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| 20090021646 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION OF UNCOMPRESSED VIDEO INFORMATION IN WIRELESS SYSTEMS - A method and system for communicating video information over wireless channels is provided. Communicating video information involves receiving a frame of video pixel information, partitioning spatially correlated pixels into different partitions and allocating pixel information from the pixel partitions across one or more of said multiple channels based on channel conditions. The allocated pixel information is transmitted on the one or more multiple channels. | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090046653 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PEER-TO-PEER BEAM DISCOVERY AND COMMUNICATION IN INFRASTRUCTURE BASED WIRELESS NETWORKS USING DIRECTIONAL ANTENNAS - A system and method for performing a beam discovery between peer stations is disclosed. A channel time message indicating an allocation of a first time period for a peer-to-peer beam discovery (PBD) is received, where the PBD is configured to discover a beam direction to be used for data transfer to a peer station. The PBD is executed between two peer stations during the first time period. Data is transferred to the peer station via the discovered beam direction if the PBD is successful. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090052389 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIPLE CONTENTION ACCESS PERIODS - A system and method for multiple contention access periods is disclosed. In one embodiment, the system for wireless communication comprises a coordinator configured to schedule wireless transmissions among a plurality of wireless devices during a plurality of superframes, at least one of the superframes comprising a period during which the coordinator is configured to receive one or more data packets from the wireless devices via at least one random access scheme, the period being partitioned into a plurality of sub-periods which do not overlap with one another, wherein the coordinator is configured to receive at least a first data packet having a first value for a parameter during a first sub-period and a second data packet having a second value for the parameter during a second sub-period, and wherein the first and second values for the parameter are different from each other. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090054054 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MAINTAINING RELIABLE BEACON TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Systems and methods for maintaining reliable beacon transmission and reception in a wireless communication network are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, there is a method of communicating in a wireless communication network comprising a first device and a second device, the method comprising selecting, by the first device, a wireless communication direction for communication of data, wherein the wireless communication direction comprises at least one of a reception direction of the first device, a reception direction of the second device, a transmission direction of the first device, or a transmission direction of the second device, associating, by the first device, with the second device in the selected wireless communication direction, receiving, by the first device, a plurality of signals transmitted in different directions by the second device, the plurality of signals comprising a first signal in the selected wireless communication direction and a second signal transmitted in another direction different from the selected wireless communication direction, and determining, by the first device, one or more measures of quality of the first and second signals. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090077611 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION OF UNCOMPRESSED VIDEO HAVING REED-SOLOMON CODE ERROR CONCEALMENT - A system and method for wireless communication of uncompressed video data are disclosed. One embodiment of a method of wireless communication for video data includes concealing corrupted portions of video data. The method includes receiving a plurality of video packets transmitted over a wireless channel. Each of the video packets includes a plurality of data blocks, and the data blocks in the plurality of video packets together form video data representing at least part of a video frame. Each of the data blocks is encoded with an error correction code (ECC). The method also includes determining whether any of the plurality of data blocks in the video packets has been corrupted while being transmitted over the wireless channel; and replacing a corrupted data block with an uncorrupted data block selected from the plurality of data blocks in the plurality of video packets. The corrupted data block includes a first displayable element on the video frame and the uncorrupted data block includes a second displayable element on the video frame. The uncorrupted data block is selected at least partially based on proximity between the first and second displayable elements on the video frame. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090168713 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COORDINATING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION OF DIFFERENT WAVEFORMS IN THE SAME FREQUENCY BAND - A method and system for coordinating wireless communication of different waveforms in the same frequency band, is provided, the network including multiple wireless stations of different types operating at the same wireless frequency band but at different waveform formats. Channel bandwidth is allocated by scanning all available channels in the frequency band to detect available channels. When the number of detected available channels is not less than the number of wireless station types, then scheduling and transmitting beacon periods for the different types of wireless stations to different available channels, wherein each type of wireless station may have a dedicated available channel period for wireless communication in parallel with other types of wireless stations. | 07-02-2009 |
