Patent ID: 11863978
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A non-access point (non-AP) multi-link device (MLD) comprising:
at least one modem;
at least one processor communicatively coupled with the at least one modem; and
at least one memory communicatively coupled with the at least one processor, wherein the at least one modem, the at least one processor and the at least one memory are configured to:
transmit, by a first station of a plurality of stations of the non-AP MLD to a first AP MLD, an initial association request to initiate an association between the non-AP MLD and the first AP MLD;
receive, from the first AP MLD, a first response to the initial association request indicating establishment of a secret key shared by the non-AP MLD and the first AP MLD;
generate a first pairwise master key (PMK) based on the secret key;
transmit, by a second station of the plurality of stations of the non-AP MLD to a first target AP, a first reassociation request based on the first response to the initial association request;
generate a second PMK based on the first PMK, a medium access control service access point (MAC-SAP) address that uniquely identifies the non-AP MLD in a wireless local area network (WLAN), and a medium access control (MAC) address of the first target AP;
receive, from the first target AP, a second response to the first reassociation request the second response to the first reassociation request being based on the second PMK; and
associate with the first target AP based on the second PMK responsive to the second response.