Patent ID: 11956842
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A multi-link communication setup method, comprising:
sending, by a first station of a non-access point multi-link device (non-AP MLD), a first association request frame on a first link, wherein the first association request frame comprises a multi-link element, the multi-link element comprises indication information indicating a second link; and
receiving, by the first station of the non-AP MLD, a first association response frame on the first link, wherein the first association response frame comprises a first status code field and a multi-link element, the multi-link element of the first association response frame comprises a second status code field, and wherein a non-zero value of the first status code field indicates that the first link is not accepted, and the second status code field is set to a non-zero value to indicate that a reason that the second link is not accepted is because the first link is not accepted.