MUMBAI, India, July 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202418091082 A) filed by Interdigital Patent Holdings, Inc. on November 22, 2024, for Multi-Link Steering And Control In Wlan.

Inventors include Sun, Li-Hsiang; Lou, Hanqing; and Wang, Xiaofei.

The application for the patent was published on July 17, 2026, under issue no. 29/2026.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for multi-link (ML) steering and control in wireless local area network (WLAN) are disclosed. A station (STA) multi-link device (MLD) may communicate over a plurality of links. The STA MLD may receive, from an access point (AP) MLD, on a first link of the plurality of links, a first frame comprising a ML element, where the ML element includes pausing information indicating a period of time during which the STA MLD will pause transmission and reception on the first link. The STA MLD may send, to the AP MLD, on a second link of the plurality of links and during the indicated period of time, uplink (UL) traffic, wherein the first link and the second link are multi-directional links.

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