US 11,910,240 B1
Traffic characteristics for target wake time (TWT) negotiation
Liwen Chu, San Ramon, CA (US); Hongyuan Zhang, Fremont, CA (US); and Hui-Ling Lou, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore (SG)
Filed by Marvell Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore (SG)
Filed on Nov. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/072,048.
Application 18/072,048 is a continuation of application No. 16/889,788, filed on Jun. 1, 2020, granted, now 11,523,306.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/854,834, filed on May 30, 2019.
Int. Cl. H04L 69/324 (2022.01); H04W 28/18 (2009.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 28/18 (2013.01) [H04L 69/324 (2013.01); H04W 52/0216 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for providing information regarding a broadcast target wake time (TWT) schedule in a wireless local area network (WLAN) that provides multiple broadcast TWT schedules, the method comprising:
generating, at an access point (AP) communication device, a beacon frame that includes i) parameters of the broadcast TWT schedule and ii) information regarding a quantity of client stations that have currently joined the broadcast TWT schedule; and
transmitting, by the AP communication device, the beacon frame to inform one or more other communication devices of i) the parameters of the broadcast TWT schedule and ii) the quantity of client stations that have currently joined the broadcast TWT schedule, the information regarding the quantity of client stations for assisting one or more other communication devices with choosing whether to join the broadcast TWT schedule rather than another one of the multiple broadcast TWT schedules.