Patents by Inventor Thomas J. Kenney

Thomas J. 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).

  • Publication number: 20210273838
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for a common preamble for wireless local-area networks (WLANs). An apparatus of an access point (AP) or station (STA) comprising processing circuitry configured to decode a portion of a physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU), the first portion of the PPDU including a physical universal signal field (U-SIG), the U-SIG comprising a version independent portion and a version dependent portion, the version independent portion including a version identifier field, the version identifier field indicating a standard version of the PPDU. The processing circuitry is further configured to refrain from decoding the version dependent portion when the standard version indicates a standard version of a later generation than a standard version of the AP or STA, and otherwise decode the version dependent portion in accordance with the standard version.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Minyoung Park, Xiaogang Chen, Laurent Cariou, Po-Kai Huang, Thomas J. Kenney, Qinghua Li, Robert J. Stacey, Feng Jiang
  • Patent number: 11109318
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for retransmission of wake-up signals from a first station to a second station over a wireless network are disclosed. In some aspects, a wake-up signal is encoded for transmission to the second station. While the first station is waiting for an acknowledgment of the wake-up signal from the second station, the second station may retransmit the wake up signal and/or encode a packet for transmission to a third station. In some aspects, whether the wake-up signal is retransmitted is based in part, on at least one of whether a number of timeout events for wake-up signals transmitted to the second station exceeds a maximum timeouts threshold, whether a number of wake-up signals transmitted to the second station exceeds a maximum wake-up signals threshold; or whether a maximum predetermined elapsed time since a first wake-up signal was transmitted to the second station is exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Kai Huang, Minyoung Park, Thomas J. Kenney, Shahrnaz Azizi, Robert J. Stacey
  • Publication number: 20210266847
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to power spectral density (PSD) limit. A device may generate a frame comprising one or more elements to be sent to a first station device, wherein the frame is to be sent using a 6 GHz band. The device may include in the frame, information associated with a PSD limit on a per bandwidth size basis of the 6 GHz band. The device may cause to send the frame to the first station device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Ido Ouzieli, Carlos Cordeiro, Hassan Yaghoobi, Thomas J. Kenney
  • Publication number: 20210266121
    Abstract: For example, an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) wireless communication station (STA) may be configured to set a Resource Unit (RU) allocation subfield in an EHT Signal (SIG) field to indicate an RU assignment for an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) EHT Physical layer (PHY) Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) according to a predefined RU allocation table, the RU assignment for the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprising a Multiple Resource Unit (MRU) comprising a plurality of RUs; and transmit the OFDMA EHT PPDU comprising the EHT SIG field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Xiaogang Chen, Qinghua Li, Feng Jiang, Thomas J. Kenney
  • Publication number: 20210258116
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media include an apparatus of an access point (AP) or station (STA) comprising processing circuitry configured to decode a legacy preamble of a physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU), determine whether the legacy preamble comprises an indication that the PPDU is an extremely-high throughput (EHT) PPDU, and in response to the determination indicating the PPDU is the EHT PPDU, decode the EHT PPDU. Some embodiments determine a spatial stream resource allocation based on a row of a spatial configuration table, a row of a frequency resource unit table, a number of stations, and location of the station relative to the number of stations in user fields of an EHT-signal (SIG) field. To accommodate 16 spatial streams, some embodiments extend the length of the packet extension field, extend signaling of a number of spatial streams, and/or extend a number of EHT-SIG symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Xiaogang Chen, Thomas J. Kenney, Shahrnaz Azizi, Robert J. Stacey, Laurent Cariou, Qinghua Li, Feng Jiang
  • Publication number: 20210258860
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to long range beacon. A device may determine one or more co-located frequency bands with a 6 GHz access point (AP). The device may generate a reduced neighbor report (RNR), wherein the RNR comprises information associated with the 6 GHz AP. The device may determine a minimum bandwidth to transmit a beacon frame using a communication mode. The device may cause to send the beacon frame to a first station device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Xiaogang Chen, Qinghua Li, Feng Jiang, Thomas J. Kenney
  • Publication number: 20210250911
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to vehicle communications using the 5.9 GHz frequency band. A vehicle device may select a first communication channel in a first portion of a 5.9 GHz frequency band, the first portion allocated for Wi-Fi communications, and may select a second communication channel in a second portion of the 5.9 GHz frequency band, the second portion allocated for vehicle communications. The vehicle device may generate a first physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU) and generate a second PPDU having a different format than the first PPDU. The vehicle device may send, to a second device, the first PPDU and the second PPDU at a same time using a bonded communication channel including the first communication channel and the second communication channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Bahareh Sadeghi, Thomas J. Kenney
