi-Link Device (MLD) to perform one or more operations, wherein the AP MLD comprises a plurality of APs, the AP MLD having one Medium Access Control (MAC) data service and a single MAC Service Access Point (SAP) to a Logical Link Control (LLC) sublayer, wherein the processor is configured to cause the reporting AP to:
generate a multiple Basic Service Set Identifier (BSSID) element corresponding to a multiple BSSID set including the reporting AP, the multiple BSSID element comprising a non-transmitted BSSID profile element corresponding to an other AP in the multiple BSSID set, the other AP belonging to an other AP MLD having one other MAC data service and an other single MAC SAP to the LLC sublayer, wherein the non-transmitted BSSID profile element corresponding to the other AP comprises one or more elements of information corresponding to the other AP and a multi-link element, the multi-link element comprising a profile subelement corresponding to a reported AP of the other AP MLD, wherein the profile subelement corresponding to the reported AP comprises one or more elements of information corresponding to the reported AP; and
transmit a frame comprising the multiple BSSID element; and
a memory to store information processed by the processor.