US 12,219,470 B2
Method for accessing wireless local area network and terminal
Qihang Chen, Xi'an (CN); and Peng Yang, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
Appl. No. 17/611,427
Filed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
PCT Filed May 18, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/090747
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 15, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/233538, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 26, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 201910411638.7 (CN), filed on May 17, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0232466 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/18 (2013.01) [H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for accessing a wireless local area network (WLAN) implemented by a terminal, wherein the method comprises:
receiving, from a first access point, type information of a first WLAN and first identification information of the first WLAN, wherein the first WLAN is of the first access point;
sending a first message to the first access point when the type information indicates that a first type of the first WLAN is a type I, wherein the first message requests to access the first WLAN and carries a first virtual media access control (MAC) address, wherein the first virtual MAC address identifies the terminal, and wherein the first virtual MAC address is different from a device MAC address of the terminal;
sending a second message to the first access point when the type information indicates that a second type of the first WLAN is a type III, wherein the second message requests to access the first WLAN, and wherein the second message carries the device MAC address; and
storing the first identification information after detecting that the terminal accesses the first WLAN.