公开(公告)号：US11082189B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-03

申请号：US17008756

申请日：2020-09-01

Applicant: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

Inventor： Xiaofei Wang ,  Hanqing Lou ,  Monisha Ghosh ,  Sudheer A. Grandhi

IPC: H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/16 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L1/00

Abstract: A method performed by a STA may comprise transmitting a first negotiation message to an AP and receiving a second negotiation message from the AP. The first negotiation message and the second negotiation message may negotiate a block acknowledgement agreement between the STA and the AP. The method may further comprise receiving a data unit, from the AP, the data unit having a duration field indicating a duration of a block-ACK frame. The duration of the block-ACK frame may be determined based on the negotiated block ACK agreement. A block-ACK frame may be transmitted within the duration indicated by the duration field.

公开(公告)号：US11012124B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-18

申请号：US16319077

申请日：2017-07-21

Applicant: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.

Inventor： Hanqing Lou ,  Alphan Sahin ,  Xiaofei Wang ,  Rui Yang ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Li-Hsiang Sun

IPC: H04B7/0452 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: An AP/PCP may perform user selection/pairing/grouping based on a measurement of an analog transmission (e.g., signal to noise ratio (SNR) or signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR)). The SNRs may be used, for example by the station, to determine best beams and/or beam pairs and/or worst beams and/or beam pairs. A station may feed back the best few beams and/or beam pairs for a Tx and Rx virtual antenna pair. A station may feed back the worst few beams for the Tx and Rx virtual antenna pair. The AP/PCP may receive the indication(s) and/or use the indication(s) to group the stations.

公开(公告)号：US20210028831A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-28

申请号：US16319077

申请日：2017-07-21

Applicant: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.

Inventor： Hanqing Lou ,  Alphan Sahin ,  Xiaofei Wang ,  Rui Yang ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Li-Hsiang Sun

IPC: H04B7/0452 ,  H04B7/06

Abstract: An AP/PCP may perform user selection/pairing/grouping based on a measurement of an analog transmission (e.g., signal to noise ratio (SNR) or signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR)). The SNRs may be used, for example by the station, to determine best beams and/or beam pairs and/or worst beams and/or beam pairs. A station may feed back the best few beams and/or beam pairs for a Tx and Rx virtual antenna pair. A station may feed back the worst few beams for the Tx and Rx virtual antenna pair. The AP/PCP may receive the indication(s) and/or use the indication(s) to group the stations.

公开(公告)号：US10720984B2

公开(公告)日：2020-07-21

申请号：US16356651

申请日：2019-03-18

Applicant: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

Inventor： Guodong Zhang ,  Xiaofei Wang ,  Hanqing Lou ,  Sudheer A. Grandhi

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  H04B7/155 ,  H04W84/04 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04W40/24 ,  H04W36/08 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: A method for receiving data, by an end-STA from a root AP, may comprise receiving, from a relay AP, a first beacon frame comprising a relay information element. The relay information element may include a field which indicates whether a root AP BSSID field indicating a BSSID of the root AP is included in the beacon frame. The end-STA may transmit an association request to the relay AP and may receive an association response from the relay AP if the relay AP is allowed by the root AP to associate with the end-STA. The end-STA may receive, from the relay AP, traffic indication map (TIM) indications, of which at least one of the TIM indications may be for the end-STA. The one of the TIM indications may indicate that the data is available for the end-STA. The end-STA may then receive the data from the relay AP.

公开(公告)号：US20200221388A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-09

申请号：US16820986

申请日：2020-03-17

Applicant: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

Inventor： Oghenekome Oteri ,  Pengfei Xia ,  Xiaofei Wang ,  Hanqing Lou ,  Monisha Ghosh ,  Robert L. Olesen ,  Nirav B. Shah ,  Frank La Sita

IPC: H04W52/24 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W52/12

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described herein for determining a transmit power based on clear channel assessment (CCA) thresholds. A station (STA) associated with a first Basic Service Set (BSS) may receive, from an access point (AP) associated with the first BSS, a clear channel assessment (CCA) value for a group of STAs associated with a second BSS. The CCA value may indicate a minimum CCA threshold for a packet received from the second BSS. The STA may then determine, based on the CCA value, a STA specific CCA parameter and a target CCA parameter. The target CCA parameter may be greater than or equal to the STA specific CCA parameter. Based on the STA specific CCA parameter and the target CCA parameter, the STA may determine a target transmit power control (TPC) parameter of the STA, wherein the sum of target TPC parameter and target CCA parameter is constant.

