Patents by Inventor Alexander W. Min
Alexander W. Min 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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Patent number: 12284665Abstract: For example, a wireless communication device may be configured to determine an expected interference-based value corresponding to an Uplink (UL) transmission from a wireless communication station (STA) in a Trigger-Based (TB) Multi-User (MU) UL transmission to be communicated from a plurality of STAs to the wireless communication device; to determine one or more transmit (Tx) configuration parameters for the STA based on the expected interference-based value corresponding to the UL transmission from the STA; and to transmit a trigger frame to trigger the TB MU UL transmission, the trigger frame including the one or more Tx configuration parameters to configure the UL transmission from the STA.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Alexander W. Min, Arik Klein, Rath Vannithamby, Ziv Avital
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Patent number: 12185303Abstract: For example, a wireless communication device may be configured to, based on a grouping criterion, select from a plurality of STAs a group of two or more STAs for a Trigger-Based (TB) Multi-User (MU) UL OFDMA control frame transmission to be communicated from the group of two or more STAs to the wireless communication device, the grouping criterion based on two or more RSSI values corresponding to the two or more STAs, respectively; to transmit a trigger frame to trigger the TB MU UL OFDMA control frame transmission, the trigger frame including two or more STA Identifiers to identify the two or more STAs, respectively; and to process the TB MU UL OFDMA control frame transmission from the group of two or more STAs, the TB MU UL OFDMA control frame transmission including two or more control frames from the two or more STAs, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Alexander W. Min, Rath Vannithamby, Arjun Anand, Vinod Kristem
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Patent number: 12047167Abstract: A method can be performed by a first node for determining a parameter of physical (PHY) layer circuitry of a second node. The method can include implementing a cascaded hierarchy of techniques to determine, based on an electrical signal from a second node, a parameter of the PHY layer circuitry of the second node, and causing an antenna of the first node to transmit an electromagnetic wave consistent with the determined parameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 23, 2024Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Javier Perez-Ramirez, Ravikumar Balakrishnan, Dave A. Cavalcanti, Roya Doostnejad, Mikhail T. Galeev, Maruti Gupta Hyde, Yiting Liao, Alexander W. Min, Venkatesan Nallampatti Ekambaram, Mi Park, Mohammad Mamunur Rashid, Vallabhajosyula S. Somayazulu, Srikathyayani Srikanteswara, Feng Xue
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Publication number: 20240129058Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Alexander W. Min, Thomas J. Kenney, Laurent Cariou, Shahrnaz Azizi, Xiaogang Chen, Robert J. Stacey, Qinghua Li
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Publication number: 20240129944Abstract: For example, a wireless communication device may be configured to determine an expected interference-based value corresponding to an Uplink (UL) transmission from a wireless communication station (STA) in a Trigger-Based (TB) Multi-User (MU) UL transmission to be communicated from a plurality of STAs to the wireless communication device; to determine one or more transmit (Tx) configuration parameters for the STA based on the expected interference-based value corresponding to the UL transmission from the STA; and to transmit a trigger frame to trigger the TB MU UL transmission, the trigger frame including the one or more Tx configuration parameters to configure the UL transmission from the STA.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Alexander W. Min, Arik Klein, Rath Vannithamby, Ziv Avital
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Patent number: 11903006Abstract: For example, a wireless communication device may be configured to determine an expected interference-based value corresponding to an Uplink (UL) transmission from a wireless communication station (STA) in a Trigger-Based (TB) Multi-User (MU) UL transmission to be communicated from a plurality of STAs to the wireless communication device; to determine one or more transmit (Tx) configuration parameters for the STA based on the expected interference-based value corresponding to the UL transmission from the STA; and to transmit a trigger frame to trigger the TB MU UL transmission, the trigger frame including the one or more Tx configuration parameters to configure the UL transmission from the STA.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Alexander W. Min, Arik Klein, Rath Vannithamby, Ziv Avital
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Patent number: 11831422Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 24, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Alexander W. Min, Thomas J. Kenney, Laurent Cariou, Shahrnaz Azizi, Xiaogang Chen, Robert J. Stacey, Qinghua Li
