Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Time division multiplexing of RF transceivers controlled by an auxiliary channel, for example, for a lighting device
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Application No.: US16262317Application Date: 2019-01-30
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Publication No.: US10666455B2Publication Date: 2020-05-26
- Inventor: Marc Saes , Sajin George , Yenpao Lu
- Applicant: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
- Applicant Address: US GA Conyers
- Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
- Current Assignee: ABL IP HOLDING LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Conyers
- Agency: RatnerPrestia
- Main IPC: H05B37/02
- IPC: H05B37/02 ; H04L12/40 ; H05B45/00 ; H05B47/18 ; H05B47/19 ; H04W52/02

Abstract:
Devices in a wireless network, such as wirelessly networked lighting devices, utilize two different types of radios, e.g. implementing two or more protocols such as Bluetooth and WiFi. Such radios operate in overlapping frequency bands of the RF spectrum. Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) of the two types of radio operations mitigates interference between the protocols competing in the spectrum overlap. In the examples with lighting devices, a driver of the light source provides a data bus that may be used as an auxiliary communications channel to implement TDM access by the radios to the overlapping frequency bands.
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