Invention Publication
- Patent Title: COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD
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Application No.: US18291479Application Date: 2022-07-14
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Publication No.: US20240284156A1Publication Date: 2024-08-22
- Inventor: Hiroyuki MOTOZUKA , Masataka IRIE , Kosei NAKANO
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Priority: JP 21123415 2021.07.28
- International Application: PCT/JP2022/027635 2022.07.14
- Date entered country: 2024-01-23
- Main IPC: H04W8/00
- IPC: H04W8/00 ; H04L1/1607 ; H04W4/06

Abstract:
The present invention groupcasts a groupcast frame in a short period of time by using millimeter wave communication. A communication device equipped with a MAC control circuit for controlling a procedure for discovering a communication partner device and a procedure for determining the best transmission sector, and also equipped with a wireless circuit for transmitting a unicast frame to the communication partner device by using the best transmission sector, wherein the MAC control circuit controls the wireless circuit so as to start a timer for each discovered communication partner device after the procedure for discovering communication partner devices is completed, and transmit a groupcast frame to communication partner devices for which the timer has not finished by using the best transmission sector upon receiving a groupcast frame transmission request from a higher layer before all timers have finished.
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