| 20090201888 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION OF UNCOMPRESSED VIDEO HAVING A DUAL-BEACON MECHANISM FOR TWO DEVICE TYPES - A system and method of wireless data communication over a network of devices and device types are disclosed. In one aspect, the beacons of a first device type are sent and received from devices of the first device type or a second device type, by a first device of the first device type. A plurality of beacons of the first device type or the second device type are sent or received from a plurality of devices of the first device type or a second device type, by a second device of the second device type. Each of channels by the first device is sensed. A free channel for data communication between the first device and the second device is located. Beacons of the first device type are sent out by the first device. Channel reservations of time blocks are made of the free channel for data transmissions. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090210474 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK USING BEAMFORMING AND HAVING A MULTI-CAST CAPACITY - A method and system for sending the same data in multiple directions via directional transmission is disclosed. One embodiment of the invention allows for processing power to be saved by introducing a buffer in the physical (PHY) layer, after some baseband (BB) processing has been performed. In one embodiment of the invention the method comprises receiving data from a MAC layer, performing preliminary processing on data in the PHY layer, storing the preliminarily processed data in a buffer located in the PHY layer, performing secondary processing on the preliminarily processed data, transmitting the secondarily processed data in a first direction, via directional transmission, reading the preliminarily processed data from the buffer, performing secondary processing on the preliminarily processed data, and transmitting the secondarily processed data in a second, third, fourth and so-on direction. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090238156 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANTENNA TRAINING OF BEAMFORMING VECTORS BY SELECTIVE USE OF BEAM LEVEL TRAINING - A system and method of performing a beam discovery between a device and a plurality of other devices in a wireless network is disclosed. Sector training sequences to a plurality of other devices are transmitted via a transmit directional antenna having a set of transmit sectors. A plurality of feedback messages are received from the plurality of other devices, where the plurality of feedback messages are indicative of optimum transmit sectors that have been determined at the other devices based at least in part on the sector training sequences. Beam training sequences are transmitted to the plurality of other devices via the transmit directional antenna. A plurality of feedback message indicative of optimum transmit beam directions within the optimum transmit sectors are received from the plurality of other devices. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090273520 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISCOVERING AND TRACKING COMMUNICATION DIRECTIONS WITH ASYMMETRIC ANTENNA SYSTEMS - A system and method for discovering and tracking communication directions is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, communication directions for two devices with asymmetric antenna systems are discovered. In one embodiment, a contention access period (CAP) is partitioned into an association CAP and a regular CAP, either of which may be further partitioned into sub-CAPs corresponding to different reception directions. In one embodiment, an association request command is transmitted by a device at different association sub-CAPs to train a transmission direction of the device. In one embodiment, further training is performed to find the best communication directions, as collisions may occur when association request commands are transmitted at different association sub-CAPs. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100002627 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE OF A SHORT BEACON IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A system and method for use of a short beacon in a wireless communication network is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises generating a short beacon comprising PHY information, wherein the short beacon excludes MAC information and transmitting the short beacon via the wireless network. In general, three types of short beacons are disclosed, a first type consisting only of a PHY preamble, a second type also including a PHY header, and a third type also including a MAC header. In addition, the scheme of common beacons and individual beacons is described. Common beacons are broadcast omni-directional at the beginning of each superframe with low data rate and individual beacons are unicast to individual devices directionally with high data rate. A common beacon contains information intended for all of the devices of the network. An individual beacon contains information intended for one particular device. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100014489 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIRECTIONAL VIRTUAL SENSING RANDOM ACCESS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS - A method and system for wireless communication in a wireless network is provided. One implementation involves a requesting wireless station directionally transmitting a request to a coordinator for access to a communication channel; the request packet includes a field indicating the length of the desired reservation period; and upon successfully receiving the request from the wireless station, the coordinator reserving a channel time period for data transmission by the requesting wireless station, and at least pseudo-omni-directionally broadcasting a packet to all wireless stations in the network indicating the reservation. All other stations refrain from contending the channel during the reserved channel time period. