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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2024
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Sidharth R. Thakur, San Jose, CA (US);
Yong Liu, Campbell, CA (US);
Jarkko L. Kneckt, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Su Khiong Yong, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ahmad Reza Hedayat, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Charles F. Dominguez, San Carlos, CA (US);
Neelakantan Nurani Krishnan, San Diego, CA (US);
Daniel R. Borges, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jinjing Jiang, Campbell, CA (US);
Lochan Verma, Danville, CA (US);
Qi Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tianyu Wu, Monterey, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Some aspects of this disclosure include a system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product and/or combinations and/or sub-combinations thereof, for implementing multi-credential mapping mechanisms in wireless communication networks, such as a wireless local area network (WLAN). The multi-credential mapping mechanisms can use pointer schemes for communicating multiple credentials (e.g., Authentication and Key Managements (AKMs) and ciphers) in the wireless communication networks. The multi-credential mapping mechanisms can reduce congestion in the communication medium and improve the communications between an access point (AP) and stations (STAs).