Patent ID: 11881921
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A first network device, comprising:
a first radio operating at a first frequency band below a millimeter-wave (mmWave);
a second radio operating at a second frequency band within the mmWave;
a first processing resource; and
a first machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions executable by the first processing resource to:
receive, by the first radio, a probe request from a second network device indicating a protocol and a particular sector scanning direction of the second network device;
receive, by the second radio, an association request from the second network device; and
in response to the protocol indicated by the probe request, transmit, by the second radio, a probe response in each of one or more sector transmitting directions and an association response to the second network device, wherein the second network device receives one or more probe responses in the particular sector scanning direction.