Patents by Inventor Thomas A. Kenney
Thomas A. Kenney 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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Publication number: 20210329642Abstract: Logic to initialize a scrambler. Logic to receive a portion of a first physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) comprising a multi-user ready to send (MU-RTS) and first scrambler initialization bit sequence used to scramble the MU-RTS prior to transmission of the PPDU. Logic to determine a second scrambler initialization bit sequence in accordance with a pre-defined procedure. Logic to generate a medium access control (MAC) clear to send (CTS) frame to transmit in response to receipt of the MU-RTS. Logic to initialize a scrambler with the scrambler initialization bit sequence. Logic to generate a second PPDU comprising the CTS frame, the generation of the second PPDU to scramble the CTS frame with the scrambler after initialization. Logic to cause the transmission of the second PPDU in response to receipt of the MU-RTS. And logic to determine scrambler initialization bits having seven least significant bits are not all zeros.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Xiaogang Chen, Assaf Gurevitz, Thomas Kenney, Qinghua Li, Shlomi Vituri
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Publication number: 20210320752Abstract: The application relates to puncture indication used in wireless local area networks (WLANs), and in particular provides a method, including: generating a trigger frame including puncture information for a Physical Layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU); and transmitting the trigger frame to a User Equipment (UE) to trigger the UE to transmit the PPDU.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2020Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Xiaogang Chen, Laurent Cariou, Cheng Chen, Thomas Kenney, Qinghua Li
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Publication number: 20210266872Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for an Access Point (AP), including: encoding a trigger frame in a parameterized spatial reuse reception (PSRR) physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PSRR PPDU); and providing the PSRR PPDU for transmission to one or more Stations (STAs), wherein the PSRR PPDU comprising puncture information indicating punctured subchannels of the PSRR PPDU or a normalization factor indicating a number of subchannels occupied by the PSRR PPDU.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Xiaogang CHEN, Laurent CARIOU, Po-Kai HUANG, Thomas KENNEY, Qinghua LI
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Publication number: 20210266905Abstract: The disclosure provides techniques for a configuration of frequency domain aggregated (FA) physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) for trigger based (TB) PPDUs. An apparatus for an access point (AP) includes a radio frequency (RF) interface; and processing circuitry coupled with the RF interface. The processing circuitry is configured to: encode a trigger frame to be transmitted via the RF interface to stations (STAs) communicatively connected with the AP, wherein the trigger frame includes signaling to indicate a configuration of frequency domain aggregated (FA) physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) for at least two STAs; and decode an FA PPDU aggregated by composite trigger based (TB) PPDUs from the at least two STAs.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Xiaogang CHEN, Cheng CHEN, Po-Kai HUANG, Thomas KENNEY, Qinghua LI
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Publication number: 20210243824Abstract: The application provides a method, comprising: generating identifying information at an access point (AP), the identifying information including information relating to an energy detection (ED) threshold to be used for a channel in a wireless network; and broadcasting the identifying information via the channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Laurent CARIOU, Thomas KENNEY
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Publication number: 20210211152Abstract: Provided herein is radiation safety mechanism based on Wi-Fi sensing. The disclosure provides an apparatus, comprising: a memory; and processor circuitry coupled with the memory, wherein the processor circuitry is to: obtain an environment map of a Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) device, based on Wi-Fi sensing of a detecting module of the Wi-Fi device; estimate a distance between the Wi-Fi device and an animate object within the environment map or a location of the animate object; and adapt, based on the distance or the location, a communication parameter of the Wi-Fi device to reduce RF energy exposure on the animate object, and wherein the memory is to store the environment map. Other embodiments may also be disclosed and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Thomas Kenney, Laurent Cariou, Claudio Da Silva
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Publication number: 20210203435Abstract: The application relates to a method and apparatus used in wireless local area networks (WLANs), the method including: generating a frame including capability information of a non-Access Point (non-AP) Station (STA) for transmission of sounding feedback; and transmitting the frame to an AP STA, so that the AP STA controls a rate at which the non-AP STA must use for transmission of the sounding feedback based on the capability information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Laurent Cariou, Nir Balaban, Daniel Cohn, Thomas Kenney
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Publication number: 20210195478Abstract: The disclosure provides techniques for configuration of a NFRP trigger frame for a NDP feedback report procedure. An apparatus may include interface circuitry; and processor circuitry coupled with the interface circuitry and configured to: encode a NFRP trigger frame in a PPDU; and provide the PPDU to the interface circuitry for transmission to a set of one or more STAs. A total bandwidth of the PPDU may be divided into one or more frequency segments, the NFRP trigger frame may include one or more User Info fields, and each User Info field may correspond to a respective frequency segment of the one or more frequency segments and provide NDP Feedback associated information for a subset of one or more STAs on the respective frequency segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2020Publication date: June 24, 2021Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Laurent Cariou, Xiaogang Chen, Thomas Kenney
