Patents by Inventor Stephen Jay Shellhammer
Stephen Jay Shellhammer 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: 12289260Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for wireless communication, and particularly, methods, devices and systems for physical (PHY) layer control signaling. A first physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) may precede a second PPDU. The first PPDU may be referred to as a PHY control PPDU and may include a physical layer control signaling field (CNT-SIG) that informs one or more stations (STAs) regarding a physical layer configuration they should use for the second PPDU. The PHY control PPDU may enable dynamic subchannel assignments for one or more identified STAs, legacy STAs, or sub-bandwidth operating devices. The techniques of this disclosure may enable sharing of a wide bandwidth wireless channel by different types of devices or different basic service sets (BSSs) assigned to different subchannels of the wireless channel.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Bin Tian
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Patent number: 12267709Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some aspects, two devices may support signaling and messaging designs that support bandwidths that are greater than 160 MHz for ranging null data packets (NDPs). For example, various signaling and messaging designs may support a use of a 320 MHz bandwidth for ranging NDPs as part of a ranging measurement procedure, which may offer greater resolution than narrower bandwidths. The signaling and messaging designs may include one or more updates for a null data packet announcement (NDPA) frame, for a trigger frame, for session negation messages (such as one or both of an initial fine timing measurement (IFTM) frame and an IFTM request (IFTMR) frame), for segmentation techniques for ranging NDPs, or for any combination thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yanjun Sun, Alireza Raissinia, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Xiaoxin Zhang, George Cherian, Alfred Asterjadhi, Abhishek Pramod Patil
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Patent number: 12250105Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for generating a secure long training field (LTF). In some implementations, the secure LTF may include a randomized bit sequence that is difficult, if not impossible, to replicate by any device other than the transmitting device and the intended receiving device. For example, the transmitting device may use a block cipher or stream cipher to generate a pseudorandom bit sequence and may select a subset of bits of the pseudorandom bit sequence to be mapped to a sequence of modulation symbols representing an LTF symbol of the secure LTF. More specifically, each of the modulation symbols is mapped to a respective one of a number of subcarriers spanning a bandwidth of the secure LTF. The transmitting device may further transmit a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) that includes the secure LTF to the receiving device.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Bin Tian, Alireza Raissinia, Youhan Kim
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Patent number: 12244417Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for a link adaptation protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN). In one aspect, the link adaptation protocol may be used to select a transmission rate option (such as a modulation and coding scheme (MCS)) for communications from a first WLAN device to a second WLAN device based on wireless channel conditions. This disclosure includes several example message sequences for the link adaptation protocol which can accommodate a variety of uplink or downlink data transmission designs, including single user (SU) and multi-user (MU) transmissions. The example message sequences may be used with orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO), and beamformed transmissions.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Sameer Vermani, Lin Yang, Jialing Li Chen, Dung Ngoc Doan, Bin Tian
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Patent number: 12207133Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for soliciting trigger-based (TB) physical layer protocol convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data units (PPDUs). Some implementations more specifically relate to trigger frame and PPDU designs that support RU downsizing. For example, an access point (AP) may transmit a trigger frame soliciting a TB PPDU from a wireless station (STA). In some aspects, the trigger frame may carry RU allocation information indicating the allocated RU or MRU (associated with a wireless medium) and downsizing information indicating whether downsizing of the RU or MRU is permitted. If interference is detected in a portion of the wireless medium, and downsizing is permitted, the STA may transmit the TB PPDU on a downsized RU or MRU. The downsized RU or MRU includes a subset of the tones in the RU or MRU allocated by the trigger frame.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Bin Tian
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Publication number: 20250023678Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An access point (AP) may transmit, to a second AP and during a first portion of a transmission opportunity (TxOP), a request to participate in a multi-user (MU) transmission. The AP may receive, from the second AP and during the first portion of the TxOP, an indication of intent to participate in the MU transmission during the second portion of the TxOP, the indication of intent including a resource request of the second AP for participation in the MU transmission. The AP may transmit, during an initial period of the second portion of the TxOP, a trigger signal to the second AP indicating a set of one or more resources for the second AP during the MU transmission. The AP may participate, in conjunction with the second AP and during the second portion of the TxOP, in the MU transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Inventors: George Cherian, Alfred Asterjadhi, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Sameer Vermani, Bin Tian, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Lochan Verma, Lin Yang, Jialing Li Chen
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Patent number: 12160908Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for priority access on a shared wireless channel. A priority station (STA), an access point (AP), or a network operator may activate a priority access service. The priority access service provides priority access to authorize priority STAs by allowing them to use more aggressive contention parameters for contention-based access of the wireless channel as compared to other STAs. In some implementations, non-priority STAs may be configured with weakened contention parameters to increase or ensure the likelihood that a priority STA will win contention for access to the wireless channel.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: George Cherian, Alfred Asterjadhi, Bin Tian, Stephen Jay Shellhammer
