Patent ID: 11943643
Assignee: MEDIATEK SINGAPORE PTE. LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. A method, comprising:
establishing a wireless communication between an access point (AP) and a first station (STA) with the first STA initially monitoring a primary frequency segment of a plurality of frequency segments in an operating bandwidth of the AP in a basic service set (BSS) which is associated with a plurality of STAs including the first STA; and
communicating between the AP and the first STA to result in the first STA being assigned either or both of a first preamble detection (PD) channel and a first signaling (SIG) content channel such that the first STA monitors a preamble on the first PD channel and decodes a SIG content on the first SIG content channel during at least a predetermined period of time,
wherein, responsive to a first bandwidth of the first STA being different than a second bandwidth of a second STA of the plurality of STAs, at least one of a second PD channel and a second SIG content channel assigned to the second STA and at least one of the first PD channel and the first SIG content channel are in different frequency segments of the plurality of frequency segments, and
wherein:
the first PD channel remains on a primary frequency segment of the plurality of frequency segments and the first SIG content channel is assigned to a first secondary frequency segment of the plurality of frequency segments within the operating bandwidth of the first STA; or
the first PD channel is assigned to a second secondary frequency segment of the plurality of frequency segments and the first SIG content channel is assigned to a different frequency segment of the plurality of frequency segments within the operating bandwidth of the first STA.