Patent ID: 11910313
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A non-access point station comprising:
enhanced distributed channel access buffers; and
a processing circuit configured to:
determine that a first skipping criterion is met, comprising:
determine that all of the enhanced distributed channel access buffers are empty; and
determine that data will not be received during a first service period; and

in response to determining that the first skipping criterion is met:
send, by the non-access point station, a proposal to skip N1 target wait time service periods;
receive, by the non-access point station, an acknowledgement of the proposal to skip N1 target wait time service periods; and
skip, based on receipt of the acknowledgement, N1 target wait time service periods, N1 being a positive integer less than or equal to a maximum number of skipped target wait time service periods indicated by the non-access point station.