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Patent number: 12137015Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for wireless communication, and particularly, for generating or receiving a multi-generation physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU). The multi-generation PPDU may concurrently include a first generation-specific preamble based on a first generation of a wireless communication specification (such as that defined by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 family of standards) and a second generation-specific preamble based on a second generation of the wireless communication specification in a same transmission. The generation-specific preambles may be generated based on bandwidth portions of a wireless channel that each generation-specific preamble will occupy in the multi-generation PPDU. One or more of the generation-specific preambles may be modified based on an aggregate bandwidth of the multi-generation PPDU.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Bin Tian, Sameer Vermani, Jialing Li Chen, Youhan Kim
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Patent number: 12132682Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A station (STA) may receive a null data packet (NDP) on a plurality of subcarriers, and the STA may generate a channel state information (CSI) matrix for each subcarrier of the plurality of subcarriers. After generating a CSI matrix for a subcarrier, such as at least one subcarrier, the STA may scale each value in the CSI matrix using a power-of-two value to minimize complexity. Specifically, instead of scaling each value in the CSI matrix to a value between zero and one using divisions (for example, which may be computationally expensive), the STA may use shifting to scale each value in the CSI matrix. The STA may then quantize the scaled values in the CSI matrix for reporting, and the STA may transmit the quantized, scaled values in the CSI matrix in a CSI report.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2023Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Bin Tian, Alireza Raissinia, Simone Merlin
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Patent number: 12126550Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An access point (AP) may transmit, to a second AP and during a first portion of a transmission opportunity (TxOP), a request to participate in a multi-user (MU) transmission. The AP may receive, from the second AP and during the first portion of the TxOP, an indication of intent to participate in the MU transmission during the second portion of the TxOP, the indication of intent including a resource request of the second AP for participation in the MU transmission. The AP may transmit, during an initial period of the second portion of the TxOP, a trigger signal to the second AP indicating a set of one or more resources for the second AP during the MU transmission. The AP may participate, in conjunction with the second AP and during the second portion of the TxOP, in the MU transmission.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: George Cherian, Alfred Asterjadhi, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Sameer Vermani, Bin Tian, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Lochan Verma, Lin Yang, Jialing Li Chen
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Patent number: 12096492Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for priority access on a shared wireless channel. A priority station (STA), an access point (AP), or a network operator may activate a priority access service. The priority access service provides priority access to authorize priority STAs by allowing them to use more aggressive contention parameters for contention-based access of the wireless channel as compared to other STAs. In some implementations, non-priority STAs may be configured with weakened contention parameters to increase or ensure the likelihood that a priority STA will win contention for access to the wireless channel.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: George Cherian, Alfred Asterjadhi, Bin Tian, Stephen Jay Shellhammer
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Patent number: 12081469Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for wireless communication, and particularly, methods, devices and systems for generating or receiving a wireless packet that includes a first preamble based on a first generation of a wireless communication protocol and a second preamble based on a second generation of the wireless communication protocol. The wireless packet may include the first preamble in a first subchannel of a wireless channel and the second preamble in a second subchannel of the wireless channel. Thus, the wireless packet may concurrently include communication to or from different types of wireless stations that support the different generations of a wireless communication protocol.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Bin Tian, Sameer Vermani, Jialing Li Chen
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Patent number: 12081261Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first wireless communication device may transmit, to a second wireless communication device, a time and/or frequency synchronization message using a first radio frequency (RF) technology, wherein the time and/or frequency synchronization message is used to obtain synchronization information for a second RF technology. The first wireless communication device may transmit, to the second wireless communication device, a first set of ranging measurement signals associated with the second RF technology. The first wireless communication device may receive, from the second wireless communication device, a second set of ranging measurement signals associated with the second RF technology. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Pooria Pakrooh, Bin Tian, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Le Nguyen Luong, Koorosh Akhavan
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Publication number: 20240163059Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for ranging measurement procedures between two wireless devices that communicate in wide bandwidth networks. Some aspects more specifically relate to null data packet (NDP) transmissions via a 320 megahertz (MHz) bandwidth. In some examples, a first wireless device and a second wireless device may participate in a ranging measurement procedure and may exchange one or more NDPs to facilitate distance measurements and one or both of the first wireless device and the second wireless device may indicate that an associated protocol data unit (PDU) is a 320 MHz ranging NDP (e.g., an NDP of a ranging variant associated with a bandwidth of 320 MHz) via one or more bits of the preamble of the PDU. The one or more bits may be included in a universal signal (U-SIG) field of the preamble of the PDU.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2022Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Bin Tian, Alireza Raissinia, Yanjun Sun
