Patents Assigned to TP-Link Systems Inc.
  • Patent number: 12369767
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cleaning robot docking station and a cleaning system with the cleaning robot docking station. The cleaning robot docking station includes an evaporation equipment, configured to evaporate liquid inside the evaporation equipment and expel a first gas. The cleaning robot docking station further includes a condensation equipment, configured to receive the first gas from the evaporation equipment, condense at least a part of the water vapor in the first gas, and expel a second gas. The first gas is pre-cooled before entering the condensation equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: TP-Link Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Ning Cheng, Yuhong Hu, Feixiang Mei, Chunlin Xu
  • Patent number: 12369018
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method for determining a terminal in a sticky state. The method includes: determining whether a roaming target determination is supported for a terminal by a first AP; performing an operation for the roaming target determination based on determining that the roaming target determination is supported; performing at least one of determining that the terminal is in a first sticky state based on a determination that the terminal is not connected to a second AP according to a roaming target suggestion of the first AP, based on a finding of one or more roaming targets by the operation; or determining that the terminal is in a second sticky state based on a strength of a signal between the terminal and the first AP being smaller than a first strength threshold, based on determining that the roaming target determination is not supported or a failure of the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: TP-Link Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Dong Shen, Rui Wang, Yang Jiang, Bin He
  • Patent number: 12363579
    Abstract: A method for CSI feedback and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: predicting a first predicted CSI for a second time instant based at least on a first measured CSI for a first time instant; obtaining a second measured CSI for the second time instant; and determining a compression level for a third measured CSI for a third time instant after the second time instant based at least on comparison between the first predicted CSI and the second measured CSI. A most suitable compression level may be selected according to the real-time CSI prediction accuracy and/or the assistance of spatial parameters while overhead for CSI feedback may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: TP-Link Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Yaoshen Cui, Haozheng Li
  • Patent number: 12342216
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for data transmission and an access point (AP) for performing this method. The method includes receiving, by a hardware receiving port and a software receiving port, a first set of data packets and a second set of data packets, respectively; performing, by a hardware pre-processing module and a software pre-processing module, QoS related pre-processing on the first set of data packets and the second set of data packets, respectively; forwarding the pre-processed first set of data packets and the pre-processed second set of data packets to a selected QoS module, wherein the selected QoS module is one of a hardware QoS module and a software QoS module; and for each pre-processed data packet of the pre-processed first set of data packets and the pre-processed second set of data packets, performing, by the selected QoS module, QoS processing on the pre-processed data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: TP-Link Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Junju Song, Ziyu Wang
  • Patent number: 12335908
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for positioning, an access point (AP) and a computer program product. The method may include: obtaining a location information of a client device wirelessly coupled to the AP; determining a location information of the AP based on the location information of the client device; and in response to determining that the location information of the AP is invalid, transmitting a notification indicating the invalidity of the location information of the AP to one or more client devices bound to the AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: TP-Link Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Lvhua Wu, Jiaxin Chen, Tong Ding
  • Patent number: 12328293
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a communication node and method for routing data packets for a client device. The communication node includes: one or more processors; a memory coupled to the processors; and computer program instructions stored in the memory, which, when executed by the processors, perform actions of: obtaining, from a downstream communication node, NAT routing information for a data packet communicated between the client device and an external node through at least the communication node and the downstream communication node; and performing NAT on a subsequent data packet to be communicated between the client device and the external node based on the NAT routing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: TP-Link Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Ping Xie
  • Patent number: 12328751
    Abstract: Radio resource management of WLAN and interference threshold determination for radio resource management are provided. The method may include: acquiring interference data of the multiple APs; calculating respective original interference degrees of the multiple APs based on the interference data; and adjusting radio resources of the multiple APs in a descending order of the respective original interference degrees of the multiple APs, including: obtaining a current interference degree of a current AP to be adjusted, wherein the current interference degree is calculated based on the interference data adjusted according to current radio resources of the multiple APs, and reducing the current radio resource of the current AP to be adjusted in the case that the current interference degree of the current AP to be adjusted is larger than an interference threshold. The interference threshold may be predetermined such that network qualities of multiple predetermined different WLAN topology scenarios increase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2025
    Assignee: TP-Link Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Xia-Na Lin, Bin He
  • Patent number: 12261729
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for processing signals in wireless communication. The method includes: determining peak points respectively corresponding to first sampling points of an input signal, which are to be peak-reduced; generating a peak reduction value sequence with peak reduction values based on amplitudes of the peak points; generating a peak reduction signal by performing peak shaping on the peak reduction value sequence based on position displacing of the peak points from the first sampling points; and generating an output signal by subtracting the peak reduction signal from the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: TP-Link Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Weifeng Pan, Yaoqiang Wang
  • Patent number: 12231910
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method of operating a wireless extender in a wireless frequency band, a corresponding wireless extender and a computer program product. The wireless extender can include a first radio and a second radio. The method can include: controlling a first station (STA) interface of the first radio and a second STA interface of the second radio to connect to a router in response to determining that a connection state of the first STA interface and a connection state of the second STA interface are both disconnected; controlling the second STA interface to stop connecting to the router in response to determining that the first STA interface has connected to the router; and disabling a first access point (AP) interface of the first radio and enabling a second AP interface of the second radio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: TP-Link Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Jiaxin Chen, Jianxin Liao
  • Patent number: 12231984
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method for ping pong roaming control performed by an access point (AP), a method for ping pong roaming control performed by a controller, an AP, a controller, a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and a computer program product for processing/identifying ping pong roaming. The method for ping pong roaming control, performed by an AP includes: determining association switching behaviors of a station (STA) based on association and/or disassociation behaviors of the STA; identifying one or more connection instability events of the STA based on the association switching behaviors of the STA; and reporting at least one of the one or more connection instability events of the STA to a controller for the controller to identify a ping pong roaming event of the STA between multiple APs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: TP-Link Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Dong Shen, Yang Jiang, Rui Wang, Bin He
  • Patent number: 12231926
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for wireless communication performed by an access point (AP), wherein the AP is wirelessly connected with one or more staions (STAs) on a first communication channel. The method includes: determining that a network configuration will be updated; transmitting a first message to the one or more STAs for requesting a transition from the first communication channel to a second communication channel; determining that the updating of the network configuration is completed, and transmitting a second message to the one or more STAs for requesting a transition from the second communication channel to the first communication channel, wherein the AP or a neighboring AP maintain wireless connection with the one or more STAs on the second communication channel during the updating of the network configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: TP-Link Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Bolun Liu