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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jarkko L Kneckt, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Charles F Dominguez, Redwood City, CA (US);
Daniel R Borges, Fremont, CA (US);
Debashis Dash, San Jose, CA (US);
Elliot S Briggs, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Sidharth R Thakur, San Jose, CA (US);
Su Khiong Yong, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yong Liu, Campbell, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and mechanisms for a privacy enhanced basic service set (BSS), including privacy enhancements for both access points and wireless stations as well as privacy enchantments for authentication, association, and discovery operations. Further, the systems, methods, and mechanisms disclosed may continue to support legacy wireless stations and are thus, backward compatible. A station may communicate with a legacy BSS of a wireless network to transition to a PE BSS of the wireless network. The station may receive, from the PE BSS of the wireless network, an encrypted beacon, wherein the encrypted beacon is decoded based on information received from the legacy BSS and perform, with the PE BSS of the wireless network, an encrypted handshake procedure to authenticate and associate with the PE BSS of the wireless network.