Patent ID: 9100108
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: H04B,H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: obtaining, by a communication device supporting coexisting wireless local area network (WLAN) and cellular communications, contention free access to a WLAN channel during a traffic free period of a coexisting cellular connection; providing, by the communication device, a reverse direction grant (RDG) to another device of the WLAN allowing the other device to transmit over the WLAN channel for a duration corresponding to at least a portion of a transmit opportunity (TXOP) of the traffic free period of the coexisting cellular connection; receiving, by the communication device, a first transmission from the other device of the WLAN for at least a portion of the duration; and receiving, by an access point of the communication device, a second transmission from the other device of the WLAN for a second duration corresponding to a remaining portion of the TXOP of the traffic free period of the coexisting cellular connection, in response to transmission of an acknowledgement (ACK) of the receipt of the first transmission from the other device of the WLAN.