Patent ID: 11963264
Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A wireless communication apparatus comprising:
reception circuitry configured to detect a frame including first information for identifying a Basic Service Set (BSS) and second information for indicating a duration;
a determination circuitry configured to, based on the first information, determine whether the frame is associated with a BSS to which the wireless communication apparatus belongs; and
control circuitry configured to configure a first operation in a case that the frame is associated with the BSS to which the wireless communication apparatus belongs, and a second operation in a case that the frame is not associated with the BSS to which the wireless communication apparatus belongs,
wherein a first network allocation vector (NAV) associated with the duration is set in the first operation,
a second NAV associated with the duration is set in the second operation, and
each of the first NAV and the second NAV is set individually.