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

Claim 5:
6. A communication device, comprising:
a wireless network interface device associated with an access point (AP), the wireless network interface device having one or more integrated circuit (IC) devices configured to:
generate a beacon frame that includes i) parameters of a broadcast target wake time (TWT) schedule in a wireless local area network (WLAN) that provides multiple broadcast TWT schedules, and ii) information regarding a quantity of client stations that have currently joined the broadcast TWT schedule, and
control the wireless network interface device to transmit the beacon frame to inform one or more other communication devices of i) the parameters of the broadcast TWT schedule and ii) the quantity of client stations that have currently joined the broadcast TWT schedule, the information regarding the quantity of client stations for assisting one or more other communication devices with choosing whether to join the broadcast TWT schedule rather than another one of the multiple broadcast TWT schedules.