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

Claim 31:
32. A method for wireless communication, comprising:
determining at least one network metric related to at least one link between a station (STA) and one or more access points (APs);
determining at least one connection parameter related to at least one application operating on the STA;
selecting 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:
selecting the mode of the multi-link operations comprises detecting a network condition based at least in part on the at least one connection parameter and switching an operating mode of the multi-link operations based at least in part on a presence of the network condition, said switching comprising switching the operating mode from the multi-link mode to the single-link mode when the first link has the network condition and the second link does not have the network condition; and
the modes of multi-link operations comprise a multi-link mode in which the STA operates over at least 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 over one of the first link or the second link; and

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