SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILISING STORED HIGHER LAYER INFORMATION Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC H04W48/18 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a station and a method for operating a station during a discovery process. Method includes steps of transmitting first layer 2 frame to an access point (AP), said first layer 2 frame including a first version number associated with first higher layer information, and an identifier of a protocol associated with both the first higher layer information and the first version number, receiving second layer 2 frame from the access point including an indication that a second version number associated with a second higher layer information is same as the first version number, and deciding whether to perform a network selection process in accordance with the first higher layer information. Said first layer 2 frame is an IEEE 802.11 GAS initial request frame and second layer 2 frame is an IEEE 802.11 GAS initial response frame.

EFFECT: technical result consists enabling network selection.

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