公开(公告)号：US08385316B2

公开(公告)日：2013-02-26

申请号：US11774282

申请日：2007-07-06

申请人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Aleksandar Jovicic ,  Thomas Richardson ,  Xinzhou Wu

发明人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Aleksandar Jovicic ,  Thomas Richardson ,  Xinzhou Wu

IPC分类号： H04J4/06

CPC分类号： H04W56/002 ,  H04W92/18

摘要： Methods and apparatus related to peer to peer communication networks are described. A peer to peer timing structure is implemented which includes a pattern of different types of time intervals including at least a peer discovery time interval and a traffic interval. A wireless communications device, supporting peer to peer operations stores the peer to peer timing structure information, accesses the stored information, and used the accessed information to determine an operation to be performed during a current time period. The operation is, e.g., a peer discovery operation, a peer to peer timing synchronization operation, a peer paging operation, or a peer to peer traffic signaling operation. Various exemplary relationships between the different types of intervals, including relative frequencies, relative durations, and spacing information, are described. Advantageous construction of the recurring peer to peer timing structure facilitates efficient utilization of air link resources and/or higher traffic data throughput capabilities.

摘要翻译： 描述了与对等通信网络相关的方法和设备。 实现对等定时结构，其包括不同类型的时间间隔的模式，包括至少对等体发现时间间隔和业务间隔。 支持对等操作的无线通信设备存储对等定时结构信息，访问所存储的信息，并使用所访问的信息来确定在当前时间段内要执行的操作。 操作是例如对等体发现操作，对等定时同步操作，对等寻呼操作或对等业务信令操作。 描述不同类型间隔之间的各种示例性关系，包括相对频率，相对持续时间和间隔信息。 重复的对等定时结构的有利构造有助于空中链路资源的有效利用和/或更高的业务数据吞吐能力。

公开(公告)号：US07898983B2

公开(公告)日：2011-03-01

申请号：US11773947

申请日：2007-07-05

申请人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Aleksandar Jovicic ,  Thomas Richardson ,  Xinzhou Wu

发明人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Aleksandar Jovicic ,  Thomas Richardson ,  Xinzhou Wu

IPC分类号： G01R31/08

CPC分类号： H04W8/005 ,  H04L5/0007 ,  H04L5/0032 ,  H04L5/0053 ,  H04W68/00 ,  H04W74/04 ,  H04W84/18

摘要： Methods and apparatus related to peer to peer communication networks are described. An active connection list is maintained by a wireless communications device supporting peer to peer communications. In various embodiments, the active connection identifier list being maintained is in addition to a list of discovered peers in the local vicinity. Paging signaling, e.g., peer to peer paging signaling, is used to establish active connections. Air link peer to peer traffic resources include traffic control resources and traffic data resources. A wireless communications device seeking to transmit on a traffic data resource transmits a traffic request signal on a traffic control resource. An active connection identifier is, in some embodiments, associated with a particular subset of traffic control resources. Thus, a wireless communications device monitors the portion or portions of the traffic control resource corresponding to its active connections for traffic request signals, but need not monitor other portions.

摘要翻译： 描述了与对等通信网络相关的方法和设备。 活动连接列表由支持对等通信的无线通信设备维护。 在各种实施例中，正在维护的活动连接标识符列表是在本地附近的发现的对等体的列表之外的。 寻呼信令，例如对等寻呼信令，用于建立主动连接。 空中链路对等​​流量资源包括流量控制资源和流量数据资源。 寻求在业务数据资源上发送的无线通信设备在业务控制资源上发送业务请求信号。 在一些实施例中，活动连接标识符与流量控制资源的特定子集相关联。 因此，无线通信设备监视与其活动连接相对应的业务控制资源的部分或部分以用于业务请求信号，但不需要监视其他部分。

公开(公告)号：US20090111506A1

公开(公告)日：2009-04-30

申请号：US11930121

申请日：2007-10-31

申请人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Thomas Richardson ,  Xinzhou Wu ,  Aleksandar Jovicic

发明人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Thomas Richardson ,  Xinzhou Wu ,  Aleksandar Jovicic

IPC分类号： H04M1/00

CPC分类号： H04W72/1242 ,  H04W28/22 ,  H04W48/08 ,  H04W52/16 ,  H04W52/18 ,  H04W52/267 ,  H04W72/0473 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04W92/18

摘要： Methods and apparatus related to peer to peer communication networks are described. Embodiments directed to methods and apparatus for establishing traffic data transmission rates and/or transmission power levels between wireless terminals is described. Embodiments direct to methods and apparatus of making decisions whether or not to transmit as a function of the received power of the received response signals are also described. Transmission of pilot signals after granting of a transmission request and a decision to transmit traffic data has been made occurs in some embodiments. Rate information to be used in determining a traffic rate may be received in response to the pilot signal from a peer to peer (P2P) device.

