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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2023
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Guoqing Li, Campbell, CA (US);
Lawrie Kurian, San Jose, CA (US);
Yong Liu, Campbell, CA (US);
Tashbeeb Haque, San Francisco, CA (US);
Anand Rajagopalan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Dagbegnon H. Bahini, Livermore, CA (US);
Rajneesh Kumar, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments include an apparatus and method for enabling concurrent peer-to-peer (P2P) communications via a scheduled resource unit (RU) allocated by an access point (AP). For example, the AP may use a trigger frame to schedule uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) access for a first station of a plurality of stations by allocating an RU to the first station. Instead of using the allocated RU for UL infrastructure communications with the AP, the first station may utilize the allocated RU for a P2P communications with a second station. In some embodiments the AP facilitates RU utilization for P2P communications between stations. In some embodiments, the first station uses the allocated RU and the AP may be unaware of the P2P communications.