RF front end power control for low power RF devices

    公开(公告)号:US10051172B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-14

    申请号:US14927049

    申请日:2015-10-29

    Applicant: NETGEAR, INC.

    Inventor: Steve Skeoch

    Abstract: The invention is directed to a radio unit contained within a housing of a wireless communication device or system, the radio unit including: a signal processing unit for performing one or more wireless protocol processing functions; a radio-frequency (RF) front end unit coupled to the signal processing unit; and a power unit coupled to the RF front end unit, wherein the power unit completely powers down the RF front end unit when the signal processing unit is in a sleep mode, and powers up the RF front end unit at a predetermined time before an anticipated reception of a RF signal transmitted by an external device.

    Systems and methods for wireless link balancing in wireless networks

    公开(公告)号:US10021655B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-10

    申请号:US15693406

    申请日:2017-08-31

    Applicant: NETGEAR, INC.

    CPC classification number: H04W52/283 H04L43/12 H04W72/0473 H04W84/12

    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling the transmit power and the receive sensitivity of an access point for achieving symmetric link balancing is described. When an access point operates with symmetric link performance, the access point does not inefficiently use available bandwidth for transmitting or re-transmitting to a client station that cannot communicate with the access point. Moreover, the access point does not back off transmissions due to activity of neighboring basic service sets when not needed. The receive sensitivity can be controlled using a hardware attenuator or software commands that adjust a programmable gain in a wireless local area network chipset used by the access point, or it can be controlled using adjustable levels in the software for processing or responding to packets.

    Sensor gateway
    116.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09998501B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-12

    申请号:US14558085

    申请日:2014-12-02

    Applicant: NETGEAR, INC.

    Abstract: A sensor gateway manages wireless communications to sensors and the exchange of data between the sensors and a connection to the Internet. A sensor gateway processor runs the network and wireless stack, automatically picks the same channel as the home access point (AP), and runs sensor software to provide the sensors with low power, wireless support and deep sleep support. The sensor gateway selects same channel as the home AP by following the strongest beacon or by following the home AP service set identifier (SSID), in case more than one strong beacon is present. If the home AP and sensor gateway are placed close by and are on a different channel in 2.4G, there is destructive interference between the two devices. By using same channel on the sensor gateway as that of the home AP, both devices can coexist in same band without destructive interference.

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