Patents by Inventor Niranjan GRANDHE

Niranjan GRANDHE 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: 20230007618
    Abstract: A first client station receives from an access point an indication of whether angular information is to be included in feedback information in a range measurement session. The first client station transmits a null data packet (NDP) as part of an uplink multi-user (MU) PHY transmission that also includes simultaneous transmissions by one or more second client stations of one or more other respective NDPs to the access point as part of the range measurement session. The first client station receives a downlink physical layer (PHY) data unit from the access point that includes respective downlink feedback frames for the first client station and the one or more second client stations. When angular information is to be included in the feedback, a downlink feedback frame for the first client station includes angular information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Liwen CHU, Hongyuan ZHANG, Christian R. BERGER, Niranjan GRANDHE, Sudhir SRINIVASA, Hui-Ling LOU
  • Publication number: 20210112518
    Abstract: A first communication device determines which one or more types of feedback information, from among a plurality of types of feedback information associated with a range measurement exchange session, a second communication device is to provide to the first communication device in a feedback packet transmitted as part of the range measurement exchange session. The first communication device transmits to the second communication device one or more indications of the determined one or more types of feedback information that the second communication device is to provide to the first communication device in the feedback packet. The first communication device performs the range measurement exchange, including receiving the feedback packet from the second communication device, wherein the feedback packet includes the determined one or more types of feedback information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Liwen CHU, Hongyuan ZHANG, Christian R. BERGER, Niranjan GRANDHE, Sudhir SRINIVASA, Hui-Ling LOU
  • Publication number: 20190306824
    Abstract: A communication device determines an identifier of a wireless network with which the communication device is not associated. While the communication device is not associated with the wireless network, the communication device participates in a ranging procedure with an access point (AP) of the wireless network. The ranging procedure is for estimating a distance between the communication device and the AP based on measuring times of flight of transmissions between the communication device and the AP. Participating in the ranging procedure includes: the communication device transmitting a packet to the AP as part of the ranging procedure. The packet includes a PHY preamble, and the PHY preamble includes a signal field. The signal field includes a wireless network identifier subfield set to the identifier of the wireless network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Liwen CHU, Christian BERGER, Niranjan GRANDHE, Hongyuan ZHANG, Hui-Ling LOU
  • Publication number: 20190254113
    Abstract: In a range measurement signal exchange session between a first communication device and a second communication device, the first communication device generates an NDP, which includes: generating a plurality of training fields to be used by the second communication device to determine a time of arrival of the NDP. Each training field corresponds to a respective orthogonal frequency divisional multiplexing (OFDM) symbol. Generating the plurality of training fields includes: i) setting signal samples corresponding to guard intervals between the OFDM symbols to zero, and ii) for each OFDM symbol, setting a plurality of frequency domain values corresponding to OFDM sub carriers of the OFDM symbol to complex number values. The first communication device transmits the NDP as part of the range measurement signal exchange session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Christian R. BERGER, Sudhir SRINIVASA, Liwen CHU, Niranjan GRANDHE
  • Publication number: 20190052428
    Abstract: A first communication device prompts a plurality of second communication devices to transmit, during a contiguous time period reserved for a range measurement exchange, respective first null data packets (NDPs) at respective times. The first communication device receives first NDPs from at least some of the second communication devices during the contiguous time period, and transmits one or more second NDPs to the plurality of second communication devices. The first communication device uses reception of the first NDPs and transmission of the one or more second NDPs to determine respective ranges between the first communication device and respective second communication devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Liwen CHU, Hongyuan ZHANG, Christian R. BERGER, Niranjan GRANDHE, Sudhir SRINIVASA, Hui-Ling LOU
  • Publication number: 20180310273
    Abstract: A first communication device determines which one or more types of feedback information, from among a plurality of types of feedback information associated with a range measurement exchange session, a second communication device is to provide to the first communication device in a feedback packet transmitted as part of the range measurement exchange session. The first communication device transmits to the second communication device one or more indications of the determined one or more types of feedback information that the second communication device is to provide to the first communication device in the feedback packet. The first communication device performs the range measurement exchange, including receiving the feedback packet from the second communication device, wherein the feedback packet includes the determined one or more types of feedback information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Liwen CHU, Hongyuan ZHANG, Christian R. BERGER, Niranjan GRANDHE, Sudhir SRINIVASA, Hui-Ling LOU
  • Publication number: 20180292518
    Abstract: During a service period (SP) for a ranging measurement signal exchange between a first communication device and one or more second communication devices, the first communication device receives respective first null data packets (NDPs) from the one or more second communication devices, and transmits respective second NDPs to the one or more second communication devices. The first communication device transmits, during the SP, respective first ranging measurement feedback packets to the one or more second communication devices to allow each of the one or more second communication devices to determine a time-of-flight between the first communication device and the second communication device and/or receives, during the SP, respective second ranging measurement feedback packets from the one or more second communication devices to allow the first communication device to determine respective times-of-flight between the first communication device and the one or more second communication devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Liwen CHU, Sagar TAMHANE, Hongyuan ZHANG, Christian BERGER, Niranjan GRANDHE, Sudhir SRINIVASA, Hui-Ling LOU
  • Publication number: 20180070330
    Abstract: A first communication i) selects one or more respective preliminary identifiers (IDs) for one or more second communication devices, or ii) receives one or more respective preliminary IDs from one or more second communication devices, the one or more respective preliminary IDs having been respectively selected by the one or more second communication devices. The first communication device generates a trigger frame, the trigger frame indicating one or more first frequency resource and/or spatial stream allocations to one or more second communication devices using the one or more respective preliminary IDs. The first communication device transmits the trigger frame to initiate at least an uplink (UL) MU transmission by multiple second communication devices for a ranging procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Liwen CHU, Sagar A. TAMHANE, Christian R. BERGER, Niranjan GRANDHE, Hongyuan ZHANG, Hui-Ling LOU
  • Publication number: 20180070205
    Abstract: At an antenna array of a first communication device, a wireless signal transmitted by a second communication device is received. The first communication device calculates a plurality of oversampled matched filter values corresponding to the wireless signal, which correspond to i) different values of a signal delay corresponding to the wireless signal, and ii) different values of a phase corresponding to the wireless signal. The first communication device determines a local maximum of the plurality of oversampled matched filter values across different values of the signal delay and different values of the phase, where the local maximum corresponds to a component of the wireless signal that is first to arrive at the antenna array. The first communication device calculates an angle of arrival of the wireless signal at the antenna array using a value of the phase corresponding to the local maximum of the plurality of matched filter values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Christian R. BERGER, Niranjan GRANDHE, Sudhir SRINIVASA