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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 18, 2015
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ehsan Aryafar, Kensington, CA (US);

Minyoung Park, Portland, OR (US);

Ping Wang, San Jose, CA (US);

Shilpa Talwar, Cupertino, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/08 (2009.01); H04W 74/00 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 74/0816 (2013.01); H04W 74/004 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

A client station (STA), when operating in a wireless network, receives data sent by an access point (AP) on a first channel comprising at least one subchannel. During reception of the data on the first channel, the STA monitors channel availability of an additional set of one or more subchannels. In response to a detected availability of at least one newly-available subchannel, the STA sends at least one notification to the AP identifying STA-side availability of the newly-available subchannel(s). The STA subsequently receives data from the AP on the newly-available subchannel(s), which is sent in response to the at least one notification. The AP, when communicating data to the STA, receives the at least one notification from the STA and, in response thereto, initiates data transmission on one or more of the newly-available channel(s).


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