Patent ID: 11910240
Assignee: MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A communication device, comprising:
a wireless network interface device associated with a client station, the wireless network interface device having one or more integrated circuit (IC) devices configured to:
receive a beacon frame from an access point (AP) communication device of a wireless local area network (WLAN) that provides multiple broadcast target wake time (TWT) schedules, the beacon frame including i) parameters of a broadcast TWT schedule and ii) information regarding a quantity of other client stations that have currently joined the broadcast TWT schedule, and
use the information within the beacon frame regarding the quantity of other client stations that have currently joined the broadcast TWT schedule to determine whether the client station will join the TWT broadcast schedule rather than another one of the multiple broadcast TWT schedules.