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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2026
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 non-associated PE station may receive, from a PE access point, one or more discovery beacons advertising PE BSSs hosted by the PE access point and transmit, to the PE access point, a request to setup pre-association security protection. The non-associated PE station may, upon setup of pre-association security protection, transmit, to the PE access point, a protected request frame and receive, from the PE access point, a protected response that includes PE access point parameters.