Patent ID: 8923144

Claim:
A method of wireless data communication, comprising: receiving a bandwidth request for wireless communication between two wireless stations over a wireless channel, wherein receiving the bandwidth request for wireless communication further includes receiving a bandwidth reservation request from a source station, within an unreserved channel time block (CTB); determining if the channel has sufficient bandwidth to satisfy the communication request; if the channel has sufficient bandwidth to satisfy the communication request, establishing a direct communication link between the two stations over the channel, including: during a direct link set-up stage, the two stations conducting a probing message exchange using omni-direction transmission; upon successful probing, obtaining communication link status information and setting proper communication configurations for the two stations based on the communication link status information; communicating audio/video/data information in reserved CTBs between the two stations; and a destination station measuring and comparing signal quality and other parameters of a direct link transmission (DLT) probe received from the source station.