Patent ID: 9668243
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: determining, by a computing device, a total bandwidth for a downlink communication; segmenting, by the computing device, the downlink communication into data units; assigning, by the computing device, the data units to channels assigned to stations of a basic service set; transmitting a channel announce frame from the computing device to stations of the basic service set, the channel announce frame indicating: receiving, at the computing device, short acknowledgements from one or more of the assigned stations over one or more of the assigned channels, each received short acknowledgment indicating the corresponding assigned station received the channel announce frame; determining, by the computing device, interference on each assigned station from which a corresponding short acknowledgment is not received; blocking, by the computing device, transmission of the corresponding data units to each assigned station determined to have interference; and transmitting the corresponding data units over the assigned channels to the unblocked assigned stations in a single downlink communication.