Patents by Inventor Thomas A. Kenney
Thomas A. Kenney has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240172281Abstract: For example, a non Access Point (AP) (non-AP) Multi-Link Device (MLD) may operate at an Enhanced Multi-Link Single Radio (EMLSR) operation mode of a Multi-Link Operation (MLO) over a plurality of links with an AP MLD, for example, based on a determination that the non-AP MLD is to operate over a millimeter Wave (mmWave) frequency band. For example, the plurality of links may include a sub 10 Gigahertz (GHz) (sub-10 GHz) link over a sub-10 GHz frequency band and an mmWave link over the mmWave frequency band. For example, the non-AP MLD may be configured to listen over the plurality of links to identify an Initial Control Frame (ICF) from the AP MLD; and to identify, based on detection of the ICF from the AP MLD over the mmWave link, that a Transmit Opportunity (TxOP) is to be established to communicate traffic with the AP MLD over the mmWave link.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Thomas Kenney
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Publication number: 20240163942Abstract: For example, a non Access Point (AP) (non-AP) Multi-Link Device (MLD) may be configured to set at least one millimeter Wave (mmWave) link usage condition field to indicate mmWave link usage condition information for Multi-Link (ML) Operation (MLO) over an mmWave link and a sub 10 Gigahertz (GHz) (sub-10 GHz) link with an AP MLD. For example, the mmWave link usage condition information may be configured to indicate one or more conditions for the AP MLD to use the mmWave link to transmit one or more transmissions to the non-AP MLD. For example, the non-AP MLD may be configured to transmit a frame, which includes the at least one mmWave link usage condition field, for example, to the AP MLD.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Thomas Kenney
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Publication number: 20240073796Abstract: A circuit arrangement includes a preprocessing circuit configured to obtain context information related to a user location, a learning circuit configured to determine a predicted user movement based on context information related to a user location to obtain a predicted route and to determine predicted radio conditions along the predicted route, and a decision circuit configured to, based on the predicted radio conditions, identify one or more first areas expected to have a first type of radio conditions and one or more second areas expected to have a second type of radio conditions different from the first type of radio conditions and to control radio activity while traveling on the predicted route according to the one or more first areas and the one or more second areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Shahrnaz AZIZI, Biljana BADIC, John BROWNE, Dave CAVALCANTI, Hyung-Nam CHOI, Thorsten CLEVORN, Ajay GUPTA, Maruti GUPTA HYDE, Ralph HASHOLZNER, Nageen HIMAYAT, Simon HUNT, Ingolf KARLS, Thomas KENNEY, Yiting LIAO, Christopher MACNAMARA, Marta MARTINEZ TARRADELL, Markus Dominik MUECK, Venkatesan NALLAMPATTI EKAMBARAM, Niall POWER, Bernhard RAAF, Reinhold SCHNEIDER, Ashish SINGH, Sarabjot SINGH, Srikathyayani SRIKANTESWARA, Shilpa TALWAR, Feng XUE, Zhibin YU, Robert ZAUS, Stefan FRANZ, Uwe KLIEMANN, Christian DREWES, Juergen KREUCHAUF
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Publication number: 20240023141Abstract: The application provides a method, including: generating a Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) comprising both information for one or more first-generation stations (R1 STAs) and information for one or more second-generation stations (R2 STAs); and transmitting the PPDU to the one or more R1 STAs and the one or more R2 STAs, wherein a preamble portion of the PPDU comprises Resource Unit (RU) allocation entries corresponding to the one or more R1 STAs and RU allocation entries corresponding to the one or more R2 STAs.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Xiaogang Chen, Thomas Kenney, Qinghua Li
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Patent number: 11812445Abstract: The application provides a method, including: generating a Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) comprising both information for one or more first-generation stations (R1 STAs) and information for one or more second-generation stations (R2 STAs); and transmitting the PPDU to the one or more R1 STAs and the one or more R2 STAs, wherein a preamble portion of the PPDU comprises Resource Unit (RU) allocation entries corresponding to the one or more R1 STAs and RU allocation entries corresponding to the one or more R2 STAs.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Xiaogang Chen, Thomas Kenney, Qinghua Li