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Patent number: 11797076Abstract: A computer-implemented method can include receiving a queue depth for a receive queue of a network interface controller (NIC), determining whether a power state of a central processing unit (CPU) core mapped to the receive queue should be adjusted based on the queue depth, and adjusting the power state of the CPU core responsive to a determination that the power state of the CPU core should be adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Brian J. Skerry, Ira Weiny, Patrick Connor, Tsung-Yuan C. Tai, Alexander W. Min
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Publication number: 20230115480Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Applicant: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Alexander W. Min, Thomas J. Kenney, Laurent Cariou, Shahrnaz Azizi, Xiaogang Chen, Robert J. Stacey, Qinghua Li
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Patent number: 11582716Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: 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
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Patent number: 11513957Abstract: Methods and apparatus implementing Hardware/Software co-optimization to improve performance and energy for inter-VM communication for NFVs and other producer-consumer workloads. The apparatus include multi-core processors with multi-level cache hierarchies including and L1 and L2 cache for each core and a shared last-level cache (LLC). One or more machine-level instructions are provided for proactively demoting cachelines from lower cache levels to higher cache levels, including demoting cachelines from L1/L2 caches to an LLC. Techniques are also provided for implementing hardware/software co-optimization in multi-socket NUMA architecture system, wherein cachelines may be selectively demoted and pushed to an LLC in a remote socket. In addition, techniques are disclosure for implementing early snooping in multi-socket systems to reduce latency when accessing cachelines on remote sockets.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Ren Wang, Andrew J. Herdrich, Yen-cheng Liu, Herbert H. Hum, Jong Soo Park, Christopher J. Hughes, Namakkal N. Venkatesan, Adrian C. Moga, Aamer Jaleel, Zeshan A. Chishti, Mesut A. Ergin, Jr-shian Tsai, Alexander W. Min, Tsung-yuan C. Tai, Christian Maciocco, Rajesh Sankaran
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Patent number: 11509413Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Alexander W. Min, Thomas J. Kenney, Laurent Cariou, Shahrnaz Azizi, Xiaogang Chen, Robert J. Stacey, Qinghua Li
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Patent number: 11431600Abstract: Technologies for monitoring network traffic include a computing device that monitors network traffic at a graphics processing unit (GPU) of the computing device. The computing device manages computing resources of the computing device based on results of the monitored network traffic. The computing resources may include one or more virtual machines to process network traffic that is to be monitored at the GPU of the computing device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Alexander W. Min, Jr-Shian Tsai, Janet Tseng, Kapil Sood, Tsung-Yuan C. Tai
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Patent number: 11431444Abstract: In a communication method to communicate between an access point (AP) and first and second communication stations (STAs) can include calculating joint transmission information based on the first and the second STAs, establishing an uplink communication between the AP and the first STA; and establishing a downlink communication between the AP and the second STA jointly with the uplink communication between the AP and the first STA based on the joint transmission information.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Shu-Ping Yeh, Ping Wang, Alexander W. Min, Yang-Seok Choi
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Publication number: 20220191602Abstract: Devices and techniques for out-of-band platform tuning and configuration are described herein. A device can include a telemetry interface to a telemetry collection system and a network interface to network adapter hardware. The device can receive platform telemetry metrics from the telemetry collection system, and network adapter silicon hardware statistics over the network interface, to gather collected statistics. The device can apply a heuristic algorithm using the collected statistics to determine processing core workloads generated by operation of a plurality of software systems communicatively coupled to the device. The device can provide a reconfiguration message to instruct at least one software system to switch operations to a different processing core, responsive to detecting an overload state on at least one processing core, based on the processing core workloads. Other embodiments are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2022Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Andrew J. Herdrich, Patrick L. Connor, Dinesh Kumar, Alexander W. MIN, Daniel J. DAHLE, Kapil Sood, Jeffrey B. SHAW, Edwin Verplanke, Scott P. Dubal, James Robert Hearn
