Samsung patents Wi-Fi method for sharing airtime in peer-to-peer groups
Samsung has filed a patent describing a way for devices to request specific time slots to communicate directly with each other over Wi-Fi. The system allows a group of devices to share transmission opportunities, ensuring data is sent at intervals that meet specific quality requirements.
In the filing’s own words
Methods and apparatuses for stream classification service (SCS) operations for transmission opportunity (TXOP) sharing for a peer to peer (P2P) group (TXSPG). A method performed by a non-access point (AP) station (STA) includes sending, to an AP, a SCS request frame including a quality of service (QoS) characteristics element requesting allocation, the SCS request frame requesting a TXOP allocation for a P2P group of the non-AP STA. The non-AP STA supports TXSPG. When the SCS request frame is accepted, transmission of P2P frames within the P2P group on a link specified in a link identifier subfield of a control info field of the QoS characteristics element are facilitated with an interval that falls between requested minimum and maximum service intervals.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method performed by a non-access point (AP) station (STA), the method comprising: sending, to an AP, a stream classification service (SCS) request frame including a quality of service (QoS) characteristics element requesting allocation, the SCS request frame requesting a transmission opportunity (TXOP) allocation for a peer to peer (P2P) group of the non-AP STA, wherein the non-AP STA supports TXOP sharing for a P2P group (TXSPG), and wherein, when the SCS request frame is accepted, transmission of P2P frames within the P2P group on a link specified in a link identifier subfield of a control info field of the QoS characteristics element are facilitated with an interval that falls between requested minimum and maximum service intervals.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- SCS PROCEDURE FOR TXSPG
- Publication number
- US20260304212A1
- Application number
- 19572753
- Filed
- Mar 19, 2026
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 6
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04W 28/0268 Electricity & electronicsH04W 74/0808 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Networks & wireless
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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