Patents by Inventor Thomas J. Kenney

Thomas J. 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).

  • Publication number: 20230128996
    Abstract: Logic to generate and parse a medium access control (MAC) request frame to associate a non-AP MLD with the non-collocated AP MLD, the MAC request frame to comprise an address field, wherein the address field comprises a receiver address (RA) that identifies the first AP MLD, and a recipient field comprising a value, wherein the value comprises a MAC address to identify the non-collocated AP MLD, a MLD identifier (ID) of the non-collocated AP MLD, a flag to indicate whether the MAC frame is addressed to the non-collocated AP MLD or is addressed to the first AP MLD, or a combination thereof. Logic to determine that the MAC request frame is addressed to the non-collocated AP MLD based on the value. And logic to generate a mapping table for a new link ID or transmit the new link ID associated with the non-collocated AP MLD in an association response frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Thomas J. Kenney
  • Publication number: 20230120176
    Abstract: Logic may define one or more wake-up preambles suitable for high data rates for a wake-up radio (WUR) packet. Logic may define wake-up preamble with different counts of symbols. Logic may generate a wake-up preamble as two microsecond pulses of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a four megahertz (MHz) bandwidth. Logic may generate and receive a high data rate (HDR) WUR preamble or a low data rate (LDR) WUR preamble. The HDR preamble may signal a data rate of 250 kilobits per second and the LDR preamble may signal a data rate of 62.5 kilobits per second. The HDR preamble bit count may be twice a bit count of the LDR preamble. The HDR preamble may be 32 bits. The duration of transmission of the HDR may be 64 microseconds and duration of transmission of the LDR may be 128 microseconds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vinod Kristem, Shahrnaz Azizi, Thomas J. Kenney
  • Publication number: 20230115480
    Abstract: For example, an apparatus may include a segment parser to parse scrambled data bits of a PPDU into a first plurality of data bits and a second plurality of data bits, the PPDU to be transmitted in an OFDM transmission over an aggregated bandwidth comprising a first channel in a first frequency band and a second channel in a second frequency band; a first baseband processing block to encode and modulate the first plurality of data bits according to a first OFDM MCS for transmission over the first channel in the first frequency band; and a second baseband block to encode and modulate the second plurality of data bits according to a second OFDM MCS for transmission over the second channel in the second frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander W. Min, Thomas J. Kenney, Laurent Cariou, Shahrnaz Azizi, Xiaogang Chen, Robert J. Stacey, Qinghua Li
  • Patent number: 11626963
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for tone plans and preambles for extremely high throughput (EHT) in a wireless network are disclosed. An apparatus of an EHT access point (AP) or EHT station (STA), where the apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to: encode a physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU), the PPDU including a EHT preamble, the EHT preamble including a legacy preamble portion and a EHT preamble portion, the legacy preamble including a legacy short training field (L-SFT), a legacy long-training field (L-LTF), and a legacy signal field (L-SIG), the EHT preamble portion comprising an EHT short signal field (EHT S-SIG), the EHT S-SIG including a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) subfield indicating a MCS of a subsequent data portion. The PPDU may be transmitted on a distributed or contiguous resource unit (RU) allocation. The RU may be configured to not straddle two physical 20 MHz subchannels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaogang Chen, Ilan Sutskover, Qinghua Li, Robert J. Stacey, Thomas J. Kenney, Feng Jiang
  • Patent number: 11622332
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to wake up receiver (WUR) frequency division multiple access (FDMA) transmission. A device may cause to send a wake up receiver (WUR) beacon frame on a WUR beacon operating channel to one or more station devices. The device may determine a first wake-up frame to be sent on a first WUR operating channel, wherein the first WUR operating channel is associated with one or more frequency division multiple access (FDMA) channels used for transmitting one or more wake-up frames to the one or more station devices. The device may determine to apply padding to the first wake-up frame based on a field included in a header of the first wake-up frame. The device may cause to send the first wake-up frame to a first station device of the one or more station devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Kai Huang, Shahrnaz Azizi, Daniel F. Bravo, Thomas J. Kenney, Vinod Kristem, Noam Ginsburg
  • Publication number: 20230096482
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide favored channel access for STAs whose transmissions have failed or collided. After a first collision or transmission failure, a STA receives prioritized access in order to re-transmit a PPDU. If an initial transmission of the PPDU is unsuccessful (e.g., the initial transmission fails or if the PPDU collides with another transmission), for retransmission of the PPDU, the STA may update the EDCA parameters to EDCA parameters for prioritized access, may determine a backoff for accessing the wireless medium, and may retransmit the PPDU based on the EDCA parameters for prioritized access (i.e., using the updated EDCA parameters). The EDCA parameters for prioritized access may be configured to give the STA a higher probability of accessing the wireless medium for a PPDU retransmission than use of the initial EDCA parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Thomas J. Kenney
  • Publication number: 20230087449
