Patent ID: 11963100
Assignee: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of managing a power state of a wireless station (STA) for cooperative multi-band operation between the STA and a wireless access point (AP) for a wireless network, the method comprising:
associating frames of a first traffic identifier (TID) with a first band according to a quality of service (QoS) policy of the AP;
associating frames of a second traffic identifier (TID) with a second band according to the QoS policy of the AP;
receiving a frame transmitted from the STA to the AP over the second band, said frame comprising an A-Control field comprising a field indicating a buffer status of the first band for transmitting frames of the first TID; and
updating a power management mode of the STA for the first band associated with the first TID according to the buffer status of the first band received from the STA over the second band associated with the second TID, wherein the frame further comprises another subfield indicating additional data is buffered on the second band.