System and method for common attributes in HESSID and the associated queries
AssigneeFuturewei Technologies, Inc.
InventorsBin Chen, George Calcev, Hanan Ahmed, Kaidi Huang
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Abstract
Mobile stations can query independent basic service set (BSS) parameters of a group of Access Points (APs) by setting a Pre-Association Message Exchange BSSID Independent (PAME-BI) bit during Wi-Fi discovery. The PAME-BI bit may be included in a Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) request to indicate that an Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) request carried by the GAS request is querying both independent and dependent BSS parameters. In some embodiments, the PAME-BI bit is included as a field in the ANQP query, rather than the GAS request message.
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A method for wireless local area network (WLAN) discovery, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a responding station (STA) in a group of responding STAs, a request from a requesting STA, the request requesting information about the group of responding STAs;
- and
- sending, by the responding STA, a single Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) response to the requesting STA, the single GAS response including multiple Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) responses each of which identifying dependent basic service set (BSS) parameters for a different responding STA in the group of responding STAs.
A responding station (STA) in a group of responding STAs, the responding STA comprising:
- a non-transitory memory storage comprising instructions;
- and
- one or more processors in communication with the memory, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to:
- receive a request from a requesting STA, the request requesting information about the group of responding STAs;
- and
- send a single Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) response to the requesting STA, the single GAS response including multiple Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) responses each of which identifying dependent basic service set (BSS) parameters for a different responding STA in the group of responding STAs.
A method for wireless local area network (WLAN) discovery, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a responding STA in a group of responding STAs, a single Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) request from a requesting STA, the single GAS request including multiple Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) requests and requesting information about the group of responding STAs;
- and
- sending, by the responding STA, a single ANQP element (ANQP-element) to the requesting STA, the single ANQP-element including multiple ANQP responses each of which identifying dependent basic service set (BSS) parameters for a different responding STA in the group of responding STAs.
A responding station (STA) in a group of responding STAs, the responding STA comprising:
- a non-transitory memory storage comprising instructions;
- and
- one or more processors in communication with the memory, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to:
- receive a single Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) request from a requesting STA, the single GAS request including multiple Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) requests and requesting information about the group of responding STAs;
- and
- send a single ANQP element (ANQP-element) to the requesting STA, the single ANQP-element including multiple ANQP responses each of which identifying dependent basic service set (BSS) parameters for a different responding STA in the group of responding STAs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.