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

Claim 0:
1. A wireless communication method in a wireless network comprising an access point, the method comprising the following steps at a station not associated with the access point:
receiving, from the access point, multi-user, MU, Physical layer Protocol Data Unit, PPDU, comprising a 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;
determining a downlink resource unit which has been allocated to a specific AID which is reserved for stations not associated with the access point, from the plurality of downlink resource units, wherein the specific AID does not identify individual one of the stations not associated with the access point and is equal to 2045; and
receiving a frame from the access point on the determined downlink resource unit,
wherein the received MU PPDU is an MU PPDU of IEEE 802.11 standard series.