公开(公告)号：US10278150B2

公开(公告)日：2019-04-30

申请号：US15802647

申请日：2017-11-03

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Santosh Paul Abraham ,  Alireza Raissinia ,  Abhishek Pramod Patil ,  George Cherian ,  Shivraj Singh Sandhu

IPC: H04W56/00 ,  H04W40/24 ,  H04W72/06 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04W48/00 ,  H04W84/18 ,  H04W88/12 ,  H04W84/20 ,  H04W8/00

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for synchronizing clocks in a Neighbor Aware Network (NAN) Data Link (NDL) cluster. An exemplary apparatus includes a processing system configured to communicate with one or more members of a group, that includes the apparatus, according to a first data communication window (DCW) timeline having a first offset relative to a first clock associated with a first network cluster, to detect a beacon transmitted by a device of a second network cluster, wherein the beacon comprises timing information of a second clock associated with the second network cluster, to determine whether to initiate a move of the group to the second network cluster, to generate a frame to initiate the move of the group to the second network cluster, the frame comprising a first indication of the timing information of the second clock, and an interface configured to output the frame for transmission.

公开(公告)号：US20190124556A1

公开(公告)日：2019-04-25

申请号：US16162804

申请日：2018-10-17

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Lochan Verma ,  Bin Tian ,  Sameer Vermani ,  Lin Yang ,  Jialing Li Chen ,  George Cherian

IPC: H04W28/26 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W88/10

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for multiplexing clients of different generations in trigger-based transmissions, including trigger-based transmissions in extremely-high throughput (EHT) Wi-Fi systems. An access point (AP) may generate a trigger frame compatible with two types of stations (STAs), such as EHT STAs and legacy (or high efficiency (HE)) STAs. The AP may transmit the trigger frame to a group of STAs, where legacy STAs may process the trigger frame a legacy trigger frame. EHT STAs may process the trigger frame to determine resource unit (RU) allocations for uplink transmissions in a bandwidth greater than a legacy bandwidth. An EHT STA may determine the resources in the larger bandwidth based on an EHT RU allocation table, a legacy RU allocation table and an additional bit in the trigger frame, or an ordering of RU allocations in the trigger frame.

公开(公告)号：US10225866B2

公开(公告)日：2019-03-05

申请号：US15182536

申请日：2016-06-14

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Yan Zhou ,  Alfred Asterjadhi ,  Simone Merlin ,  George Cherian

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/00

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for signaling and generating an enhanced random access frame in a wireless network are provided. One aspect of this disclosure provides a method of wireless communication. The method includes receiving, at a first device, a first frame from a second device indicating one or more frequency bandwidths available for random access by the first device. The method further includes transmitting, at the first device, a second frame to the second device in response to the first frame, the second frame comprising an indication of an identifier of the first device and indicating a selection of at least one frequency bandwidth of the one or more frequency bandwidths, the second frame not including a medium access control (MAC) payload data portion.

公开(公告)号：US20190037058A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-31

申请号：US16152309

申请日：2018-10-04

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Alfred Asterjadhi ,  Simone Merlin ,  George Cherian ,  Gwendolyn Denise Barriac ,  Gang Ding ,  Qingjiang Tian ,  Yan Zhou

IPC: H04L29/08

Abstract: Methods, devices, and computer program products for traffic information signaling in a wireless communications network are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication network is disclosed. The method includes selecting, from a variable number of control fields, one or more control fields for inclusion in a frame. The method further includes generating the frame comprising the selected number of control fields, each control field comprising an end of control field, the end of control field storing an indicator indicative of an end of the selected number of control fields or a presence of another control field in the frame. The method further includes transmitting the frame.

公开(公告)号：US10193933B2

公开(公告)日：2019-01-29

申请号：US14024214

申请日：2013-09-11

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Santosh Paul Abraham ,  George Cherian ,  Rolf De Vegt

IPC: H04W8/00 ,  H04L29/06

Abstract: In a particular embodiment, a method includes determining, at a first mobile device, a post-discovery communication technique for communicating within a mobile device cluster after a discovery interval. During the discovery interval, a discovery message may be sent. The discovery message indicates the post-discovery communication protocol for communicating within the mobile device cluster after the discovery interval. The discovery message may further indicate a time interval for sending and receiving a paging request. In response to the receipt of the discovery message a second mobile devices may send a paging request, the paging request including a security information request. The method further includes sending from the first mobile device a paging response including security information and exchanging one or more post-discovery communications with the second mobile device using the security information.

