18764923. Coordinated Multi-Role Access-Point Operation (Apple Inc.)
Coordinated Multi-Role Access-Point Operation
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Guoqing Li of Cupertino CA (US)
Lawrie Kurian of San Jose CA (US)
Tashbeeb Haque of San Francisco CA (US)
Coordinated Multi-Role Access-Point Operation
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18764923 titled 'Coordinated Multi-Role Access-Point Operation
Original Abstract Submitted
An electronic device (such as an access point) may provide a management frame, intended for at least a recipient electronic device, that includes slotted-operation information corresponding to a power-save mode of the electronic device for communication with at least the recipient electronic device. The slotted-operation information may include a sequence of temporal slots and associated channel information for the temporal slots. When a channel for a temporal slot comprises a null value, the power-save mode may include transitioning the electronic device into a lower-power-consumption mode during the temporal slot. Alternatively, when a channel for a temporal slot is different than a null value, the power-save mode may include performing another activity than communicating with the recipient electronic device during the temporal slot.