Patent ID: 11924898
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A method for a multilink device (MLD) access point (AP), comprising:
transmitting via a first link of multiple links, a beacon comprising a multilink basic service set (BSS) identification (BSSID), wherein the multilink BSSID identifies an MLD media access control (MAC) address of the MLD AP and the multilink BSSID remains the same regardless of which link of the multiple links is used for transmitting the beacon; and
receiving via one link of the multiple links, a first frame comprising a multilink MAC address that identifies an MLD station (STA), wherein the multilink MAC address remains the same regardless of which link of the multiple links is used for receiving the first frame.