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

Claim 11:
12. A method for wireless communication by an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD), the method comprising:
receiving an initial association request to initiate an association between a non-AP MLD and the AP MLD from a first station of a plurality of stations of the non-AP MLD;
establishing a secret key shared with the non-AP MLD based on the initial association request;
transmitting, by the AP MLD to the first station, a response to the initial association request indicating the establishment of the secret key;
generating a first pairwise master key (PMK) based on the secret key;
receiving, from a second station of the plurality of stations of the non-AP MLD through a first target access point (AP) in the AP MLD, a first reassociation request after the response to the initial association request is transmitted;
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;
transmitting, by the AP MLD to the second station, a response to the first reassociation request, the response being based on the second PMK; and
associating with the second station based on the second PMK.