公开(公告)号：US20240015649A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-11

申请号：US18219523

申请日：2023-07-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jarkko L. KNECKT ,  Mohamed ABOUELSEOUD ,  Oren SHANI ,  Anuj BATRA ,  Yoel BOGER ,  Yong LIU ,  Leonid EPSTEIN ,  Su Khiong YONG ,  Qi WANG ,  Zhou LAN ,  Tianyu WU ,  Akira YAMANAKA ,  Noam GINSBURG

IPC: H04W52/02 ,  H04W76/15

CPC classification number: H04W52/0216 ,  H04W76/15 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: Some aspects include apparatuses and methods for implementing a target wake time (TWT) scheme (or technique) for multi-link wireless communication networks. For example, a multi-link device (MILD) includes a first station (STA) associated with a first link of a wireless network and configured to communicate with a second MLD over the first link using a multi-link target wake time (TWT) process. The MLD also includes a second STA associated with a second link of the wireless network and configured to communicate with the second MLD over the second link using the multi-link TWT process. The MLD further includes one or more processors communicatively coupled to the first and second STAs and configured to control the operations of the first and second STAs to perform the multi-link TWT process.

公开(公告)号：US20230031933A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-02

申请号：US17721978

申请日：2022-04-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Qi WANG ,  Jarkko L. KNECKT ,  Yong LIU ,  Jinjing JIANG ,  Yoel BOGER ,  Tianyu WU ,  Su Khiong YONG

IPC: H04W4/06 ,  H04W72/00 ,  H04L1/08

Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for group cast with retries (GCR) in a multi-link wireless communications system. In some embodiments, an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) can exchange information with a non-AP MLD to establish a GCR-multi-link operation (MLO) agreement corresponding to a group address, wherein the information includes, but is not limited to: a GCR primary link or a GCR primary link set of the AP MLD, an association identifier (AID) that corresponds to the group address. In some embodiments, the AP MLD can transmit a GCR frame subject to the GCR-MLO agreement, where the GCR frame includes a sequence number assigned from sequence number space (SNS)_GCR_MLO defined at a MLD level, and generate a Group Temporal Key (GTK)_GCR_ML at the MLD level, where the GTK_GCR_ML enables encryption and decryption of the GCR frame.

公开(公告)号：US20210282210A1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-09

申请号：US17249626

申请日：2021-03-08

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Yong LIU ,  Jarkko L. KNECKT ,  Jinjing JIANG ,  Lochan VERMA ,  Qi WANG ,  Su Khiong YONG ,  Tianyu WU

IPC: H04W76/15 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W52/02

Abstract: A first multilink device (MLD) is configured to communicate with a second MLD using at least two communication links. The first MLD selects a first link of the at least two communication links for communications between the first MLD and the second MLD, detects that the first link is unavailable for communications, switches a radio of the first MLD to a second link of the at least two communication links, transmits an alert to the second MLD regarding the switching from the first one of the at least two communication links to the second one of the at least two communication links and communicates with the second MLD via the second link.