US 12,316,484 B2
Short packet optimization in WLAN systems
Fengjun Xi, San Diego, CA (US); Hanqing Lou, Syosset, NY (US); Oghenekome Oteri, San Diego, CA (US); Nirav B. Shah, San Diego, CA (US); Robert L. Olesen, Huntington, NY (US); Yuan Sheng Jin, Santa Clara, CA (US); Pengfei Xia, San Diego, CA (US); Frank La Sita, Setauket, NY (US); and Guodong Zhang, Woodbury, NY (US)
Assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed by InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US)
Filed on Jan. 30, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/427,371.
Application 18/427,371 is a continuation of application No. 17/879,416, filed on Aug. 2, 2022, granted, now 11,888,663.
Application 17/879,416 is a continuation of application No. 16/450,347, filed on Jun. 24, 2019, granted, now 11,405,820, issued on Aug. 2, 2022.
Application 16/450,347 is a continuation of application No. 15/555,686, granted, now 10,334,475, issued on Jun. 25, 2019, previously published as PCT/US2016/021216, filed on Mar. 7, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/154,577, filed on Apr. 29, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/129,561, filed on Mar. 6, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2024/0171432 A1, May 23, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 28/06 (2009.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/1607 (2023.01); H04L 1/1829 (2023.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 27/26 (2006.01); H04W 28/04 (2009.01); H04W 72/121 (2023.01); H04B 7/0452 (2017.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 27/2602 (2013.01) [H04L 1/1614 (2013.01); H04L 1/1621 (2013.01); H04L 1/1861 (2013.01); H04L 5/0055 (2013.01); H04W 28/04 (2013.01); H04W 28/06 (2013.01); H04W 72/121 (2013.01); H04B 7/0452 (2013.01); H04L 2001/0093 (2013.01); H04L 5/0007 (2013.01); H04L 27/2603 (2021.01); H04L 27/26035 (2021.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A station (STA) configured for multi-user (MU) communications, the STA comprising:
a transmitter configured to transmit, to an access point (AP), in an uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) transmission, a frame;
a receiver configured to receive, from the AP, a MU block acknowledgment (BA), wherein the MU BA includes a plurality of STA specific information subfields, wherein at least one of the plurality of STA specific information subfields includes an indication of a BA, wherein, in accordance with the indication of the BA, the at least one of the plurality of STA specific information subfields includes a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion indicates length information for the second portion, and wherein the second portion includes STA specific BA information.