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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:
Jan. 26, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 02, 2018
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jarkko L. Kneckt, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Chiu Ngok E. Wong, San Jose, CA (US);

Yong Liu, Campbell, CA (US);

Christiaan A. Hartman, San Jose, CA (US);

Guoqing Li, Cupertino, CA (US);

Daniel R. Borges, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/0216 (2013.01); H04W 52/0229 (2013.01); H04W 72/1205 (2013.01); H04W 72/1289 (2013.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.02); Y02D 30/70 (2020.08);
Abstract

An interface circuit in an electronic device (such as an access point) may provide a targeted wake-up time (TWT) service period (SP) schedule to a recipient electronic device. During operation the interface circuit may receive a TWT setup request associated with the recipient electronic device, where the TWT setup request includes non-availability information specifying one or more times when the recipient electronic device will be unavailable. For example, the non-availability information may include one or more times when the recipient electronic device has limited ability to transmit and/or receive. The interface circuit may provide a TWT setup response for the recipient electronic device, where the TWT setup response includes information specifying the TWT SP schedule for the recipient electronic device that includes at least one of: a TWT SP start time, a TWT SP duration, or an interval between TWT SPs.


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