MUMBAI, India, July 25 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202527065888 A) filed by Mediatek Inc., Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, on July 10, for 'method and apparatus for dealing with network allocation vector setup in multi-access-point system.'

Inventor(s) include Hsu, Chien-Fang; and Kang, Hao-Hua.

The application for the patent was published on July 25, under issue no. 30/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A network allocation vector (NAV) setup method includes: after a first access point (AP) of a multi-AP (MAP) system sends a request frame to a second AP of the MAP system to indicate that the first AP intends to share transmission resources with the second AP, in response to receipt of a response frame sent from the second AP to indicate that the second AP accepts to use the transmission resources shared by the first AP, managing at least one of a basic NAV and an intra basic service set (intra-BSS) NAV of a non-AP station (STA) according to the response frame, wherein the non-AP STA is associated with one of the first AP and the second AP."

The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 21, 2023, under International application No.PCT/CN2023/140498.

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