| CPC H04W 48/10 (2013.01) [H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. An apparatus, comprising:
a communication device; and
a processor, coupled to the communication device and configured to perform operations comprising:
scanning wireless channels supported by the device on which a wireless device is advertising a specific information element (IE) via the communication device;
adding the scanned wireless channels with the specific information element to a channel list;
starting a presence-announcement procedure by sending a first presence-announcement frame on a first wireless channel of the scanned wireless channels in the channel list in response to the apparatus onboarding to a wireless network which comprises a controller and one or more proxy agents; and
stopping the presence-announcement procedure upon receipt of a valid authentication request frame from the controller or one of the proxy agents within a predetermined time after sending the presence-announcement frame.
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