Apparatus and method for multi-link communications
AssigneeNXP USA, Inc.
InventorsLiwen Chu, Young Hoon Kwon, Hongyuan Zhang, Huiling Lou
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Abstract
Embodiments of an apparatus and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of multi-link communications involves at a first multi-link device, generating a management frame having reduced neighbor report (RNR) information related to the first multi-link device, and at the first multi-link device, transmitting the management frame having one of the RNR information and a multi-link element (ML IE) or both the RNR information and the ML IE to a second multi-link device.
Claims18
A method of multi-link communications, the method comprising:
- at a first multi-link device, generating a management frame;
- and
- at the first multi-link device, transmitting the management frame to a second multi-link device:
- wherein the management frame comprises a probe request frame that includes information that indicates whether full information or partial information of an access point (AP) is requested;
- wherein the first multi-link device comprises a non-access point (AP) multi-link device, wherein the second multi-link device comprises an AP multi-link device, and wherein the probe request frame further includes a multi-link element that includes a link identifier of a reported link when the non-AP multi-link device requests full information of an AP of the AP multi-link device in the reported link.
A multi-link communications system comprising:
- a first multi-link device configured to:
- generate a management frame;
- and
- transmit the management frame to a second multi-link device;
- and
- the second multi-link device;
- wherein the management frame comprises a probe request frame that includes information that indicates whether full information or partial information of an access point (AP) is requested;
- wherein the first multi-link device comprises a non-access point (AP) multi-link device, wherein the second multi-link device comprises a AP multi-link device, and wherein the probe request frame further includes a multi-link element that includes a link identifier of a reported link when the non-AP multi-link device requests full information of an AP of the AP multi-link device in the reported link.
A method of multi-link communications, the method comprising:
- at an access point (AP) multi-link device, generating a management frame having reduced neighbor report (RNR) information regarding the AP multi-link device;
- and
- at the AP multi-link device, transmitting the management frame having the RNR information to a plurality of non-AP multi-link devices;
- wherein the management frame is transmitted in response to a probe request frame that includes information that indicates whether full information or partial information of an access point (AP) is requested;
- and
- wherein the probe request frame further includes a multi-link element that includes a link identifier of a reported link when the non-AP multi-link device requests full information of an AP of the AP multi-link device in the reported link.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.