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Patent number: 10959245Abstract: Methods and apparatus to coordinate multiple access point scheduling and transmission disclosed. An example apparatus includes transmit first instructions to a first station and a second station to perform a signal measurement protocol; responsive to obtaining a first primary association from the first station and a secondary association or a second primary association from the second station, transmit second instructions to the first station to provide first directional information and the second station to provide second directional information; a processor to, when the first directional information corresponds to a first value within a threshold range of a second value corresponding to the second directional information, group the first station and the second station; and the interface to transmit information corresponding to the group to a server to schedule communications between a first and second access point and the first station and the second station.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventors: Roya Doostnejad, Thomas Kenney, Laurent Cariou
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Publication number: 20210084667Abstract: The application relates to a preemption mechanism for wireless local area networks (WLANs), and in particular provides a method, including: broadcasting information about a Transmission Opportunity (TXOP) on a wireless channel, wherein the TXOP includes two or more transmission durations and a preemption period exists between any two neighboring transmission durations of the two or more transmission durations; and pausing communicating on the wireless channel during the preemption period to give opportunity for one or more stations (STAs) to preempt the wireless channel to transmit high priority traffic.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Daniel Bravo, Laurent Cariou, Thomas Kenney, Robert Stacey
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Publication number: 20210060363Abstract: $ dual-purpose muzzle is capable of protecting the canine handler from a bite while providing lifesaving oxygen to a canine in distress. The muzzle is designed to clip behind the head like a soft muzzle while delivering needed oxygen with its internal oxygen tubing and specially designed port for quick hook up. The port allows for any standard EMS tubing to connect to the muzzle. This allows for a continuous flow of oxygen directed to the snout and mouth of the canine allowing the handler to be hands free to address any other emergencies.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventor: Thomas Kenney Barrett, JR.
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Publication number: 20200205062Abstract: A circuit arrangement includes a preprocessing circuit configured to obtain context information related to a user location, a learning circuit configured to determine a predicted user movement based on context information related to a user location to obtain a predicted route and to determine predicted radio conditions along the predicted route, and a decision circuit configured to, based on the predicted radio conditions, identify one or more first areas expected to have a first type of radio conditions and one or more second areas expected to have a second type of radio conditions different from the first type of radio conditions and to control radio activity while traveling on the predicted route according to the one or more first areas and the one or more second areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Shahrnaz Azizi, Biljana Badic, John Browne, Dave Cavalcanti, Hyung-Nam Choi, Thorsten Clevorn, Ajay Gupta, Maruti Gupta Hyde, Ralph Hasholzner, Nageen Himayat, Simon Hunt, Ingolf Karls, Thomas Kenney, Yiting Liao, Chris Macnamara, Marta Martinez Tarradell, Markus Dominik Mueck, Venkatesan Nallampatti Ekambaram, Niall Power, Bernhard Raaf, Reinhold Schneider, Ashish Singh, Sarabjot Singh, Srikathyayani Srikanteswara, Shilpa Talwar, Feng Xue, Zhibin Yu, Robert Zaus, Stefan Franz, Uwe Kliemann, Christian Drewes, Juergen Kreuchauf
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Publication number: 20190364492Abstract: A circuit arrangement includes a preprocessing circuit configured to obtain context information related to a user location, a learning circuit configured to determine a predicted user movement based on context information related to a user location to obtain a predicted route and to determine predicted radio conditions along the predicted route, and a decision circuit configured to, based on the predicted radio conditions, identify one or more first areas expected to have a first type of radio conditions and one or more second areas expected to have a second type of radio conditions different from the first type of radio conditions and to control radio activity while traveling on the predicted route according to the one or more first areas and the one or more second areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Shahrnaz Azizi, Biljana Badic, John Browne, Dave Cavalcanti, Hyung-Nam Choi, Thorsten Clevorn, Ajay Gupta, Maruti Gupta Hyde, Ralph Hasholzner, Nageen Himayat, Simon Hunt, Ingolf Karls, Thomas Kenney, Yiting Liao, Chris Macnamara, Marta Martinez Tarradell, Markus Dominik Mueck, Venkatesan Nallampatti Ekambaram, Niall Power, Bernhard Raaf, Reinhold Schneider, Ashish Singh, Sarabjot Singh, Srikathyayani Srikanteswara, Shilpa Talwar, Feng Xue, Zhibin Yu, Robert Zaus, Stefan Franz, Uwe Kliemann, Christian Drewes, Juergen Kreuchauf
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Patent number: 10278044Abstract: The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented systems and methods for transmitting and receiving audio and video data. A method may include receiving, by a device including one or more processors and a radio transceiver, an indication that the device is a master device. The method may also include determining that the master device is located outside of a vehicle. Furthermore, the method may include identifying, based on determining that the master device is located outside of the vehicle, a client device. Additionally, the method may include transmitting a signal, to the client device, to indicate a peer-to-peer connection in a communication channel is enabled.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2014Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventors: Shahrnaz Azizi, Eldad Perahia, Thomas Kenney
