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US 12,526,780 · App. 18/323,661 · Granted Jan 13, 2026

Methods and apparatuses for triggering uplink transmission in wireless local area networks

Inventor: Lei Huang (Singapore, SG)
Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
H04W72/0446H04W72/21H04W84/12
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Patent No.
US 12,526,780
App. No.
18/323,661
Granted
Jan 13, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for triggering uplink transmission comprises generating, by an access point (AP), a trigger frame based on a type of physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) transmissions to be solicited from a plurality of stations (STAs) in the WLAN, wherein a common information field of the trigger frame indicating whether or not a special user information field is present in the trigger frame; and transmitting the trigger frame to the plurality of STAs.

Claims (19)

1 . A method for triggering uplink transmission in a wireless local area network (WLAN), the method comprising:

generating, by an access point (AP), a trigger frame based on a type of physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) transmissions to be solicited from a plurality of stations (STAs) in the WLAN, a common information field of the trigger frame comprising a first subfield indicating whether or not a special user information field is present in the trigger frame,

when the first subfield indicates that the special user information field is present in the trigger frame, the trigger frame is an enhanced trigger frame; wherein the special user information field is located immediately after the common information field, the common information field includes an aggregated PPDU (A-PPDU) Flag subfield indicating whether a trigger-based frequency domain aggregated PPDU (TB FD-A-PPDU) transmission or an extremely high throughput trigger-based PPDU (EHT TB PPDU) transmission is solicited, and the A-PPDU Flag subfield is set to 0 to indicate the EHT TB PPDU transmission is solicited, and set to 1 to indicate the TB FD-A-PPDU transmission is solicited; and

when the TB FD-A-PPDU transmission is solicited and a bandwidth (BW) of the TB FD-A-PPDU is set to 320 MHz, a BW allocated for a high efficiency (HE) TB PPDU transmission indicated by a UL BW subfield of the common information field is a primary 80 MHz channel (P 80 ) or a primary 160 MHz channel (P160), while a BW allocated for an extremely high throughput (EHT) PPDU transmission from release 2 (R2) EHT STAs indicated by a subfield of the special user information field is a secondary 160 MHz channel (S160); and

transmitting, by the AP, the generated trigger frame to the plurality of STAs.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the special user information field carries necessary universal SIGNAL (U-SIG) subfields of the solicited PPDUs.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein the solicited PPDU transmissions are EHT TB PPDUs.

4 . An access point (AP) for triggering uplink transmission in a wireless local area network (WLAN), the AP comprising: a memory configured to store instructions for triggering uplink transmission in the WLAN, and a processor communicably coupled with the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute the instructions to:

generate a trigger frame based on a type of physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) transmissions to be solicited from a plurality of stations (STAs) in the WLAN, a common information field of the trigger frame comprising a first subfield indicating whether or not a special user information field is present in the trigger frame,

when the first subfield indicates that the special user information field is present in the trigger frame, the trigger frame is an enhanced trigger frame; wherein the special user information field is located immediately after the common information field, the common information field includes an aggregated PPDU (A-PPDU) Flag subfield indicating whether a trigger-based frequency domain aggregated PPDU (TB FD-A-PPDU) transmission or an extremely high throughput trigger-based PPDU (EHT TB PPDU) transmission is solicited, and the A-PPDU Flag subfield is set to 0 to indicate the EHT TB PPDU transmission is solicited, and set to 1 to indicate the TB FD-A-PPDU transmission is solicited; and

when the TB FD-A-PPDU transmission is solicited and a bandwidth (BW) of the TB FD-A-PPDU is set to 320 MHZ, a BW allocated for a high efficiency (HE) TB PPDU transmission indicated by a UL BW subfield of the common information field is a primary 80 MHz channel (P80) or a primary 160 MHz channel (P160), while a BW allocated for an extremely high throughput (EHT) PPDU transmission from release 2 (R2) EHT STAs indicated by a subfield of the special user information field is a secondary 160 MHz channel (S160); and

transmit the generated trigger frame to the plurality of STAs.

5 . The AP according to claim 4 , wherein the special user information field carries necessary universal SIGNAL (U-SIG) subfields of the solicited PPDUs.

6 . The AP according to claim 4 , wherein the solicited PPDU transmissions are EHT TB PPDUs.

7 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by a processor of an access point (AP), cause the AP to perform a method for triggering uplink transmission in a wireless local area network (WLAN), comprising:

generate a trigger frame based on a type of physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) transmissions to be solicited from a plurality of stations (STAs) in the WLAN, a common information field of the trigger frame comprising a first subfield indicating whether or not a special user information field is present in the trigger frame,

when the first subfield indicates that the special user information field is present in the trigger frame, the trigger frame is an enhanced trigger frame; wherein the special user information field is located immediately after the common information field, the common information field includes an aggregated PPDU (A-PPDU) Flag subfield indicating whether a trigger-based frequency domain aggregated PPDU (TB FD-A-PPDU) transmission or an extremely high throughput trigger-based PPDU (EHT TB PPDU) transmission is solicited, and the A-PPDU Flag subfield is set to 0 to indicate the EHT TB PPDU transmission is solicited, and set to 1 to indicate the TB FD-A-PPDU transmission is solicited; and

when the TB FD-A-PPDU transmission is solicited and a bandwidth (BW) of the TB FD-A-PPDU is set to 320 MHz, a BW allocated for a high efficiency (HE) TB PPDU transmission indicated by a UL BW subfield of the common information field is a primary 80 MHz channel (P80) or a primary 160 MHz channel (P160), while a BW allocated for an extremely high throughput (EHT) PPDU transmission from release 2 (R2) EHT STAs indicated by a subfield of the special user information field is a secondary 160 MHz channel (S160); and

transmit the generated trigger frame to the plurality of STAs.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 25, 2023
From: HUANG, LEI
To: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
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Continuation PCTCN2020139147 · Dec 24, 2020
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