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Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2022

Filed:

Jan. 24, 2020
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Mukesh Taneja, Bangalore, IN;

Sudhir K. Jain, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/26 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/26 (2013.01); H04L 5/0032 (2013.01); H04W 72/048 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01);
Abstract

Resource Unit (RU) sharing between Access Points in a wireless network is provided by identifying a first Access Point (AP) associated with a first user device, wherein the first AP has won contention for a RU; identifying a second AP associated with a second user device, wherein the first user device and the second user device are located within an overlapping area served by the first AP and the second AP; identifying an unused portion of the RU to which the first AP has not scheduled traffic between the first AP and the first user device; and assigning the unused portion to the second AP for communication between the second AP and the second user device.


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