Patent ID: 11924814
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. A wireless communication method in a wireless network comprising an access point, the method comprising the following steps, at the access point:
generating multi-user, MU, Physical layer Protocol Data Unit, PPDU, comprising field in which a plurality of downlink resource units used for MU downlink transmission from the access point within a transmission opportunity granted to the access point are allocated using association identifiers, AIDs, wherein the plurality of the downlink resource units includes a downlink resource unit which has been allocated to a specific AID which is reserved for stations not associated with the access point, and wherein the specific AID does not identify individual one of the stations not associated with the access point and is equal to 2045; and
sending the generated MU PPDU,
wherein the generated MU PPDU is an MU PPDU of IEEE 802.11 standard series.