Samsung patents Wi-Fi method to share airtime between devices
Samsung describes a way for wireless devices to coordinate when they can send data to avoid interference. An access point sends a specific signal that tells a group of devices exactly how long they have to communicate with each other.
In the filing’s own words
Methods and apparatuses for transmission opportunity (TXOP) provisioning in TXOP sharing for a peer to peer (P2P) group (TXSPG). A method performed by a non-access point (AP) station (STA) includes receiving, from an AP, a multi user (MU)-request to send (RTS) transmission opportunity sharing (TXS) trigger frame; identifying a time allocated to the P2P group based on an allocation duration subfield in the MU-RTS TXS trigger frame; and transmitting or receiving during the allocated time. The MU-RTS TXS trigger frame includes only one user info field that is not a special user info field. The non-AP STA is part of a P2P group.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method performed by a non-access point (AP) station (STA), the method comprising: receiving, from an AP, a multi user (MU)-request to send (RTS) transmission opportunity sharing (TXS) trigger frame, wherein the MU-RTS TXS trigger frame includes only one user info field that is not a special user info field and wherein the non-AP STA is part of a peer to peer (P2P) group; identifying a time allocated to the P2P group based on an allocation duration subfield in the MU-RTS TXS trigger frame; and transmitting or receiving during the allocated time.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- TXOP PROVISIONING IN TXSPG
- Publication number
- US20260304472A1
- Application number
- 19569983
- Filed
- Mar 17, 2026
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 6
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
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