US 11,943,329 B2
Parallel redundancy protocol (PRP) using non-overlapping resource unit (RU) groupings on a radio
Robert E. Barton, Richmond (CA); Vishal Satyendra Desai, San Jose, CA (US); Jerome Henry, Pittsboro, NC (US); and Malcolm Muir Smith, Richardson, TX (US)
Assigned to Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/676,911.
Application 17/676,911 is a division of application No. 16/680,230, filed on Nov. 11, 2019, granted, now 11,258,888.
Prior Publication US 2022/0182470 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04L 1/22 (2006.01); H04L 61/50 (2022.01); H04L 69/40 (2022.01); H04W 28/26 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 101/622 (2022.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 69/40 (2013.01) [H04L 1/22 (2013.01); H04L 61/50 (2022.05); H04W 28/26 (2013.01); H04L 5/0007 (2013.01); H04L 2101/622 (2022.05); H04W 88/08 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
associating, by a first computing device, to a first Access Point (AP) at a virtual Media Access Control (MAC) address;
associating, by the first computing device, to a second AP at the virtual MAC address;
replicating data from a data frame to a first one or more Resource Units (RUs) in a channel, wherein the first one or more RUs are assigned to the first AP, and wherein the first AP creates a first copy of the data frame from the first one or more RUs;
replicating data from the data frame to a second one or more RUs in the channel, wherein the second one or more RUs are assigned to the second AP, and wherein the second AP creates a second copy of the data frame from the second one or more RUs; and
transmitting, by a radio associated with the first computing device, the first one or more RUs and the second one or more RUs in the channel to the virtual MAC address wherein the first AP receives both the first one or more RUs and the second one or more RUs and wherein the second AP receives both the first one or more RUs and the second one or more RUs.