Apple Inc.

Karthik R Mekala

Yong Liu

Guoqing Li

Rajneesh Kumar

Charles Francis Dominguez

Mete Fikirlier

Christiaan A Hartman

Oren Shani

Lawrie Kurian

Anand Rajagopalan

Daniel R Borges

Joseph Hakim

Tashbeeb Haque

Welly Kasten

Yang Yu

John Alexander Wilson

Tushar Ramanlal Shah

Tony Chi Wang Ng

Shehla S Rana

Brian B Whitaker

Ka Ho P Poon

Shishir Gupta

Bryan J Follis

Curtis J Schmidek

Jacob H Power

Roopkumar Parthasarathy Rao

Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing a target wake time (TWT) scheme that includes traffic differentiation and service period extension. For example some embodiments relate to an electronic device including a transceiver and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The one or more processors receive an indication of traffic associated with an application. The one or more processors determine information associated with the traffic and configure the TWT scheme associated with the traffic based at least in part on the determined information. The one or more processors further communicate initial information associated with the TWT scheme to an access point of a wireless network. The initial information associated with the TWT scheme can include at least one of traffic direction information, traffic pattern information, a traffic identifier (TID), or an access category, indication (ACID).

Target wake time traffic differentiation and service period extension

An interface circuit in an electronic device may contend for access to a shared communication channel on behalf of the electronic device and a recipient electronic device, where the access has a duration. Then, the electronic device may provide a schedule frame intended for the recipient electronic device that includes information that specifies one or more time slots during the duration that are associated with the recipient electronic device and one or more communication functions of the recipient electronic device in the one or more time slots. Moreover, the electronic device may provide a data frame with data intended for the recipient electronic device. In response, the electronic device may receive a response frame associated with the recipient electronic device, where the response frame is received during at least one of the one or more time slots.

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Karthik R Mekala