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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2021
Applicant:
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Pooya Monajemi, San Jose, CA (US);
John Matthew Swartz, Lithia, FL (US);
Yeneneh Elfaged Gobena, Cary, NC (US);
Ian Hasund, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/52 (2023.01); H04W 74/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/52 (2023.01); H04W 74/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
Application-based Transmission Opportunity (TXOP) sharing may be provided. First, a sharing AP may receive a request to share TXOPs with a requesting AP. The request may include information associated with an application executing on a client serviced by the requesting AP. Next, a TXOP duration for the requesting AP may be reserved based on the information associated with the application such that, in response to winning contention on the medium, the sharing AP may share a TXOP with the requesting AP for the TXOP duration.