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Patent number: 11800439Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a processor configured to select an offload processing task for performance by an edge computing device; cause a baseband modem to establish a direct wireless connection between the wireless communication device and the edge computing device; cause the baseband modem to send first data to the edge computing device via the direct wireless connection; and receive second data from the edge computing device, wherein the second data comprise a result of the offload processing task performed on the first data. The edge computing device includes a processor configured to receive, from a user device, offloaded data to be processed according to an offload processing task; execute the offload processing task on the offloaded data; and cause the radio via the interface to wirelessly send a result of the executed offload processing task via a direct wireless connection with the user device.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Shahrnaz Azizi, Biljana Badic, John Browne, Dave Cavalcanti, Hyung-Nam Choi, Thorsten Clevorn, Ajay Gupta, Maruti Gupta Hyde, Ralph Hasholzner, Nageen Himayat, Simon Hunt, Ingolf Karls, Thomas Kenney, Yiting Liao, Christopher MacNamara, Marta Martinez Tarradell, Markus Dominik Mueck, Venkatesan Nallampatti Ekambaram, Niall Power, Bernhard Raaf, Reinhold Schneider, Ashish Singh, Sarabjot Singh, Srikathyayani Srikanteswara, Shilpa Talwar, Feng Xue, Zhibin Yu, Robert Zaus, Stefan Franz, Uwe Kliemann, Christian Drewes, Juergen Kreuchauf
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Patent number: 11653292Abstract: A circuit arrangement includes a preprocessing circuit configured to obtain context information related to a user location, a learning circuit configured to determine a predicted user movement based on context information related to a user location to obtain a predicted route and to determine predicted radio conditions along the predicted route, and a decision circuit configured to, based on the predicted radio conditions, identify one or more first areas expected to have a first type of radio conditions and one or more second areas expected to have a second type of radio conditions different from the first type of radio conditions and to control radio activity while traveling on the predicted route according to the one or more first areas and the one or more second areas.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shahrnaz Azizi, Biljana Badic, John Browne, Dave Cavalcanti, Hyung-Nam Choi, Thorsten Clevorn, Ajay Gupta, Maruti Gupta Hyde, Ralph Hasholzner, Nageen Himayat, Simon Hunt, Ingolf Karls, Thomas Kenney, Yiting Liao, Christopher Macnamara, Marta Martinez Tarradell, Markus Dominik Mueck, Venkatesan Nallampatti Ekambaram, Niall Power, Bernhard Raaf, Reinhold Schneider, Ashish Singh, Sarabjot Singh, Srikathyayani Srikanteswara, Shilpa Talwar, Feng Xue, Zhibin Yu, Robert Zaus, Stefan Franz, Uwe Kliemann, Christian Drewes, Juergen Kreuchauf
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Patent number: 11647463Abstract: Logic may generate a wake-up radio packet, wherein the wake-up radio packet comprises an on-off keying (OOK) signal, a sequence of a preamble of the wake-up radio packet to indicate a rate of transmission of one or more OOK orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of a medium access control (MAC) frame of the wake-up radio packet, wherein a duration of transmission of the preamble is 128 microseconds for a low data rate and a duration of transmission of the preamble is 64 microseconds for a low data rate. Logic may communicate the wake-up radio packet to a physical layer device to transmit OFDM symbols of an IEEE 802.11 preamble on a channel followed by OOK OFDM symbols of the wake-up radio packet on a sub-band of the channel. And logic may generate at least a second wake-up radio packet to transmit on a contiguous channel bandwidth with OOK OFDM symbols.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Shahrnaz Azizi, Thomas Kenney, Po-Kai Huang
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Publication number: 20230138578Abstract: A circuit arrangement includes a preprocessing circuit configured to obtain context information related to a user location, a learning circuit configured to determine a predicted user movement based on context information related to a user location to obtain a predicted route and to determine predicted radio conditions along the predicted route, and a decision circuit configured to, based on the predicted radio conditions, identify one or more first areas expected to have a first type of radio conditions and one or more second areas expected to have a second type of radio conditions different from the first type of radio conditions and to control radio activity while traveling on the predicted route according to the one or more first areas and the one or more second areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Shahrnaz AZIZI, Biljana BADIC, John BROWNE, Dave CAVALCANTI, Hyung-Nam CHOI, Thorsten CLEVORN, Ajay GUPTA, Maruti GUPTA HYDE, Ralph HASHOLZNER, Nageen HIMAYAT, Simon HUNT, Ingolf KARLS, Thomas KENNEY, Yiting LIAO, Christopher MACNAMARA, Marta MARTINEZ TARRADELL, Markus MUECK, Venkatesan NALLAMPATTI EKAMBARAM, Niall POWER, Bernhard RAAF, Reinhold SCHNEIDER, Ashish SINGH, Sarabjot SINGH, Srikathyayani SRIKANTESWARA, Shilpa TALWAR, Feng XUE, Zhibin YU, Robert ZAUS, Stefan FRANZ, Uwe KLIEMANN, Christian DREWES, Juergen KREUCHAUF
