US 12,232,021 B2
Beacon and probe-response frame type information for out-of-band discovery
Jarkko L Kneckt, Los Gatos, CA (US); Veerendra Boodannavar, Cupertino, CA (US); Charles F Dominguez, San Carlos, CA (US); Yong Liu, Campbell, CA (US); Su Khiong Yong, Palo Alto, CA (US); Tianyu Wu, Fremont, CA (US); Daniel R. Borges, San Francisco, CA (US); Sundar Sriram, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Oren Shani, Saratoga, CA (US); Yoel Boger, Shoham (IL); Anuj Batra, Redwood City, CA (US); Debashis Dash, San Jose, CA (US); Matthew L Semersky, San Jose, CA (US); Ahmet G. Cepni, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Noam Ginsburg, Haifa (IL)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/842,314.
Application 17/842,314 is a continuation of application No. 17/841,064, filed on Jun. 15, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/212,007, filed on Jun. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0408237 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04W 76/19 (2018.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/16 (2013.01) [H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04W 76/19 (2018.02); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising:
an antenna node configured to communicatively couple to an antenna;
a data radio communicatively coupled to the antenna node;
a second antenna node configured to communicatively couple to a second antenna; and
a second data radio communicatively coupled to the second antenna node, wherein the electronic device is configured to:
communicate, using the data radio, frames in a band of frequencies that are associated with a second electronic device, wherein the data radio is configured to transmit the frames, receive the frames, or both;
interrupt the communication of the frames;
perform, using the second data radio, a scan of a second band of frequencies, wherein the second data radio is configured to transmit second frames, receive the second frames, or both;
receive, using the second data radio, a beacon frame associated with a third electronic device in the second band of frequencies; and
after the beacon frame is received, resume communication of third frames in the band of frequencies using the data radio.