Patent ID: 9585165
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for receiving a frame from an access point (AP) by a first station (STA), the method comprising: transmitting a first frame to the AP; and receiving from the AP a second frame in response to the first frame, wherein the first frame has a format of Null Data Packet (NDP) Power Saving-Poll (PS-Poll) frame and includes partial identification information of the first STA, wherein the partial identification information of the first STA is generated by using a part of a Basic Service Set Identifier (BSSID), wherein the second frame includes identification information of the second frame, wherein the identification information of the second frame is generated based on the partial identification information of the first STA included in the first frame, and wherein the second frame causes a second STA other than the first STA to not start a transmission of a third frame until an end of the transmission of the first frame and a reception of the second frame.