18813471. REDUCED NEIGHBOR REPORT ENHANCEMENTS (Apple Inc.)

REDUCED NEIGHBOR REPORT ENHANCEMENTS

Organization Name

Apple Inc.

Inventor(s)

Jarkko L Kneckt of Los Gatos CA (US)

Yong Liu of Campbell CA (US)

Lochan Verma of Danville CA (US)

Sidharth R Thakur of San Jose CA (US)

Tianyu Wu of Monterey CA (US)

Jinjing Jiang of Campbell CA (US)

Qi Wang of Mountain View CA (US)

Ahmad Reza Hedayat of Carlsbad CA (US)

Su Khiong Yong of Palo Alto CA (US)

REDUCED NEIGHBOR REPORT ENHANCEMENTS

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18813471 titled 'REDUCED NEIGHBOR REPORT ENHANCEMENTS

Original Abstract Submitted

A station may use information from a reduced neighbor report to determine which neighboring access points (APs) to scan. A station may receive the reduced neighbor report from an AP. The reduced neighbor report may include one or more parameters related to security, verification status, or capabilities of neighbor APs. The station may scan channels of the one or more of the neighbor APs based on the security, the verification status, or the capabilities of the neighbor APs.