Patent ID: 11910240
Assignee: MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for providing information regarding a broadcast target wake time (TWT) schedule in a wireless local area network (WLAN) that provides multiple broadcast TWT schedules, the method comprising:
generating, at an access point (AP) communication device, a beacon frame that includes i) parameters of the broadcast TWT schedule and ii) information regarding a quantity of client stations that have currently joined the broadcast TWT schedule; and
transmitting, by the AP communication device, the beacon frame to inform one or more other communication devices of i) the parameters of the broadcast TWT schedule and ii) the quantity of client stations that have currently joined the broadcast TWT schedule, the information regarding the quantity of client stations for assisting one or more other communication devices with choosing whether to join the broadcast TWT schedule rather than another one of the multiple broadcast TWT schedules.