US 12,225,414 B2
Coordinated medium access
Alfred Asterjadhi, San Diego, CA (US); George Cherian, San Diego, CA (US); Abhishek Pramod Patil, San Diego, CA (US); Venkata Ramanan Venkatachalam Jayaraman, San Diego, CA (US); and Yan Zhou, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/731,102.
Application 17/731,102 is a continuation of application No. 16/123,666, filed on Sep. 6, 2018, granted, now 11,477,699.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/556,925, filed on Sep. 11, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/556,271, filed on Sep. 8, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0256404 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 28/26 (2009.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 74/02 (2009.01); H04W 74/04 (2009.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 28/26 (2013.01) [H04W 72/044 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 74/02 (2013.01); H04W 74/04 (2013.01); H04W 74/0866 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01)] 34 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for wireless communications at a first access point (AP), comprising:
one or more processors;
one or more memories coupled with the one or more processors; and
instructions stored in the one or more memories and executable by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to:
transmit, in accordance with an access order for APs to transmit reservation signals and in accordance with an access scheme for the first AP to reserve a wireless channel of a radio frequency spectrum band during at least a portion of time resources that are associated with the wireless channel and that are available to a plurality of APs including the first AP, a reservation signal over the wireless channel to reserve multiple service periods associated with the wireless channel,
wherein each service period of the multiple service periods is configured for communications between a respective AP of the plurality of APs and respective one or more stations associated with the respective AP, between the respective AP and respective one or more APs of the plurality of APs, or any combination thereof, and
wherein the reservation signal indicates the multiple service periods reserved by the first AP; and
communicate with at least one or more stations associated with the first AP during the multiple service periods reserved by the first AP based at least in part on the reservation signal.