Coordinated Multi-Role Access-Point Operation

    公开(公告)号:US20200154353A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-14

    申请号:US16676592

    申请日:2019-11-07

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: An electronic device (such as an access point) may provide a management frame, intended for at least a recipient electronic device, that includes slotted-operation information corresponding to a power-save mode of the electronic device for communication with at least the recipient electronic device. The slotted-operation information may include a sequence of temporal slots and associated channel information for the temporal slots. When a channel for a temporal slot comprises a null value, the power-save mode may include transitioning the electronic device into a lower-power-consumption mode during the temporal slot. Alternatively, when a channel for a temporal slot is different than a null value, the power-save mode may include performing another activity than communicating with the recipient electronic device during the temporal slot.

    Neighbor Awareness Networking Time Slot Allocation

    公开(公告)号:US20190357053A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-21

    申请号:US16412248

    申请日:2019-05-14

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: One or more wireless stations may operate to configure direct communication with neighboring mobile stations, e.g., direct communication between the wireless stations without utilizing an intermediate access point. A mechanism for wireless stations to learn preferred channels of neighboring wireless stations and to schedule channel sequences within a time period based on the learned channels may include advertisement of preferred channels and adaptation of channel sequences, based on the preferred channels, to maximize bandwidth utilization.

    Neighbor awareness networking—accelerated discovery

    公开(公告)号:US10285040B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-07

    申请号:US15605011

    申请日:2017-05-25

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: In some embodiments, one or more wireless stations operate to configure direct communication with neighboring mobile stations, e.g., direct communication between the wireless stations without utilizing an intermediate access point. Embodiments of the disclosure relate to accelerated service discovery between peer devices. In some embodiments, a wireless device may broadcast a probe beacon on one or more discovery channels. The wireless device may then scan the discovery channels for an extended period of time. The wireless device may receive a response from a peer device and transmit further service information to the peer device in an availability window indicated in the response.

    Neighbor Awareness Networking - Schedule Update

    公开(公告)号:US20180063863A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-01

    申请号:US15684750

    申请日:2017-08-23

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: In some embodiments, one or more wireless stations operate to configure direct communication with neighboring mobile stations, e.g., direct communication between the wireless stations without utilizing an intermediate access point. Embodiments of the disclosure relate to NAN datapath scheduling and NAN pre-datapath operation setup and scheduling. The NAN datapath embodiments described herein provide a mechanism through which devices can communicate and provide services. In particular, embodiments described herein relate to techniques for devices (e.g., NAN devices) to propose and confirm schedule updates. The datapath model, and in particular the techniques described herein, may be implemented for unicast and multicast communication between wireless stations.

    NAN Further Availability Schedule Indications

    公开(公告)号:US20170127464A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-05-04

    申请号:US15341493

    申请日:2016-11-02

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04W8/005 H04W76/14 H04W84/12

    Abstract: In some embodiments, one or more wireless stations operate to configure direct communication with neighboring mobile stations, e.g., direct communication between the wireless stations without utilizing an intermediate access point. Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a mechanism for peer devices to transmit availability schedules beyond 512 time units while continuing to minimize communication overhead. In some embodiments, a wireless station may discover a peer wireless station and transmit extended availability information. In some embodiments, the extended availability information may indicate one or more of an availability interval duration, a bitmap length, and/or a repeat interval of the availability information. In some embodiments, the extended availability information may indicate a maximum number of receivable spatial streams and/or a channel bandwidth. In some embodiments, the extended availability information may include or indicate availability of the wireless station for more than 512 time units.

    Neighbor Awareness Networking Tree Mapping
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    发明申请
    Neighbor Awareness Networking Tree Mapping 审中-公开
    邻居意识网络树映射

    公开(公告)号:US20170055261A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-02-23

    申请号:US15241462

    申请日:2016-08-19

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    CPC classification number: H04W76/14 H04W8/005 H04W84/12 H04W88/04

    Abstract: In embodiments, one or more wireless stations operate to configure direct communication with neighboring mobile stations, i.e., communication between the mobile stations without utilizing an intermediate access point. Configuration of NAN includes mapping of NAN clusters and multi-hop data routing within a NAN cluster. A wireless device may transmit a subscribe service discovery frame (SDF) to one or more neighboring wireless devices and receive a respective publish SDF from the one or more wireless devices, the respective publish SDF including respective wireless device information. The wireless device may maintain a data structure comprising the respective wireless device information. In some embodiments, the wireless device information may include an address, hop count, and/or service indications, e.g., for data routing and/or service discovery.

    Abstract translation: 在实施例中,一个或多个无线站操作以配置与相邻移动站的直接通信,即,在不使用中间接入点的情况下,移动站之间的通信。 NAN的配置包括NAN簇内的映射和NAN簇内的多跳数据路由。 无线设备可以向一个或多个相邻无线设备发送订阅服务发现帧(SDF),并且从一个或多个无线设备接收相应的发布SDF,相应的发布SDF包括相应的无线设备信息。 无线设备可以维护包括相应无线设备信息的数据结构。 在一些实施例中,无线设备信息可以包括地址,跳数和/或服务指示,例如用于数据路由和/或服务发现。

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