  • Publication number: 20210250157
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to enhanced NGV services packet. A device may generate a physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU) to be used for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication. The device may determine a first portion of the PPDU having one or more legacy fields. The device may determine a second portion of the PPDU having one or more next generation vehicle (NGV) fields. The device may utilize a first frequency bandwidth to send the first portion of the PPDU. The device may utilize a second frequency bandwidth to send the second portion of the PPDU, wherein the first frequency bandwidth and the second frequency bandwidth are at least one of a 10 megahertz (MHz) bandwidth or a 20 MHz bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas J. Kenney, Bahareh Sadeghi, Laurent Cariou
  • Patent number: 11082983
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for tone plans and preambles for extremely high throughput (EHT) in a wireless network are disclosed. An apparatus of an EHT access point (AP) or EHT station (STA), where the apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to: encode a physical layer (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU), the PPDU including a EHT preamble, the EHT preamble including a legacy preamble portion and a EHT preamble portion, the legacy preamble including a legacy short training field (L-SFT), a legacy long-training field (L-LTF), and a legacy signal field (L-SIG), the EHT preamble portion comprising an EHT short signal field (EHT S-SIG), the EHT S-SIG including a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) subfield indicating a MCS of a subsequent data portion. The PPDU may be transmitted on a distributed or contiguous resource unit (RU) allocation. The RU may be configured to not straddle two physical 20 MHz subchannels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaogang Chen, Ilan Sutskover, Qinghua Li, Robert J. Stacey, Thomas J. Kenney, Feng Jiang
  • Patent number: 11082924
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to wake-up radio (WUR) advertisement channels. A device may include a wake-up receiver (WURx) and a primary connectivity radio. The device may determine a wake-up radio (WUR) discovery subchannel for WUR advertisement. The WUR discovery subchannel may be associated with a channel of a frequency band. The device may generate a WUR discovery frame comprising a WUR advertisement. The device may transmit, by the WURx, the WUR discovery frame to a second device using the WUR discovery subchannel. The device may identify a response from the second device indicating an acknowledgment of the WUR discovery frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Kai Huang, Shahrnaz Azizi, Noam Ginsburg, Daniel F. Bravo, Thomas J. Kenney
  • Patent number: 11076385
    Abstract: Embodiments of a station (STA) and method of communication are generally described herein. The STA may be included in a first plurality of STAs affiliated with a first multi-link logical entity (MLLE). A plurality of links may be established between the first MLLE and a second MLLE, wherein the second MLLE may be affiliated with a second plurality of STAs. The STA may receive a first subset of a sequence of MAC protocol data units (MPDUs). A second subset of the sequence of MPDUs may be transmitted by another STA of the first plurality of STAs. The STA may transmit a block acknowledgement (BA) frame that includes: a number of BA bitmaps, configurable to values greater than or equal to one; and BA control information for each of the BA bitmaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Kai Huang, Robert J. Stacey, Daniel F. Bravo, Laurent Cariou, Arik Klein, Danny Ben-Ari, Ofer Schreiber, Shahrnaz Azizi, Thomas J. Kenney, Alexander W. Min, Yaron Alpert, Avi Mansour, Dave A. Cavalcanti, Jing Zhu, Ziv Avital, Xiaogang Chen, Juan Fang
  • Publication number: 20210227502
    Abstract: Embodiments of a station (STA) and method of communication are generally described herein. The STA may be included in a first plurality of STAs affiliated with a first multi-link logical entity (MLLE). A plurality of links may be established between the first MLLE and a second MLLE, wherein the second MLLE may be affiliated with a second plurality of STAs. The STA may receive a first subset of a sequence of MAC protocol data units (MPDUs). A second subset of the sequence of MPDUs may be transmitted by another STA of the first plurality of STAs. The STA may transmit a block acknowledgement (BA) frame that includes: a number of BA bitmaps, configurable to values greater than or equal to one; and BA control information for each of the BA bitmaps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Po-Kai Huang, Robert J. Stacey, Daniel F. Bravo, Laurent Cariou, Arik Klein, Danny Ben-Ari, Ofer Schreiber, Shahrnaz Azizi, Thomas J. Kenney, Alexander W. Min, Yaron Alpert, Avi Mansour, Dave A. Cavalcanti, Jing Zhu, Ziv Avital, Xiaogang Chen, Juan Fang
  • Publication number: 20210219109
    Abstract: Embodiments of a Next Generation Vehicle-to-Everything (NGV) station (STA) and method of communication are generally described herein. The NGV STA may encode a physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) in accordance with an enhanced PHY layer protocol. The PPDU may be encoded for transmission in a dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) frequency band. The NGV STA may encode the PPDU to include a preamble, one or more data portions, and one or more midambles. The one or more midambles may occur within the PPDU after the preamble and after at least one of the data portions. The NGV STA may encode a preamble that includes an NGV SIG-A field that indicates: whether the PPDU includes the one or more midambles, and a periodicity of the one or more midambles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Bahareh Sadeghi, Thomas J. Kenney
  • Publication number: 20210212052
