US 11,723,113 B2
Apparatus and method for enabling and disabling links in multi-link communication systems
Young Hoon Kwon, Laguna Niguel, CA (US); Liwen Chu, San Ramon, CA (US); Hongyuan Zhang, Fremont, CA (US); and Hui-Ling Lou, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to NXP USA, Inc., Austin, TX (US)
Filed by NXP USA, Inc., Austin, TX (US)
Filed on Dec. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/138,801.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/980,175, filed on Feb. 22, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/957,176, filed on Jan. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0212156 A1, Jul. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 76/34 (2018.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.01); H04W 76/38 (2018.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 76/34 (2018.02) [H04W 76/15 (2018.02); H04W 76/28 (2018.02); H04W 76/38 (2018.02); H04W 88/06 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of enabling and disabling of links in a multi-link communications system, the method comprising:
receiving, by a first multi-link device in the multi-link communications system, a status change information of a link in the multi-link communications system for the first multi-link device from an enabled status to a disabled status;
in response to the status change information, at least partially resetting, by the first multi-link device, parameters related to per-link operations for the link;
announcing, by a second multi-link device in the multi-link communications system, an upcoming disablement of the link using a frame with an information element that includes a temporal field indicating remaining time before the link will be disabled; and
disabling the link, by the second multi-link device, after the remaining time indicated by the temporal field of the information element in the frame has elapsed.