Patent ID: 11962588
Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method for wireless communication, comprising:
changing a currently used medium access control (MAC) address of a wireless device with a different MAC address by using at least one of a single MAC address mode in which a single MAC address controls an identity of the wireless device and encryption and decryption of messages communicated with a network device or a dual MAC address mode in which a first MAC address controls the identity of the wireless device and a second MAC address, different from the first MAC address, controls the encryption and decryption of messages communicated with the network device; and
performing further communication with the network device using the different MAC address,
wherein the second MAC address is an unchanged MAC address that is used in an authentication and association procedure and bundled with a security key generation procedure.