Patent ID: 8615001

Claim:
A method for managing updates to type-length-value (TLV) parameters used in a mobile station, comprising: receiving a medium access control (MAC) management message and in response: generating a TLV bitmap having a plurality of bits to indicate whether updates exist to a corresponding plurality of TLV parameters of the TLV bitmap; generating a child TLV bitmap corresponding to the TLV bitmap, the child TLV bitmap indicating a subset of the TLV parameters utilized by a corresponding client module running on the mobile station; updating the TLV bitmap to indicate the TLV parameters modified by the MAC management message; identifying the client module that utilizes at least one of the plurality of TLV parameters modified by the MAC management message, as indicated by the child TLV bitmap; and notifying the identified client module of the modified TLV parameters; wherein updating the TLV bitmap to indicate the TLV parameters modified by the MAC management message comprises: updating the TLV bitmap to indicate the TLV parameters modified by a first MAC management message; and updating the TLV bitmap to indicate the TLV parameters modified by at least a second MAC management message, such that the update TLV bitmap summarizes the TLV parameters modified by the first and at least second MAC management messages.