US 12,238,799 B2
Multi-link re-setup and link change
Po-Kai Huang, San Jose, CA (US); Laurent Cariou, Milizac (FR); and Daniel Bravo, Portland, OR (US)
Assigned to Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/478,448.
Application 18/478,448 is a continuation of application No. 17/077,469, filed on Oct. 22, 2020, granted, now 11,991,764.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/924,373, filed on Oct. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0023181 A1, Jan. 18, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04W 76/19 (2018.01); H04W 80/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/15 (2018.02) [H04L 5/0055 (2013.01); H04W 76/19 (2018.02); H04W 80/02 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus of an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD), the AP MLD comprising processing circuitry coupled to storage, the processing circuitry configured to:
transmit an association or reassociation request frame from the AP MLD to a non-AP MLD, wherein the AP MLD comprises a plurality of included APs;
receive an association or reassociation response frame from the non-AP MLD;
perform a multi-link setup of multiple links between the AP MLD and a non-AP MLD based on the association or reassociation request frame and the association or reassociation response frame; and
remove an included AP of the AP MLD using a disassociation procedure.