Patent ID: 11877321
Assignee: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A method, comprising: maintaining a respective backoff timer for each of a first link and a second link in a multi-link operation in wireless communications; determining whether to participate in a transmission opportunity (TXOP) on either of the first link and the second link upon the respective backoff timer counting down to zero; transmitting one or more frames on both the first link and the second link synchronously responsive to the channel status of the first link being idle responsive to the TXOP being obtained on the second link; and suspending channel access on the other link of the first link and the second link responsive to determining to participate in the TXOP on one of the first link and the second link by counting down the respective backoff timer to zero but suspending or canceling a transmission on the other link of the first link and the second link responsive to the respective backoff timer for the other of the first link and the second link being non-zero.