Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080316987 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO ENABLE MULTIPLE RECEIVERS - Briefly, a wireless communication device that includes a processor to enable a determined number of receivers of a MIMO system according to a value provided with a request to enable the receivers is provided. A method for enabling the receivers of MIMO system is also provided. | 12-25-2008 |
20100054213 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIRECT RELIABLE LINK ACCESS - A wireless communication device and a method to establish a protected time for communication over a direct link between two stations of the same network. The method includes configuring at least one antenna for a direct link establishment, switching to a listening mode and waiting for a channel time allocation (CTA) for transmission. After receiving the CTA a source station sends a first frame to a destination station based on a channel time allocation value and receive a second frame from the destination station to complete an establishment the CTA. | 03-04-2010 |
20100097999 | Method and apparatus to enable multiple receivers - Briefly, a wireless communication device that includes a processor to enable a determined number of receivers of a MIMO system according to a value provided with a request to enable the receivers is provided. A method for enabling the receivers of MIMO system is also provided. | 04-22-2010 |
20100103885 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DAYNAMIC BANDWIDTH MANAGMENT - A wireless communication device, a wireless communication system and a method of transmitting by a piconet controller (PNC) a poll request frame using beamforming techniques to one or more devices, wherein the poll request frame includes a time offset for sending a poll response frame by the device. The PNC receives the poll response frame with a channel bandwidth allocation request and dynamically allocating a channel bandwidth to the one or more devices according to the channel bandwidth allocation request. | 04-29-2010 |
20100182990 | Apparatus and Method of Controlling Transmission in Reverse Direction - Briefly, a wireless communication system that includes an Initiator and a Responder to transmit an aggregation of data units in a reverse direction is provided. The Initiator includes a medium access controller capable of allocating a time slot for exchanging one or more transmissions of aggregation of data units with the Responder. The medium access controller includes a channel access scheme, which is able to allocate the time slot for the Responder to transmit the aggregation of data units in the reverse direction, and to grant Originator rights of the Initiator to the Responder within said time slot. | 07-22-2010 |
20100254404 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT - A wireless communication device, a wireless communication system and a method of allocating a time slot during peer to peer communication over a millimeter wave wireless channel. The allocation of the time slot is done by truncating a channel time allocated time slot and releasing a truncated channel time allocation time slot for communication without a piconet network controller intervention and dynamically allocating a contention access period utilizing the released channel time of the allocated time. | 10-07-2010 |
20110026505 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR FORWARDING FRAME IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A wireless communication device, system and a method of forwarding frames between stations of a wireless communication system are disclosed. The wireless communication system includes a sending station, a forwarding station and a receiving station. The sending station is able to send a frame including a forwarding field, a receiving station address field, a sending station address field and a forwarding station address field. The forwarding station is able to receive said frame and to forward the frame as is to the receiving station. The receiving station upon receiving the frame reads the forwarding field and if the forwarding field indicates that the frame has been forward from the sending station, the receiving station exchanges the address of the sending station with the address of the receiving station and the address of the receiving station with the address of the sending station and sends a block acknowledge frame including exchanged addresses to the sending station via the forwarding station. | 02-03-2011 |
20110080898 | MILLIMETER-WAVE COMMUNICATION STATION AND METHOD FOR MULTIPLE-ACCESS BEAMFORMING IN A MILLIMETER-WAVE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Embodiments of a millimeter-wave communication station and method for multiple-access beamforming in a millimeter-wave network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, an initiating station performs multiple-access beamforming with one or more responding stations by announcing a number of sector-sweep (SS) slots of a beamforming training (BFT) period and a number of SS frames of each SS slot. One or more SS frames are received from one or more of the responding stations within one of the SS slots of the BFT period. The initiating station transmits one or more SS feedback frames to the responding stations within the one SS slot to indicate an antenna configuration to the responding stations for communication with the initiating station. The responding stations transmit a limited number of SS frames per SS slot based on the number of SS frames announced by the initiating station and transmit any additional SS frames in a next SS slot of the beamforming training period. Each SS frame contains an indication to the initiating station of an antenna configuration for communication with the responding station, | 04-07-2011 |