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Patent number: 11330625Abstract: Embodiments of an access point (AP), station (STA) and method of communication are generally described herein. The AP may be configurable for multi-band operation in a plurality of frequency bands, each frequency band comprising one or more channels. The AP may select a subset of the frequency bands for which the AP is to request per-band channel availability information from the STA. The AP may transmit a Trigger Frame (TF) for a multi-band bandwidth query report polling (MB-BQRP) to request the per-band channel availability information. The AP may receive an uplink frame that includes a multi-band bandwidth query report (MB-BQR) that indicates the per-band channel availability information. The AP may determine, based on the MB-BQR, for an uplink transmission by the STA: one or more frequency bands of the subset of frequency bands, and one or more corresponding channels.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Alexander W. Min, Dibakar Das, Minyoung Park, Chittabrata Ghosh, Carlos Cordeiro, Cheng Chen, Laurent Cariou, Dmitry Akhmetov
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Patent number: 11272267Abstract: Devices and techniques for out-of-band platform tuning and configuration are described herein. A device can include a telemetry interface to a telemetry collection system and a network interface to network adapter hardware. The device can receive platform telemetry metrics from the telemetry collection system, and network adapter silicon hardware statistics over the network interface, to gather collected statistics. The device can apply a heuristic algorithm using the collected statistics to determine processing core workloads generated by operation of a plurality of software systems communicatively coupled to the device. The device can provide a reconfiguration message to instruct at least one software system to switch operations to a different processing core, responsive to detecting an overload state on at least one processing core, based on the processing core workloads. Other embodiments are also described.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Andrew J. Herdrich, Patrick L. Connor, Dinesh Kumar, Alexander W. Min, Daniel J. Dahle, Kapil Sood, Jeffrey B. Shaw, Edwin Verplanke, Scott P. Dubal, James Robert Hearn
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Publication number: 20220061062Abstract: For example, a wireless communication device may be configured to determine an expected interference-based value corresponding to an Uplink (UL) transmission from a wireless communication station (STA) in a Trigger-Based (TB) Multi-User (MU) UL transmission to be communicated from a plurality of STAs to the wireless communication device; to determine one or more transmit (Tx) configuration parameters for the STA based on the expected interference-based value corresponding to the UL transmission from the STA; and to transmit a trigger frame to trigger the TB MU UL transmission, the trigger frame including the one or more Tx configuration parameters to configure the UL transmission from the STA.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Alexander W. Min, Arik Klein, Rath Vannithamby, Ziv Avital
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Publication number: 20210405730Abstract: A computer-implemented method can include receiving a queue depth for a receive queue of a network interface controller (NIC), determining whether a power state of a central processing unit (CPU) core mapped to the receive queue should be adjusted based on the queue depth, and adjusting the power state of the CPU core responsive to a determination that the power state of the CPU core should be adjusted.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Brian J. Skerry, Ira Weiny, Patrick Connor, Tsung-Yuan C. Tai, Alexander W. Min
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Patent number: 11212777Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for dynamic resource unit allocation for wireless local-area networks (WLANs) include an apparatus of an access point (AP) including processing circuitry configured to determine a group of stations (STAs) and first RUs for uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) orthogonal frequency division multiple-access (OFDMA) transmissions. The processing circuitry is further configured to transmit a trigger frame (TF) including indications of the determined first RUs for the group of STAs to transmit trigger-based (TB) physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDUs) (TB PPDUs) in response to the TF. The processing circuitry may be further configured to in response to a STA not responding to the TF, determine the STA as being inactive, and reallocate to active STAs RUs of inactive STAs, and transmit a second TF to the group of STAs that are active.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Alexander W. Min, Rath Vannithamby, Yanjie Pan