Meta patents method to switch Wi-Fi links between devices
Meta has filed a patent application for a way to manage connections between wireless devices that support multiple simultaneous links. The system allows one device to request a switch that moves one end of a data connection from one radio interface to another, while keeping the other end of the connection stable.
In the filing’s own words
Disclosed herein includes a first wireless multilink device (MLD) including a transceiver. The transceiver may be configured to send, to a second wireless MLD, a request for switching one end of a link between the first wireless MLD and the second wireless MLD from a first station (STA) to a second STA, while the other end of the link is not changed. The transceiver may be configured to receive, from the second wireless MLD, a response to the request for the multi-link reconfiguration. The request may include a link-mapping information field that comprises (1) one or more end point description fields describing one or more end points of the link as a result of the switching, and (2) an action field including a value indicative of switching one or more links between the first wireless MLD and the second wireless MLD.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: sending, by a first wireless multilink device (MLD) to a second wireless MLD, a request for switching one end of a link between the first wireless MLD and the second wireless MLD from a first station (STA) to a second STA, while the other end of the link is not changed; and receiving, by the first wireless MLD from the second wireless MLD, a response to the request for the multi-link reconfiguration, wherein the request comprises a link-mapping information field that comprises (1) one or more end point description fields describing one or more end points of the link as a result of the switching, and (2) an action field including a value indicative of switching one or more links between the first wireless MLD and the second wireless MLD.
Facts
- Company
- Meta (Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC)
- Official title
- METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MULTI-LINK OPERATIONS
- Publication number
- US20260282140A1
- Application number
- 19678923
- Filed
- May 15, 2026
- Published
- Sep 17, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04W 76/15 Electricity & electronicsH04W 76/25 Electricity & electronicsH04W 76/34 Electricity & electronicsMore from Meta in Networks & wireless
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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