US 11,991,617 B2
Information indication method and apparatus
Ming Gan, Shenzhen (CN); Dandan Liang, Shenzhen (CN); and Xun Yang, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Guangdong (CN)
Filed on Jul. 7, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/922,563.
Application 16/922,563 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2019/098412, filed on Jul. 30, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 201810891859.4 (CN), filed on Aug. 7, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0336969 A1, Oct. 22, 2020
Int. Cl. H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 48/08 (2009.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 48/08 (2013.01) [H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
11. A station (STA), comprising at least one processor and one or more memories, wherein the one or more memories are coupled to the at least one processor and store programming instructions for execution by the at least one processor to:
receive from a reporting access point (AP), a first frame on a 2.4 GHz band or a 5 GHz band, wherein the first frame comprises a neighbor report element, wherein the neighbor report element comprises a basic service set identifier (BSSID) field, a BSSID information field and a sub-element field, wherein:
the BSSID field indicates a neighbor AP, and
the BSSID information field comprises a multi-band field and a co-location AP field, and wherein:
the multi-band field indicates whether the neighbor AP is located in a multiple-band device, wherein the multiple-band comprises a 6 GHz band,
the co-location AP field indicates whether the neighbor AP and the reporting AP are co-located, and when the co-location AP field is set to a first value, the neighbor AP operates on a 6 GHz band and the BSSID of the BSS in which the neighbor AP is located is a BSSID in a BSSID set, the sub-element field includes a multi-BSSID element, the multi-BSSID element includes an element ID subfield, a length subfield, a maximum BSSID indication subfield, and a sub-element subfield, the maximum BSSID indication subfield indicates that a maximum quantity of BSSIDs included in the BSSID set is n, the sub-element subfield includes information about each non-transmitted BSSID, and
wherein the co-location AP field being set to the first value and the multi-band field being set to a value indicates that the neighbor AP and the reporting AP are co-located devices and belong to the same multi-band device; and
parsing, by the STA, the first frame.