IP Library Granted Patent US 12,402,171
Granted Patent B2
US 12,402,171 · App. 18/585,165 · Granted Aug 26, 2025

Wireless communication system and wireless communication method

Inventors: Shoko Shinohara (Yokosuka, JP); Yasuhiko Inoue (Yokosuka, JP); Junichi Iwatani (Yokosuka, JP); Masato Mizoguchi (Yokosuka, JP)
Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
H04W74/0816H04L1/0021H04W16/08H04W28/06H04W72/541H04W48/02H04W84/12
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Patent No.
US 12,402,171
App. No.
18/585,165
Granted
Aug 26, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A format that includes a BSSID of a transmitting station within a preamble of the frame is an HE format, and a format that does not include a BSSID within the preamble but includes a BSSID in a MAC header is a Non-HE format; and a wireless station in the BSS includes a control part which checks a format of a frame received at a predetermined receiver sensitivity or above, and continues demodulation of the received frame if the format is HE format and the BSSID in the received frame is consistent with its own BSS, and stops the demodulation of the received frame if the HE format and the BSSID in the received frame is not consistent with its own BSS.

Claims (10)

1. A wireless communication station which transmits and receives a frame using a channel by access control for transmission based on carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) using a clear channel assessment threshold (CCA threshold), wherein:

a format that includes a field for an identifier of a basic service set (BSS) within a preamble of the frame is defined as a high efficiency (HE) format;

said wireless communication station comprising

a processor; and

a storage medium having computer program instructions stored thereon, when executed by the processor, perform to:

check the identifier of BSS within a preamble of a received frame; and

use a first CCA threshold and perform the access control for transmission if the identifier of BSS within the preamble of the received frame is consistent with its own BSS;

check a type of the received frame if the identifier of BSS within the preamble of the received frame is not consistent with its own BSS; and

continue demodulation of the received frame if the type is a predetermined control frame including acknowledgment (ACK) and Clear to Send (CTS); and

use a second CCA threshold that differs from the first CCA threshold and perform the access control for transmission if the type is not the predetermined control frame.

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 20, 2026
From: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
To: NTT, INC.
Reel/Frame 076018/0969 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2015-197969 · Oct 5, 2015 · national
Continuity (4)
Continuation 17885345 · Aug 10, 2022
Continuation 16914902 · Jun 29, 2020
Continuation 15764171
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