Patent ID: 11916624
Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. The networking device of claim 1, wherein to determine the available bandwidth of the first station of the plurality of stations, the processing circuit is further configured to:
generate and transmit a request-to-send (RTS) frame to the first station, wherein a transmitter address field of the RTS frame is set to a predefined value and a data field of the RTS frame is indicative of an available bandwidth of the networking device;
receive, from the first station, a clear-to-send (CTS) frame as a response to the RTS frame;
determine whether a transmitter address field of the CTS frame is set to the predefined value; and
extract a data field of the CTS frame when the transmitter address field of the CTS frame is set to the predefined value, wherein the data field of the CTS frame is indicative of the available bandwidth of the first station.