摘要翻译： 描述了与对等通信网络相关的方法和设备。 描述了用于在无线终端之间建立业务数据传输速率和/或传输功率电平的方法和装置的实施例。 还描述了根据接收到的响应信号的接收功率来决定是否发送的方法和装置的实施例。 在一些实施例中已经发生了在授予发送请求之后的导频信号的传输和传送业务数据的决定。 可以响应于来自对等（P2P）设备的导频信号来接收用于确定业务速率的速率信息。

公开(公告)号：US08601156B2

公开(公告)日：2013-12-03

申请号：US11774214

申请日：2007-07-06

申请人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Aleksandar Jovicic ,  Thomas Richardson ,  Xinzhou Wu

发明人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Aleksandar Jovicic ,  Thomas Richardson ,  Xinzhou Wu

IPC分类号： G06F15/173

CPC分类号： H04W8/005 ,  H04L5/0007 ,  H04L5/0032 ,  H04L5/005 ,  H04W68/00

摘要： Methods and apparatus related to peer to peer communication networks are described. A peer to peer timing structure is implemented which includes recurring peer discovery intervals and traffic intervals. During a peer discovery interval, a wireless communications device, supporting peer to peer communications, monitors for and receives a broadcast signal from another peer wireless communications device, recovers an identifier from the received broadcast signal, and stores the received identifier in memory. The identifier is one of a device identifier and a user identifier. The wireless communications device maintains a list of discovered identifiers in its vicinity. In some embodiments, paging intervals are also included in the recurring peer to peer timing structure. In various embodiments, a wireless communications device receives or sends a page to a peer node prior to sending or receiving user data in a traffic interval. Various features are directed to peer paging protocol implementations.

摘要翻译： 描述了与对等通信网络相关的方法和设备。 实现了对等定时结构，包括循环对等体发现间隔和业务间隔。 在对等设备发现间隔期间，支持对等通信的无线通信设备监视来自另一对等无线通信设备的广播信号并从接收的广播信号中恢复标识符，并将接收的标识符存储在存储器中。 标识符是设备标识符和用户标识符之一。 无线通信设备在其附近维护发现的标识符的列表。 在一些实施例中，寻呼间隔也包括在循环对等定时结构中。 在各种实施例中，无线通信设备在业务间隔内发送或接收用户数据之前，将页面接收或发送到对等节点。 各种特征针对对等寻呼协议实现。

公开(公告)号：US08599823B2

公开(公告)日：2013-12-03

申请号：US11774176

申请日：2007-07-06

申请人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Aleksandar Jovicic ,  Thomas Richardson ,  Xinzhou Wu

发明人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Aleksandar Jovicic ,  Thomas Richardson ,  Xinzhou Wu

IPC分类号： H04J3/06 ,  H04W4/00 ,  H04W68/00 ,  H04L12/43 ,  H04B7/00

CPC分类号： H04W56/001 ,  H04W4/06 ,  H04W8/005 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W68/00 ,  H04W84/06 ,  H04W84/18 ,  H04W92/18

摘要： Methods and apparatus related to peer to peer communication networks are described. A peer to peer timing structure is implemented which includes recurring peer discovery intervals and traffic intervals. Some embodiments further include recurring paging intervals for peer to peer pages. A wireless communications device, supporting peer to peer communications and storing information defining the timing structure, determines a time reference point, facilitating a coarse level of synchronization with respect to the timing structure. The time reference point is determined based on a broadcast signal received from a communications device, e.g., a satellite, base station, or beacon signal transmitter. Multiple peer to peer wireless communications devices in a local vicinity thus obtain the same basic understanding as to the current relative point in time with respect to a common recurring peer to peer timing structure. Peer to peer timing synchronization is further refined based on received signals communicated between peers.

