Patent ID: 11936473
Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. An apparatus for wireless communication, comprising:
at least one processor;
memory coupled with the at least one processor; and
instructions stored in the memory and executable by the at least one processor to cause the apparatus to:
determine at least one network metric related to at least one link between a station (STA) and one or more access points (APs);
determine at least one connection parameter related to at least one application operating on the STA;
select one of several modes of multi-link operations based at least in part on the at least one network metric and the at least one connection parameter, wherein:
the modes of multi-link operations comprise a multi-link mode in which the STA operates via a first link and a second link at a same time and based on a same wireless technology and a single-link mode in which the STA operates via one of the first link or the second link; and
the at least one network metric related to the at least one link comprises a first congestion metric of the first link and a second congestion metric of the second link;

determining a composite metric based at least in part on the first congestion metric and the second congestion metric, wherein selecting the mode comprises:
selecting the single-link mode when the composite metric is less than a composite threshold level; and
selecting the multi-link mode when the composite metric is at or exceeds the composite threshold level; and

communicate with the one or more APs according to the selected mode of multi-link operations.