US 2023/0147562 A1 · Privacy Enhanced BSS and Discovery Mechanisms

Abstract

Systems, methods, and mechanisms for a privacy enhanced basic service set (BSS), including privacy enhancements for both access points and wireless stations as well as privacy enchantments for authentication, association, and discovery operations. Further, the systems, methods, and mechanisms disclosed may continue to support legacy wireless stations and are thus, backward compatible. A station may communicate with a legacy BSS of a wireless network to transition to a PE BSS of the wireless network. The station may receive, from the PE BSS of the wireless network, an encrypted beacon, wherein the encrypted beacon is decoded based on information received from the legacy BSS and perform, with the PE BSS of the wireless network, an encrypted handshake procedure to authenticate and associate with the PE BSS of the wireless network.

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Dependent claims

A wireless station, comprising:

at least one antenna;
at least one radio communicatively coupled to the at least one antenna;
and
at least one processor in communication with the at least one radio and configured to cause the wireless station to:
communicate with a legacy basic service set (BSS) of a wireless network to transition to a privacy enhanced (PE) BSS of the wireless network;
receive, from the PE BSS of the wireless network, an encrypted beacon, wherein the encrypted beacon is decoded based on information received from the legacy BSS;
and
perform, with the PE BSS of the wireless network, an encrypted handshake procedure to authenticate and associate with the PE BSS of the wireless network.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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