Patent ID: 8897279

Claim:
A transmitting device capable of supporting multi-band in a wireless local area network that conforms to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 standards, the transmitting device comprising: network interface circuitry for implementing a Station Management Entity (SME), a first Medium Access Control (MAC) entity and a second MAC entity, wherein the SME is configured to manage multi-band operation in which the transmitting device supports more than two frequency bands; wherein the first MAC entity is configured to construct a MAC Management Protocol Data Unit (MMPDU) that is destined for a first MAC entity of a receiving device and to deliver the MMPDU to the second MAC entity, wherein the second MAC entity is configured to generate an encapsulation management frame by encapsulating only the MMPDU and to transmit the encapsulation management frame via a wireless medium, wherein the encapsulation management frame includes a frame control field and a frame body field of the MMPDU and does not include a Frame Check Sequence (FCS) field of the MMPDU, and wherein the first MAC entity operates at a first frequency band and the second MAC entity operates at a second frequency band.