US 11,991,764 B2
Multi-link re-setup and link change
Po-Kai Huang, San Jose, CA (US); Laurent Cariou, Portland, OR (US); and Daniel Bravo, Portland, OR (US)
Assigned to Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 22, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/077,469.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/924,373, filed on Oct. 22, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0045175 A1, Feb. 11, 2021
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)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD), the AP MLD comprising processing circuitry coupled to storage, the processing circuitry configured to:
establish multiple links between the AP MLD and a non-AP MLD via a single request frame from the non-AP MLD and single response frame from the AP MLD, wherein the AP MLD comprises one or more APs, and changes an entry point mapping through DSM from a medium access control (MAC) data service interface of the AP MLD; and
change an entry point mapping associated with the non-AP MLD through a distributed system medium (DSM) from another AP MLD to the AP MLD or reestablish multiple links between the AP MLD and the non-AP MLD via a single request frame response frame exchange.