ELECTRONIC DEVICE SUPPORTING MULI-BAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20230224189A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-13

    申请号:US18114314

    申请日:2023-02-27

    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device, including a housing, a first communication circuit disposed in the housing and configured to support omnidirectional wireless communication, a second communication circuit disposed in the housing and configured to support directional wireless communication using beamforming, a processor disposed in the housing and operatively coupled to the first communication circuit and the second communication circuit, and a memory disposed in the housing and operatively coupled to the processor. The processor may be configured to receive at least one first radio signal through a communication channel from an external device capable of supporting the omnidirectional wireless communication and the directional wireless communication using the first communication circuit, determine a state of the communication channel based on at least part of the at least one first radio signal, and activate the second communication circuit based on at least part of the determined state of the communication channel wherein the second communication circuit is configured to receive a second radio signal from the external device.

    ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR DETERMINING WHETHER TO SCAN A CHANNEL OF SPECIFIC FREQUENCY BAND AND METHOD FOR THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20230096288A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-30

    申请号:US17964478

    申请日:2022-10-12

    Abstract: In an electronic device and/or an operating method of the electronic device, the electronic device may include: a communication circuit configured to perform short-range wireless communication through a first frequency band and/or a second frequency band lower than the first frequency band; and a processor, wherein the processor may be configured to identify whether a channel in the first frequency band is a non-preferred scanning channel (non-PSC), based on reduced neighbor report (RNR) information included in a signal received through the second frequency band from an external electronic device, determine a quality of a signal to be received through the first frequency band, based on transmit power control (TPC) information received from the external electronic device upon identifying that the channel in the first frequency band is the non-PSC, and determine whether to perform an operation of scanning the non-PSC, based on whether a quality of a signal to be transmitted through the first frequency band satisfies a specified condition. In addition, various embodiments are possible.

    ELECTRONIC DEVICE PERFORMING RESCHEDULING OVER WIRELESS CHANNEL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20220141680A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-05

    申请号:US17474399

    申请日:2021-09-14

    Abstract: According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include a communication circuit operably coupled with an external electronic device and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor may be configured to determine one or more target-wake-time (TWT) parameters of at least one TWT service period based on at least one of the amount of data transmitted to the external electronic device, an amount of data received from the external electronic device, or a bandwidth, wherein at least one data frame is transmitted or received between the electronic device and the external electronic device during the at least one TWT service period; identify quality of service (QoS) for the at least one data frame transmitted or received during the at least one TWT service period; change at least one TWT parameter among the one or more TWT parameters based on the identified QoS; and control the communication circuit to transmit or receive at least one next data frame during the a next TWT service period based on the changed at least one TWT parameter.

    METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING SPATIAL REUSE IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20210360419A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-18

    申请号:US17284955

    申请日:2019-09-30

    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention disclose a spatial reuse method and apparatus in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system. According to various embodiments of the present invention, an electronic device comprises a communication circuit for wireless communication with at least one external device and a processor operatively connected to the communication circuit, wherein the processor may determine an allowable interference level for spatial reuse in association with an adjacent basic service set (BSS) in a network environment where a plurality of electronic devices operate, determine a configuration to be used during uplink transmission by at least one mobile device connected to the electronic device on the basis of the adjacent BBS allowing the determined interference level, and transmit a trigger frame including the determined configuration to the mobile device by using the communication circuit. Various embodiments are possible.

    WIRELESS COMMUNICATION METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SUPPORTING SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20210352520A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-11

    申请号:US17270720

    申请日:2019-08-23

    Abstract: According to an embodiment disclosed in the specification, an electronic device may include a display, a wireless communication circuit, a processor, and a memory storing a first application program having a first priority associated with use of a resource of the wireless communication circuit and a second application program having a second priority associated with the use of the resource. The memory may store instructions that cause the processor to execute the first application program, to execute the second application program, to compare the first priority with the second priority when the first application program is displayed on the display, and to cause the first application program to have a priority the same as the second application program or to have a priority higher than the second application program, based at least partly on the comparison.

    ELECTRONIC DEVICE SUPPORTING MULI-BAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20210344525A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-04

    申请号:US17375090

    申请日:2021-07-14

    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device, including a housing, a first communication circuit disposed in the housing and configured to support omnidirectional wireless communication, a second communication circuit disposed in the housing and configured to support directional wireless communication using beamforming, a processor disposed in the housing and operatively coupled to the first communication circuit and the second communication circuit, and a memory disposed in the housing and operatively coupled to the processor. The processor may be configured to receive at least one first radio signal through a communication channel from an external device capable of supporting the omnidirectional wireless communication and the directional wireless communication using the first communication circuit, determine a state of the communication channel based on at least part of the at least one first radio signal, and activate the second communication circuit based on at least part of the determined state of the communication channel wherein the second communication circuit is configured to receive a second radio signal from the external device.

    ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR DETERMINING PATH OF LINE OF SIGHT (LoS) AND METHOD FOR THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20210092703A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-25

    申请号:US16939326

    申请日:2020-07-27

    Abstract: An electronic device according to an embodiment includes an mmWave communication module and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a first signal transmitted by a first external electronic device, identify a distance of a transmission path of the first signal, transmit a second signal, receive a third signal obtained when the second signal is reflected, identify a distance of a transmission path of the second signal based on a difference between a transmission time of the second signal and a reception time of the third signal, and determine whether the transmission path of the first signal is a line of sight (LoS) path between the electronic device and the first external electronic device based on a difference between the distance of the transmission path of the first signal and the distance of the transmission path of the second signal. In addition, other embodiments are possible.

    APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING OBJECT IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20200019686A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-16

    申请号:US16504410

    申请日:2019-07-08

    Abstract: In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, an electronic device is provided. The electronic device comprises an antenna array, a wireless communication module electrically connected to the antenna array and configured to form directional beams through the antenna array, at least one processor operatively connected to the wireless communication module; and a memory operatively connected to the at least one processor. The memory stores instructions causing the at least one processor to perform a plurality of operations comprising: transmitting a sequence of first directional beams having a first beam width to scan first regions having a first sizethrough the antenna array, receiving a sequence of first reflected waves generated by reflection of the sequence of the first directional beams from an object through the antenna array, transmitting a sequence of second directional beams having a second beam width narrower than the first beam width to scan second regions, which are included in the first regions and have a second size smaller than the first size, through the antenna array based on at least a portion of the received sequence of the first reflected waves, receiving a sequence of second reflected waves generated by reflection of the sequence of the second directional beams from the object through the antenna array, and authenticating the object based on at least a portion of the sequence of the second reflected waves.

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