Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wireless personal area network underlying cellular networks
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Application No.: US16989151Application Date: 2020-08-10
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Publication No.: US11765594B2Publication Date: 2023-09-19
- Inventor: Qian Li , Geng Wu , Lili Wei , Apostolos Papathanassiou
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin & Goetzel, P.C.
- Main IPC: H04W12/33
- IPC: H04W12/33 ; H04W88/10 ; H04W12/43 ; H04W4/70 ; H04W76/10 ; H04W4/80 ; H04W88/04 ; H04W88/06 ; H04W12/043 ; H04W76/14 ; H04W92/18 ; H04W84/18

Abstract:
This document discusses, among other things, a wireless personal-area network (PAN) underlying a cellular wide-area network (WAN). The PAN includes a wearable user equipment (UE-W) and a user equipment aggregation node (UE-AN). The UE-W includes processing circuitry to process data for communication with a network of the WAN through the UE-AN, and radio interface circuitry to communicate with the UE-AN through a first air interface. The UE-AN includes processing to process data for communication between the network of the WAN and the UE-W, and radio interface circuitry to communicate with the network of the WAN through the first air interface and with the UE-W through a second air interface. The UE-W and the UE-AN can share a network credential, appearing as a single device to the WAN.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200374695A1 WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORK UNDERLYING CELLULAR NETWORKS Public/Granted day:2020-11-26
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