Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Krunal Soni

Ashok Ranganath

Ravi H Gidvani

Shailender Karmuchi

A system and method for the discovery of Access Point Stations operating on non-Preferred Scanning Channels. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, by a non-Access Point Station (non-AP STA), from a first Access Point Station (AP STA), in a transmission on a first channel, a Reduced Neighbor Report (RNR); and determining, by the non-AP STA, from the RNR, that a second AP STA is operating on a second channel, the first channel being a Preferred Scanning Channel (PSC), and the second channel being a non-PSC channel.

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Krunal Soni