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to extended range modulation and coding scheme (MCS). A device may generate a first orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signal to be transmitted in a frequency band. The device may generate a second OFDM signal to be transmitted in the frequency band, wherein the second OFDM signal is a duplicate of the first signal. The device may assign a reduced number of guard intervals (GIs) to the first OFDM signal and the second OFDM signal. The device may cause to send the first OFDM signal and the second OFDM signal using the frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Qinghua LI, Juan FANG, Assaf GUREVITZ, Thomas J. KENNEY, Robert STACEY
  • Patent number: 11606841
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to multi-link operation. A device may configure a single N×N transmit (TX)/receive (RX) radio to a plurality of 1×1 TX/RX radios, where N is a positive integer. The device may monitor a first channel of a plurality of channels to determine its availability. The device may monitor a second channel of the plurality of channels to determine its availability. The device may identify a first control frame received from an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) on the second channel. The device may cause to send a second control frame to the AP MLD on the second channel. The device may configure back to a single N×N TX/RX radio to receive a data frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Minyoung Park, Po-Kai Huang, Thomas J. Kenney, Daniel Bravo, Ehud Reshef, Laurent Cariou, Dibakar Das, Dmitry Akhmetov
  • Patent number: 11589309
    Abstract: Logic may define one or more wake-up preambles suitable for high data rates for a wake-up radio (WUR) packet. Logic may define wake-up preamble with different counts of symbols. Logic may generate a wake-up preamble as two microsecond pulses of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in a four megahertz (MHz) bandwidth. Logic may generate and receive a high data rate (HDR) WUR preamble or a low data rate (LDR) WUR preamble. The HDR preamble may signal a data rate of 250 kilobits per second and the LDR preamble may signal a data rate of 62.5 kilobits per second. The HDR preamble bit count may be twice a bit count of the LDR preamble. The HDR preamble may be 32 bits. The duration of transmission of the HDR may be 64 microseconds and duration of transmission of the LDR may be 128 microseconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vinod Kristem, Shahrnaz Azizi, Thomas J. Kenney
  • Patent number: 11582617
    Abstract: Logic may enable client devices or access points to relay medium access control (MAC) frames. Logic may extend the range of IEEE 802.11 devices, such as IEEE 802.11ah devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Minyoung Park, Emily H. Qi, Adrian P. Stephens, Thomas J. Kenney, Eldad Perahia, Thomas A. Tetzlaff
  • Patent number: 11582716
    Abstract: Embodiments of a station (STA) and method of communication are generally described herein. The STA may be included in a first plurality of STAs affiliated with a first multi-link logical entity (MLLE). A plurality of links may be established between the first MLLE and a second MLLE, wherein the second MLLE may be affiliated with a second plurality of STAs. The STA may receive a first subset of a sequence of MAC protocol data units (MPDUs). A second subset of the sequence of MPDUs may be transmitted by another STA of the first plurality of STAs. The STA may transmit a block acknowledgement (BA) frame that includes: a number of BA bitmaps, configurable to values greater than or equal to one; and BA control information for each of the BA bitmaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Kai Huang, Robert J. Stacey, Daniel F. Bravo, Laurent Cariou, Arik Klein, Danny Ben-Ari, Ofer Schreiber, Shahrnaz Azizi, Thomas J. Kenney, Alexander W. Min, Yaron Alpert, Avi Mansour, Dave A. Cavalcanti, Jing Zhu, Ziv Avital, Xiaogang Chen, Juan Fang
  • Patent number: 11576123
    Abstract: Logic may define one or more wake-up preambles suitable for high data rates for a wake-up radio (WUR) packet. Logic may define wake-up preamble with different counts of symbols. Logic may generate a wake-up preamble as an on-off keying (OOK) signal. Logic may generate and receive a wake-up preamble that signals a high data transmission rate with respect to data rates defined for WUR packet transmissions. Logic may generate or receive a preamble that signals a rate of transmission of the WUR packet as 250 kilobits per second. Logic may transmit or receive bits of the wake-up preamble as two microsecond orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) based pulses, wherein each two microsecond OFDM based pulse is based on a 32-point Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) in a 20 Megahertz (MHz) bandwidth, with a subcarrier spacing of 625 Kilohertz (KHz) to produce six subcarriers in a four MHz bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vinod Kristem, Shahrnaz Azizi, Thomas J. Kenney
  • Patent number: 11569953
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media include an apparatus of an access point (AP) or station (STA) comprising processing circuitry configured to decode a legacy preamble of a physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU), determine whether the legacy preamble comprises an indication that the PPDU is an extremely-high throughput (EHT) PPDU, and in response to the determination indicating the PPDU is the EHT PPDU, decode the EHT PPDU. Some embodiments determine a spatial stream resource allocation based on a row of a spatial configuration table, a row of a frequency resource unit table, a number of stations, and location of the station relative to the number of stations in user fields of an EHT-signal (SIG) field. To accommodate 16 spatial streams, some embodiments extend the length of the packet extension field, extend signaling of a number of spatial streams, and/or extend a number of EHT-SIG symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaogang Chen, Thomas J. Kenney, Shahrnaz Azizi, Robert J. Stacey, Laurent Cariou, Qinghua Li, Feng Jiang
