Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for scheduled uplink multi-user access with concurrent peer-to-peer communications
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Application No.: US16262402Application Date: 2019-01-30
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Publication No.: US11700603B2Publication Date: 2023-07-11
- Inventor: Guoqing Li , Lawrie Kurian , Yong Liu , Tashbeeb Haque , Anand Rajagopalan , Dagbegnon H. Bahini , Rajneesh Kumar
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
- Main IPC: H04W72/12
- IPC: H04W72/12 ; H04W72/04 ; H04W72/121 ; H04W72/1263 ; H04W72/21 ; H04W72/23 ; H04W72/51 ; H04W72/50 ; H04W72/566 ; H04W92/18 ; H04W84/12

Abstract:
Some embodiments include an apparatus and method for enabling concurrent peer-to-peer (P2P) communications via a scheduled resource unit (RU) allocated by an access point (AP). For example, the AP may use a trigger frame to schedule uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) access for a first station of a plurality of stations by allocating an RU to the first station. Instead of using the allocated RU for UL infrastructure communications with the AP, the first station may utilize the allocated RU for a P2P communications with a second station. In some embodiments the AP facilitates RU utilization for P2P communications between stations. In some embodiments, the first station uses the allocated RU and the AP may be unaware of the P2P communications.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200008210A1 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULED UPLINK MULTI-USER ACCESS WITH CONCURRENT PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATIONS Public/Granted day:2020-01-02
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