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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2018
Applicant:
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/0825 (2013.01); H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H04W 72/005 (2013.01); H04W 72/1205 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide a contention method. The contention method includes: receiving, by an access point, an uplink frame transmitted by a station; transmitting, by the access point, a frame responding to the uplink frame. The frame responding to the uplink frame is used to acknowledge the uplink frame and trigger the station to enter the next channel contention period. The contention method can acknowledge the uplink frame and trigger the station to enter the next channel contention period.