    Abstract: Embodiments of a Next Generation Vehicle-to-Everything (NGV) station (STA) and method of communication are generally described herein. The NGV STA may encode a physical layer convergence procedure (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) for transmission in a dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) frequency band allocated for vehicular communication by NGV STAs and legacy STAs. In some cases, the NGV STA may encode the PPDU in accordance with an NGV enhanced physical (PHY) layer protocol, and includes usage of a mid-amble, space-time block coding (STBC), or low-density parity check (LDPC) coding. In other cases, the NGV STA may encode the PPDU in accordance with a legacy PHY layer protocol that is compatible with the legacy STAs, and excludes usage of the mid-amble, the STBC, and the LDCP coding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Bahareh Sadeghi, Thomas J. Kenney
  • Patent number: 11057888
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to physical layer (PHY) signaling in next generation vehicle (NGV). A device may establish a communication session with one or more NGV devices. The device may determine an NGV frame comprising a legacy signal field (L-SIG) and an NGV signal field. The device may determine a plurality of data subcarriers and a plurality of pilot subcarriers associated with the L-SIG, wherein the plurality of data subcarriers and the plurality of pilot subcarriers are surrounded by at least two additional subcarriers. The device may cause to send the NGV frame to the one or more NGV devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas J. Kenney, Laurent Cariou, Bahareh Sadeghi, Robert Stacey
  • Publication number: 20210168856
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are described to decode a geolocation database dependent (GDD) enabling signal sent on a lower band. A 6 GHz band element is decoded. The 6 GHz band element includes a list of 6 GHz channel numbers. Data is encoded for transmission at 6 GHz on a 6 GHz channel associated with a 6 GHz channel number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Thomas J. Kenney, Shahrnaz Azizi, Robert J. Stacey
  • Publication number: 20210144645
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to wake up receiver (WUR) frequency division multiple access (FDMA) transmission. A device may cause to send a wake up receiver (WUR) beacon frame on a WUR beacon operating channel to one or more station devices. The device may determine a first wake-up frame to be sent on a first WUR operating channel, wherein the first WUR operating channel is associated with one or more frequency division multiple access (FDMA) channels used for transmitting one or more wake-up frames to the one or more station devices. The device may determine to apply padding to the first wake-up frame based on a field included in a header of the first wake-up frame. The device may cause to send the first wake-up frame to a first station device of the one or more station devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Kai Huang, Shahrnaz Azizi, Daniel F. Bravo, Thomas J. Kenney, Vinod Kristem, Noam Ginsburg
  • Publication number: 20210120494
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to generating a wake up receiver (WUR) transmit waveform. A device may determine one or more symbols bit sequence of a wake up receiver (WUR) frame to be sent to a first station device capable of decoding the bit sequence. The device may determine a first symbol of the one or more symbols, wherein the first symbol is associated with an ON state. The device may determine a second symbol of the one or more symbols, wherein the second symbol is associated with the ON state. The device may generate a first on-off keying (OOK) waveform associated with the first symbol. The device may generate a second OOK waveform associated with the second symbol, wherein the second OOK waveform is different from the first OOK waveform. The device may cause to send the WUR frame to the first station device based on the first OOK waveform and the second OOK waveform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Vinod Kristem, Shahrnaz Azizi, Thomas J. Kenney, Po-Kai Huang
  • Publication number: 20210111935
    Abstract: An apparatus of a station (STA) includes memory and processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to encode a capabilities element for transmission to an access point (AP). The capabilities element including a media access control (MAC) capabilities information field indicating a trigger frame MAC padding duration. The processing circuitry decodes an extremely high throughput (EHT) protocol data unit (PPDU) received in response to the capabilities element. The EHT PPDU includes an EHT trigger frame (EHT-TF) in a data portion of the EHT PPDU, a packet extension (PE) field, and a dummy orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol extending the PE field. The processing circuitry performs physical layer (PHY) and MAC processing of the EHT PPDU based on a duration of the dummy OFDM symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Xiaogang Chen, Qinghua Li, Thomas J. Kenney, Danny Alexander
  • Patent number: 10979978
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to wake up receiver (WUR) frequency division multiple access (FDMA) transmission. A device may cause to send a wake up receiver (WUR) beacon frame on a WUR beacon operating channel to one or more station devices. The device may determine a first wake-up frame to be sent on a first WUR operating channel, wherein the first WUR operating channel is associated with one or more frequency division multiple access (FDMA) channels used for transmitting one or more wake-up frames to the one or more station devices. The device may determine to apply padding to the first wake-up frame based on a field included in a header of the first wake-up frame. The device may cause to send the first wake-up frame to a first station device of the one or more station devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Po-Kai Huang, Shahrnaz Azizi, Daniel F. Bravo, Thomas J. Kenney, Vinod Kristem, Noam Ginsburg