Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for initiating channel sounding with unassociated access points
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Application No.: US14695613Application Date: 2015-04-24
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Publication No.: US09730151B2Publication Date: 2017-08-08
- Inventor: Zhanfeng Jia , Ning Zhang , David Kuochieh Su , Xuetao Chen
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Paradice and Li LLP/Qualcomm
- Main IPC: H04W48/18
- IPC: H04W48/18 ; H04W48/16 ; H04L1/16 ; H04W72/04 ; H04W48/20

Abstract:
A system and method are disclosed that may allow a STA to request one or more non-associated APs to initiate channel sounding operations with the STA. In response to the request, a number of the non-associated APs may send one or more NDPs to the STA. The STA may use the received NDPs to determine a goodput value for each of the number of non-associated APs. The STA may then use the determined goodput values to select one of the number of non-associated APs with which to associate. Thereafter, the STA may initiate an association operation with the selected AP.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160316424A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INITIATING CHANNEL SOUNDING WITH UNASSOCIATED ACCESS POINTS Public/Granted day:2016-10-27
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