US 12,016,045 B2
Multi link TXOP aggregation
Sharan Naribole, San Jose, CA (US); Srinivas Kandala, Morgan Hill, CA (US); Wook Bong Lee, San Jose, CA (US); and Ashok Ranganath, Los Gatos, CA (US)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on May 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/735,808.
Application 17/735,808 is a continuation of application No. 16/945,608, filed on Jul. 31, 2020, granted, now 11,357,025.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/021,069, filed on May 6, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/992,719, filed on Mar. 20, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/989,386, filed on Mar. 13, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/959,414, filed on Jan. 10, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/947,955, filed on Dec. 13, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/933,039, filed on Nov. 8, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/928,271, filed on Oct. 30, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/900,162, filed on Sep. 13, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/898,470, filed on Sep. 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0264597 A1, Aug. 18, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 72/50 (2023.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 72/535 (2023.01) [H04W 24/08 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of providing multi-link operation channel access in a multi-link network, the method comprising:
determining that a first backoff countdown associated with a first link of the multi-link network has ended;
in response, determining whether a second backoff countdown associated with a second link of the multi-link network is less than or equal to a threshold; and
in response to determining that the second backoff countdown is less than or equal to the threshold:
suspending the second backoff countdown;
transmitting a frame on at least one of the first and second links; and
resuming the second backoff countdown.