COMMUNICATION METHOD AND EQUIPMENT APPLIED TO DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION LINES IN WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK Russian patent published in 2025 - IPC H04W76/11 

FIELD: electrical communication equipment.

SUBSTANCE: in a communication method applied to a device with multiple communication lines in a wireless local area network (WLAN), a probe request frame is received, and it is determined in accordance with a preset condition whether to respond to a probe request frame. Preset condition comprises at least: reference identifier in frame of probe request is not matched with reference identifier of each station in device with multiple communication lines; and if the preset condition is satisfied, sending the verification response frame in response to the probe request frame is skipped.

EFFECT: reducing the number of frames of a probe request sent by stations along a channel, thereby increasing efficiency of association of stations and efficiency of communication.

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