Patent ID: 8660100

Claim:
A method for processing interworking information in a wireless local area network (LAN), the method performed by a responding station and comprising: transmitting, to a requesting station, a beacon message including capability information on a generic advertisement service (GAS) that is associated with an interworking information broker; receiving, from the requesting station, an initial request message for requesting the responding station to acquire a query response from the interworking information broker; transmitting, to the interworking information broker, a query request to acquire the query response; determining whether the query response is received from the interworking information broker in response to the query request; when the query response is received, determining whether the query response is able to be completely transmitted to the requesting station and whether to perform fragmentation to the query response based on a length of the query response; when the query response is unable to be completely transmitted to the requesting station and when the fragmentation is performed, transmitting, to the requesting station, an initial response to enable the responding station to delay during a comeback delay time which is indicated by the initial response, wherein the initial response includes a category field followed by an action field followed by at least one query response element, wherein the category field indicates a category of the initial response, and wherein the action field indicates an action value of the initial response; after the comeback delay time, receiving, from the requesting station, a comeback request requesting transmission of the query response; in response to the comeback request, transmitting, to the requesting station, a comeback response including a fragment of the query response and a fragmentation identifier (ID), wherein a value of the fragmentation ID increases as the comeback response is transmitted; and repeatedly transmitting, to the requesting station, the comeback response until a final fragment is transmitted to the requesting station.