Patents by Inventor André Beaudin

André Beaudin 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).

  • Patent number: 11543510
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a dynamic radar detection threshold for stateful dynamic frequency selection (DFS). An embodiment of a storage medium includes instructions to operations including estimate a duty time of transmission of wireless signals by an access point, the access point to provide Wi-Fi communication, the wireless signals being communicated on a DFS channel of the access point, adapt, based at least in part on the duty time of transmission, a threshold of radar signals to indicate detection of a radar signal at the access point on the DFS channel, and perform analysis of received wireless signals on the DFS channel at the access point to detect the radar signal using the adapted threshold of radar signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Andre Beaudin, Jean-Francois Gagnon, Mathieu Mercier
  • Patent number: 11532968
    Abstract: A linear actuator is configured to be connected between a platform and a structure or ground for displacement of the platform relative to the structure or the ground. The actuator comprises a base, and an output displaceable linearly relative to the base. A first plurality of idlers are on the base, and a second plurality of idlers are on the output. An actuator unit has a reciprocating rotational output. A tensioning member has a first end connected to the rotational output of the actuator unit, and a second end connected to an anchor point on one of the output and the base, the tensioning member being routed from the rotational output, through the first plurality of idlers and the second plurality of idlers and to the anchor point for converting a winding/unwinding of the tensioning member into a translation of the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: D-BOX TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Menard, Andre Beaudin, Ran Tao, Ala Eddine Limame
  • Publication number: 20220385337
    Abstract: In an example, an apparatus includes first and second antennas and a switched extractor coupled to the first antenna. The switched extractor includes an extractor configured to extract an extraction frequency band, a bypass line, and switching circuitry. The switching circuitry is configured to selectively establish a bypass signal path including the bypass line or a concurrent signal path including the extractor. The apparatus also includes first and second transceiver units (TRXUs) and a processor. The first TRXU is coupled to the first antenna via the switched extractor. The second TRXU is coupled to the first antenna via the switched extractor and coupled to the second antenna. The processor is configured to cause the switching circuitry to selectively connect the first TRXU to the first antenna via the bypass or the concurrent signal path based on the extraction frequency band and an operational frequency band associated with the first TRXU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Stefan FREISLEBEN, Patric HEIDE, Alexander CHERNYAKOV, Mykola SHEVELOV, Wai San WONG, Oleksandr GAVRYLIUK, Petro KOMAKHA, Georgiy SEVSKIY, Steve Andre BEAUDIN, David MALDONADO
  • Patent number: 11483761
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for network scanning. For example, the systems and methods can address AP scanning in the WiFi-6 context, where AP scanning frequency and the number of 6 GHz channels can be reduced. Additionally, the timing of AP scanning (on 2.4/5/6 GHz channels) can be adjusted to wait until STA's buffered frames are sent to AP and/or while a STA is asleep due to time TWT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Qiang Zhou, Mohd Shahnawaz Siraj, Andre Beaudin, Xuguang Jia
  • Publication number: 20220338060
    Abstract: Examples of techniques for handling fine time measurement ranging requests are described. In an example, an access point (AP) may receive a ranging request for initiating a Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) session. The AP may modify a channel width of a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) channel on which the AP is operating from a first channel width to a second channel width for performing the FTM session, where the second channel width is greater than the first channel width. In response to completion of an FTM burst associated with the FTM session, the AP may restore the channel width of the WLAN channel to the first channel width for performing non-FTM operations of the AP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Omar EL FERKOUSS, Andre BEAUDIN, Sachin GANU
  • Publication number: 20220330136
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for multiple basic service set identifier (MBSSID) beaconing (from an access point (AP) standpoint) and MBSSID/virtual AP (VAP) scanning (from a client device perspective). To facilitate easier discovery of mesh APs/VAPs, BSSIDs associated with mesh VAPs can be advertised more frequently, e.g., being broadcast as a transmitted or non-transmitted BSSID in each MBSSID beacon. Additionally, information regarding mesh VAPs, such as mesh capability information, can be provided via intermediate discovery beacons or frames such that out-of-band scanning mechanisms can discover mesh VAPs faster. Additionally still, the existence of mesh VAPs can be advertised in a dedicated field of an MBSSID beacon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: MOHD SHAHNAWAZ SIRAJ, QIANG ZHOU, ANDRE BEAUDIN
  • Publication number: 20220303776
    Abstract: Examples of techniques for handling fine time measurement ranging requests are described. In an example, an access point (AP) may receive a ranging request for initiating a Fine Timing Measurement (FTM) session. Responsive to determining that the client device is associated with the AP, it is determined that the ranging request is received after a threshold time from expiry of an FTM burst period of the client device. It is determined that the ranging request is within an FTM acceptance threshold of the AP. A number of consecutive unsuccessful FTM bursts between the AP and the client device is determined. In response to determining that the number of consecutive unsuccessful FTM bursts is less than an unsuccessful burst threshold of the AP, the FTM session may be initiated based on the ranging request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Andre BEAUDIN, Omar EL FERKOUSS
