Patents by Inventor Woojin AHN

Woojin AHN 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: 20250039892
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal using a non-contiguous channel. To this end, provided are a wireless communication terminal including a processor and a transceiver, wherein the processor receives a wireless packet through the communication unit, obtains total bandwidth information indicated via a bandwidth field of HE-SIG-A of the received packet, obtains information of an unassigned resource unit via at least one of the bandwidth field of the HE-SIG-A and a subfield of HE-SIG-B of the received packet, and decodes the received packet based on the total bandwidth information and the information of the unassigned resource unit and a wireless communication method using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Juhyung SON, Jinsam KWAK, Geonjung KO, Woojin AHN
  • Publication number: 20250038890
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a Downlink Multi-User (DL MU) PPDU including information for an Uplink Multi-User (UL MU) transmission from a base wireless communication terminal by using the transceiver, and transmit the UL MU PPDU to the base wireless communication terminal based on the information for UL MU transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Juhyung SON, Jinsam KWAK, Geonjung KO, Woojin AHN
  • Publication number: 20250039771
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a frame through the transceiver, determine whether the frame is classified into an Intra-Basic Service Set (BSS) frame or an Inter-BSS frame according to a BSS from which the frame is transmitted, and access a channel according to whether the frame is an Intra-BSS frame or an Inter-BSS frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Geonjung KO, Juhyung SON, Jinsam KWAK, Woojin AHN
  • Publication number: 20250038891
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication terminal and a wireless communication method for efficiently managing simultaneous data transmissions of a plurality of terminals. To this end, provided are a base wireless communication terminal including: a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal; and a processor configured to control an operation of the base wireless communication terminal, wherein the processor is configured to: transmit a trigger frame triggering a multi-user uplink transmission of a plurality of terminals, receive multi-user uplink data through resources allocated to the plurality of terminals, and transmit a block ACK through the resources in response to the received multi-user uplink data, wherein the transmission of the block ACK in each resource is terminated at the same time, and a wireless communication method using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Woojin AHN, Yongho KIM, Jinsam KWAK, Juhyung SON
  • Patent number: 12213188
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that wirelessly communicates. the wireless communication terminal includes: a transceiver for transmitting and receiving a wireless signal; and a processor for processing the wireless signal. The processor is configured to perform a transmission based on a transmission opportunity (TXOP) limit which is a maximum value of a TXOP, which is a time interval in which a wireless communication terminal has a right to initiate a frame exchange sequence in a wireless medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woojin Ahn, Juhyung Son, Geonjung Ko, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 12207132
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a trigger frame for triggering that a frame for setting a link with a wireless communication terminal, which is an AP, is transmitted through UpLink Multi User (UL MU) transmission through the transmission/reception unit. The processor transmits the frame for setting the link through UL MU transmission based on the trigger frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woojin Ahn, Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak, Geonjung Ko, Yongho Kim
  • Publication number: 20250024445
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a frame through the transceiver, determine whether the frame is classified into an Intra-Basic Service Set (BSS) frame or an Inter-BSS frame according to a BSS from which the frame is transmitted, and access a channel according to whether the frame is an Intra-BSS frame or an Inter-BSS frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Geonjung KO, Juhyung SON, Woojin AHN, Jinsam KWAK
  • Patent number: 12192981
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal includes: a transceiver configured for transmitting/receiving a wireless signal; and a processor configured for controlling an operation of the wireless communication terminal. The transceiver receives a first frame indicating that there is data to be transmitted from a base wireless communication terminal to a plurality of wireless communication terminals including the wireless communication terminal and receives data based on the first frame. The base wireless communication terminal is any one wireless communication terminal different from the plurality of wireless communication terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woojin Ahn, Yongho Kim, Jinsam Kwak, Juhyung Son
  • Patent number: 12192148
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The wireless communication terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The processor receiving trigger information from a base wireless communication terminal using the transceiver, and transmits an Aggregate-MAC Protocol Data Unit (A-MPDU) to the base wireless communication terminal based on the trigger information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woojin Ahn, Juhyung Son, Geonjung Ko, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 12193116
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver and a processor for processing a radio signal received through the transceiver or a radio signal to be transmitted through the transceiver. The processor accesses a channel according to according to a priority of data to be transmitted to the base communication terminal by the wireless communication terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Woojin Ahn, Juhyung Son, Geonjung Ko, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 12193071
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication method for simultaneous data transmission and a wireless communication terminal using the same, and more particularly, a wireless communication method in which a plurality of terminals simultaneously transmit data for improving a data throughput in a high density environment, and a wireless communication terminal using the same. To this end, the present invention provides a wireless communication method for a terminal including transmitting a trigger frame indicating simultaneous uplink data transmission of multi-users, receiving uplink data transmitted by a plurality of terminals in response to the trigger frame, and transmitting a block acknowledgement for the plurality of terminals having transmitted the uplink data, and a wireless communication terminal using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woojin Ahn, Yongho Kim, Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 12185368
