Patents by Inventor Tianbao Liang

Tianbao Liang 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).

  • Method and system for communicating in a wireless mesh network
    Patent number: 9794934
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method for communicating in a wireless mesh network, a method for communicating in a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) mesh network, and a wireless communications device are described. In one embodiment, a method for communicating in a wireless mesh network involves at a first wireless communications device, scanning the wireless mesh network for a unit time period to discover a first transmission time slot within the unit time period that is used by a second wireless communications device in the wireless mesh network, at the first wireless communications device, choosing a second transmission time slot within the unit time period for the first wireless communications device, where the second transmission time slot is different from the first transmission time slot, and from the first wireless communications device, broadcasting data in the wireless mesh network in the second transmission time slot within a subsequent unit time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Yifeng Zhang, Tao Zhang, Tianbao Liang, Shuchen Xie, Fuquan Zhang, Jianjun Zhang
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING IN A WIRELESS MESH NETWORK
    Publication number: 20160302195
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method for communicating in a wireless mesh network, a method for communicating in a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) mesh network, and a wireless communications device are described. In one embodiment, a method for communicating in a wireless mesh network involves at a first wireless communications device, scanning the wireless mesh network for a unit time period to discover a first transmission time slot within the unit time period that is used by a second wireless communications device in the wireless mesh network, at the first wireless communications device, choosing a second transmission time slot within the unit time period for the first wireless communications device, where the second transmission time slot is different from the first transmission time slot, and from the first wireless communications device, broadcasting data in the wireless mesh network in the second transmission time slot within a subsequent unit time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Yifeng Zhang, Tao Zhang, Tianbao Liang, Shuchen Xie, Fuquan Zhang, Jianjun Zhang