Patent ID: 11917628
Assignee: AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. LIMITED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A method of wireless communication in a wireless network, comprising:
receiving, by a wireless station from a plurality of wireless stations, a bandwidth query report poll (BQRP) frame from an access point, the BQRP frame including a common field to indicate to a wireless station of a plurality of wireless stations that receives the BQRP frame to transmit a bandwidth query report, a user information field to specify that the wireless station of is to transmit a first bandwidth query report and a subfield of the user information field that identifies the wireless station;
transmitting, by the wireless station, the bandwidth query report to the access point in response to the BQRP frame indicating whether a frequency channel assigned to the wireless station is available to the wireless station, wherein the bandwidth query report I configured to indicate whether a frequency channel assigned to a corresponding wireless station is available to the corresponding wireless station;
receiving, by the wireless station in response to the bandwidth query report indicating that the frequency channel assigned to the wireless station is available to the wireless station, an allocation of one or more resource units by the access point to the wireless station; and
receiving, by the wireless station, another BQRP frame indicating that a different channel is assigned to a second wireless station, the another BQRP frame transmitted by the access point in response to the access point assigning the different channel to the second wireless station based at least on a second bandwidth query report of the second wireless station indicating that a frequency channel assigned to the second wireless station is unavailable.