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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2017
Marvell World Trade Ltd., St. Michael, BB;
Liwen Chu, San Ramon, CA (US);
Sagar A. Tamhane, Fremont, CA (US);
Christian R. Berger, San Jose, CA (US);
Niranjan Grandhe, San Jose, CA (US);
Hongyuan Zhang, Fremont, CA (US);
Hui-Ling Lou, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Marvell World Trade Ltd., St. Michael, BB;
Abstract
A first communication i) selects one or more respective preliminary identifiers (IDs) for one or more second communication devices, or ii) receives one or more respective preliminary IDs from one or more second communication devices, the one or more respective preliminary IDs having been respectively selected by the one or more second communication devices. The first communication device generates a trigger frame, the trigger frame indicating one or more first frequency resource and/or spatial stream allocations to one or more second communication devices using the one or more respective preliminary IDs. The first communication device transmits the trigger frame to initiate at least an uplink (UL) MU transmission by multiple second communication devices for a ranging procedure.