Patent ID: 11963215
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
determining, at an access point (AP), a plurality of channel qualities of a plurality of resource units (RUs) for a client, the plurality of RUs being configured to be available for communications with a plurality of clients comprising the client;
determining, from the plurality of RUs, a target RU for the client based on comparisons between the plurality of channel qualities and a threshold quality set for the client buff:
in accordance with a determination that more than one RU of the plurality of RUs has a channel quality exceeding the threshold quality, determining a candidate RU set for the client from the more than one RU having the channel quality exceeding the threshold quality, the candidate RU set comprising at least one RU; and
selecting a candidate RU from the candidate RU set as the target RU for the client by determining the number of candidate clients for each RU in the candidate RU set, a respective channel quality of the RU for a candidate client exceeding a threshold quality set for the candidate client; and

in accordance with a determination that the number of candidate clients for a particular RU in the candidate RU set is less than or equal to the numbers of candidate clients for other RUs in the candidate RU set, selecting the particular RU as the target RU for the client;
wherein the target RU is to be used by the client for a following transmission with the AP.