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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Guoqing Li, Campbell, 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 a mobile access point (AP) station that operates in an always-on soft AP mode where a station is associated with the mobile AP station, and switch back to operate as a station in an infrastructure mode with an AP. For example, in an always-on soft AP mode, the mobile AP station may implement a target wake time (TWT) responder power save mode feature. The mobile AP station may maintain a wake window after a beacon to enable unassociated devices to associate; establish a broadcast TWT schedule for unassociated TWT-capable devices to associate; schedule TWT for associated devices; go to sleep outside of the scheduled TWT of the associated devices; and switch back to infrastructure mode to perform as a station and maintain a connection with an AP.