  • Publication number: 20230028973
    Abstract: An apparatus may be configured to perform a time-sensitive communication via a Multi User (MU) Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) (MU-MIMO) transmission. For example, an Access Point (AP) may be configured to transmit MU-MIMO schedule information to schedule an MU-MIMO transmission including a plurality of spatial streams, the plurality of spatial streams including a first spatial stream allocated to a scheduled data transmission of a scheduled wireless communication station (STA), and a second spatial stream allocated as a reserved spatial stream, which is reserved for an unscheduled time-sensitive communication with a time-sensitive STA; and to communicate the scheduled data transmission with the scheduled STA over the first spatial stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Juan Fang, Qinghua Li, Dmitry Akhmetov, Minyoung Park, Thomas J. Kenney
  • Publication number: 20230024519
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to an extreme high throughput (EHT) signaling structure. A device may establish a communication channel with one or more station devices (STAs). The device may generate an extreme high throughput signal field (EHT-SIG) of a header, wherein the EHT-SIG field comprises information associated with resource allocations (RUs). The device may generate a frame comprising the header. The device may assign a first RU to a first station device. The device may assign a second RU to the first station device, wherein the first RU or the second RU is an aggregation of a 26-tome RU and a neighboring RU. The device may cause to send the frame to the first station device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Xiaogang CHEN, Qinghua LI, Thomas J. KENNEY, Feng JIANG, Laurent CARIOU, Ziv AVITAL, Chen KOJOKARO, Robert STACEY
  • Publication number: 20230023324
    Abstract: For example, a wireless communication device may be configured to generate, transmit, receive and/or process one or more transmissions of an Extra Range (ER) Physical layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU), which may be configured to be decodable by ER wireless communication stations (STAs). For example, the ER PPDU may include an ER preamble. For example, the ER preamble may be configured to include an ER STF (ER-STF), an ER LTF (ER-LTF) after the ER-STF, and an ER Signal (ER-SIG) field after the ER-LTF. In one example, the ER PPDU may include a non-ER preamble, which may be configured to be decodable by non-ER STAs, which may not be capable of decoding the ER preamble.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Juan Fang, Qinghua Li, Po-Kai Huang, Thomas J. Kenney, Robert Stacey
  • Publication number: 20230025172
    Abstract: For example, a wireless communication device may be configured to determine an energy state of a 2.16 Gigahertz (GHz) channel bandwidth (BW) in a millimeterWave (mmWave) wireless communication frequency band according to an energy detection mechanism; and, based on the energy state of the 2.16 GHz channel BW, to select between allowing or disabling the wireless communication device to transmit an mmWave Physical layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) over an mmWave wireless communication channel, which at least partially overlaps the 2.16 GHz channel BW and is different from the 2.16 GHz channel BW, the mmWave wireless communication channel having an mmWave channel BW of at least 80 Megahertz (MHz).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Thomas J. Kenney
  • Patent number: 11558818
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to wake-up radio (WUR) advertisement channels. A device may include a wake-up receiver (WURx) and a primary connectivity radio. The device may determine a wake-up radio (WUR) discovery subchannel for WUR advertisement. The WUR discovery subchannel may be associated with a channel of a frequency band. The device may generate a WUR discovery frame comprising a WUR advertisement. The device may transmit, by the WURx, the WUR discovery frame to a second device using the WUR discovery subchannel. The device may identify a response from the second device indicating an acknowledgment of the WUR discovery frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Kai Huang, Shahrnaz Azizi, Noam Ginsburg, Daniel F. Bravo, Thomas J. Kenney
  • Publication number: 20220417847
    Abstract: An access point (AP) configured for multi-AP operation within a group of two or more other APs of a multi-AP group including at least a second AP uses restricted target wake time (r-TWT) service periods (SPs) for coordinating communications within the multi-AP group. The AP may be configured to encode a management frame for transmission to stations (STA) associated with the AP. The management frame may include a r-TWT element that includes a r-TWT schedule for communicating within one or more r-TWT SPs. The APs of the multi-AP group and their associated STAs may be configured to end any transmission opportunities (TXOPs) before a start of the r-TWT SPs and initiate a time-aligned contention period for the r-TWT SPs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Thomas J. Kenney
  • Patent number: 11516635
    Abstract: Embodiments of a Next Generation Vehicle-to-Everything (NGV) station (STA) and method of communication are generally described herein. The NGV STA may encode a physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) for transmission in a dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) frequency band allocated for vehicular communication by NGV STAs and legacy STAs. In some cases, the NGV STA may encode the PPDU in accordance with an NGV enhanced physical (PHY) layer protocol, and includes usage of a mid-amble, space-time block coding (STBC), or low-density parity check (LDPC) coding. In other cases, the NGV STA may encode the PPDU in accordance with a legacy PHY layer protocol that is compatible with the legacy STAs, and excludes usage of the mid-amble, the STBC, and the LDCP coding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Bahareh Sadeghi, Thomas J. Kenney