Patents by Inventor Maarten Menzo Wentink

Maarten Menzo Wentink 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: 20250227669
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a broadcast service entity may receive, from an access point, an enhanced broadcast service (EBCS) uplink frame that includes a certificate. The broadcast service entity may transmit, to the access point, an indication that the EBCS uplink frame is verified. The broadcast service entity may transmit, to an authorization server, an EBCS higher-layer protocol (HLP) payload that includes channel sharing information. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2024
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Aleksandar DAMNJANOVIC, Soo Bum LEE, Maarten Menzo WENTINK, George CHERIAN
  • Patent number: 12289762
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless device may perform a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure for a narrowband communication that provides time and frequency synchronization and/or scheduling information for an ultra-wideband (UWB) communication. The wireless device may transmit the narrowband communication in response to the LBT procedure being successful. The wireless device may transmit the UWB communication based at least in part on the time and frequency synchronization and/or scheduling information. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bin Tian, Pooria Pakrooh, Le Nguyen Luong, Koorosh Akhavan, Youhan Kim, Maarten Menzo Wentink, Tevfik Yucek, Olaf Josef Hirsch, Didier Johannes Richard Van Nee, Vincent Knowles Jones
  • Publication number: 20250113381
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless device may perform a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure for a narrowband communication that provides time and frequency synchronization and/or scheduling information for an ultra-wideband (UWB) communication. The wireless device may transmit the narrowband communication in response to the LBT procedure being successful. The wireless device may transmit the UWB communication based at least in part on the time and frequency synchronization and/or scheduling information. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Bin TIAN, Pooria PAKROOH, Le Nguyen LUONG, Koorosh AKHAVAN, Youhan KIM, Maarten Menzo WENTINK, Tevfik YUCEK, Olaf Josef HIRSCH, Didier Johannes Richard VAN NEE, Vincent Knowles JONES
  • Publication number: 20250063607
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for backoff periods. In some approaches, channel access for wireless devices may be prioritized. For example, some types of data traffic or wireless devices may have associated priorities, and channel access may be managed based on the associated priorities. In some approaches, a wireless device may utilize a backoff value associated with a priority to manage a backoff period. In some approaches, a randomized backoff may be utilized based on a random value within a random range and an offset value. For example, a random backoff may be increased in a case that a threshold quantity of collisions occurred at a deterministic backoff node. A fixed block size offset may be added to the random backoff.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventor: Maarten Menzo WENTINK
  • Publication number: 20240214906
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for high efficiency (HE) beacons. HE supported access points (APs) and stations (STAs) may operate on resource deployments used for Wi-Fi technology and without support for legacy devices, also referred to as a greenfield deployment. An AP may identify updated capability information and transmit a HE physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) including a beacon frame. A STA may receive, from the AP, the HE or EHT PPDU and identify an indication of change to a content or format of the beacon frame relative to a reference beacon frame. Based on the identified indication, the STA may then determine an updated content or format for the beacon frame and process the beacon frame or skip processing for one or more portions of the beacon frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Abhishek Pramod Patil, George Cherian, Alfred Asterjadhi, Sandip Homchaudhuri, Maarten Menzo Wentink, Alireza Raissinia, Lochan Verma, Padmanabhan Venkataraman Karthic
  • Patent number: 11979812
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for high efficiency (HE) beacons. HE supported access points (APs) and stations (STAs) may operate on resource deployments used for Wi-Fi technology and without support for legacy devices, also referred to as a greenfield deployment. An AP may identify updated capability information and transmit a HE physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) including a beacon frame. A STA may receive, from the AP, the HE or EHT PPDU and identify an indication of change to a content or format of the beacon frame relative to a reference beacon frame. Based on the identified indication, the STA may then determine an updated content or format for the beacon frame and process the beacon frame or skip processing for one or more portions of the beacon frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Abhishek Pramod Patil, George Cherian, Alfred Asterjadhi, Sandip Homchaudhuri, Maarten Menzo Wentink, Alireza Raissinia, Lochan Verma, Padmanabhan Venkataraman Karthic
  • Patent number: 11968714
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for clear channel assessment (CCA) enabled narrowband (NB) communications. In some implementations, a device is configured to associate with an NB channel (such as a Bluetooth channel), perform a CCA to assess whether the NB channel is clear, and transmit on the NB channel when clear. If the NB channel is not clear, the device may prevent transmitting on the NB channel. The device may prevent avoiding the NB channel after the first time that the NB channel is not clear. If the NB channel remains not clear (such as over a number of CCAs for the NB channel), the device may avoid the NB channel by removing the NB channel for FH for an amount of time. In some implementations, the device may be configured to perform frame based equipment (FBE) CCAs for one or more NB channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Maarten Menzo Wentink, Marco Papaleo, Robin Heydon, Magnus Sigverth Sommansson
  • Patent number: 11950221
