System, apparatus, and method to indicate preferred access points and service providers

摘要: The present invention is a system, apparatus, and method for 'Priority' field that included in the information transmitted by an Access Point (AP) (801i) about its neighbor APs network service providers (SPs) it supports. A (1O3i-6 154i.2 203.i.2 233 266) at least one of Neighbor Report element (100), AP Channel (150), provider's (200 230 260). provider priority (203.i.2 contained any protocol frame contains or more (103i.6 154-i.2 numeric value symbolic indicating recommendation from concerning which AP/APs provider(s) SP/SPs STA (802j) to scan first access eventual roaming/accessing process. For purposes, than neighboring can have same not all are neighbors support SPs necessarily value.