US 12,108,444 B2
Adjustable multi-link clear channel assessment for wireless communication networks
Yonggang Fang, Guangdong (CN); Bo Sun, Guangdong (CN); Zhiqiang Han, Guangdong (CN); and Nan Li, Guangdong (CN)
Assigned to ZTE Corporation, Guangdong (CN)
Filed by ZTE Corporation, Guangdong (CN)
Filed on Jan. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/647,569.
Application 17/647,569 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2020/088757, filed on May 6, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. PCT/CN2019/095428 (WO), filed on Jul. 10, 2019; and application No. PCT/CN2019/078991 (WO), filed on Mar. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0132572 A1, Apr. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 74/0808 (2024.01); H04W 72/542 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 74/0808 (2013.01) [H04W 72/542 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communication, comprising:
identifying, by a wireless device, that a first wireless link of the wireless device and a second wireless link of the wireless device are in a busy state at a first time;
responsive to detecting that the first wireless link is in a transmission state at the first time, adjusting, by the wireless device, a multi-link channel availability assessment procedure for the second wireless link based on the transmission state of the first wireless link and initiating the multi-link channel availability assessment procedure for the second wireless link; and
establishing, by the wireless device, a first multi-link network allocation vector (NAV) transmission period at the first time, wherein initiation of the multi-link channel availability assessment procedure for the second wireless link and a third wireless link is based on the first multi-link NAV transmission period.