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：US20100291872A1

公开(公告)日：2010-11-18

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：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：US08605625B2

公开(公告)日：2013-12-10

申请号：US12417383

申请日：2009-04-02

申请人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Vincent D. Park ,  Ying Wang ,  Aleksandar Jovicic

发明人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Vincent D. Park ,  Ying Wang ,  Aleksandar Jovicic

IPC分类号： H04J1/16 ,  H04L12/66 ,  G06F15/177

CPC分类号： H04W8/005 ,  H04W8/186 ,  H04W48/14

摘要： Methods and apparatus supporting enhanced discovery operations in peer to peer networks are described. Peer discovery, based on direct peer to peer discovery between two mobile nodes can be somewhat limited, e.g., due to power limitations, processing power, and/or channel conditions. An access point, e.g., base station, monitors for and receives peer discovery signals conveying a set of identifiers from a wireless communications device. The access point retransmits at least one identifier in the set in a wireless peer to peer communications channel. Thus the access point effectively extends the peer discovery range for wireless communications devices utilizing the peer to peer network. Wireless communications devices can monitor for and recover the rebroadcast peer discovery signals from access points. Thus, via access point signaling a wireless communications device can be made situationally aware of other devices of interest which would be otherwise outside its discovery detection range.

摘要翻译： 描述了支持对等网络中增强发现操作的方法和装置。 基于两个移动节点之间的直接对等点发现的对等体发现可以受到一些限制，例如由于功率限制，处理能力和/或信道条件。 接入点，例如基站，监视和接收从无线通信设备传送一组标识符的对等体发现信号。 接入点在无线对等通信信道中重发集合中的至少一个标识符。 因此，接入点有效地扩展了利用对等网络的无线通信设备的对等体发现范围。 无线通信设备可以监视和恢复来自接入点的重播对等体发现信号。 因此，通过接入点信令，可以使无线通信设备在情境上意识到其他在其发现检测范围之外的感兴趣的设备。

公开(公告)号：US08494437B2

公开(公告)日：2013-07-23

申请号：US12427890

申请日：2009-04-22

申请人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Vincent D. Park ,  Ying Wang ,  Aleksandar Jovicic

发明人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Vincent D. Park ,  Ying Wang ,  Aleksandar Jovicic

IPC分类号： H04H1/00

CPC分类号： H04W72/042 ,  H04W4/12 ,  H04W76/28

摘要： Methods and apparatus well suited for efficiently communicating small amounts of information relatively frequently in a wireless communications system are described. An uplink timing frequency structure for an access point includes a set of dedicated uplink communications resources, e.g., expression advertisement interval air link resources. Different ones of the set of dedicated uplink communications resources correspond to different individual wireless communications devices currently registered with the access point. In the downlink timing frequency structure for the access point there are dedicated downlink broadcast communications resources, e.g., expression broadcast interval air link resources and neighbor expression broadcast interval air link resources. Information received on dedicated uplink air link resources is echoed back or selectively echoed back on the dedicated downlink air link resources. Wireless communications devices monitor downlink dedicated air link resources to recover expression information being communicated by other wireless communications devices in its local vicinity.

摘要翻译： 描述了非常适合于在无线通信系统中相对频繁地有效地传送少量信息的方法和装置。 用于接入点的上行链路定时频率结构包括一组专用上行链路通信资源，例如表达广告间隔空中链路资源。 专用上行链路通信资源集合中的不同的对应于当前在接入点上登记的不同的单独无线通信设备。 在接入点的下行链路定时频率结构中，存在专用的下行链路广播通信资源，例如表达广播间隔空中链路资源和邻居表达广播间隔空中链路资源。 在专用上行链路空中链路资源上接收的信息在专用下行链路空中链路资源上被回送或选择性地回传。 无线通信设备监视下行链路专用空中链路资源，以恢复由其本地附近的其他无线通信设备传送的表情信息。

公开(公告)号：US20100272029A1

公开(公告)日：2010-10-28

申请号：US12427883

申请日：2009-04-22

申请人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Vincent D. Park ,  Ying Wang ,  Aleksandar Jovicic

发明人： Rajiv Laroia ,  Junyi Li ,  Vincent D. Park ,  Ying Wang ,  Aleksandar Jovicic

IPC分类号： H04W4/00 ,  H04L27/28 ,  H04W72/04

CPC分类号： H04W72/0413 ,  H04W72/1268

摘要： Methods and apparatus for efficiently communicating small amounts of information relatively frequently in a wireless communications system are described. An access point's uplink timing frequency structure includes a set of dedicated uplink communications resources, e.g., expression advertisement interval air link resources, which may be in addition to regular traffic channel resources. The set of dedicated uplink communications resources comprises a small fraction of the total uplink communications resources. An individual one of the set of dedicated uplink communications resources can carry a small amount of information bits. An expression advertisement interval occurs relatively frequently. A wireless communications device, registered with the access point, is allocated one of the set of dedicated uplink resources. The wireless communications device can transmit information using its allocated resource in both a sleep state and an active state.

摘要翻译： 描述了在无线通信系统中相对频繁地有效地传送少量信息的方法和装置。 接入点的上行链路定时频率结构包括一组专用上行链路通信资源，例如表达广告间隔空中链路资源，其可以是常规业务信道资源。 专用上行链路通信资源集合包括总上行链路通信资源的一小部分。 一组专用上行链路通信资源中的一个单独的一个可以携带少量的信息位。 表达广告间隔相对频繁地发生。 向该接入点注册的无线通信设备被分配为一组专用上行链路资源中的一个。 无线通信设备可以在睡眠状态和活动状态中使用其分配的资源来发送信息。