Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert and Goetzel PC
Pre-association service discovery
In some embodiments, a wireless station may be configured to transmit a request to one or more access points and receive from at least one access point of the one or more access points, a response. The request may be a GAS or probe request and the response may be a GAS or probe response. The request may include an indication of one or more services sought by the wireless station and the response may include information regarding at least one service of the one or more services sought. In addition, the response may be an indication that the at least one access point has determined a match between a provided service and at least one service sought. The wireless station may be further configured to determine, based, at least in part, on the information, to associate with the access point in order to consume the at least one service.
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Yong Christiaan A. Su Khiong Jarkko L. S. Guoqing
Liu Hartman Yong Kneckt Li