Patent ID: 11937316
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores a set of instructions which when executed perform a method executed by the set of instructions comprising:
receiving, by a computing device, Multi-Link Device (MLD) association information associated with a client device, wherein the MLD association information describes MLD links the client device requires;
determining a set of MLD links available on a network based on the MLD association information, wherein determining the set of MLD links available on the network based on the MLD association information comprises determining at least two MLD links from a plurality of multi-power class links comprising a Standard Power (SP) link and a Low Power Indoor (LPI) link available in the network based on client device capabilities comprising support for the SP link and the LPI link, and wherein the SP link comprises a lower channel bandwidth and a larger coverage than the LPI link; and
sending the determined set of MLD links and Access Point (AP) radio type information associated with the set of MLD links to the client device, wherein the client device chooses two or more MLD links from the set of MLD links sent by the computing device based on a link bandwidth the client device requires and client device mobility information.