US 12,471,118 B2
Method of communicating with a plurality of user equipment
Ashokkumar Shanmugam, Karlsruhe (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Filed by Ashokkumar Shanmugam, Karlsruhe (DE)
Filed on Jun. 10, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/208,267.
Claims priority of application No. 22178425 (EP), filed on Jun. 10, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0403726 A1, Dec. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 72/30 (2023.01); H04W 72/121 (2023.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 72/30 (2023.01) [H04W 72/121 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of communicating with a plurality of user equipment by an access point, the method comprising:
creating two or more client groups, the creating of the two or more client groups comprising grouping the plurality of user equipment based on a predefined number of resource units associated with the access point, each client group from the two or more client groups comprising one or more user equipment from the plurality of user equipment and a group identifier;
transmitting a trigger frame to the two or more client groups, the trigger frame comprising client group information and a resource unit allocation information indicative of an allocation of resource units within the two or more client groups, wherein the client group information comprises one or more associations of one or more user equipment of the plurality of user equipment to a client group from the two or more client groups and a group transmission offset associated with the two or more client groups; and
receiving a response from a first user equipment of the plurality of user equipment from a first client group of the two or more client groups, based on the trigger frame.