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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 23, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Yong Liu, Campbell, CA (US);
Christiaan A. Hartman, San Jose, CA (US);
Guoqing Li, Cupertino, CA (US);
Lawrie Kurian, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter N. Heerboth, San Jose, CA (US);
Su Khiong Yong, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
One or more wireless stations may operate to configure direct communication with neighboring mobile stations, e.g., direct communication between the wireless stations without utilizing an intermediate access point. A mechanism for a wireless station to transmit a paging beacon outside of a paging window may include establishing a paged data link with a peer station, determining that one or more data frames associated with the paged data link are pending transmission, and transmitting a beacon to the peer station outside of a scheduled paging window of the paged data link. The beacon may include a paging attribute indicating there are pending data frames.