Patent ID: 9407342
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: H04B

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: communicating, in a wireless network using multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU MIMO) communications, a portion of data comprising an element ID field, a length field, and multiple allocation fields (AF), each AF containing information indicating an identification of a different particular mobile device in the network, each AF further containing information about subsequent simultaneous communications with the identified mobile device, and each AF comprising an allocation control field comprising at least one sub-field, a first sub-field of the at least one sub-field including the information about the subsequent simultaneous communications, the information to indicate whether the subsequent simultaneous communications are to be single user or multi-user communication and whether the subsequent simultaneous communications are to be an uplink or downlink communications; and performing the subsequent simultaneous communications with the identified mobile device in accordance with the information.