US 12,232,200 B2
Multi-link reconfiguration method and apparatus
Guogang Huang, Shenzhen (CN); Yuchen Guo, Shenzhen (CN); Yunbo Li, Shenzhen (CN); and Ming Gan, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Guangdong (CN)
Filed on Apr. 4, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/295,270.
Application 18/295,270 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2022/071673, filed on Jan. 12, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 202110058021.9 (CN), filed on Jan. 15, 2021; application No. 202110713587.0 (CN), filed on Jun. 25, 2021; and application No. 202110778961.5 (CN), filed on Jul. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0247703 A1, Aug. 3, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 76/15 (2018.02) 15 Claims
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1. A multi-link reconfiguration method, wherein the method comprises:
generating, by a first multi-link device (MLD), a basic service set transition management (BTM) request frame, wherein the BTM request frame comprises a first field which occupies only one bit; and wherein the first field indicates a second MLD whether to disconnect only a link on which the BTM request frame is transmitted from the first MLD, or to disassociate from the first MLD, wherein that the second MLD disassociates from the first MLD means that the second MLD disconnects all links from the first MLD; and
sending, by the first MLD, the BTM request frame to the second MLD.