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

Claim 0:
1. A method of wireless communication, comprising:
transmitting, by an access point, a bandwidth query report poll (BQRP) frame to a plurality of wireless stations, the BQRP frame including a common field to indicate to a wireless station of the plurality of wireless stations that receives the BQRP frame to transmit a bandwidth query report, a user information field to specify that a first wireless station of the plurality of wireless stations to transmit a first bandwidth query report and a subfield of the user information field to identify the first wireless station;
receiving, by the access point from wireless stations of the plurality of wireless stations that received the BQRP frame, bandwidth query reports, wherein the bandwidth query reports are configured to indicate whether a frequency channel assigned to a corresponding wireless station is available to the corresponding wireless station;
allocating, by the access point, one or more resource units to a first wireless station of the plurality of wireless stations that is assigned to a first frequency channel indicated to be available to the first wireless station according to at least the first bandwidth query report;
assigning, by the access point, a different channel to a second wireless station of the plurality of wireless stations, in response to a second bandwidth query report of the second wireless station indicating that a frequency channel assigned to the second wireless station is unavailable; and
transmitting another BQRP frame indicating the different channel is assigned to the second wireless station.