US 12,126,550 B2
Protocols for multi-access point coordinated multi-user transmissions
George Cherian, San Diego, CA (US); Alfred Asterjadhi, San Diego, CA (US); Abhishek Pramod Patil, San Diego, CA (US); Sameer Vermani, San Diego, CA (US); Bin Tian, San Diego, CA (US); Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Ramona, CA (US); Lochan Verma, Danville, CA (US); Lin Yang, San Diego, CA (US); and Jialing Li Chen, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 1, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/327,216.
Application 18/327,216 is a division of application No. 16/559,605, filed on Sep. 3, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/744,626, filed on Oct. 11, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/726,968, filed on Sep. 4, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/749,041, filed on Oct. 22, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0318763 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01); H04W 72/044 (2023.01); H04W 72/27 (2023.01); H04W 74/0808 (2024.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 5/0035 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0007 (2013.01); H04L 5/0037 (2013.01); H04W 16/14 (2013.01); H04W 72/044 (2013.01); H04W 72/27 (2023.01); H04W 74/0808 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wireless station, comprising:
a wireless modem, wherein the wireless modem is configured to:
receive, from an access point (AP), a control channel assignment message that assigns a control channel for the wireless station to use to receive a resource allocation associated with a multi-user transmission during a transmission opportunity, wherein the control channel assignment message is received in a different physical layer protocol data unit than a data transmission of the multi-user transmission;
receive, via the assigned control channel and before the data transmission of the multi-user transmission, the resource allocation associated with the multi-user transmission; and
participate, using the resource allocation, in the multi-user transmission with the AP.