US 12,457,586 B2
Methods and arrangements for resource assessment
Yonathan Segev, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Carlos Cordeiro, Portland, OR (US); David Birnbaum, Modiin (IL); Qinghua Li, San Ramon, CA (US); Xiaogang Chen, Portland, OR (US); and Hassan Yaghoobi, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Assigned to INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 24, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/561,905.
Prior Publication US 2022/0124684 A1, Apr. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04L 67/104 (2022.01); H04W 72/40 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 72/04 (2013.01) [H04L 67/104 (2013.01); H04W 72/40 (2023.01)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a memory; and
circuitry coupled with the memory to:
generate, by an access point (AP) station (STA) of the apparatus, a medium access control (MAC) resource assessment trigger frame to transmit during a first transmission opportunity (TxOP), the MAC resource assessment trigger frame to allocate a portion of the first TxOP to a first STA and to request a first resource assessment from a first group of STAs for evaluation by the first STA, the first resource assessment to assess peer-to-peer (P2P) data transfers between the first group of STAs and the first STA;
cause transmission of the MAC resource assessment trigger frame to the first STA and the first group of STAs; and
receive one or more short term resource assessment frames from the first group of STAs, the one or more short term resource assessment frames each comprising an indication of resources for a first data transfer during a first data transfer stage, an interframe space after the first TxOP, wherein each indication of resources comprises at least an indication that the corresponding STA of the first group of STAs has data queued and ready to transmit during the first data transfer stage.