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Patent number: 11452080Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to probes with service set identifier (SSID). A device may determine one or more access points (APs) in an enterprise extended service set (ESS). The device may identify a probe request received from a first station device, wherein the probe request comprises a service set element, wherein the service set element comprises a variable number of service set fields based on a number of APs in the ESS. The device may determine that a service set that matches at least one of the service set fields in the service set element. The device may cause to send a probe response to the first station device in response to the probe request.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Alexander Min, Laurent Cariou, Shahrnaz Azizi, Rath Vannithamby, Carlos Cordeiro, Thomas Kenney, Ravikumar Balakrishnan, Javier Perez-Ramirez
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Publication number: 20220174612Abstract: The disclosure provides techniques for power control for communications under a Very Low Power (VLP) mode. A communication device includes: processing circuitry, to encode a message to be transmitted to a second communication device, to indicate a setpoint, wherein the setpoint is defined as a minimum power at which a packet is required to be transmitted under a set of packet parameters, such that the packet could be successfully received by the communication device; and a transceiver, to transmit the message to the second communication device, and receive the packet transmitted at a power determined based on the setpoint and a margin, from the second communication device, wherein the margin is determined based on a probability of measurement errors.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Laurent Cariou, Thomas Kenney, Ehud Reshef, Hassan Yaghoobi
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Publication number: 20220167307Abstract: The application provides a method, including: generating a Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) comprising both information for one or more first-generation stations (R1 STAs) and information for one or more second-generation stations (R2 STAs); and transmitting the PPDU to the one or more R1 STAs and the one or more R2 STAs, wherein a preamble portion of the PPDU comprises Resource Unit (RU) allocation entries corresponding to the one or more R1 STAs and RU allocation entries corresponding to the one or more R2 STAs.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2020Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Xiaogang Chen, Thomas Kenney, Qinghua Li
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Patent number: 11337162Abstract: The disclosure provides techniques for power control for communications under a Very Low Power (VLP) mode. A communication device includes: processing circuitry, to encode a message to be transmitted to a second communication device, to indicate a setpoint, wherein the setpoint is defined as a minimum power at which a packet is required to be transmitted under a set of packet parameters, such that the packet could be successfully received by the communication device; and a transceiver, to transmit the message to the second communication device, and receive the packet transmitted at a power determined based on the setpoint and a margin, from the second communication device, wherein the margin is determined based on a probability of measurement errors.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Laurent Cariou, Thomas Kenney, Ehud Reshef, Hassan Yaghoobi
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Publication number: 20220123913Abstract: The present application provides an apparatus for a non-AP STA, including: RF interface circuitry; and processor circuitry coupled with the RF interface circuitry and configured to: monitor a trigger frame from an AP or ongoing uplink transmission from one or more non-AP STAs in a BSS associated with the AP and the non-AP STA to detect a location of a resource unit pre-allocated for transmission of urgent data; encode the urgent data for transmission to the AP via the RF interface circuitry on the resource unit, when the non-AP STA needs to transmit the urgent data; and pause the ongoing uplink transmission on the resource unit while continuing transmission of a pilot signal on the resource unit, when the non-AP STA does not need to transmit the urgent data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Shahrnaz Azizi, Thomas Kenney, Robert Stacey
