Apparatus, system and method of multiband wireless communication
AssigneeIntel IP Corporation
InventorsVivek Gupta, Necati Canpolat
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Abstract
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of multiband wireless communication. For example, a multiband wireless communication device may include a receiver to receive a first message from a mobile device, the first message including multiband capability information indicating a plurality of supported wireless communication bands of the mobile device; a controller to select a selected wireless communication band from the plurality of supported wireless communication bands; and a transmitter to transmit a second message to the mobile device, the second message including an indication of the selected wireless communication band.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a memory to store logic;
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- a processor configured to execute the logic to cause a multiband wireless communication station (STA) to:
- process a beacon from a multiband Access point (AP), the beacon comprising multiband capability information corresponding to the multiband AP to indicate one or more multiband capabilities of the multiband AP;
- transmit a first message to the multiband AP, the first message comprising multiband capability information corresponding to the multiband STA, the multiband capability information corresponding to the multiband STA to indicate that the multiband STA is a multiband multi-mode STA having both WiFi connectivity and cellular connectivity;
- and subsequent to transmission of the first message to the multiband AP, receive from the multiband AP a second message to indicate to the multiband STA to steer traffic to a cellular node of a cellular network.
A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one processor, enable the at least one processor to cause a multiband wireless communication station (STA) to:
- process a beacon from a multiband Access point (AP), the beacon comprising multiband capability information corresponding to the multiband AP to indicate one or more multiband capabilities of the multiband AP;
- transmit a first message to the multiband AP, the first message comprising multiband capability information corresponding to the multiband STA, the multiband capability information corresponding to the multiband STA to indicate that the multiband STA is a multiband multi-mode STA having both WiFi connectivity and cellular connectivity;
- and subsequent to transmission of the first message to the multiband AP, receive from the multiband AP a second message to indicate to the multiband STA to steer traffic to a cellular node of a cellular network.
An apparatus for a multiband wireless communication station (STA), the apparatus comprising:
- means for processing a beacon from a multiband Access point (AP), the beacon comprising multiband capability information corresponding to the multiband AP to indicate one or more multiband capabilities of the multiband AP;
- means for causing the multiband STA to transmit a first message to the multiband AP, the first message comprising multiband capability information corresponding to the multiband STA, the multiband capability information corresponding to the multiband STA to indicate that the multiband STA is a multiband multi-mode STA having both WiFi connectivity and cellular connectivity;
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- means for determining, based a second message from the multiband AP, that the multiband STA is to steer traffic to a cellular node of a cellular network, wherein reception of the second message from the multiband AP is subsequent to transmission of the first message to the multiband AP.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.