US 12,088,434 B2
Beamformer solicited sounding
Sigurd Schelstraete, Menlo Park, CA (US); Hossein Dehghan, Diablo, CA (US); and Debashis Dash, Newark, CA (US)
Assigned to MaxLinear, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US)
Filed by MaxLinear, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/062,816.
Application 18/062,816 is a continuation of application No. 17/037,313, filed on Sep. 29, 2020, granted, now 11,552,828.
Application 17/037,313 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/403,073, filed on May 3, 2019, granted, now 11,394,441, issued on Jul. 19, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/932,998, filed on Nov. 8, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/667,405, filed on May 4, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0105580 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 25/02 (2006.01); H04B 7/0456 (2017.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01)
CPC H04L 25/0226 (2013.01) [H04B 7/0456 (2013.01); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04B 7/0626 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a second access point, a message from a first access point establishing a relationship between the first access point and the second access point;
receiving, by the second access point, a sounding trigger broadcast by the first access point;
receiving, by the second access point, a first dedicated training signal from a first station in response to the sounding trigger broadcast by the first access point without the second access point sending a sounding trigger to the first station after receiving the message from the first access point; and
generating, by the second access point, channel characteristics of a channel based on the first dedicated training signal, the channel including a forward channel between the second access point and the first station.