Patents by Inventor Thomas Kenney

Thomas 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: 20210266872
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaogang CHEN, Laurent CARIOU, Po-Kai HUANG, Thomas KENNEY, Qinghua LI
  • Publication number: 20210266905
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaogang CHEN, Cheng CHEN, Po-Kai HUANG, Thomas KENNEY, Qinghua LI
  • Publication number: 20210243824
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Laurent CARIOU, Thomas KENNEY
  • Publication number: 20210211152
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Kenney, Laurent Cariou, Claudio Da Silva
  • Publication number: 20210203435
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Nir Balaban, Daniel Cohn, Thomas Kenney
  • Publication number: 20210195478
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Laurent Cariou, Xiaogang Chen, Thomas Kenney
  • Patent number: 10959245
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Roya Doostnejad, Thomas Kenney, Laurent Cariou
  • Publication number: 20210084667
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Bravo, Laurent Cariou, Thomas Kenney, Robert Stacey
  • Publication number: 20210060363
    Abstract: $ 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: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventor: Thomas Kenney Barrett, JR.
  • Publication number: 20200205062
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20190364492
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 10278044
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Shahrnaz Azizi, Eldad Perahia, Thomas Kenney
  • Publication number: 20190097850
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Kenney, Qinghua Li, Feng Jiang, Xiaogang Chen
  • Publication number: 20190082390
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Shahrnaz Azizi, Thomas Kenney, Po-Kai Huang
  • Publication number: 20190045522
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Roya Doostnejad, Thomas Kenney, Laurent Cariou
  • Patent number: 9913263
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Minyoung Park, Robert Stacey, Shahrnaz Azizi, Thomas Kenney, Eldad Perahia
  • Patent number: 9743399
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Minyoung Park, Eldad Perahia, Thomas Tetzlaff, Thomas Kenney
  • Publication number: 20170181167
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas Kenney, Shahrnaz Azizi
  • Publication number: 20170048899
    Abstract: Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques to identify the target of a packet in a wireless network. A transmitter node may include a connection identifier to generate a unique identifier corresponding to a connection between the transmitter node and a receiver node in the wireless network and a data packet transmitter to embed the unique identifier into a physical layer convergence protocol header corresponding to a packet to be transmitted to the receiver node. A node may include a data packet receiver to receive a physical layer convergence protocol header corresponding to a packet to be transmitted from a transmitter node in the wireless network to a receiver node in the wireless network and a header decoder to decode a unique identifier from the physical layer convergence protocol header, the unique identifier corresponding to a connection between the transmitter node and the receiver node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Applicant: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: HONGGANG LI, QINGHUA LI, HUANING NIU, HUJUN YIN, THOMAS KENNEY
  • Publication number: 20160227532
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to systems, methods, and devices for classification of signals in wireless networks. The method includes generating, by a communication device, one or more symbols comprising differentially orthogonal long training sequences, inserting the one or more symbols in one or more frames comprising a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division multiple access symbols and a payload field, and transmitting the one or more frames to a wireless device. The payload may be modulated according to an on-off keying modulation scheme or may be encoded according to a multi-repetition encoding scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Shahrnaz Azizi, Thomas Kenney, Minyoung Park, Eldad Perahia, Robert Stacey