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

Claim 18:
19. An apparatus, comprising:
a transceiver configured to communicate wirelessly; and
a processor coupled to the transceiver and configured to perform, via the transceiver, operations comprising: monitoring each of a first link and a second link in a multi-link operation in wireless communications, with the first link being a primary link and the second link being a secondary link; obtaining a transmission opportunity (TXOP) on one of the first link and the second link as a result of performing a contention-based channel access on the first link and the second link; checking channel status of the first link and the other of the first link and the second link; transmitting one or more frames on the second link responsive to the TXOP being obtained on the first link;
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 transmitting system information in one or more management frames on the first link but not on the second link responsive to the first link being a primary link and the second link being a secondary link.