US 11,889,532 B2
Multi-link range extension
Abhishek Kumar Agrawal, Fremont, CA (US); Imran Latif, Fremont, CA (US); Sigurd Schelstraete, Menlo Park, CA (US); and Hossein Dehghan, Diablo, CA (US)
Assigned to MaxLinear, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US)
Filed by MAXLINEAR, INC, Carlsbad, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/038,013.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/933,088, filed on Nov. 8, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/011,153, filed on Apr. 16, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0144695 A1, May 13, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 72/51 (2023.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/541 (2023.01); G16Y 10/75 (2020.01)
CPC H04W 72/51 (2023.01) [H04B 1/0053 (2013.01); H04L 5/0041 (2013.01); H04W 72/044 (2013.01); H04W 72/541 (2023.01); G16Y 10/75 (2020.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
selecting at least two resource units to be used for communications to a single client device;
transmitting data in duplicate via each of the at least two resource units to the client device such that the client device is able to combine the data from each of the at least two resource units into a single instance of the data; and
based on interactions with the single client device, increasing a number of resource units allocated to the single client device beyond the at least two resource units, wherein the interactions with the single client device include exceeding a threshold number of dropped packets.