System and method for common attributes in HESSID and the associated queries
AssigneeFuturewei Technologies, Inc.
InventorsBin Chen, George Calcev, Hanan Ahmed, Kaidi Huang
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Abstract
Mobile stations can query independent basic service set (BSS) parameters of a group of Access Points (APs) by setting a Pre-Association Message Exchange BSSID Independent (PAME-BI) bit during Wi-Fi discovery. The PAME-BI bit may be included in a Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) request to indicate that an Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) request carried by the GAS request is querying both independent and dependent BSS parameters. In some embodiments, the PAME-BI bit is included as a field in the ANQP query, rather than the GAS request message.
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A method for wireless local area network (WLAN) discovery, the method comprising:
- receiving a request from a requesting station (STA) by a responding STA in a group of responding STAs, the request requesting dependent basic service set (BSS) parameters for each responding STA in the group of responding STAs;
- encapsulating, by the responding STA, multiple Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) responses into a single Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) response, each of the multiple ANQP responses in the single GAS response identifying dependent BSS parameters for a different responding STA in the group of responding STAs;
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- sending, by the responding STA, the single GAS response to the requesting STA.
A responding station (STA) in a group of responding STAs, the responding STA comprising:
- a non-transitory memory storage comprising instructions;
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- one or more processors in communication with the memory, wherein the one or more processors execute the instructions to:
- receive a request from a requesting station (STA) by a responding STA in a group of responding STAs, the request requesting dependent basic service set (BSS) parameters for each responding STA in the group of responding STAs;
- encapsulate multiple Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) responses into a single Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) response, each of the multiple ANQP responses in the single GAS response identifying dependent BSS parameters for a different responding STA in the group of responding STAs;
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- send the single GAS response to the requesting STA.
A method for wireless local area network (WLAN) discovery, the method comprising:
- receiving a single Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) request from a requesting station (STA) by a responding STA in a group of responding STAs, the single GAS request including multiple Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) requests, each of the multiple ANQP requests in the single GAS request requesting dependent basic service set (BSS) parameters for a different responding STA in the group of responding STAs;
- encapsulating, by the responding STA, multiple Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) responses into a single ANQP-element, each of the multiple ANQP responses in the single ANQP-element identifying dependent BSS parameters for a different responding STA in the group of responding STAs;
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- sending, by the responding STA, the single ANQP-element to the requesting STA.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.