US 12,464,583 B2
Multi-link device, communication method, and storage medium
Liuming Lu, Shenzhen (CN); and Liquan Yuan, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to ZTE CORPORATION, Shenzhen (CN)
Appl. No. 18/042,871
Filed by ZTE CORPORATION, Shenzhen (CN)
PCT Filed Aug. 19, 2021, PCT No. PCT/CN2021/113567
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 24, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/042426, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 3, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 202010901358.7 (CN), filed on Aug. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0319922 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 76/15 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 76/15 (2018.02) 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A multi-link device, comprising M stations, wherein the stations are non-access point (AP) stations, each of the stations forms a respective communication link, the M stations form M communication links, and the M communication links communicate through P single wireless channels, wherein M is greater than P, and P is greater than or equal to 1;
wherein at least two of the non-AP stations are switched and controlled to share one single wireless channel with communication links formed by AP stations in an access point multi-link device (AP MLD) for communication, and one of the communication links receives or sends data through the shared single wireless channel at each time.