US 12,452,772 B2
Optimizing device provisioning protocol onboarding time in wireless network
Prakhar Vig, Uttar Pradesh (IN); Amit Shakya, Uttar Pradesh (IN); and Milankumar Narottmabhai Tandel, Uttar Pradesh (IN)
Assigned to MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD., Singapore (SG)
Filed by MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd., Singapore (SG)
Filed on Nov. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/052,290.
Claims priority of application No. 202121054218 (IN), filed on Nov. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0164671 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04W 48/10 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/10 (2013.01) [H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
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.