20110216752 | MULTI-CARIER CONFIGURATION, ACTIVATION AND SCHEDULING - Embodiments of block acknowledgements request apparatus, systems, and methods are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. An aggregated block of a plurality of data frames is received from an originator transmission, with each data frame including a medium access control (MAC) header. An acknowledgement policy that is solicited by the originator is identified in a quality of service field in at least one of the MAC headers of the received transmission. A single block acknowledgement is transmitted to the originator acknowledging receipt of one or more of the plurality of data frames in the aggregated block of data frames. | 09-08-2011 |
20110261754 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR SWITCHING TRAFFIC STREAMS AMONG MULTIPLE FREQUENCY BANDS - Devices, systems and methods may provide control of traffic streams before transition to another frequency band, during a transition and after a transition is completed and the devices are active in the other frequency band or in multiple frequency bands. The provided solution cover the transparent mode when the devices have the same Medium Access Control (MAC) addresses in both frequency bands and the non-transparent mode when at least one of the communicating devices has different MAC addresses in the different frequency bands. | 10-27-2011 |
20110261755 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR FAST SESSION TRANSFER FOR MULTIPLE FREQUENCY BAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Devices, systems and methods to provide session transfer between a pair of multiband stations by a fast session transfer (FST) setup protocol. The FST protocol or the method may include operating the session on a first frequency band and/or a first channel wherein the session includes or is described by state information kept or stored in a pair of stations that have an established direct physical link; setting an agreement to operate the session on a second frequency band and/or a second channel; establishing a direct physical link on a second frequency band and/or a second channel and transferring the session to the second frequency band and/or the second channel. | 10-27-2011 |
20120020226 | METHOD AND DEVICES FOR MULTIPLE STATION SOUNDING IN A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK - Embodiments of a method and apparatus for obtaining sounding measurements between an access point and a wireless station within a wireless local area network are described. Some embodiments relate to Wi-Fi networks and networks operating in accordance with one of the IEEE 802.11 standards. Some embodiments may allow an access point to request that multiple stations compute sounding measurements with minimal time delay between measurements. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 01-26-2012 |
20120079271 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WIRELESS DEVICE AUTHENTICATION AND ASSOCIATION - Methods and devices controlling association and/or authentication of wireless devices. At a first wireless device which is unassociated and unauthenticated with a second device, a state variable representing the second device may be stored, where the variable indicates that the second device is unassociated and unauthenticated with the first device. A message may be received from the second device requesting to associate. The variable may be changed to indicate that the second device is associated and unauthenticated. A message may be received from the second device requesting to authenticate, and the state variable may be changed to indicate that the second device is authenticated. In some cases, a wireless device stores variable(s) representing a second device, the variables indicating that the second device is unassociated and unauthenticated, receives a message from the second device requesting authentication, and changes a state variable to indicate that the second device is authenticated. | 03-29-2012 |
20120177013 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR SCHEDULING IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Devices, systems and methods to schedule a service period at a wireless network. A wireless network controller of the wireless network may set a start time of a service period. The start time is no less than a predefined time after transmitting by the wireless network controller an information element containing the service period scheduling information. | 07-12-2012 |
20120177016 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING WIRELESS NETWORK CONTROLLER - Devices, systems and methods of selecting a station of a wireless network to perform the role of the wireless network controller or control point. The station may receive a request to check the capabilities of the station in order to select the wireless network controller wherein the request includes sending station capabilities values. The station checks the station capabilities by comparing the station self capabilities values with the sending station capabilities values in descending capabilities priority order and if the station capability value is higher than the sending station capability value then the station may selects the station with the highest capability value as the wireless network controller. | 07-12-2012 |
