Patent ID: 11963155
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. A method for wireless communication by a first wireless access point associated with a first basic service set (BSS), the method comprising:
receiving a first packet from a second wireless access point associated with a second BSS, the first packet including scheduling information for a transmission opportunity obtained by the second wireless access point, the scheduling information indicating one or more portions of the transmission opportunity, the scheduling information including one or more access point identifiers associated with one or more wireless access points, the scheduling information further indicating which one or more portions of the transmission opportunity are allocated to each respective wireless access point of the one or more wireless access points for communicating with its respective BSS, the one or more portions being nonoverlapping and each portion of the transmission opportunity being allocated to a different wireless access point; and
in response to receiving the first packet, and based on the scheduling information including a first access point identifier associated with the first wireless access point, transmitting data to, or triggering the transmission of data from, one or more wireless stations in the first BSS in a portion of the transmission opportunity allocated to the first wireless access point based on the scheduling information, wherein:
the transmission of the data to, or the triggering of the transmission of data from, the one or more wireless stations is further based on refraining from updating an inter-BSS network allocation vector and refraining from updating an intra-BSS network allocation vector in response to receiving the first packet in association with the scheduling information including the first access point identifier; or
the transmission of the data to, or the triggering of the transmission of data from, the one or more wireless stations is further based on refraining from updating an inter-BSS network allocation vector in association with detecting a second packet that includes the first access point identifier during the transmission opportunity from the second wireless access point, from another wireless access point associated with an access point identifier included in the scheduling information, or from a wireless station in a BSS associated with the second wireless access point or another wireless access point associated with an access point identifier included in the scheduling information; or
the triggering of the transmission of the data from the one or more wireless stations in the first BSS comprises transmitting a trigger frame to each of the one or more wireless stations in the portion of the transmission opportunity allocated to the first wireless access point, the second packet or the trigger frame indicating that no carrier sensing is required for the transmission of data to the first wireless access point in the portion of the transmission opportunity allocated to the first wireless access point in response to receiving the trigger frame.