Patent ID: 11936473
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 30:
31. A method for wireless communication, comprising:
determining at least one network metric related to at least one link between a station (STA) and one or more access points (APs), wherein the at least one network metric related to the at least one link comprises a first latency level of the first link and a second latency level of the second link;
determining at least one connection parameter related to at least one application operating on the STA, wherein the at least one connection parameter related to the at least one application comprises a latency threshold level of a first application;
selecting one of several modes of multi-link operations based at least in part on the at least one network metric and the at least one connection parameter, wherein:
the modes of multi-link operations comprise a multi-link mode in which the STA operates via at least a first link and a second link at a same time and based on a same wireless technology and a single-link mode in which the STA operates via one of the first link or the second link; and
selecting the mode of the multi-link operations comprises:
selecting the single-link mode of the multi-link operations over the first link when the first latency level is at or below the latency threshold level;

selecting the single-link mode of the multi-link operations over the second link when the first latency level exceeds the latency threshold level and the second latency level is at or below the latency threshold level; and
selecting the multi-link mode of the multi-link operations when the first latency level and the second latency level exceeds the latency threshold level; and

communicating with the one or more APs according to the selected mode of multi-link operations.