Patent ID: 7729382
Filing Date: 2010-06-01
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless section of a computer system comprising: a station table comprising a plurality of entries, wherein each entry is assignable to a respective station with which the computer system is in wireless communication, during use, and wherein a host portion of the computer system is configured to store data describing at least one transmission from the computer system to the respective station in the entry assigned to the respective station; and scheduling circuitry coupled to the station table and configured to schedule a transmission to one of the stations, wherein the scheduling circuitry is configured to address the station table to select a selected entry of the plurality of entries which corresponds to a selected station to which the transmission is scheduled; wherein the wireless section is configured to transmit at least one frame to the selected station in response to the scheduling and based on the data in the entry in the station table assigned to the selected station, and wherein the wireless communication between the computer system and the stations comprises a contention free (CF) period and a contention period (CP), and wherein the data stored in each of the plurality of entries comprises data that describes a first transmission to the respective station during the CF period and a second transmission to the respective station during the CP period.