Patent ID: 11937117
Assignee: ATLAS GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for communicating a transmission capability of a wireless device, the method comprising:
determining, by the wireless device, a number of active transmit chains among a plurality of transmit chains in the wireless device;
determining, by the wireless device using the number of active transmit chains of the wireless device, a maximum number of space-time streams, the maximum number of space-time streams being a maximum number of space-time streams that the wireless device supports in transmission;
providing, by the wireless device in a frame, control information that includes twelve bits, including (1) three bits that indicate a maximum number of spatial streams that the wireless device supports in reception, (2) two bits that indicate an operating channel width supported by the wireless device in at least reception, (3) one bit that indicates whether uplink multiuser operations are disabled, and (4) three bits that indicate the maximum number of space-time streams; and
transmitting, by the wireless device, the frame, including the control information.