Patent ID: 9585057
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for receiving a frame at a station (STA) from an access point (AP) of a wireless communication system, the method comprising: determining, by the STA, whether a first partial association ID (Partial AID) is included in a downlink frame based on a first equation which utilizes an AID allocated to the STA by the AP and a basic service set ID (BSSID) of the AP; decoding, by the STA, the downlink frame, if the first partial AID is included in the downlink frame; and transmitting, by the STA to the AP, an uplink frame including a second partial AID based on a second equation ‘(BSSID[39:47])mod(2 wherein the first partial AID from the first equation is not identical to the second partial AID from the second equation.