Patent ID: 11864227
Assignee: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 4:
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the obtaining of the TXOP further comprises:
maintaining a first backoff function state for the primary channel;
maintaining a second backoff function state for the first non-primary channel;
performing enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) backoff on the primary channel;
suspending the EDCA backoff on the primary channel upon detecting that the primary channel is busy; and
storing a value of each of a plurality of backoff parameters of the EDCA backoff on the primary channel as the first backoff function state,
wherein the plurality of backoff parameters comprise at least: the backoff counter, a contention window, and a quality of service (QoS) station (STA) retry counter.