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

Claim 13:
14. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a first radio of a first network device operating at a first frequency band below a millimeter-wave (mmWave), a probe request from a second network device indicating a protocol and a particular sector scanning direction of the second network device;
receiving, by a second radio of the first network device, an association request from the second network device;
in response to the protocol indicated by the probe request, transmitting, by a second radio of the first network device operating at a second frequency band within the mmWave, 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.