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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2021
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Yoel Boger, Shoham, IL;
Oren Shani, Saratoga, CA (US);
Jerome C. Tu, Saratoga, CA (US);
Sungho Yun, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for low-latency point-to-point communication between electronic devices. In one or more implementations, low latency can be achieved by including data in transmission units, in order of priority up to a maximum duration for the transmission unit. In an example in which the communication occurs over a WiFi channel, the transmission unit may be a multi-TID AMPDU, and the priority may be based on a Quality of Service (QoS) category as identified by the traffic identifier (TID). The communication may be exchanged using a periodic access window that can be adaptively offset, to efficiently share bandwidth with other device pairs on the same wireless channel. Base and client devices can be time synchronized, and transmission opportunity (TXOP) bursting can be allowed, in one or more implementations.