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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2011
Minyoung Park, Portland, OR (US);
Thomas J. Kenney, Portland, OR (US);
Emily H. Qi, Portland, OR (US);
Thomas A. Tetzlaff, Portland, OR (US);
Minyoung Park, Portland, OR (US);
Thomas J. Kenney, Portland, OR (US);
Emily H. Qi, Portland, OR (US);
Thomas A. Tetzlaff, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments may implement a new hierarchical data structure for traffic indication mapping to facilitate transmissions for wireless communications devices. Many embodiments comprise MAC sublayer logic to generate and transmit management frames such as beacon frames with a partial virtual bitmap based upon the hierarchical data structure for traffic indication mapping. In some embodiments, the MAC sublayer logic may store the traffic indication map and/or the traffic indication map structure in memory, in logic, or in another manner that facilitates transmission of the frames. Some embodiments may receive, detect, and decode communications with frames comprising the partial virtual bitmap based upon the hierarchical data structure. In some embodiments, indications of buffered data for pages, blocks, sub-blocks, and/or stations may be inverted. In several embodiments, a new association identifier (AID) structure is defined for the new hierarchical data structure for traffic indication mapping.