US 11,917,540 B2
Target wake time scheme for multicast communication
Jarkko L. Kneckt, Los Gatos, CA (US); Christiaan A. Hartman, San Jose, CA (US); Qi Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Su Khiong Yong, Palo Alto, CA (US); and Yong Liu, Campbell, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on May 6, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/403,983.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/714,416, filed on Aug. 3, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0045634 A1, Feb. 6, 2020
Int. Cl. H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 40/24 (2009.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01)
CPC H04W 52/0229 (2013.01) [H04L 12/189 (2013.01); H04W 40/244 (2013.01); H04W 52/0216 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
configuring a target wake time (TWT) process for delivery of one or more multicast packets to a group of electronic devices to provide a multicast communication, wherein the configuring the TWT process comprises:
determining a TWT schedule in response to the TWT process being an individual TWT agreement with at least one electronic device of the group of electronic devices for the multicast communication; and
determining a broadcast TWT schedule in response to the TWT process being for the group of electronic devices for the multicast communication;
determining that a service period associated with the TWT process has started; and
transmitting, in accordance with the TWT process, the one or more multicast packets during the service period, wherein the one or more transmitted multicast packets are addressed to the group of electronic devices or are addressed to the at least one electronic device.