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- Patent Title: Methods and arrangements to coordinate communications of different types of devices on a wireless network
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Application No.: US15927385Application Date: 2018-03-21
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Publication No.: US10349405B2Publication Date: 2019-07-09
- Inventor: Minyoung Park , Adrian P. Stephens , Emily H. Qi , Thomas A. Tetzlaff
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP
- Main IPC: H04W72/04
- IPC: H04W72/04 ; H04W52/24 ; H04L12/46

Abstract:
Logic may coordinate communications of different types of wireless communications devices such as high power and low power wireless communications devices. Logic may coordinate communications by assigning time slots to a low power station (LP-STA) in a management frame such as a beacon transmitted by an access point (AP) associated with the LP-STA. Logic of the high power stations (HP-STAs) may receive the beacon and shepard logic of the HP-STA may defer transmissions by the HP-STA throughout the duration(s) indicated in the beacon from the AP. Logic of the LP-STA may comprise carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance logic to determine when to transmit a communication. Shepard logic of an HP-STA may detect the communication from the LP-STA and defer transmission of communication during a time duration for the communication by the LP-STA.
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