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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:
Dec. 24, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 08, 2023
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Tusher Chakraborty, Bangalore, IN;

Deepak Vasisht, Redmond, WA (US);

Ranveer Chandra, Kirkland, WA (US);

Zerina Kapetanovic, Seattle, WA (US);

Heping Shi, Bellevue, WA (US);

Nissanka Arachchige Bodhi Priyantha, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 16/10 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/12 (2023.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 16/10 (2013.01); H04L 5/0012 (2013.01); H04L 5/0055 (2013.01); H04W 72/12 (2013.01); H04W 72/21 (2023.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01);
Abstract

The disclosure described herein configures a base station and client devices for communication using dynamic spectrum access within a frequency spectrum that includes selecting, from a list of available channels, a set of channels as active channels. The active channels include uplink channels and downlink channels. An uplink channel and a downlink channel are assigned to a plurality of client devices based on locations the client devices, wherein at least some client devices have active channels in common. Acknowledgements from the subset of client devices having the common active channel are grouped, the acknowledgements containing medium access control (MAC) commands specific to the subset of client devices, where each message of a plurality of messages on the uplink channels is followed by a downlink acknowledgement.


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