Sony patents Wi-Fi scheduling to prevent interference between nearby networks

1. A station apparatus for communication in a wireless network, the apparatus comprising: (a) at least one modem coupled to at least one radio-frequency (RF) circuit, with each RF circuit connected to one or multiple antennas; (b) wherein said station (STA) is configured as a separate STA or as a STA within a multiple-link device (MLD); (c) a processor of said STA; (d) a non-transitory memory storing instructions executable by the processor for wirelessly communicating with other STAs on a IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network (WLAN); and (e) wherein said instructions, when executed by the processor, perform steps of a wireless communications protocol, comprising: (i) wherein said STA operates a wireless communications protocol as either a ultra high reliability (UHR) Access Point (AP) STA of its basic service set (BSS) or a UHR non-AP STA associated with the UHR AP in the BSS, for communicating with other STAs in the network; (ii) incorporating a flag in the basic service set identification (BSSID) field of UHR AP and UHR non-AP STAs to indicate if the AP represented by the BSSID is a UHR AP; and (iii) rescheduling restricted-target wake times (R-TWT) by the UHR AP to avoid overlapping and/or interfering its R-TWT service period (SP) with another BSS (OBSS) R-TWT SP, in response to detecting a signal from the OBSS which indicates it is an UHR AP or it is an UHR non-AP STA that is associate with an UHR AP that supports coordinated R-TWT and extracting information from that OBSS signal, and performing rescheduling when a UHR non-AP STA of the BSS indicates it could be interfered with by communications by the OBSS.