US 12,490,121 B2
Method and apparatus for enhanced multi-link multi radio (EMLMR) operation
Vishnu Vardhan Ratnam, Plano, TX (US); Rubayet Shafin, Allen, TX (US); Boon Loong Ng, Plano, TX (US); and Peshal Nayak, Plano, TX (US)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Jun. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/335,011.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/355,873, filed on Jun. 27, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0422057 A1, Dec. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 24/02 (2013.01) [H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD), comprising:
enhanced multi-link multi-radio (EMLMR) stations (STAs), each comprising a transceiver configured to form a link with a corresponding AP of an AP MLD, wherein:
each of the links is configured to support a respective basic modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and number of spatial streams (NSS),
the links are EMLMR links configured to operate in an EMLMR mode of operation in which the EMLMR links support an enhanced MCS and NSS, and
a first of the EMLMR STAs, in the EMLMR mode of operation, is configured to conduct a first EMLMR frame exchange with a first of the APs over a first of the links; and
a processor operably coupled to the EMLMR STAs, the processor configured to control a behavior of other EMLMR STAs on other EMLMR links during the first EMLMR frame exchange.