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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jarkko L. Kneckt, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Aniruddha S. Diwan, San Jose, CA (US);
Charles F. Dominguez, San Carlos, CA (US);
Debashis Dash, San Jose, CA (US);
Elliot S. Briggs, Carmel, CA (US);
Matthew L. Semersky, San Jose, CA (US);
Noam Ginsburg, Haifa, IL;
Sidharth R. Thakur, San Jose, CA (US);
Veerendra Boodannavar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Welly Kasten, San Jose, CA (US);
Nathan A. Kralian, Danvers, MA (US);
Daniel R. Borges, San Francisco, CA (US);
Oren Shani, Saratoga, CA (US);
Su Khiong Yong, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yang Yu, Redwood City, CA (US);
Yoel Boger, Shoham, IL;
Yong Liu, Campbell, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments are disclosed for address changing schemes for a multi-link device in a wireless communications system. Some embodiments include a privacy enhanced (PE) access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) that includes one or more affiliated APs operating on different links. The PE AP MLD can generate a first randomized OTA MLD address based at least on the MLD address of the PE AP MLD for a first affiliated PE AP (PE AP). The PE AP MLD can transmit a first data transmission using the first OTA MLD address where the first data transmission includes an encrypted aggregated MAC service data unit (A-MSDU) subframe that includes the MLD address. The PE AP MLD can correlate the MLD address of the PE AP MPL with multiple addresses comprising: the first OTA MLD, a unique MLD address, and a Media Access Control (MAC) service access point (SAP) MLD address.