Patent ID: 8873384

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising a transmitter; processing logic coupled with the transmitter, the processing logic is configured to send data via the transmitter; wherein the processing logic generates a request to send frame, the request to send frame comprising pad bits; wherein the processing logic encodes data representative of a bandwidth parameter set into the pad bits of the request to send frame; wherein the processing logic transmits the request to send frame via the transmitter; wherein the request to send frame further includes service bits, a payload, and tail bits; wherein the processing logic scrambles the service bits, payload, tail bits, and bits; wherein the processing logic overwrites the tail bits with a predefined value; wherein the processing logic modifies a portion of the pad bits to include the data representative of a bandwidth parameter set; wherein the processing logic encodes the service bits, payload, tail bits, and pad bits after modifying the pad bits to include the data representative of a bandwidth parameter set; and wherein the pad bits further include a cyclic redundancy code that protects the data representative of a bandwidth parameter set in the data to distinguish from a legacy request to send and/or to ensure that bit errors do not lead to an erroneous understanding of the bandwidth indication or static/dynamic indication.