Patent ID: 11910313
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for communicating over a WiFi channel, the method comprising:
determining, by a non-access point station, that a first skipping criterion is met, comprising:
determining, by the non-access point station, that all enhanced distributed channel access buffers of the non-access point station are empty; and
determining, by the non-access point station, that data will not be received by the non-access point station during a first service period; and

in response to determining that the first skipping criterion is met:
sending, by the non-access point station, a proposal to skip N1 target wait time service periods;
receiving, by the non-access point station, an acknowledgement of the proposal to skip N1 target wait time service periods; and
skipping, based on the receiving of the acknowledgement, N1 target wait time service periods, N1 being a positive integer less than or equal to a maximum number of skipped target wait time service periods indicated by the non-access point station.