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US 2016/0112933 A1Published application
System and Method for Adaptive Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) Element Provisioning
AssigneeFuturewei Technologies, Inc.
InventorsGeorge Calcev, Lin Cai, Xingxin Zhang
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Abstract
A method embodiment includes receiving, by an access point (AP), a request for an access network query protocol (ANQP) element, and multicasting the ANQP element as an ANQP information element (IE), wherein the ANQP IE is configured in accordance with a format transmittable by the AP in a multicast.
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A method for access network query protocol (ANQP) signaling comprising:
- receiving, by an access point (AP), a request for ANQP information from a station (STA);
- multicasting a first portion of the ANQP information as an ANQP information element (IE), wherein the ANQP IE is configured in accordance with a format transmittable by the AP in a multicast;
- and
- unicasting a second portion of the ANQP information to the STA.
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An access point (AP) comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a computer readable storage medium storing programming for execution by the processor, the programming including instructions to:
- receive a request for adaptive network query protocol (ANQP) information from a station (STA);
- format first ANQP elements corresponding to a first portion of the ANQP information requested by the STA as one or more ANQP information elements (IEs), wherein the ANQP IEs are configured in a multicast format;
- include the one or more ANQP IEs in a multicast;
- and
- unicast second ANQP elements corresponding to a second portion of the ANQP information requested by the STA to the STA.
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A station (STA) comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a computer readable storage medium storing programming for execution by the processor, the programming including instructions to:
- transmit a request for adaptive network query protocol (ANQP) information;
- receive a first portion of the ANQP information as one or more ANQP information elements (IEs) in a multicast;
- and
- receive a second portion of the ANQP information as one or more ANQP elements, wherein the one or more ANQP elements is in a different format than the ANQP IEs.
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A method for adaptive network query protocol (ANQP) signaling comprising:
- transmitting, by a station (STA), a request for ANQP information;
- receiving a first portion of the requested ANQP information as one or more ANQP information elements (IEs) in a multicast;
- and
- receiving a second portion of the requested ANQP information as one or more ANQP elements in a unicast, wherein the one or more ANQP IEs is in a different format than the ANQP elements.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.