US 11,671,214 B2
Wireless communication apparatus, method, and wireless communication system
Masahiro Sekiya, Inagi Tokyo (JP); Toshihisa Nabetani, Kawasaki Kanagawa (JP); Tatsuma Hirano, Kawasaki Kanagawa (JP); and Toshio Ariga, Kawasaki Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 10, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/16,919.
Claims priority of application No. JP2020-007134 (JP), filed on Jan. 20, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0226746 A1, Jul. 22, 2021
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/1607 (2023.01); H04B 7/0452 (2017.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 5/0007 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0452 (2013.01); H04B 7/0639 (2013.01); H04L 1/0007 (2013.01); H04L 1/1614 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wireless communication apparatus comprising:
transmitter circuitry configured to transmit a first component including data frames to a first wireless communication apparatus and a second wireless communication apparatus;
receiver circuitry configured to receive a first acknowledgement frame for the data frames from the first wireless communication apparatus and a second acknowledgement frame for the data frames from the second wireless communication apparatus; and
processing circuitry configured to:
determine, based on the first acknowledgement frame and the second acknowledgement frame, (i) a first data frame received by the first wireless communication apparatus and not received by the second wireless communication apparatus among the data frames, and (ii) a second data frame not received by the first wireless communication apparatus and the second wireless communication apparatus among the data frames, and
determine (i) that the transmitter circuitry transmits the first data frame in cooperation with the first wireless communication apparatus to the second wireless communication apparatus, and (ii) that the transmitter circuitry transmits the second data frame to the second wireless communication apparatus without cooperative transmission with the first wireless communication apparatus.