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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 2019
Filed:
May. 03, 2016
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
George Cherian, San Diego, CA (US);
Simone Merlin, San Diego, CA (US);
Gwendolyn Denise Barriac, Encinitas, CA (US);
Gang Ding, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communications. A network may employ additional contention based parameters to support MU transmissions and to communicate to other devices a duration that protects MU transmission. For example, a first device may transmit a first message to reserve a subband of shared spectrum. The first message may be addressed to multiple devices and may indicate a channel access deferral duration to other devices within transmission range. The non-addressed devices may refrain from accessing the channel for an indicated duration. The addressed devices that receive the first message may respond to the first message with a second message, which may also be used to reserve the channel. The second message may additionally be used to identify those devices that received the first message. The first device may generate a trigger message based on the received second messages.