Patent ID: 11924814
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 19:
20. A wireless communication device forming an access point in a wireless network, the device comprising at least one microprocessor configured for carrying out the steps of:
generating multi-user, MU, Physical layer Protocol Data Unit, PPDU, comprising field in which a plurality of downlink resource units used for MU downlink transmission from the access point within a transmission opportunity granted to the access point are allocated using association identifiers, AIDs, wherein the plurality of the downlink resource units includes a downlink resource unit which has been allocated to a specific AID which is reserved for stations not associated with the access point, and wherein the specific AID does not identify individual one of the stations not associated with the access point and is equal to 2045; and
sending the generated MU PPDU.