US 12,075,280 B2
Indicating data for transmission per traffic identifier
George Cherian, San Diego, CA (US); Abhishek Pramod Patil, San Diego, CA (US); Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, San Diego, CA (US); Yanjun Sun, San Diego, CA (US); and Alfred Asterjadhi, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 3, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/164,455.
Application 18/164,455 is a continuation of application No. 17/189,840, filed on Mar. 2, 2021, granted, now 11,606,713.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/984,724, filed on Mar. 3, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0345294 A1, Oct. 26, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04L 1/1607 (2023.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 80/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 28/0268 (2013.01) [H04L 1/1614 (2013.01); H04W 28/0263 (2013.01); H04W 80/02 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communications by a first non-access point (non-AP) multi-link device (MLD) that includes one or more affiliated non-AP stations (STAs), comprising:
receiving, from a first access point (AP) of one or more APs affiliated with an AP MLD, a traffic indication map (TIM) that includes a plurality of values, wherein each value of the TIM:
represents a respective association identifier (AID) associated with a respective non-AP MLD of a plurality of non-AP MLDs, including a first AID associated with the first non-AP MLD, and
indicates whether the AP MLD has buffered units (BUs) for the respective non-AP MLD, including the first non-AP MLD;
receiving, from the first AP by a first non-AP STA of the one or more affiliated non-AP STAs, a message including a media access control (MAC) header control field that indicates one or more links, of a plurality of links of the first non-AP MLD, wherein:
the one or more links correspond with one or more traffic identifiers (TIDs) of the BUs for the first non-AP MLD based on a mapping of a plurality of TIDs, including the one or more TIDs, to the plurality of links; and
receiving the BUs associated with the one or more TIDs from the AP MLD on the one or more links.