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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020

Filed:

Feb. 17, 2017
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Simone Merlin, San Diego, CA (US);

Gwendolyn Denise Barriac, Encinitas, CA (US);

Hemanth Sampath, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/16 (2006.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/06 (2009.01); H04W 72/00 (2009.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 1/1621 (2013.01); H04L 1/009 (2013.01); H04L 1/0079 (2013.01); H04L 1/1664 (2013.01); H04L 1/1685 (2013.01); H04L 5/0055 (2013.01); H04W 4/06 (2013.01); H04W 72/005 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for multi user bar protocols and frames. According to certain aspects, an apparatus is provided for wireless communications. The apparatus generally includes a processing system configured to determine that a plurality of devices have a first capability and generate a multi-user (MU) packet that solicits an immediate response from a plurality of the devices, wherein the immediate response comprises an acknowledgment (ACK) or block ACK (BA) and an interface configured to output the MU packet for transmission.


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