US 12,170,984 B2
Wireless communications device
Hongyuan Zhang, Fremont, CA (US); Sudhir Srinivasa, Los Gatos, CA (US); Ken Kinwah Ho, San Jose, CA (US); Timothy J. Donovan, Carmel, CA (US); Foo Keong Tang, San Jose, CA (US); and Liwen Chu, San Ramon, CA (US)
Assigned to NXP USA, Inc., Austin, TX (US)
Filed by NXP USA, Inc., Austin, TX (US)
Filed on Mar. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/655,987.
Prior Publication US 2023/0309069 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 72/04 (2023.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 72/0446 (2013.01) [H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wireless Access Point (AP) device, configured to operate within a wireless local area network (WLAN), comprising:
a controller configured to generate a reserve slot time trigger frame and a request to transmit trigger frame;
wherein the controller is configured to be coupled to an antenna;
wherein the antenna is configured to transmit the trigger frames over a physical media to a set of user station devices (STAs) and exchange traffic with the set of STAs over the physical media;
wherein the reserve slot time trigger frame is configured to reserve a slot time on the physical media; and
wherein the request to transmit trigger frame is configured to command a first STA from the set of STAs to transmit data buffered in the first STA to the AP device during the slot time that was reserved by the reserve slot time trigger frame.