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Publication number: 20190097850Abstract: A wireless communication device of a first Extremely High Throughput (EHT) wireless station (STA). The device comprises physical layer (PHY layer) circuitry and Medium Access Control layer (MAC) layer circuitry connected to the PHY layer circuitry. The PHY layer circuitry includes logic to encode a physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU), the PPDU being an EHT PPDU including a legacy preamble portion, an EHT preamble portion, and a data portion following the EHT preamble portion, the EHT preamble portion including: a first signal (SIG) field configured such that a second EHT station (STA) processing the first SIG field is to identify the PPDU as an EHT PPDU based on the first SIG field; and a second SIG field following the first SIG field, the second SIG field corresponding to an EHT signal (SIG) field. The PHY layer circuitry is further to cause transmission of the EHT PPDU to the second EHT STA.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Thomas Kenney, Qinghua Li, Feng Jiang, Xiaogang Chen
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Publication number: 20190082390Abstract: Logic may generate a wake-up radio packet, wherein the wake-up radio packet comprises an on-off keying (OOK) signal, a sequence of a preamble of the wake-up radio packet to indicate a rate of transmission of one or more OOK orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of a medium access control (MAC) frame of the wake-up radio packet, wherein a duration of transmission of the preamble is 128 microseconds for a low data rate and a duration of transmission of the preamble is 64 microseconds for a low data rate. Logic may communicate the wake-up radio packet to a physical layer device to transmit OFDM symbols of an IEEE 802.11 preamble on a channel followed by OOK OFDM symbols of the wake-up radio packet on a sub-band of the channel. And logic may generate at least a second wake-up radio packet to transmit on a contiguous channel bandwidth with OOK OFDM symbols.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Shahrnaz Azizi, Thomas Kenney, Po-Kai Huang
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Publication number: 20190045522Abstract: Methods and apparatus to coordinate multiple access point scheduling and transmission disclosed. An example apparatus includes transmit first instructions to a first station and a second station to perform a signal measurement protocol; responsive to obtaining a first primary association from the first station and a secondary association or a second primary association from the second station, transmit second instructions to the first station to provide first directional information and the second station to provide second directional information; a processor to, when the first directional information corresponds to a first value within a threshold range of a second value corresponding to the second directional information, group the first station and the second station; and the interface to transmit information corresponding to the group to a server to schedule communications between a first and second access point and the first station and the second station.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Roya Doostnejad, Thomas Kenney, Laurent Cariou
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Patent number: 9913263Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to operational association between communication devices in the presence of a link-budget imbalance between an upstream link and a downstream link at one of the communication devices. The association relies on a request for a narrowband resource block sent from the communication device having the link-budget imbalance to a remote communication device that can schedule and/or allocate the narrowband resource block. The request can be modulated according to an on-off keying modulation scheme or can be encoded according to a multi-repetition encoding scheme. In response to the narrowband resource block being allocated, an association request can be sent to the remote communication device in the narrowband resource block.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Minyoung Park, Robert Stacey, Shahrnaz Azizi, Thomas Kenney, Eldad Perahia
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Patent number: 9743399Abstract: Generally, embodiments to enable, indicate and detect Short Interframe Space (SIFS) of different time durations, a short (or small) SIFS which is shorter in duration than a regular SIFS, are described herein. Embodiments may comprise logic such as hardware and/or code to signal a short SIFS or a regular SIFS by setting or clearing a bit of a management frame transmitted by a station to an access point during the network association process, or by setting or clearing a bit in the SIG field of the preamble of a data unit transmitted by an access point to an associated station. In some embodiments, a third party station is able to receive the data unit sent by the access point, and decode, e.g., the SIG field bit to determine whether the short SIFS duration or regular SIFS duration is defined for the communication between the access point and the station.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Minyoung Park, Eldad Perahia, Thomas Tetzlaff, Thomas Kenney
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Publication number: 20170181167Abstract: This disclosure describes methods, apparatus, and systems related to a long-range low-power (LRLP) system. A device may identify a communication channel with a first device. The device may identify one or more user data. The device may generate an LRLP waveform based at least in part on the one or more user data, the LRLP waveform having a frequency bandwidth. The device may to pass the LRLP waveform through an M-point DFT of the device. The device may cause to send the processed LRLP waveform to the first device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2015Publication date: June 22, 2017Inventors: Thomas Kenney, Shahrnaz Azizi