Patent ID: 7961693

Claim:
A computer system for collision free tunneled direct link setup between two or more stations in a wireless local area network, the computer system comprising: a machine capable of executing instructions embodied as non-transitory software; and a plurality of software portions, wherein one of said software portions is configured to identify a collision between a tunneled direct link setup request initiated by the two or more stations at the same time directed at establishing a common tunneled direct link path; responsive to identifying a collision, one of said software portions is configured to prioritize each of the two or more stations wherein at least one of the two or more stations has a high priority; and one of said software portions is configured to establish a tunneled direct link initiated by the at least one of the two or more stations having the high priority, wherein the at least one of the two or more stations having the high priority sends a response to other stations initiating a tunneled direct link setup request indicating a collided setup.