公开(公告)号：US20200163099A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-21

申请号：US16747254

申请日：2020-01-20

Applicant: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

Inventor： Xiaofei Wang ,  Hanqing Lou ,  Monisha Ghosh ,  Nirav B. Shah ,  Guodong Zhang ,  Ronald Murias

IPC: H04W72/12 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L1/16 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04W74/04 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W74/06 ,  H04W74/00

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are related to multi-user parallel channel access (MU-PCA). For example, a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is provided that is one of the plurality of WTRUs operable to simultaneously communicate via a plurality of channels managed by an access point (AP). The WTRU includes a receiver configured to receive, from the AP, over at least one channel of the plurality of channels, a group poll (G-Poll) message that includes a resource allocation that indicates at least one allocated channel of the plurality of channels for the WTRU; and a transmitter configured to transmit an uplink request message, to the AP in response to the G-Poll message, over the at least one allocated channel of the plurality of channels, the uplink request message corresponding to uplink data the WTRU has for transmission to the AP.

公开(公告)号：US20200162302A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-21

申请号：US16611187

申请日：2018-05-04

Applicant: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.

Inventor： Alphan Sahin ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Hanqing Lou ,  Xiaofei Wang ,  Li Hsiang Sun ,  Rui Yang ,  Frank La Sita

IPC: H04L27/26 ,  H04L5/00

Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) or access point (AP) may generate a protocol data unit (PDU) of a first 802.11 protocol and a preamble and data of a second 802.11 protocol. The preamble and data of the second 802.11 protocol may be arranged on resources of the PDU of the first 802.11 protocol with shaping sequences for concurrent transmission.

公开(公告)号：US10608726B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-31

申请号：US16081838

申请日：2017-03-09

Applicant: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

Inventor： Hanqing Lou ,  Xiaofei Wang ,  Oghenekome Oteri

IPC: H04B7/06 ,  H04B7/08 ,  H04B17/12 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04W74/00 ,  H04B7/0413

Abstract: Presently disclosed are systems and methods for beamforming training in WLANs. In various embodiments, there are unified MIMO beamforming training procedure, which includes a training period in which an initiator transmits multiple unified training frames for performing a transmit-beamforming training of the initiator and a receive-beamforming training of one or more responders; a feedback period in which each responder replies with a beamforming-feedback response; and an acknowledgement period during which the initiator transmits respective acknowledgement frames to the one or more responders from which responses were received. Rules for restricted random access in various slots of the feedback period may be implemented, to address response contention between multiple qualifying responders.

公开(公告)号：US20200067577A1

公开(公告)日：2020-02-27

申请号：US16347075

申请日：2017-11-03

Applicant: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.

Inventor： Hanqing Lou ,  Li-Hsiang Sun ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Rui Yang

IPC: H04B7/0452 ,  H04W72/14 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04B7/06

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described herein for dynamic allocation of multiple channels and data streams for multi-channel transmission and multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO). For example, a station (STA) may receive an enhanced poll (EPoll) frame that includes a time offset, a channel offset and antenna/sector settings from an access point (AP). The STA may transmit, based on the received EPoll frame, an enhanced service period request (ESPR) frame that includes a MIMO control field and a multi-channel control field. The MIMO control field may indicate whether the STA supports MIMO transmission. The multi-channel control field may indicate whether the STA supports multi-channel transmission. Upon transmitting the ESPR frame, the STA may receive an enhanced grant frame from the AP. The enhanced grant frame may include an antenna configuration and a multi-channel allocation to enable the STA to perform the MIMO transmission and the multi-channel transmission.

公开(公告)号：US20190313284A1

公开(公告)日：2019-10-10

申请号：US16450347

申请日：2019-06-24

Applicant: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.

Inventor： Fengjun Xi ,  Hanqing Lou ,  Oghenekome Oteri ,  Nirav B. Shah ,  Robert L. Olesen ,  Yuan Sheng Jin ,  Pengfei Xia ,  Frank La Sita ,  Guodong Zhang

IPC: H04W28/06 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04L1/16 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04W28/04

Abstract: Mechanisms may be used for aggregating acknowledgement (ACK), block ACK (BA) and/or short packets transmissions for multi-user (MU) wireless communication systems. Aggregation mechanisms may be used for uplink (UL) and/or downlink (DL) orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), and/or UL/DL multiple-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) transmissions, for example. Multi-user short packets may be aggregated and/or simultaneously transmitted for DL, UL, or peer-to-peer (P2P) transmissions.