Patent ID: 11943701
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by processing circuitry of an access point (AP), the AP being one of a plurality of APs affiliated with a first AP multi-link device (AP MLD), wherein when the AP is configured to operate as a reporting AP, the processing circuitry is configured to:
encode a BSS Transition Management (BTM) request frame for transmission to one or more associated non-AP stations (STAs), the BTM request frame to include a neighbor report element encoded to include information about one or more reported APs,
wherein the processing circuitry is to encode the neighbor report element to indicate:
using a first predetermined value, whether any of the one or more reported APs are APs of the plurality that are affiliated the first AP MLD; and
using a second predetermined value, whether any of the one or more reported APs are APs that affiliated with a second AP MLD, wherein the reporting AP is not affiliated with the second AP MLD, and
wherein to report APs from multiple AP MLDs including at least one AP that is affiliated with the first AP MLD with which the reporting AP is affiliated and at least one AP that is affiliated with the second AP MLD with which the reporting AP is not affiliated, processing circuitry is configured to encode the neighbor report element to:
identify the at least one AP that is affiliated with the first AP MLD with which the reporting AP is affiliated; and, identify the at least one AP that is affiliated with the second AP MLD with which the reporting AP is not affiliated.