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal using a determination of basic service set identification information of a received frame, and more particularly, to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal for performing an operation according to a determination result whether the received frame is an intra-BSS frame or an inter-BSS frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Geonjung Ko, Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak, Woojin Ahn
  • Patent number: 12185113
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal for a spatial reuse operation of an overlapping basic service set, and more particularly, to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal for supporting a spatial reuse operation of an overlapping basic service set to efficiently use a wireless resource. To this end, provided are a wireless communication terminal including: a processor; and a communication unit, wherein the processor receives a trigger frame indicating an uplink multi-user transmission, and transmits a trigger-based PHY protocol data unit (PPDU) in response to the received trigger frame, wherein the trigger-based PPDU comprises a spatial reuse parameter for spatial reuse operation of an overlapping basic service set (OBSS) terminal and a wireless communication method using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Geonjung Ko, Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak, Woojin Ahn
  • Patent number: 12176975
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal for signaling a multi-user packet. More specifically, provided are a wireless communication terminal including a communication unit; and a processor configured to process signals transmitted and received through the communication unit, wherein the processor receives, through the communication unit, a high efficiency multi-user PHY protocol data unit (HE MU PPDU), wherein a preamble of the HE MU PPDU includes high efficiency signal A field (HE-SIG-A) and high efficiency signal B field (HE-SIG-B), and decodes the received HE MU PPDU based on information obtained from the HE-SIG-A, wherein a configuration of the HE-SIG-B is identified based on information obtained from at least one subfield of the HE-SIG-A and a wireless communication method using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak, Geonjung Ko, Woojin Ahn
  • Patent number: 12177907
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication terminal and a wireless communication method for efficiently scheduling simultaneous uplink transmissions of a plurality of terminals. To this end, provided are a wireless communication terminal, the terminal including: a transceiver; and a processor, wherein the processor receives, through the transceiver, a trigger frame transmitted by a base wireless communication terminal, and performs a multi-user uplink transmission based on the received trigger frame, wherein the trigger frame includes a predetermined field indicating whether an additional trigger frame is present or not, and a wireless communication method using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC., SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Woojin Ahn, Yongho Kim, Jinsam Kwak, Juhyung Son
  • Publication number: 20240422781
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver and a processor. The processor is configured to receive the trigger frame using the transceiver and update the network allocation vector based on the trigger frame. At this time, the trigger frame triggers transmission of at least one wireless communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Geonjung KO, Juhyung SON, Woojin AHN, Jinsam KWAK
  • Patent number: 12167415
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal using a non-contiguous channel. To this end, provided are a wireless communication terminal including a processor and a transceiver, wherein the processor receives a wireless packet through the communication unit, obtains total bandwidth information indicated via a bandwidth field of HE-SIG-A of the received packet, obtains information of an unassigned resource unit via at least one of the bandwidth field of the HE-SIG-A and a subfield of HE-SIG-B of the received packet, and decodes the received packet based on the total bandwidth information and the information of the unassigned resource unit and a wireless communication method using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Juhyung Son, Jinsam Kwak, Geonjung Ko, Woojin Ahn
  • Patent number: 12166587
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication terminal and a wireless communication method for efficiently managing simultaneous data transmissions of a plurality of terminals. To this end, provided are a base wireless communication terminal including: a transceiver configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal; and a processor configured to control an operation of the base wireless communication terminal, wherein the processor is configured to: transmit a trigger frame triggering a multi-user uplink transmission of a plurality of terminals, receive multi-user uplink data through resources allocated to the plurality of terminals, and transmit a block ACK through the resources in response to the received multi-user uplink data, wherein the transmission of the block ACK in each resource is terminated at the same time, and a wireless communication method using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: WILUS INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Woojin Ahn, Yongho Kim, Jinsam Kwak, Juhyung Son
  • Publication number: 20240406938
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal including a transceiver for transmitting/receiving a wireless signal and a processor for controlling an operation of the wireless communication terminal. The transceiver receives a first frame indicating information on a resource that a base wireless communication terminal allocates to a plurality of wireless communication terminals from the base wireless communication terminal, and transmits data to the base wireless communication terminal based on the first frame. The plurality of wireless communication terminals include the wireless communication terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Woojin AHN, Yongho KIM, Jinsam KWAK, Juhyung SON
  • Publication number: 20240406798
    Abstract: Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The processor is configured to transmit first information on a fragmentation level to be used for data to be transmitted to a recipient by using the transceiver in an add Block ACK (ADDBA) setup procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Woojin AHN, Juhyung SON, Jinsam KWAK, Geonjung KO