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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2021
Nxp Usa, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Liwen Chu, San Ramon, CA (US);
Young Hoon Kwon, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Hongyuan Zhang, Fremont, CA (US);
Huiling Lou, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
NXP USA, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of a method and an apparatus for multi-link operations are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of multi-link operations involves, at a multi-link station device that has a non-simultaneous transmission and reception capability (NSTR STA MLD) that supports multiple links, exchanging frames on multiple links with a multi-link access point device (AP MLD) that has at least one of a simultaneous transmission capability and a simultaneous transmission and reception (STR) capability, and maintaining, at the NSTR STA MLD, at least one of a frame exchange and a link state on multiple links with the AP MLD that has at least one of the simultaneous transmission capability and the STR capability.