System and Method for Common Attributes in HESSID and the Associated Queries

摘要

Mobile stations can query independent basic service set (BSS) parameters of a group of Access Points (APs) by setting a Pre-Association Message Exchange BSSID Independent (PAME-BI) bit during Wi-Fi discovery. The PAME-BI bit may be included in a Generic Advertisement Service (GAS) request to indicate that an Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) request carried by the GAS request is querying both independent and dependent BSS parameters. In some embodiments, the PAME-BI bit is included as a field in the ANQP query, rather than the GAS request message.

主权项

1. A method for wireless local area network (WLAN) discovery, the method comprising:
receiving a request from a requesting station (STA) by a responding STA in a group of responding STAs, the request requesting dependent basic service set (BSS) parameters for each responding STA in the group of responding STAs; encapsulating, by the responding STA, multiple Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) responses into a single ANQP-element, each of the multiple ANQP responses identifying dependent BSS parameters for a different responding STA in the group of responding STAs; and sending, by the responding STA, the single ANQP-element to the requesting STA.