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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Yong Liu, Campbell, CA (US);
Lawrie Kurian, San Jose, CA (US);
Charles F Dominguez, San Carlos, CA (US);
Charles W Duyk, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tashbeeb Haque, San Francisco, CA (US);
Su Khiong Yong, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Manav Gabhawala, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
One or more wireless stations operate to configure direct communication with neighboring mobile stations, e.g., direct communication between the wireless stations without utilizing an intermediate access point. A wireless station may enter an unsynchronized discovery mode, transmit, in response to receiving a subscribe message from a neighboring device, a publish message to the neighboring device, perform authentication and trusted device cluster provisioning with the neighboring wireless device, and protect transmissions using the security credentials. In the unsynchronized discovery mode, the wireless device may monitor a discovery channel for subscribe messages, e.g., from neighboring peer devices. Additionally, the trusted device cluster provisioning may provide security credentials to the wireless device. Note that protecting transmissions using the security credentials may include protecting a trusted device cluster identity, transmitted beacons, transmitted management frames, or transmitted action frames using the security credentials acquired via the trusted device cluster provisioning.