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100110981 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR STATION-TO-STATION DIRECTIONAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - Method and system for directional wireless communication, is provided. One implementation involves directionally transmitting a request for access to a shared wireless communication medium, for directional communication between two wireless stations, and receiving a broadcast response indicating a time period during which the wireless stations may perform directional communication therebetween via the wireless communication medium by setting their antenna directions to each other. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100110995 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING TASKS ON COLLABORATING WIRELESS DEVICES - A method and system for performing functions on multiple physical devices, is provided. One implementation involves connecting the physical devices via wireless links, discovering function capabilities of each physical device, wherein a function capability of a physical device comprises a local resource and a virtual resource, and collaborating among the physical devices by wireless communication to provide a set of functions including discovered function capabilities of the collaborating physical devices, wherein each function of the function base can be mapped to one or more of said resources for execution. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100112960 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POWER SAVING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS - A method and system for power saving communication in a wireless network is provided. One implementation involves establishing a wireless bus between two electronic wireless stations, and at a receiving wireless station receiving an incoming wireless signal from a wireless transmitting station via a wireless communication medium, initiating processing the signal for detecting if the signal comprises a wireless bus tracking signal, and if the signal comprises a wireless bus tracking signal, then ceasing further processing of the signal to conserve power. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100121971 | MULTIPATH TRANSMISSION OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO INFORMATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method and system for transmitting plural synchronous video streams over multiple wireless paths, is provided. One implementation involves, for each video stream, partitioning spatially correlated pixels into different partitions, and placing pixels from different partitions into different packets. Then, performing multipath transmission of the plural video streams by alternating transmission of packets from each video stream over multiple paths, while maintaining video information for the plural video streams synchronized during transmission. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100177719 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTENTION-BASED MEDIUM ACCESS SCHEMES FOR DIRECTIONAL WIRELESS TRANSMISSION WITH ASYMMETRIC ANTENNA SYSTEM (AAS) IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A method and system for wireless communication in an asymmetric antenna system (AAS) communication system is provided. A wireless station performs carrier sensing by sensing a wireless communication channel for ongoing communications in one or more directions. Upon detecting that the wireless communication channel is idle, the station transmits a frame preamble on the channel to a receiving wireless station in more than one transmit direction, and transmits a frame payload on the channel to the receiving wireless station in one transmit direction. | 07-15-2010 |
| 20100226343 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHARED COMMUNICATION MEDIUM IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Performing distributed contention-free communication channel reservation for wireless communication, is disclosed. One implementation involves providing access to a shared communication channel in a wireless network including multiple wireless stations, by performing distributed channel time reservation for contention-free access to a shared wireless channel by each wireless station, based on a prior successful contention by the wireless station for access to the channel in a wireless network. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100246537 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION OF UNCOMPRESSED VIDEO HAVING A DUAL-BEACON MECHANISM FOR TWO DEVICE TYPES - A system and method of wireless data communication over a network of devices and device types are disclosed. In one aspect, the beacons of a first device type are sent and received from devices of the first device type or a second device type, by a first device of the first device type. A plurality of beacons of the first device type or the second device type are sent or received from a plurality of devices of the first device type or a second device type, by a second device of the second device type. Each of channels by the first device is sensed. A free channel for data communication between the first device and the second device is located. Beacons of the first device type are sent out by the first device. Channel reservations of time blocks are made of the free channel for data transmissions. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100265392 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROGRESSIVE RATE ADAPTATION FOR UNCOMPRESSED VIDEO COMMUNICATION IN WIRELESS SYSTEMS - Uncompressed video information is transmitted over a wireless communication medium from a wireless sender device to a wireless receiver device. Progressive transmission data rate adaptation is performed on original uncompressed video pixel information. The progressive transmission data rate adaptation is performed on selected pixel information to obtain a rate-reduced pixel information. The rate-reduced pixel information requires a lower transmission data rate than the original frame. The rate-reduced pixel information is transmitted over the wireless communication medium to the wireless receiver device. At the receiver, a reverse operation is performed to recover the original uncompressed video pixel information. | 10-21-2010 |
