US 11,895,682 B2
Methods and apparatus for supporting wireless medium sharing
Ahmad Reza Hedayat, Carlsbad, CA (US); Maulik Vaidya, Escondido, CA (US); and Amitav Mukherjee, Elk Grove, CA (US)
Assigned to Charter Communications Operating, LLC, St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed by Charter Communications Operating, LLC, St. Louis, MO (US)
Filed on Feb. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/681,835.
Application 17/681,835 is a continuation of application No. 16/864,072, filed on Apr. 30, 2020, granted, now 11,265,882.
Prior Publication US 2022/0191870 A1, Jun. 16, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04W 72/53 (2023.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 72/53 (2023.01) [H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a first wireless station, the method comprising:
selecting, based on an amount of data to be transmitted by the first wireless station during a first trigger based frame, a subset of resource units in said first trigger based frame to be used exclusively by the first wireless station;
designating one or more subsets of resource units in said first trigger based frame to be shared, each of said designated subsets of resource units being a set of shared resource units; and
transmitting a first trigger frame including a type indicator indicating that the first trigger frame is a shared transmission type of trigger frame and information identifying the designated one or more resource units in said first trigger based frame to be shared, said one or more resource units to be shared being shared resource units.