Patent ID: 8437319

Claim:
An apparatus, implemented as hardware, for managing a plurality of stations in a wireless network, the apparatus comprising: a communication capability information management module which receives an association request frame from a station and determines a communication capability of the station based on the association request frame; an information frame generation module which generates a wireless video area network (WVAN) information frame including information on the communication capability of the station; and a communication module, implemented as hardware, which transmits the WVAN information frame to at least one of the plurality of the stations in the wireless network, wherein the apparatus serves as a wireless network coordinator and the station communicates using electromagnetic waves having a wavelength of about a millimeter or having a frequency in a range of 30-300 GHz, wherein the communication capability of the station comprises a media access control (MAC) capability of the station, wherein the WVAN information frame comprises at least one station information field, the at least one station information field comprising a MAC capability field which specifies the MAC capability of the station, and wherein the MAC capability field comprises a channel time block (CTB) extension field which indicates whether the station supports a dynamic CTB extension.