Patent ID: 11924823
Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. The device of claim 1:
wherein the first-device is a logical non-AP-MLD with which a set of physical non-AP-STAs (stations) are affiliated;
wherein the second-device is a logical AP-MLD with which a set of physical APs are affiliated and having a set of communications links;
wherein the first-device is configured to have a current multi-link association with the second-device;
wherein at least one of the non-AP-STAs is configured to transmit the reassociation request frame to the second-device requesting a new single-link association with one of the physical APs affiliated with the second-device; and
wherein the reassociation request frame,
includes a unique identifier identifying an address of the second-device with which the non-AP-STA is currently linked to; and
includes an indication that the non-AP-STA intends to now associate with just one of the physical APs that are affiliated with the second-device on a preselected communications link within the set of communications links.