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device that uses a first radio access technology (RAT) may identify a transmission timing scheme for a shared radio frequency spectrum band, the transmission timing scheme comprising a first set of time intervals allocated for transmissions using a first RAT and a second set of time intervals allocated for transmissions using a second RAT. The wireless device may transmit, during a time interval of the first set of time intervals, a channel reservation signal indicating an end time of the time interval and indicating that the wireless device uses the first RAT. The wireless device may transmit, based at least in part on the transmitted channel reservation signal, over the shared radio frequency spectrum band during at least a portion of the time interval before the end time of the time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Marco Papaleo, Xiao Feng Wang, Shailesh Patil, Maarten Menzo Wentink, James Lansford, Jamshid Khun-Jush
  • Publication number: 20240090046
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communication, including coordinated time domain multiple access (C-TDMA) among access points (APs) with different channels. In one aspect, while using C-TDMA, a first AP may receive a control message with scheduling information for a transmission opportunity (TXOP) from a second AP, which is the TXOP owner. The second AP may operate in a certain bandwidth, and first AP may operate in an overlapping portion of the same bandwidth, and also a different portion of bandwidth. The scheduling information may indicate a portion of the TXOP for the first AP to use during the TXOP. During the portion of the TXOP for the first AP, the first AP may perform a clear channel assessment (CCA) for the overlapping and non-overlapping portions, and transmit on both the overlapping and different bandwidths during the TXOP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Yanjun Sun, George Cherian, Alfred Asterjadhi, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Abdel Karim Ajami, Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, Gaurang Naik, Maarten Menzo Wentink
  • Patent number: 11926993
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for sharing resources of a wireless medium. Various implementations relate generally to coordinated transmit power control for sharing time and frequency resources of a wireless medium. Particular implementations relate more specifically to coordinated access point spatial-reuse-multiple-access techniques for sharing the time and frequency resources of a transmission opportunity. According to such techniques, an access point that wins contention and gains access to the wireless medium for the duration of a transmission opportunity may limit the transmit powers of the access points selected to share the time and frequency resources such that interference from the selected access points does not prevent stations associated with the winning access point from successfully decoding packets transmitted by it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lochan Verma, George Cherian, Maarten Menzo Wentink
  • Patent number: 11805551
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for providing energy detection based resolution in radio access technologies. In one aspect, a wireless communication device may include a first energy detection threshold (EDT) to identify a transmission opportunity in an unlicensed frequency band. The wireless communication device may detect a second wireless communication device having a second EDT to identify the transmission opportunity, the second EDT being greater than the first EDT. The wireless communication device may, based on detection of the second wireless communication device having the second EDT, modify a transmission configuration of the first wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yanjun Sun, George Cherian, Maarten Menzo Wentink, Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Alfred Asterjadhi, Gaurang Naik, Abdel Karim Ajami
  • Patent number: 11792845
    Abstract: Wireless communications systems and methods related to channel access contention management in a shared radio frequency band are provided. A first wireless communication device performs, during a first time period, a first clear channel assessment (CCA) in a shared radio frequency band based on a first energy detection threshold, wherein performing the first CCA comprises obtaining at least one signal energy measurement. The first wireless communication device then performs, during a second time period subsequent to the first time period, a second CCA in the shared radio frequency band based on a second energy detection threshold, the second energy detection threshold being based on the at least one signal energy measurement. The wireless communication device then transmits, to a second wireless communication device in the shared radio frequency band based on the second CCA, a communication signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Yisheng Xue, Maarten Menzo Wentink, Jing Sun, Xiaoxia Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230328783
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless device may perform a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure for a narrowband communication that provides time and frequency synchronization and/or scheduling information for an ultra-wideband (UWB) communication. The wireless device may transmit the narrowband communication in response to the LBT procedure being successful. The wireless device may transmit the UWB communication based at least in part on the time and frequency synchronization and/or scheduling information. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Bin TIAN, Pooria PAKROOH, Le Nguyen LUONG, Koorosh AKHAVAN, Youhan KIM, Maarten Menzo WENTINK, Tevfik YUCEK, Olaf Josef HIRSCH, Didier Johannes Richard VAN NEE, Vincent Knowles JONES
  • Patent number: 11706804
    Abstract: Technology-specific listen before talk (LBT) parameter adjustments are disclosed for common energy detection (ED) thresholds. Some of the technologies sharing access to the same shared communication spectrum include additional access deferral procedures. Such technologies may be configured with additional compensating features to increase the likelihood of fairness in spectrum access across all technologies sharing a common ED threshold. Such additional compensating features may include a reduced contention window size relative to the technologies that do not include such additional access deferral procedures, increased maximum channel occupancy times (COTs) for longer transmissions, and the like. Each such additional compensating feature may be available under different circumstances, such as always available or available in response to the node activating one of the additional access deferral procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Maarten Menzo Wentink, Yisheng Xue
