US 11,856,536 B2
Reception of management frames for multiple basic services sets (BSSs)
Abhishek Pramod Patil, San Diego, CA (US); Yongchun Xiao, San Jose, CA (US); Ravi Gidvani, Fremont, CA (US); Sandip HomChaudhuri, San Jose, CA (US); Pradeep Kumar Yenganti, Fremont, CA (US); Arul Davidson Emmanuel, Chennai (IN); James Simon Cho, Mountain View, CA (US); Padmanabhan Venkataraman Karthic, Chennai (IN); George Cherian, San Diego, CA (US); Alfred Asterjadhi, San Diego, CA (US); and Jouni Kalevi Malinen, Tuusula (FI)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/814,470.
Application 17/814,470 is a continuation of application No. 16/505,506, filed on Jul. 8, 2019, granted, now 11,399,352.
Claims priority of application No. 201841025518 (IN), filed on Jul. 9, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0009359 A1, Jan. 12, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04W 56/0005 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0096 (2013.01); H04W 56/0015 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wireless node, comprising:
one or more memories storing processor-executable code; and
one or more processors coupled to the one or more memories and, when executing the code, configured to:
obtain a first management frame from a wireless local area network (WLAN) apparatus, the WLAN apparatus operating multiple virtual access points (VAPs) respectively corresponding to multiple basic service sets (BSSs);
determine the first management frame includes a BSS profile of a BSS associated with the wireless node based, at least in part, on an arrangement of a plurality of BSS profiles within one or more management frames transmitted by the WLAN apparatus, the BSS being one of the multiple BSSs and the BSS profile being one of the plurality of BSS profiles;
identify a first indicator element in at least a first portion of the BSS profile included in a first Multiple BSSID element of the first management frame, the first indicator element indicating a start of the BSS profile;
determine whether a second portion of the BSS profile is included in a second Multiple BSSID element of the first management frame based, at least in part, on whether the second Multiple BSSID element includes an indicator element; and
determine whether the BSS profile is split between the first Multiple BSSID element of the first management frame and the second Multiple BSSID element of the first management frame based, at least in part, on the first Multiple BSSID element including the first indicator element and whether the second Multiple BSSID element includes the indicator element.