Patent ID: 9462607
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: H04B,H04W

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus comprising: a transmitter to transmit a multi-user (MU) downlink transmission to a plurality of wireless stations; a receiver to receive from the plurality of wireless stations a plurality of acknowledgement (ACK) frames, at least one ACK frame from at least one wireless station comprising an uplink scheduling request indicating uplink resources requested by the wireless station, said at least one ACK frame comprising two or more ACK frames comprising two or more respective uplink scheduling requests from two or more wireless stations; and a scheduler to schedule an uplink transmission from the at least one wireless station based on the uplink scheduling request, the transmitter to transmit at least one scheduling frame comprising scheduling information of the scheduled uplink transmission, the scheduler to schedule a MU uplink transmission from said two or more wireless stations based on said two or more uplink scheduling requests.