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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Jinjing Jiang, San Jose, CA (US);
Yong Liu, Campbell, CA (US);
Tianyu Wu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Qi Wang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Su Khiong Yong, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jarkko L. Kneckt, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Lochan Verma, San Diego, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for high-bandwidth stations in a WiFi environment. In embodiments, a bandwidth of communications supported by the access point is divided into multiple frequency segments. In an embodiment, bandwidths up to 320 MHz are supported, which can be subdivided into four frequency segments of 80 MHz each. Different stations park on different frequency segments, whereas the access point has its primary channel located on the first frequency segment. With this configuration, uplink and downlink channel access can be provided to the different stations using a primary channel hopping pattern, which is provided to the stations from the AP. This pattern provides time windows for each frequency segment, during which the stations in that segment are able to freely communicate. Several other aspects of the disclosure further support this configuration and other high-bandwidth configurations.