US 11,902,887 B2
Access point AP multi-link device discovery method and related apparatus
Ming Gan, Shenzhen (CN); Guogang Huang, Shenzhen (CN); Yiqing Li, Shenzhen (CN); Yifan Zhou, Shenzhen (CN); Mengshi Hu, Shenzhen (CN); and Dandan Liang, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Guangdong (CN)
Filed on Oct. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/959,034.
Application 17/959,034 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2021/082828, filed on Mar. 24, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 202010263231.7 (CN), filed on Apr. 3, 2020; and application No. 202010763205.0 (CN), filed on Jul. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0024407 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 48/08 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/16 (2013.01) [H04W 48/08 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An access point multi-link device (AP MLD) discovery method, comprising:
generating, by a reporting AP, a management frame, wherein the management frame comprises a first information field, wherein the first information field indicates an MLD identifier of an AP MLD with which a reported AP is affiliated or the first information field indicates that the reported AP is not affiliated with any AP MLD; and
sending, by the reporting AP, the management frame to a station.