  • Patent number: 11451552
    Abstract: Operation of a wireless network access point (AP) to communicate with a first set of one or more wireless client devices using a wireless protocol in which spatial reuse of channels is supported via at least a dynamically configurable basic service set (BSS) identifier of the wireless AP. The BSS identifier is utilized to identify overlapping BSSs (OBSSs). A first set of one or more wireless client devices communicate using a wireless protocol in which spatial reuse of channels is supported via at least a dynamically configurable BSS identifier of the wireless AP. The BSS identifier is utilized to identify OBSSs. Unauthorized network activity is detected based on the BSS identifier and a received BSS identifier associated with the received transmissions. A dynamic adjustment is made to one of the BSS identifiers of the AP or the received BSS identifier in response to detected unauthorized network activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Andre Beaudin, Shubham Saloni, Eloy Jr Galdones, Sachin Ganu, Qiang Zhou, Denis Houle
  • Patent number: 11411615
    Abstract: In an example, an apparatus includes first and second antennas and a switched extractor coupled to the first antenna. The switched extractor includes an extractor configured to extract an extraction frequency band, a bypass line, and switching circuitry. The switching circuitry is configured to selectively establish a bypass signal path including the bypass line or a concurrent signal path including the extractor. The apparatus also includes first and second transceiver units (TRXUs) and a processor. The first TRXU is coupled to the first antenna via the switched extractor. The second TRXU is coupled to the first antenna via the switched extractor and coupled to the second antenna. The processor is configured to cause the switching circuitry to selectively connect the first TRXU to the first antenna via the bypass or the concurrent signal path based on the extraction frequency band and an operational frequency band associated with the first TRXU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Stefan Freisleben, Patric Heide, Alexander Chernyakov, Mykola Shevelov, Wai San Wong, Oleksandr Gavryliuk, Petro Komakha, Georgiy Sevskiy, Steve Andre Beaudin, David Maldonado
  • Publication number: 20220244345
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for learning radio frequency pulses transmitted at various frequencies in a wireless environment, including false radar signals and actual radar. For example, the system can keep a list of radio frequency pulse characteristics detected by access points (APs) but ignored when not declared a radar. The detected radio frequency pulse can be compared with those on the list and may be added to the deny-list if not radar. The AP learns what intervals are normal for the communication environment and if the noise someday looks like a real radar (but it not actually a radar), it will not be classified as radar because it is on the deny-list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Gagnon, Myung Cheol Kim, Andre Beaudin
  • Publication number: 20220201596
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for network scanning. For example, the systems and methods can address AP scanning in the WiFi-6 context, where AP scanning frequency and the number of 6 GHz channels can be reduced. Additionally, the timing of AP scanning (on 2.4/5/6 GHz channels) can be adjusted to wait until STA's buffered frames are sent to AP and/or while a STA is asleep due to time TWT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: QIANG ZHOU, MOHD SHAHNAWAZ SIRAJ, ANDRE BEAUDIN, XUGUANG JIA
  • Patent number: 11362692
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the disclosure related to communications apparatus provides isolation between wireless protocols when operating currently while incurring the additional insertion loss based on providing the isolation only when needed. In an aspect, an apparatus include a switched filter coupled to an antenna where the switched filter includes a filter and a bypass line along with switching circuitry configured to selectively establish a bypass signal path including the bypass line or a filtered signal path including the filter. The apparatus further includes a switched filter controller configured to cause the switching circuitry to selectively connect a transceiver unit to the antenna via the bypass signal path or via the filtered signal path based at least on a frequency band of a carrier signal and a bandwidth of the carrier signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Steve Andre Beaudin, Patric Heide, Wai San Wong, Michael Kohlmann, David Maldonado, Ryan Scott Castro Spring, Stefan Freisleben, Mykola Shevelov, Francis Ming-Meng Ngai
  • Publication number: 20220174594
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable mediums for persistent TWT sessions include establishing, by an access point, a plurality of sessions with a plurality of stations, wherein one or more of the plurality of sessions comprise a target wake time (TWT), determining, by the access point, that a downtime event will occur before a TWT of a particular station of the plurality of stations, in response to the downtime event occurring during the TWT of the particular station, sending, by the access point, information associated with the plurality of sessions to a secondary device, after the downtime event, retrieving, by the access point, the information associated with the plurality of sessions from the secondary device, and reestablishing, by the access point using the information, the plurality of sessions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Mohd Shahnawaz Siraj, Qiang Zhou, Andre Beaudin
  • Publication number: 20220158686
