US 12,232,059 B2
Reception of management frames for multiple basic services sets (BSSs)
Abhishek Pramod Patil, San Diego, CA (US); Yongchun Xiao, Fremont, 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, Stateline, NV (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 Nov. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/388,928.
Application 18/388,928 is a continuation of application No. 17/814,470, filed on Jul. 22, 2022, granted, now 11,856,536.
Application 17/814,470 is a continuation of application No. 16/505,506, filed on Jul. 8, 2019, granted, now 11,399,352, issued on Jul. 26, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 201841025518 (IN), filed on Jul. 9, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0236880 A1, Jul. 11, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 56/0005 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0096 (2013.01); H04W 56/0015 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 29 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 nontransmitted BSS identifier (BSSID) capability element in a first portion of the BSS profile included in a first Multiple BSSID element of the first management frame, the first nontransmitted BSSID capability element indicating a start of the BSS profile; and
determine that a second portion of the BSS profile is included in a second Multiple BSSID element of the first management frame based on the second Multiple BSSID element containing a first BSS profile element that is not a second nontransmitted BSSID capability element.