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US 2013/0155933 A1Published application
Request-Response Procedure for Wireless Network
AssigneeNokia Corporation
InventorsJarkko Kneckt, Mika Kasslin
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Abstract
This document provides a solution where a requesting wireless apparatus indicates in a probe request message that the requesting wireless apparatus supports a collision avoidance mechanism that enables a responding wireless apparatus to reduce a number probe response messages by responding to a plurality of probe response messages with a single probe response message.
Claims25
A method comprising:
- acquiring, in a wireless apparatus a plurality of probe request messages originated from a plurality of requesting wireless apparatuses, each of the plurality of probe request messages comprising an information element that indicates that each of the plurality of requesting wireless apparatuses supports a collision avoidance mechanism;
- in response to detecting that said information element comprised in the plurality of probe request messages and indicating said support for the collision avoidance mechanism, causing transmission of a probe response message that responds to the plurality of probe request messages.
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A method comprising:
- causing, in a requesting wireless apparatus, transmission of a probe request message from the requesting wireless apparatus, wherein the probe request message comprises an information element that indicates that the requesting wireless apparatus supports a collision avoidance mechanism that enables a responding wireless apparatus to reduce a number probe response messages by responding to a plurality of probe response messages with a single probe response message;
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- acquiring, in the requesting wireless apparatus, a probe response message transmitted by a responding wireless apparatus as a response to the probe request message.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including program instructions, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to acquire a plurality of probe request messages originated from a plurality of requesting wireless apparatuses, each of the plurality of probe request messages comprising an information element that indicates that each of the plurality of requesting wireless apparatuses supports a collision avoidance mechanism;
- in response to detecting said information element comprised in the plurality of probe request messages and indicating said support for the collision avoidance mechanism, cause transmission of a probe response message that responds to the plurality of probe request messages.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including program instructions, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to:
- cause transmission of a probe request message, wherein the probe request message comprises an information element that indicates that the apparatus supports a collision avoidance mechanism that enables a responding wireless apparatus to reduce a number probe response messages by responding to a plurality of probe response messages with a single probe response message;
- and
- acquiring a probe response message transmitted by the responding wireless apparatus as a response to the probe request message.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.