Patent ID: 9337954
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for communications, comprising: a transmitter configured to transmit a first control message prior to transmitting a sounding frame, the first control message requesting channel state information (CSI) to be computed, based on the sounding frame, at each of a plurality of other apparatuses; and a receiver configured to receive a first CSI report message transmitted in response to the first control message from at least one of the other apparatuses, wherein the first CSI report message comprises at least a segment of the computed CSI and at least an indication about a number of remaining segments of the computed CSI to be transmitted, and wherein: the transmitter is also configured to transmit one or more second control messages, wherein each of the one or more second control messages requests a CSI report message with the computed CSI from a different one of the other apparatuses, and wherein each of the first control message and the one or more second control messages comprises a sequence number used to match each of the one or more second control messages with the first control message, and the receiver is also configured to receive one or more CSI report messages transmitted in response to the one or more second control messages.