公开(公告)号：US10159093B2

公开(公告)日：2018-12-18

申请号：US15244537

申请日：2016-08-23

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Yan Zhou ,  Gwendolyn Denise Barriac ,  George Cherian ,  Simone Merlin ,  Alfred Asterjadhi ,  Qingjiang Tian ,  Gang Ding

IPC: H04W74/00 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques for configuring the utilization of request-to-send/clear-to-send (RTS/CTS) protocol procedures based on varying conditions at the STA. For example, an AP may identify one or more conditions, when satisfied, may trigger the STA to either enable or disable uplink (UL) transmissions associated with a RTS/CTS protocol procedure. In some aspects, an AP may determine a transmit opportunity (TXOP) threshold for an STA and may determine whether to broadcast a message having the TXOP threshold to multiple STAs including the STA or unicast the message to the STA. An STA may receive a message from an AP having a TXOP threshold and may replace, based on an indication in the received message, a current TXOP threshold in the STA with the TXOP threshold in the received message. The STA may transmit an UL RTS frame in response to a determination that a planned TXOP duration satisfies the TXOP threshold.

公开(公告)号：US10159058B2

公开(公告)日：2018-12-18

申请号：US14838287

申请日：2015-08-27

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Xiaoxia Zhang ,  Jun Wang ,  Zhengwei Liu ,  Andrea Garavaglia ,  Kuo-Chun Lee ,  George Cherian

IPC: H04W72/00 ,  H04W36/08 ,  H04W8/20 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04W60/00 ,  H04W48/12 ,  H04W48/20 ,  H04W88/08

Abstract: Transfer of Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Services (MBMS) over a Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) service and idle mode unicast service for a mobile entity from a source base station to a target base station may be managed by a base station or mobile entity of a cellular wireless communications system (WCS). Operations related to the transfer may include obtaining an MBMS status of the mobile entity, and/or obtaining MBMS support information for the base station. A network entity may facilitate MBMS discovery by a mobile entity, by transmitting a data element to the mobile entity including service identifiers mapped to corresponding cell identifiers to indicate respective MBMS services to be broadcast in an WCS area on adjacent cells identified by respective ones of the cell identifiers. The MBMS services may be broadcast within the WCS area using the adjacent cells previously indicated in the data element.

公开(公告)号：US10158474B2

公开(公告)日：2018-12-18

申请号：US15145756

申请日：2016-05-03

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： George Cherian ,  Simone Merlin ,  Gwendolyn Denise Barriac ,  Alfred Asterjadhi

IPC: H04L1/16 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04B7/0452

Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a first user terminal. The first user terminal receives, on a first DL communication channel of multiple DL communication channels, a DL MU PPDU includes MPDUs transmitted from an access point to multiple user terminals including the first user terminal on the multiple DL communication channels. The first user terminal obtains an UL channel indication and a BA indication. The first user terminal transmits, on a first UL communication channel of multiple UL communication channels, a first BA to the access point based on the UL channel indication and the BA indication simultaneously or concurrently with a BA transmission from the rest of the multiple user terminals to the access point on the rest of the multiple UL communication channels. The first BA acknowledges one or more of the MPDUs.

公开(公告)号：US20180324306A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-08

申请号：US16038023

申请日：2018-07-17

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Yan Zhou ,  Simone Merlin ,  George Cherian ,  Santosh Paul Abraham ,  Gwendolyn Denise Barriac ,  Hemanth Sampath

IPC: H04M3/56 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04L5/00

CPC classification number: H04M3/567 ,  H04L5/0055 ,  H04L12/189 ,  H04M2203/205 ,  H04M2203/356

Abstract: Devices and methods for synchronized group messaging in a wireless communication system are described. Multicast transmissions, such as those in a dense network, can cause significant medium usage because same multicast packet is likely sent by multiple APs at different time. Medium usage in such implementations may be redundant. As such, the transmission medium is not used optimally. Devices and methods which coordinate and align group messages (e.g., multicast packets) amongst APs are described. Each AP may be configured to transmit identical packets at the same time. Therefore, medium usage can be reduced, while the range can be extended due to accumulated energy from APs.

公开(公告)号：US10111132B2

公开(公告)日：2018-10-23

申请号：US15052827

申请日：2016-02-24

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Simone Merlin ,  Youhan Kim ,  Bin Tian ,  George Cherian ,  Alfred Asterjadhi ,  Sameer Vermani ,  Gwendolyn Denise Barriac

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04W28/06 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04B7/0452

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for channel state information feedback are provided. In various aspects, a message is transmitted requesting channel feedback information. In some aspects, a first portion of the message is transmitted according to a first or second, and contains first information intended for a first or second set of wireless communication devices compatible with the first or second format respectively. In some aspects, a second portion of the first message is transmitted according to the second format, and contains second information intended for the second set of wireless communication devices compatible with the second format. In some aspects, the second message comprises a number of tones or spatial streams for which channel feedback information is requested, or other channel feedback information parameters.