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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2016
Applicant:
Intel Ip Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
INTEL IP CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/10 (2009.01); H04W 8/26 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/10 (2013.01); H04W 8/26 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
For example, a first wireless station may be configured to transmit a beacon frame over a directional wireless communication band during a Beacon Transmission Interval (BTI), the beacon frame including a field including a type value to indicate a type of one or more wireless stations to respond to the beacon frame; and to process a Sector Sweep (SSW) frame from a second wireless station of a type corresponding to the type value during an Association Beamforming Training (A-BFT) period following the BTI.