MUMBAI, India, April 20 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517123189 A) filed by Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea, on Dec. 6, 2025, for 'mac address handling for roaming in wireless lan system.'
Inventor(s) include Yoon, Yelin; Choi, Jinsoo; Jang, Insun; Baek, Sunhee; Kim, Geonhwan; and Cha, Dongju.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure relates to media access control (MAC) address handling for roaming in a wireless LAN system. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a station (STA) in a wireless LAN system comprises the steps of: performing an association procedure with a first access point (AP); obtaining a media access control (MAC) address for a roaming group including the first AP; transmitting a roaming request frame including the MAC address for the roaming group to the first AP; and performing roaming to a second AP included in the roaming group on the basis of receiving a roaming response frame for the roaming request frame, wherein the MAC address for the roaming group is common to a plurality of APs included in the roaming group."
The patent application was internationally filed on Sept. 25, 2024, under International application No.PCT/KR2024/014491.
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