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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:
Aug. 10, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 17, 2016
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Pascal Viger, Janze, FR;

Romain Guignard, Rennes, FR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 74/02 (2009.01); H04W 74/04 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/0816 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 74/02 (2013.01); H04W 74/04 (2013.01); H04W 74/0808 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention relates to a method and system for simultaneous transmission of data from two or more wireless communication device during a transmission opportunity otherwise reserved for a single communication device. The invention proposes collaboration among the group of communication devices to reserve a transmission opportunity on a composite channel comprising of a plurality of sub-channels for the entire group and to efficiently manage allocation of the sub-channels for simultaneous data transmission from two or more devices. In the main aspect of the invention, the collaboration takes the form of grouping the sub-channels in the reserved composite channel so as to allow two or more stations to transmit data simultaneously over a contiguous frequency band. The collaboration among the group of communication devices may be in a managed or an ad hoc mode. The invention is particularly relevant to the IEEE 802.11 ac communication standard.


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