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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:
Sep. 28, 2021

Filed:

Jan. 31, 2020
Applicant:

Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Ramy Abdallah, San Jose, CA (US);

Kazuyuki Sakoda, Campbell, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 16/28 (2009.01); H04B 7/06 (2006.01); H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04W 74/02 (2009.01); H04W 74/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/08 (2013.01); H04B 7/0617 (2013.01); H04B 7/088 (2013.01); H04W 16/28 (2013.01); H04W 74/02 (2013.01); H04B 7/0695 (2013.01); H04W 74/006 (2013.01);
Abstract

Wireless communication is performed in a wireless network by dividing up a data transmission interval (DTI) within the communication frame into a plurality of time slots based on determining the number of best sector directions from the AP to each STA in the wireless network. Each STA transmits only during this time slot, while the AP uses receiver beamforming and receives only from a single beamforming direction for each of these time slots. A time slot may be used by more than one STA if they are in the same best antenna sector direction from the AP, wherein they contend for access within this time slot.


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