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Patent number: 11950286Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first wireless communications device may transmit, to one or more second wireless communications devices, a first message that triggers transmission of a second message by each of the one or more second wireless communications devices, the first message allocating to each of the one or more second wireless communications devices a respective frequency-based resource unit for transmission of the second message, each of the respective frequency-based resource units spanning a portion of a channel bandwidth of a channel. The first wireless communications device may perform channel sensing measurements on the second message received from each of the one or more second wireless communications devices. The first wireless communications device may estimate the channel based on the channel sensing measurements performed on the respective second messages received on the respective frequency-based resource units.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alireza Raissinia, Xiaoxin Zhang, Stephen Jay Shellhammer
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Patent number: 11924812Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for generating enhanced trigger frames. Some implementations more specifically relate to trigger frame designs that support gains in data throughput achievable in accordance with the IEEE 802.11be amendment, and future generations, of the IEEE 802.11 standard. In some implementations, an enhanced trigger frame may be used to solicit a non-legacy trigger-based (TB) physical layer protocol convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) from one or more wireless stations (STAs). In some implementations, the enhanced trigger frame may be configurable to support multiple versions of the IEEE 802.11 standard. For example, an enhanced trigger frame may be configured in accordance with a legacy trigger frame format or a non-legacy trigger frame format. Thus, when configured in accordance with the legacy trigger frame format, the enhanced trigger frame can also be used to a legacy TB PPDU from one or more STAs.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Sameer Vermani, Jialing Li Chen, Bin Tian, Alfred Asterjadhi, Yanjun Sun
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Memory management for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) in a wireless local area network (WLAN)
Patent number: 11916676Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN). In some aspects, a first WLAN device may transmit a first HARQ frame to a second WLAN device. The first WLAN device may receive a first feedback message from the second WLAN device. The first feedback message may be a HARQ Block Acknowledgement (H-BA) message. The first WLAN device may determine to enable the HARQ protocol based on the first feedback message. The first WLAN device may receive an indication of an amount of memory available at the second WLAN device for processing HARQ transmissions. The first WLAN device may transmit a second HARQ frame to the second WLAN device based, at least in part, on the amount of memory available at the second WLAN device for processing HARQ transmissions.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Lochan Verma, Jialing Li Chen, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Dung Ngoc Doan, Bin Tian -
Patent number: 11894964Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for generating a secure long training field (LTF). In some implementations, the secure LTF may include a randomized bit sequence that is difficult, if not impossible, to replicate by any device other than the transmitting device and the intended receiving device. For example, the transmitting device may use a block cipher or stream cipher to generate a pseudorandom bit sequence and may select a subset of bits of the pseudorandom bit sequence to be mapped to a sequence of modulation symbols representing an LTF symbol of the secure LTF. More specifically, each of the modulation symbols is mapped to a respective one of a number of subcarriers spanning a bandwidth of the secure LTF. The transmitting device may further transmit a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) that includes the secure LTF to the receiving device.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Bin Tian, Alireza Raissinia, Youhan Kim
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Patent number: 11894929Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for implementing a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) protocol in a wireless local area network (WLAN). In some aspects, a first WLAN device may transmit a first HARQ frame to a second WLAN device. The first WLAN device may determine whether a first feedback message received from the second WLAN device includes HARQ acknowledgement information or non-HARQ acknowledgment information. The first feedback message may be a HARQ Block Acknowledgement (H-BA) message having a multi-station Block ACK (M-BA) frame format that includes HARQ acknowledgment information. The first WLAN device may transmit a second HARQ frame to the second WLAN device in response to determining the first feedback message includes the HARQ acknowledgment information. The first WLAN device may transmit a non-HARQ frame in response to determining the first feedback message includes non-HARQ acknowledgement information.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Alfred Asterjadhi, George Cherian, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Lochan Verma, Jialing Li Chen, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Dung Ngoc Doan, Bin Tian
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Patent number: 11888780Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for soliciting trigger-based (TB) physical layer protocol convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data units (PPDUs). Some implementations more specifically relate to trigger frame designs that support non-legacy TB PPDU formats. In some aspects, a trigger frame may carry information to be included in a physical layer (PHY) preamble of a TB PPDU solicited by the trigger frame. For example, the information may indicate values of one or more subfields of a universal signal field (U-SIG) associated with the non-legacy TB PPDU format. In some aspects, the information may be carried in a special user information field of the trigger frame. For example, the special user information field may be identified by a special association identifier (AID) value. The special AID value may be different than any AID values assigned to wireless communication devices in a basic service set (BSS) associated with the TB PPDU.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Bin Tian, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Yanjun Sun, Alfred Asterjadhi