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Method and apparatus of transmitting paging frame and wakeup frame

  • US 9,544,852 B2
  • Filed: 07/31/2012
  • Issued: 01/10/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for associating with an access point in a wireless local area network, the method comprising:

  • transmitting, by a station, a request frame to an access point (AP), the request frame including a physical layer header without a data field;

    determining, by the station, whether a response frame in response to the request frame is received from the AP before a waiting time expires; and

    if the response frame is received, transmitting, by the station to the AP, an association request frame to request an association with the AP,wherein the physical layer header includes a short training field, a long training field and a signal field, the signal field including frame type information and a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for the signal field, andwherein the frame type information indicates the request frame includes no data field.

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