Patent ID: 9503339
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus, comprising: a processor; a memory; and a station (STA) comprising logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to process a multi-channel request-to-send (MRTS) reserving multiple channels sensed as being free by an access point (AP), the STA comprised among a plurality of STAs to which the MRTS is addressed, the logic to generate a multi-channel clear-to-send (MCTS) comprising free channel information for a determination of one or more channels to be utilized for one or more multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) transmissions of the AP, the MCTS to identify one or more channels sensed as free by the STA, the one or more channels to comprise a subset of the multiple channels sensed as being free by the AP.