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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2012
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Simone Merlin, San Diego, CA (US);
Santosh Paul Abraham, San Diego, CA (US);
Maarten Menzo Wentink, Breukelen, NL;
Zhi Quan, Livermore, CA (US);
Alfred Asterjadhi, Utrecht, NL;
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/06 (2009.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 52/54 (2009.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 28/065 (2013.01); H04L 1/0029 (2013.01); H04L 1/0079 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and devices for communicating short control frames are described herein. In some aspects, a method of wireless communication includes generating a control frame comprising a physical layer preamble having a signal field, the signal field including an indicator indicating the control frame is a control frame type of frame. The method further includes transmitting the control frame.