US 12,408,222 B2
Multi-link operation for wireless local area network multi-link device
Juan Carlos Zuniga, Montreal (CA); Pooya Monajemi, San Francisco, CA (US); Robert Edgar Barton, Richmond (CA); Matthew Aaron Silverman, Shaker Heights, OH (US); and Jerome Henry, Pittsboro, NC (US)
Assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/181,963.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/368,011, filed on Jul. 8, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0015827 A1, Jan. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 76/15 (2018.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/15 (2018.02) [H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
in a wireless device, establishing at least a first multi-link device interface and a second multi-link device interface;
exposing, via a virtual data port, the first multi-link device interface and the second multi-link device interface at a data processing layer of the wireless device;
selecting one of the first multi-link device interface and the second multi-link device interface, as a selected multi-link device interface, based on performance information associated with a first radio and a second radio associated, respectively, with the first multi-link device interface and the second multi-link device interface; and
wirelessly transmitting a packet from the wireless device by routing the packet through the selected multi-link device interface.