Patent ID: 7924831

Claim:
A method of establishing a peer link in a wireless mesh network, the method comprising: discovering, by a mesh point (MP), a candidate peer MP by receiving a beacon frame or a probe response frame from the candidate peer MP, the beacon frame or probe response frame including a mesh configuration element used to advertise mesh services and a mesh identifier (ID) that matches a mesh ID of the MP; transmitting, by the MP, a peer link open frame to the candidate peer MP in order to request establishment of the peer link with the candidate peer MP, the peer link open frame including a mesh ID field indicating the mesh ID, a requested mesh configuration field indicating a mesh configuration supported by the MP's mesh profile, a high throughput (HT) capabilities field indicating operations associated with an HT service and an HT operation field indicating operations associated with the HT service; receiving, by the MP, a peer link confirmation frame from the candidate peer MP in response to the peer link open frame; and establishing the peer link when the peer link confirmation frame includes fields that are set to same values as the mesh ID field, the requested mesh configuration field, the HT capabilities field and the HT operation field in the peer link open frame.