	US 12,108,451 B2
	Multi-user communication in a multi-BSS environment of an 802.11ax network
Julien Sevin, Saint Aubin du Cormier (FR); Pascal Viger, Janze (FR); Patrice Nezou, Liffre (FR); and Stéphane Baron, Le Rheu (FR)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/675,896.
Application 17/675,896 is a continuation of application No. 16/610,406, granted, now 11,284,435, previously published as PCT/EP2018/060989, filed on Apr. 27, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 1707062 (GB), filed on May 3, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0174742 A1, Jun. 2, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 74/08 (2024.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 74/00 (2009.01); H04W 74/0816 (2024.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)

CPC H04W 74/0816 (2013.01) [H04L 5/001 (2013.01); H04L 5/0037 (2013.01); H04W 74/006 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)]

23 Claims

1. A wireless communication method in a wireless network comprising a first access point and a first group of stations, the first access point managing the first group of stations, the method comprising following steps, at a transmitting station in the first group of stations willing to transmit data to a second access point managing a second group of stations: receiving a trigger frame from the first access point, the trigger frame reserving a transmission opportunity on at least one communication channel of the wireless network, the transmission opportunity including resource units that form the communication channel and that at least one of the first group of stations can access to transmit data during the reserved transmission opportunity; and accessing one of the resource units during the transmission opportunity and transmitting data intended to the second access point from the transmitting station which is a non-access point station, over the accessed resource unit to the first access point.