20120182954 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR FAST SESSION TRANSFER FOR MULTIPLE FREQUENCY BAND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Devices, systems and methods to provide session transfer between a pair of multiband stations by a fast session transfer (FST) setup protocol. For example, a method may include transferring, by a first wireless communications device (STA | 07-19-2012 |
20120250672 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF DYNAMIC BANDWIDTH MANAGMENT - A wireless communication device, a wireless communication system and a method of transmitting by a piconet controller (PNC) a poll request frame using beamforming techniques to one or more devices, wherein the poll request frame includes a time offset for sending a poll response frame by the device. The PNC receives the poll response frame with a channel bandwidth allocation request and dynamically allocating a channel bandwidth to the one or more devices according to the channel bandwidth allocation request. | 10-04-2012 |
20120263116 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, ASSOCIATED METHODS AND DATA STRUCTURES - A wireless communication device, and a wireless communication system and a method of beamforming is presented. The wireless communication system and/or device includes a beamformee unit, a beamformer unit and two or more antennas to transmit the data unit and the protocol data unit according to the beamformee and the beamformer units, respectively. The beamformee conveys feedback information by a data unit in one of the feedback positions that include an immediate feedback position, an aggregated feedback position and a delayed feedback position. The beamformer unit generates a protocol data unit including a control field that includes one of the feedback request information types which is selected from a Channel State Information or uncompressed Steering Matrix or compressed Steering Matrix, to request feedback from a remote communication device. | 10-18-2012 |
20130163496 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of wireless communication. For example, a wireless communication unit may include a Multi Media-Access-Control (MAC) Address Station-Management-Entity (MM-SME) managing a plurality of MAC entities having a respective plurality of MAC addresses. The wireless communication unit may transmit a frame including a Multi-MAC-Addresses-Element (MMAE), which includes two or more MAC addresses of the plurality of MAC addresses and a control field defining at least one common communication attribute to be applied to the two or more MAC addresses. | 06-27-2013 |
20130176939 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMMUNICATING AGGREGATE DATA UNITS - Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of communicating aggregate data units. For example, a device may include a wireless communication unit to communicate an aggregate data unit including a plurality of data units in an increasing order of sequence numbers assigned to the data units, such that a first data unit having a first sequence number always precedes a second data unit having a second sequence number, greater than the first sequence number. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176993 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMMUNICATING DURING A CONTENTION BASED ACCESS PERIOD - Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of communicating during a Contention-Based-Access-Period (CBAP). For example, a device may include a wireless communication station to transmit a wireless communication transmission over a wireless communication medium upon determining that the wireless communication medium is idle for a predefined time period within a contention-based-access period (CBAP), if a scheduling element allocating the CBAP includes an indication of an identity of the wireless communication station in a predefined field. | 07-11-2013 |
20130272272 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MULTIPLE-STREAM WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of multiple-stream wireless communication. For example, an apparatus may include a wireless communication unit to perform wireless peer-to-peer (P2P) communication according to a time allocation scheme defining a plurality of scheduled allocations (teeth) for wireless P2P communication within a wireless communication network based on a predefined priority scheme, which assigns a plurality of priorities to a plurality of streams corresponding to a plurality of service types, wherein a tooth may be scheduled for P2P communication between a pair of endpoints of the wireless communication network, and wherein the tooth includes one or more contiguous portions (slices), a slice having a predefined duration allocated for communication of one or more streams having the same priority. | 10-17-2013 |
20130329712 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMMUNICATING DURING AN ASSOCIATION BEAMFORMING TRAINING (A-BFT) PERIOD - Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of communicating during an Association-Beamforming-Training (A-BFT). For example, a device may include a wireless communication unit to communicate a beacon frame during a beacon transmission interval (BTI), the beacon frame including a responder address field including a responder address representing one or more client devices, which are allowed to transmit during an A-BFT period following the BTI. | 12-12-2013 |
