US 12,284,702 B2
Link setup for multilink operation
Insun Jang, Seoul (KR); Jeongki Kim, Seoul (KR); Jinsoo Choi, Seoul (KR); Suhwook Kim, Seoul (KR); and Namyeong Kim, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
Appl. No. 17/782,773
Filed by LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul (KR)
PCT Filed Nov. 30, 2020, PCT No. PCT/KR2020/017243
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 6, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/112510, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 10, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0160188 (KR), filed on Dec. 4, 2019; application No. 10-2019-0161039 (KR), filed on Dec. 5, 2019; and application No. 10-2020-0154777 (KR), filed on Nov. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0117918 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/15 (2018.02) [H04W 76/11 (2018.02); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, the method comprising:
receiving, by a first station (STA) of a receiving multi-link device (MLD), an Association Request frame including multi-link information from a transmitting MLD, wherein the receiving MLD includes the first STA and a second STA, wherein the first STA operates on a first link, and the second STA operates on a second link, wherein the multi-link information includes information related to the first link and the second link,
wherein the multi-link information further includes a Multi-link control field, a common info field which is contiguous to the Multi-link control field, and a link info field which is contiguous to the common info field, wherein the common info includes an MLD media access control (MAC) address field of the transmitting MLD, wherein the Multi-link control field includes an MLD MAC Address Present field related to presence of the MLD media access control (MAC) address field, wherein the link info field includes a MAC address field of each STA,
wherein the multi-link information further includes information related to whether the first link and the second link are a simultaneous transmit and receive, STR, link set or a non-STR link set; and
transmitting, by the first STA of the receiving MLD, an Association Response frame including multi-link address information to the transmitting MLD, wherein the multi-link address information includes a media access control (MAC) address of the second STA.