US 12,250,043 B2
Apparatus and methods for multi-AP joint transmission and reception
Young Hoon Kwon, Laguna Niguel, CA (US); Liwen Chu, San Ramon, CA (US); Sudhir Srinivasa, Los Gatos, CA (US); Hongyuan Zhang, Fremont, CA (US); and Huiling Lou, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to NXP USA, Inc., Austin, TX (US)
Filed by NXP USA, Inc., Austin, TX (US)
Filed on Jun. 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/328,280.
Application 18/328,280 is a division of application No. 17/094,645, filed on Nov. 10, 2020, granted, now 11,700,044.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/983,292, filed on Feb. 28, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/980,345, filed on Feb. 23, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/933,863, filed on Nov. 11, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0308155 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04B 7/0413 (2017.01); H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04B 7/0626 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0413 (2013.01); H04W 72/04 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for transmission sharing by a sharing access point (AP), comprising:
transmitting a trigger frame that defines for a plurality of shared APs the frequency bandwidth and timeframe for transmitting during the sharing APs transmission period;
receiving a block acknowledge (BA) frame from at least one of the plurality of shared APs;
receiving a last frame (LF) frame from the least one of the plurality of shared APs;
transmitting a data frame on one or more frequency bandwidths associated with at least one of the plurality of shared APs for which a LF frame was received.