US 11,973,679 B2
Enhanced frame exchange and multi-link device messaging for secure communications
Po-Kai Huang, San Jose, CA (US); Robert Stacey, Portland, OR (US); Daniel Bravo, Portland, OR (US); Ido Ouzieli, Tel Aviv (IL); Danny Alexander, Neve Efraim Monoson (IL); and Ofer Hareuveni, Haifa (IL)
Assigned to Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/392,923.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/060,449, filed on Aug. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0367872 A1, Nov. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 43/12 (2022.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 43/12 (2013.01) [H04W 88/08 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device, the device comprising processing circuitry coupled to storage, the processing circuitry configured to:
generate a first subset of a plurality of fields, wherein the first subset is mandatory in a probe request frame;
generate a second subset of the plurality of fields, wherein the second subset is optional in the probe request frame regardless of capability information of the device, wherein the second subset is comprised of, a request element, an extended request element, a fast initial link setup (FILS) request parameter element, a short SSID list element, one or more vendor specific elements, a probe request variant multiple links (ML) element, and a known BSSID element;
generate the probe request frame comprising the first subset and the second subset; and
cause to send the probe request frame to an access point (AP) device.