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US 10,873,899 B2Granted
Access point initiated neighbor report request
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsAbhishek Pramod Patil, George Cherian, Santosh Paul Abraham
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Abstract
Methods, apparatuses, and systems are described that implement techniques and protocols to enable a station to receive a neighbor query request from a first associated access point that is associated with the station. The station may wirelessly communicate a neighbor report of a second access point to the first access point while the station is unassociated with the second access point.
Claims27
A method of wireless communication comprising:
- receiving, by a first wireless station, from a first wireless access point to which the first wireless station is associated, a neighbor query request indicating to the first wireless station to identify wireless access points neighboring another wireless access point;
- transmitting, from the first wireless station to a second wireless access point to which the first wireless station is not associated, responsive to receiving the neighbor query request, a neighbor report request indicating to the second wireless access point to identify wireless access points neighboring the second wireless access point, the neighbor report request being generated, by the first wireless station, for the second wireless access point, the neighbor report request being different from the neighbor query request;
- receiving, by the first wireless station from the second wireless access point while the first wireless station is unassociated with the second wireless access point, a neighbor report of the second wireless access point, the neighbor report identifying each of one or more wireless access points that neighbor the second wireless access point;
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- transmitting, by the first wireless station to the first wireless access point while the first wireless station is unassociated with the second wireless access point, information associated with the neighbor report.
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A wireless station comprising:
- a processor;
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- a memory accessible by the processor, the memory comprising instructions executable by the processor to:
- receive, from a first wireless access point to which the wireless station is associated, a neighbor query request indicating to the wireless station to identify wireless access points neighboring another wireless access point;
- transmit, to a second wireless access point to which the wireless station is not associated, responsive to receiving the neighbor query request, a neighbor report request indicating to the second wireless access point to identify wireless access points neighboring the second wireless access point, the neighbor report request being different from the neighbor query request;
- receive, from the second wireless access point while the wireless station is unassociated with the second wireless access point, a neighbor report of the second wireless access point, the neighbor report identifying each of one or more wireless access points that neighbor the second wireless access point;
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- transmit, to the first wireless access point while the wireless station is unassociated with the second wireless access point, information associated with the neighbor report.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.