Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sharing a transmission opportunity of a wireless communication medium
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Application No.: US16790624Application Date: 2020-02-13
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Publication No.: US11343853B2Publication Date: 2022-05-24
- Inventor: George Cherian , Maarten Menzo Wentink , Abhishek Pramod Patil , Alfred Asterjadhi
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: DeLizio Law, PLLC
- Main IPC: H04W74/08
- IPC: H04W74/08 ; H04W56/00 ; H04W84/12

Abstract:
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for sharing a transmission opportunity (TXOP) of a wireless channel. A first wireless local area network (WLAN) device can win a contention-based procedure to become an owner of the TXOP and determine to use the TXOP as a multi-device transmission opportunity (mTXOP). Although the first WLAN device is the owner of the mTXOP, the first WLAN device may allocate resources from the mTXOP to share with other WLAN devices. During a first portion of the mTXOP, the first WLAN device allocate subordinate transmission opportunities (sub-TXOPs) for use by other WLAN devices during a second portion of the mTXOP. The allocation of sub-TXOPs may be prepared based on fairness considerations, latency considerations, or both. In some implementations, a sub-TXOP may be allocated for a non-WLAN device, such as a wireless wide area network (WWAN) apparatus.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200260488A1 SHARING A TRANSMISSION OPPORTUNITY OF A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION MEDIUM Public/Granted day:2020-08-13
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