US 12,289,671 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. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/841,064.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/212,007, filed on Jun. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0408349 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 8/00 (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 second antenna node configured to communicatively couple to a second antenna;
a scanning radio communicatively coupled to the antenna node; and
a data radio communicatively coupled to the second antenna node, wherein the electronic device is configured to:
perform, using the scanning radio, a scan of a band of frequencies, wherein the scanning radio is configured to only receive frames and the scanning radio is configured as a receive-only radio;
receive, using the scanning radio, a beacon associated with a second electronic device, wherein the beacon comprises information associated with operation of a third electronic device in a second band of frequencies; and
perform, using the data radio, a second scan of the second band of frequencies based at least in part on the information, wherein the data radio is configured to transmit and receive second frames, and
wherein the second scan is performed, at least in part, while the scan is performed.