摘要翻译： 描述了与对等通信网络相关的方法和设备。 实现了对等定时结构，包括循环对等体发现间隔和业务间隔。 一些实施例还包括对等页面的循环寻呼间隔。 支持对等通信并且存储定义定时结构的信息的无线通信设备确定时间参考点，有助于相对于定时结构的粗略级别的同步。 基于从通信设备（例如，卫星，基站或信标信号发射机）接收的广播信号来确定时间参考点。 本地区域中的多个对等无线通信设备因此获得与当前相对时间点相对于常见的重复对等定时结构相同的基本理解。 基于在对等体之间传送的接收信号，对等定时同步进一步改进。

公开(公告)号：US20090013081A1

公开(公告)日：2009-01-08

申请号：US11774214

申请日：2007-07-06

申请人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Aleksandar Jovicic ,  Thomas Richardson ,  Xinzhou Wu

发明人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Aleksandar Jovicic ,  Thomas Richardson ,  Xinzhou Wu

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04W8/005 ,  H04L5/0007 ,  H04L5/0032 ,  H04L5/005 ,  H04W68/00

摘要： Methods and apparatus related to peer to peer communication networks are described. A peer to peer timing structure is implemented which includes recurring peer discovery intervals and traffic intervals. During a peer discovery interval, a wireless communications device, supporting peer to peer communications, monitors for and receives a broadcast signal from another peer wireless communications device, recovers an identifier from the received broadcast signal, and stores the received identifier in memory. The identifier is one of a device identifier and a user identifier. The wireless communications device maintains a list of discovered identifiers in its vicinity. In some embodiments, paging intervals are also included in the recurring peer to peer timing structure. In various embodiments, a wireless communications device receives or sends a page to a peer node prior to sending or receiving user data in a traffic interval. Various features are directed to peer paging protocol implementations.

摘要翻译： 描述了与对等通信网络相关的方法和设备。 实现了对等定时结构，包括循环对等体发现间隔和业务间隔。 在对等设备发现间隔期间，支持对等通信的无线通信设备监视来自另一对等无线通信设备的广播信号并从接收的广播信号中恢复标识符，并将接收的标识符存储在存储器中。 标识符是设备标识符和用户标识符之一。 无线通信设备在其附近维护发现的标识符的列表。 在一些实施例中，寻呼间隔也包括在循环对等定时结构中。 在各种实施例中，无线通信设备在业务间隔内发送或接收用户数据之前，将页面接收或发送到对等节点。 各种特征针对对等寻呼协议实现。

公开(公告)号：US20090010244A1

公开(公告)日：2009-01-08

申请号：US11774375

申请日：2007-07-06

申请人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Aleksandar Jovicic ,  Thomas Richardson ,  Xinzhou Wu

发明人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Aleksandar Jovicic ,  Thomas Richardson ,  Xinzhou Wu

IPC分类号： H04J3/06

CPC分类号： H04L5/0044 ,  H04L5/0007 ,  H04L5/0032 ,  H04W56/002 ,  H04W92/18

摘要： Methods and apparatus related to peer to peer communication networks are described. A wireless communications device supports peer to peer communications with multiple peers. The wireless communications device determines its transmit timing synchronization based on a reference signal received from a node such as a base station, a satellite, or a beacon transmitter which does not transmit user data. The wireless communications device determines a plurality of different receive timing adjustments corresponding to different peer communications devices based on signals received from those peer communications devices. The wireless communications device stores the plurality of determined receive timing adjustment information corresponding to the different peer communications devices. The wireless communications device retrieves and applies stored receive timing adjustment information which matches the particular device which transmitted the signal attempting to be recovered.

摘要翻译： 描述了与对等通信网络相关的方法和设备。 无线通信设备支持与多个对等体的对等通信。 无线通信设备基于从诸如基站，卫星或不发送用户数据的信标发射机的节点接收的参考信号来确定其发射定时同步。 无线通信设备基于从这些对等通信设备接收的信号确定对应于不同对等通信设备的多个不同的接收定时调整。 无线通信设备存储与不同的对等通信设备相对应的多个确定的接收定时调整信息。 无线通信设备检索并应用存储的接收定时调整信息，该信息与发送了尝试要恢复的信号的特定设备相匹配。

公开(公告)号：US20090010231A1

公开(公告)日：2009-01-08

申请号：US11774176

申请日：2007-07-06

申请人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Aleksandar Jovicic ,  Thomas Richardson ,  Xinzhou Wu

发明人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Aleksandar Jovicic ,  Thomas Richardson ,  Xinzhou Wu

IPC分类号： H04Q7/24

CPC分类号： H04W56/001 ,  H04W4/06 ,  H04W8/005 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W68/00 ,  H04W84/06 ,  H04W84/18 ,  H04W92/18

摘要： Methods and apparatus related to peer to peer communication networks are described. A peer to peer timing structure is implemented which includes recurring peer discovery intervals and traffic intervals. Some embodiments further include recurring paging intervals for peer to peer pages. A wireless communications device, supporting peer to peer communications and storing information defining the timing structure, determines a time reference point, facilitating a coarse level of synchronization with respect to the timing structure. The time reference point is determined based on a broadcast signal received from a communications device, e.g., a satellite, base station, or beacon signal transmitter. Multiple peer to peer wireless communications devices in a local vicinity thus obtain the same basic understanding as to the current relative point in time with respect to a common recurring peer to peer timing structure. Peer to peer timing synchronization is further refined based on received signals communicated between peers.