  • Patent number: 11683767
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for synchronizing an end of an exchange of frames during a transmission opportunity (TXOP) with a target synchronization time using a synchronization short inter-frame space (SynSIFS) before a transmission by a wireless communication device that controls the medium. The wireless communication device obtains control of the medium for the TXOP by completing a CCA procedure. An exchange of frames during the TXOP includes transmissions from the wireless communication device and responses from other devices while the wireless communication device controls the medium. A duration of the SynSIFS may be adjustable at a microsecond granularity. Accordingly, the wireless communication device may select a duration of the SynSIFS that allows alignment of the end of the exchange with the target synchronization time. The wireless communication device also may adjust a number of symbols in the transmission from the wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Maarten Menzo Wentink, George Cherian
  • Publication number: 20230189337
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for providing energy detection based resolution in radio access technologies. In one aspect, a wireless communication device may include a first energy detection threshold (EDT) to identify a transmission opportunity in an unlicensed frequency band. The wireless communication device may detect a second wireless communication device having a second EDT to identify the transmission opportunity, the second EDT being greater than the first EDT. The wireless communication device may, based on detection of the second wireless communication device having the second EDT, modify a transmission configuration of the first wireless communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Yanjun SUN, George CHERIAN, Maarten Menzo WENTINK, Sai Yiu Duncan HO, Abhishek Pramod PATIL, Alfred ASTERJADHI, Gaurang NAIK, Abdel Karim AJAMI
  • Patent number: 11641672
    Abstract: Adaptive energy detection (ED) threshold medium access is discussed based on deployment and traffic type. The network nodes sharing a shared communication network are configured with multiple discrete ED thresholds or a range of ED values. As a transmitting node prepares to attempt access to the shared communication spectrum, it identifies an access trigger condition within the network. Such a condition may include traffic type, deployment, or access conditions. In response to detecting an access trigger condition, the transmitting node may select an ED threshold associated with the access trigger condition. Alternatively, upon detection of the access trigger condition, the transmitting node may implement a random ED threshold from the candidate range of ED threshold values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aleksandar Damnjanovic, Maarten Menzo Wentink, Yisheng Xue, Marco Papaleo
  • Publication number: 20230056736
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for clear channel assessment (CCA) enabled narrowband (NB) communications. In some implementations, a device is configured to associate with an NB channel (such as a Bluetooth channel), perform a CCA to assess whether the NB channel is clear, and transmit on the NB channel when clear. If the NB channel is not clear, the device may prevent transmitting on the NB channel. The device may prevent avoiding the NB channel after the first time that the NB channel is not clear. If the NB channel remains not clear (such as over a number of CCAs for the NB channel), the device may avoid the NB channel by removing the NB channel for FH for an amount of time. In some implementations, the device may be configured to perform frame based equipment (FBE) CCAs for one or more NB channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Maarten Menzo WENTINK, Marco PAPALEO, Robin HEYDON, Magnus Sigverth SOMMANSSON
  • Publication number: 20230003005
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for sharing resources of a wireless medium. Various implementations relate generally to coordinated transmit power control for sharing time and frequency resources of a wireless medium. Particular implementations relate more specifically to coordinated access point spatial-reuse-multiple-access techniques for sharing the time and frequency resources of a transmission opportunity. According to such techniques, an access point that wins contention and gains access to the wireless medium for the duration of a transmission opportunity may limit the transmit powers of the access points selected to share the time and frequency resources such that interference from the selected access points does not prevent stations associated with the winning access point from successfully decoding packets transmitted by it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Lochan VERMA, George CHERIAN, Maarten Menzo WENTINK
  • Publication number: 20220408452
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless device that uses a first radio access technology (RAT) may identify a transmission timing scheme for a shared radio frequency spectrum band, the transmission timing scheme comprising a first set of time intervals allocated for transmissions using a first RAT and a second set of time intervals allocated for transmissions using a second RAT. The wireless device may transmit, during a time interval of the first set of time intervals, a channel reservation signal indicating an end time of the time interval and indicating that the wireless device uses the first RAT. The wireless device may transmit, based at least in part on the transmitted channel reservation signal, over the shared radio frequency spectrum band during at least a portion of the time interval before the end time of the time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Marco Papaleo, Xiao Feng Wang, Shailesh Patil, Maarten Menzo Wentink, James Lansford, Jamshid Khun-Jush