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed with an absorptive filter. In an example aspect, an apparatus has a filter including a first filter port and a second filter port. The filter also includes a hybrid coupler, a signal combiner, a first filter unit, and a second filter unit. The hybrid coupler includes a first hybrid port, a second hybrid port, and a third hybrid port, with the first hybrid port coupled to the first filter port. The signal combiner is coupled to the second filter port. The first filter unit is coupled between the second hybrid port and the signal combiner. The second filter unit is coupled between the third hybrid port and the signal combiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Steve Andre Beaudin, Patric Heide, Wai San Wong, Stefan Freisleben, Eyal Hochdorf
  • Publication number: 20220159571
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable mediums for a TWT based multi-connection mechanism include sending, by a station, a first request for a first Target Wake Time (TWT) session with a first access point, wherein the first TWT session is established, determining, by the station and based on the first TWT session, a timing for a second TWT session such that a plurality of service periods of the first TWT session do not overlap with a plurality of service periods of the second TWT session, sending, by the station, a second request for the second Target Wake Time (TWT) session with a second access point, and wherein the second. TWT session is established, and receiving, by the station, data from the first AP during a service period of the first TWT session and data from the second AP during a service period of the second TWT session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Qiang Zhou, Andre Beaudin, Mohd Shahnawaz Siraj
  • Patent number: 11304048
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to partitioning a radio into chains to scan channels. In some examples, a network device may comprise a processing resource and a memory resource storing machine-readable instructions to partition a default radio of the network device into a service chain and a scan chain in response to a scan request, scan a particular channel with the scan chain to discover devices operating on the particular channel of a network, and combine the service chain and the scan chain into the default radio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Shahnawaz Siraj, Sachin Ganu, Andre Beaudin, Ben Dunsbergen, Manoj Thawani, Qiang Zhou
  • Publication number: 20220110084
    Abstract: Examples of techniques for handling multiple fine time measurement ranging requests are described. In an example, an access point (AP) may receive a ranging request for initiating an FTM session from each client device in a set of client devices. Based on the ranging request, a plurality of burst durations, each for performing the FTM session for each client device is determined. A maximum burst duration may be determined form the plurality. If a service time for serving high priority traffic is less than the maximum burst duration, a subset of the client devices is selected for performing the FTM session, where a sum of burst durations for performing the FTM session for each client device in the subset is less than the maximum burst duration. The FTM session for each client device in the subset is initiated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Omar EL FERKOUSS, Andre BEAUDIN
  • Patent number: 11297591
    Abstract: Examples of techniques for handling multiple fine time measurement ranging requests are described. In an example, an access point (AP) may receive a ranging request for initiating an FTM session from each client device in a set of client devices. Based on the ranging request, a plurality of burst durations, each for performing the FTM session for each client device is determined. A maximum burst duration may be determined form the plurality. If a service time for serving high priority traffic is less than the maximum burst duration, a subset of the client devices is selected for performing the FTM session, where a sum of burst durations for performing the FTM session for each client device in the subset is less than the maximum burst duration. The FTM session for each client device in the subset is initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Omar El Ferkouss, Andre Beaudin
  • Publication number: 20210385220
    Abstract: Operation of a wireless network access point (AP) to communicate with a first set of one or more wireless client devices using a wireless protocol in which spatial reuse of channels is supported via at least a dynamically configurable basic service set (BSS) identifier of the wireless AP. The BSS identifier is utilized to identify overlapping BSSs (OBSSs). A first set of one or more wireless client devices communicate using a wireless protocol in which spatial reuse of channels is supported via at least a dynamically configurable BSS identifier of the wireless AP. The BSS identifier is utilized to identify OBSSs. Unauthorized network activity is detected based on the BSS identifier and a received BSS identifier associated with the received transmissions. A dynamic adjustment is made to one of the BSS identifiers of the AP or the received BSS identifier in response to detected unauthorized network activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Andre Beaudin, Shubham Saloni, Eloy Jr. Galdones, Sachin Ganu, Qiang Zhou, Denis Houle
  • Publication number: 20210373143
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a dynamic radar detection threshold for stateful dynamic frequency selection (DFS). An embodiment of a storage medium includes instructions to operations including estimate a duty time of transmission of wireless signals by an access point, the access point to provide Wi-Fi communication, the wireless signals being communicated on a DFS channel of the access point, adapt, based at least in part on the duty time of transmission, a threshold of radar signals to indicate detection of a radar signal at the access point on the DFS channel, and perform analysis of received wireless signals on the DFS channel at the access point to detect the radar signal using the adapted threshold of radar signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Andre Beaudin, Jean-Francois Gagnon, Mathieu Mercier