US 11,690,011 B2 · Transmitting traffic streams via multiple WLAN communication links

Abstract

A first communication device determines whether a specific wireless local area network (WLAN) communication link, among a plurality of WLAN communication links corresponding to respective frequency segments, has been negotiated with a second communication device for a first traffic stream. In response to determining that the specific WLAN communication link has been negotiated for the first traffic stream, the first communication device transmits packets in the first traffic stream only via the specific WLAN communication link. In response to determining that no WLAN communication link has been negotiated with the second communication device for the first traffic stream, the first communication device transmits packets in the first traffic stream via multiple WLAN communication links corresponding to different frequency segments.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method for transmitting traffic streams in a wireless local area network (WLAN) that utilizes a plurality of WLAN communication links in respective frequency segments, the method comprising:

determining, at a first communication device, whether a specific WLAN communication link has been negotiated with a second communication device for a first traffic stream;
in response to determining that the specific WLAN communication link has been negotiated for the first traffic stream, transmitting, by the first communication device, packets in the first traffic stream only via the specific WLAN communication link;
and
in response to determining that no WLAN communication link has been negotiated with the second communication device for the first traffic stream, transmitting, by the first communication device, packets in the first traffic stream via multiple WLAN communication links.

1 more element

A first communication device, comprising:

a wireless network interface device that is configured to communicate via a plurality of wireless local area network (WLAN) communication links in respective frequency segments, the wireless network interface device having one or more integrated circuit (IC) devices configured to:
determine whether a specific WLAN communication link has been negotiated with a second communication device for a first traffic stream,
in response to determining that the specific WLAN communication link has been negotiated for the first traffic stream, transmitting packets in the first traffic stream only via the specific WLAN communication link, and
in response to determining that no WLAN communication link has been negotiated with the second communication device for the first traffic stream, transmitting packets in the first traffic stream via multiple WLAN communication links.

1 more element

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/888,425Filed 29 May 2020 · division

Priority

24 May 2019

Published

US 2020/0374754 A126 Nov 2020

Granted

27 Jun 2023

Term ends

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Classification17 codes

H04W 52/0219
Managed by the network, e.g. network or access point is leader and terminal is follower: where the power saving management affects multiple terminals
H04W 76/28
Manipulation of established connections: discontinuous transmission [DTX]; Discontinuous reception [DRX]
H04L 1/1642
Details of the supervisory signal: formats specially adapted for sequence numbers
H04W 28/0221
Based on user or device properties, e.g. MTC-capable devices: power availability or consumption

Family

Application62/852,612Us provisional application · filed 24 May 2019

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Application62/886,812Us provisional application · filed 14 Aug 2019

Application62/888,950Us provisional application · filed 19 Aug 2019

Application62/897,155Us provisional application · filed 6 Sep 2019

Application16/884,013Parent of this division · filed 26 May 2020

US 2020/0374754 A1Pre-grant publication · published 26 Nov 2020

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Transmitting traffic streams via multiple WLAN communication links

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Transmitting traffic streams via multiple WLAN communication links

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Abstract

Claims20