20140029453 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF LINK MEASUREMENT OF A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION LINK - Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of link measurement of a wireless communication link. For example, a wireless communication unit may communicate a link measurement request frame between an initiator station and a responder station; may communicate a first link measurement report frame in response to the link measurement request frame, the link measurement report frame including link information determined by the responder station with respect to a wireless communication link between the initiator station and the responder station; and/or may communicate a second, unsolicited, link measurement report frame including link information determined by the initiator station with respect to the wireless communication link. | 01-30-2014 |
20140064255 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMMUNICATING DATA DURING AN ALLOCATED TIME PERIOD - Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of communicating during an allocated time period. For example, an apparatus may include a wireless communication unit to perform the functionality of a first station to communicate data with a second station during an allocated time period, wherein, when both the first and second stations do not have data ready for transmission, the wireless communication unit is to communicate frames between the first station and the second station to occupy the allocated time period until at least one of the first and second stations has data ready for transmission or until an end of the allocated time period. | 03-06-2014 |
20140160964 | METHOD AND DEVICES FOR MULTIPLE STATION SOUNDING IN A WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK - Embodiments of a method and apparatus for obtaining sounding measurements between an access point and a wireless station within a wireless local area network are described. Some embodiments relate to Wi-Fi networks and networks operating in accordance with one of the IEEE 802.11 standards. Some embodiments may allow an access point to request that multiple stations compute sounding measurements with minimal time delay between measurements. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 06-12-2014 |
20140161105 | MILLIMETER-WAVE COMMUNICATION STATION AND METHOD FOR MULTIPLE-ACCESS BEAMFORMING IN A MILLIMETER-WAVE COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Embodiments of a millimeter-wave communication station and method for multiple-access beamforming in a millimeter-wave network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, an initiating station performs multiple-access beamforming with one or more responding stations by announcing a number of sector-sweep (SS) slots of a beamforming training (BFT) period and a number of SS frames of each SS slot. One or more SS frames are received from one or more of the responding stations within one of the SS slots of the BFT period. The initiating station transmits one or more SS feedback frames to the responding stations within the one SS slot to indicate an antenna configuration to the responding stations for communication with the initiating station. The responding stations transmit a limited number of SS frames per SS slot based on the number of SS frames announced by the initiating station and transmit any additional SS frames in a next SS slot of the beamforming training period. Each SS frame contains an indication to the initiating station of an antenna configuration for communication with the responding station, | 06-12-2014 |
20140204818 | ACCESS POINT AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATE MPDU (A-MPDU) AND POWER-SAVE MULTI-POLL (PSMP) OPERATION - Embodiments of wireless devices and methods for aggregate MPDU (A-MPDU) communications in an IEEE 802.11n network are generally described herein. Two or more A-MPDU subframes are aggregated to form an A-MPDU. In some embodiments, an access point (AP) that is configured for power-save multi-poll (PSMP) operation transmits a PSMP burst comprising a PSMP sequence of two or more A-MPDUs to a plurality of mobile stations (STA) during a downlink phase of the PSMP sequence. During PSMP operation, the AP is to receive a PSMP sequence of two or more A-MPDUs from the STAs during an uplink phase of the PSMP sequence. | 07-24-2014 |
20150055610 | DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF COMMUNICATING DURING A CONTENTION BASED ACCESS PERIOD - Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of communicating during a Contention-Based-Access-Period (CBAP). For example, a device may include a wireless communication station to transmit a wireless communication transmission over a wireless communication medium upon determining that the wireless communication medium is idle for a predefined time period within a contention-based-access period (CBAP), if a scheduling element allocating the CBAP includes an indication of an identity of the wireless communication station in a predefined field. | 02-26-2015 |
20150071185 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION BEAMFORMING - Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of wireless communication beamforming. For example, an apparatus may include a wireless communication unit to process a beamforming frame communicated between a beamforming initiator station and a beamforming responder station subsequent to a Transmit (Tx) sector sweep by the beamforming initiator station, wherein transmission of the beamforming frame is from a first station of the beamforming initiator station or the beamforming responder station to a second station of the beamforming initiator station or the beamforming responder station, the beamforming frame comprises an indication of a selected Tx sector, based on the Tx sector sweep, to be used by the first station for transmitting a directional beamformed transmission to the second station. | 03-12-2015 |