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Publication number: 20220116870Abstract: Logic to manage multiple link operations for more than one access point (AP) stations (STAs), wherein the more than one AP STAs include a control AP STA and a managed AP STA. Logic to associate, via the control AP STA, a first STA of a non-AP multi-link device (MLD) with the control AP STA to establish a control link and a second STA of the non-AP MLD with the managed AP to establish a managed link. Logic to cause transmission of a management frame, by the control AP STA, via the control link to establish a first TWT SP on the managed link during a first time interval. And logic to manage multiple link operations for more than one non-AP STAs, wherein the more than one non-AP STAs include a control STA and a managed STA.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Laurent Cariou, Thomas Kenney, Robert Stacey
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Publication number: 20220116941Abstract: The application relates to ultra-low latency data transmission in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). An apparatus used in a non-Access Point Station (non-AP STA), includes processor circuitry configured to cause the non-AP STA to, when there is urgent data that must be transmitted in uplink without waiting for a scheduled slot: generate a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) from the urgent data; and transmit the PDU on a resource unit pre-assigned for urgent transmission, wherein the resource unit is multiplexed for uplink transmission from multiple non-AP STAs.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Shahrnaz Azizi, Hosein Nikopour, Robert Stacey, Laurent Cariou, Dave Cavalcanti, Juan Fang, Thomas Kenney, Javier Perez-Ramirez
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Publication number: 20220116139Abstract: The application relates to an apparatus and method used in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). The apparatus includes: a wireless interface; and processor circuitry coupled to the wireless interface and configured to: generate a Physical layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) with a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) coding scheme; and provide the PPDU to the wireless interface for transmitting, wherein the PPDU comprises one special codeword and more than one regular codeword and does not comprise a padding bit before Forward Error Correction (FEC) codes, and the regular codeword has a fixed codeword size, which can be different from a codeword size of the special codeword.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Xiaogang Chen, Thomas Kenney, Qinghua Li, Hao Song, Robert Stacey
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Publication number: 20220105368Abstract: A dual-purpose muzzle is capable of protecting the canine handler from a bite while providing lifesaving oxygen to a canine in distress. The muzzle is designed to clip behind the head like a soft muzzle while delivering needed oxygen with its internal oxygen tubing and specially designed port for quick hook up. The port allows for any standard EMS tubing to connect to the muzzle. This allows for a continuous flow of oxygen directed to the snout and mouth of the canine allowing the handler to be hands free to address any other emergencies.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventor: Thomas Kenney Barrett, JR.
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Publication number: 20210400672Abstract: The application relates to an apparatus and method used in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). The apparatus includes: a Radio Frequency (RF) interface; and processor circuitry coupled with the RF interface and configured to: generate an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) Physical Protocol Data Unit (PPDU); and provide the EHT PPDU to the RF interface for transmitting on a transmission bandwidth, wherein any of distributed Resource Units (dRUs) for transmitting a data portion of the EHT PPDU is associated with a whole or part of an EHT-Short Training Field (STF) sequence constituting the EHT PPDU, and any of the dRUs is a resource unit, subcarriers of which are distributed across one or more frequency sub-blocks within the transmission bandwidth for transmitting the EHT PPDU.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Xiaogang CHEN, Thomas KENNEY, Qinghua LI, Hao SONG
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Publication number: 20210329637Abstract: Logic to generate a 320 megahertz (MHz) extremely high throughput (EHT) physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) comprising a multi-resource unit (MRU). Logic to generation of a non-orthogonal frequency division multiple access (non-OFDMA) 320 MHz EHT PPDU, wherein the MRU comprises a 240 MHz multi-MRU, the 240 MHz MRU comprising at least two contiguous 996 tone resource units (RUs). Logic to generation of an OFDMA 320 MHz EHT PPDU, wherein the MRU comprises at least one 996 tone RU and one 484 tone RU. Logic to cause the transmission of the 320 MHz EHT PPDU. And logic to receive and decode the 320 MHz EHT PPDU.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Xiaogang Chen, Thomas Kenney, Qinghua Li