Patent ID: 9549405
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Claim:
1. A wireless transmission method in a wireless network including an access point, a first station and a relay station that sends received data from the first station to the access point, the method comprising: allocating, by the access point, an awake period to at least one of the first station or the relay station; receiving, by the access point, an association request from the first station; establishing, by the access point, an association with the first station; allocating a channel service period of the relay station for receiving data from the first station; sending, by the access point to the first station after the allocating, a first message specifying the channel service period of the relay station allocated by the access point to the first station, the first message indicating that data is to be sent by the first station, to the access point, using the channel service period of the relay station; and receiving from the relay station, by the access point, data of the first station previously received by the relay station of the first station in the channel service period allocated by the access point, wherein the first station sends data to the relay station during a period when the awake period overlaps with the allocated channel service period.