摘要翻译： 描述了与对等通信网络相关的方法和设备。 实现了对等定时结构，包括循环对等体发现间隔和业务间隔。 一些实施例还包括对等页面的循环寻呼间隔。 支持对等通信并且存储定义定时结构的信息的无线通信设备确定时间参考点，有助于相对于定时结构的粗略级别的同步。 基于从通信设备（例如，卫星，基站或信标信号发射机）接收的广播信号来确定时间参考点。 本地区域中的多个对等无线通信设备因此获得与当前相对时间点相对于常见的重复对等定时结构相同的基本理解。 基于在对等体之间传送的接收信号，对等定时同步进一步改进。

公开(公告)号：US08385826B2

公开(公告)日：2013-02-26

申请号：US12465938

申请日：2009-05-14

申请人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Saurabh Tavildar ,  Xinzhou Wu ,  Aleksandar Jovicic

发明人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Saurabh Tavildar ,  Xinzhou Wu ,  Aleksandar Jovicic

IPC分类号： H04B7/00

CPC分类号： H04W72/12 ,  H04W8/005 ,  H04W84/18 ,  H04W88/06

摘要： Methods and apparatus well suited for supporting communications over different ranges in, for example, a peer to peer wireless communications system, are described. In the peer to peer network at least some of the types of signals, e.g., peer discovery signals and/or paging signals, are transmitted with no closed loop power control. An exemplary peer to peer timing structure includes air link resources allocated for a particular type of signaling in which the resources are segmented into multiple blocks which do not overlap in time, different ones of the multiple blocks being associated with different ranges. The characteristics of the basic transmission units of the multiple blocks based on range are different, e.g., tone size and symbol width are different. A wireless communications device implements the peer to peer timing structure and uses resources from different range based blocks at different times. Data traffic transmission units may be the same regardless of the range.

摘要翻译： 描述了非常适合于支持例如对等无线通信系统中的不同范围的通信的方法和装置。 在对等网络中，在没有闭环功率控制的情况下，发送至少一些类型的信号，例如对等体发现信号和/或寻呼信号。 示例性的对等定时结构包括为特定类型的信令分配的空中链路资源，其中资源被分段成多个不在时间上重叠的块，多个块中的不同的块与不同的范围相关联。 基于范围的多个块的基本传输单元的特征是不同的，例如，音调尺寸和符号宽度不同。 无线通信设备实现对等定时结构，并且在不同时间使用来自不同基于范围的块的资源。 无论范围如何，数据业务传输单元可能相同。

公开(公告)号：US20090019150A1

公开(公告)日：2009-01-15

申请号：US12168721

申请日：2008-07-07

申请人： Junyi Li ,  Xinzhou Wu ,  Rajiv Laroia ,  Aleksandar Jovicic

发明人： Junyi Li ,  Xinzhou Wu ,  Rajiv Laroia ,  Aleksandar Jovicic

IPC分类号： G06F15/173

CPC分类号： H04B7/086 ,  H04W72/0406 ,  H04W72/046 ,  H04W72/08 ,  H04W84/18

摘要： One feature provides for establishing an ad hoc peer-to-peer network over an existing channel allocation for another network. To mitigate interference between multiple peer-to-peer devices, a plurality of receiver chains in a receiver device may be configured with beamforming coefficients so as to focus reception in the direction of an intended signal from a transmitter device while minimizing reception from other directions. Similarly, the receiver device may also use a plurality of antennas and a transmitter chain to beamform in the direction of the transmitter device, thereby focusing its transmission toward the transmitter device. The receiver device may also notify nearby devices that it is employing a plurality of receive antennas. This information can be used by the nearby devices to more intelligently perform transmitter yielding. By utilizing beamforming information to make the transmitter and/or receiver yielding decision, better interference mitigation may be achieved.

摘要翻译： 一个特征提供了通过用于另一网络的现有信道分配来建立自组织对等网络。 为了减轻多个对等设备之间的干扰，接收机设备中的多个接收器链可以被配置成具有波束成形系数，以便在来自发射机设备的预期信号的方向上聚焦接收，同时最小化从其他方向的接收。 类似地，接收机设备还可以使用多个天线和发射机链在发射机设备的方向上波束成形，从而将其传输集中到发射机设备。 接收机设备还可以通知附近的设备它正在采用多个接收天线。 该信息可被附近的设备用于更智能地执行发射机的收发。 通过利用波束成形信息来使发射机和/或接收机产生决定，可以实现更好的干扰减轻。