Patent ID: 8886755
Filing Date: 2014-11-11
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: determining, using a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point (AP) device, that each client device in a plurality of client devices has respective data to be transmitted to the WLAN AP device; receiving from each of at least some of the client devices an indication of an amount of respective data to be transmitted to the WLAN AP device; in response to determining that each client device has respective data to be transmitted to the WLAN AP device, transmitting, from the WLAN AP device to the plurality of client devices, a request for the plurality of client devices to simultaneously transmit data to the WLAN AP device, wherein the request is transmitted from the WLAN AP device to the plurality of client devices during a transmit opportunity period of the WLAN AP device; determining, using the WLAN AP device, a maximum duration of a transmission period in which the data is to be transmitted simultaneously by the plurality of client devices to the WLAN AP device based on the indications of the amounts of respective data to be transmitted to the WLAN AP device by the at least some of the client devices; transmitting from the WLAN AP device an indication of the maximum duration of the transmission period to the plurality of client devices; and receiving, at the WLAN AP device, the data simultaneously transmitted by the plurality of client devices, wherein the data simultaneously transmitted by the plurality of client devices is received by the WLAN AP device: