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

Claim 0:
1. A method for wireless communication by a non-access point (non-AP) multi-link device (MLD), the method comprising:
transmitting, 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;
receiving, from the first AP MLD, a first response to the initial association request from the first AP MLD indicating establishment of a secret key shared by the non-AP MLD and the first AP MLD;
generating a first pairwise master key (PMK) based on the secret key;
transmitting, 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;
generating 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;
receiving, 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
associating with the first target AP based on the second PMK responsive to the second response.