公开(公告)号：US20240040466A1

公开(公告)日：2024-02-01

申请号：US18483799

申请日：2023-10-10

Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated

Inventor： ARITON XHAFA ,  JIANWEI ZHOU ,  XIAOLIN LU ,  IL HAN KIM ,  KAICHIEN TSAI

IPC: H04W40/02 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04L49/201 ,  H04W8/26 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04W72/20 ,  H04W72/27 ,  H04W72/30

CPC classification number: H04W40/023 ,  H04W36/0033 ,  H04L49/201 ,  H04W8/26 ,  H04L12/189 ,  H04W74/0808 ,  H04W72/20 ,  H04W72/27 ,  H04W72/30 ,  H04W92/20

Abstract: A network includes a mobile network node (MNN) that includes a mobile node communications manager (MNCM) to facilitate wireless communications to a plurality of stationary network nodes (SNNs) in a wireless network via a wireless network protocol. The MNCM utilizes a multicast address received over the wireless network. The multicast address is assigned to a predetermined network time slot to communicate uplink data from the MNN to the SNNs. The MNN receives downlink data via a separate predetermined network address and time slot assigned to a given SNN.

公开(公告)号：US20170325127A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-09

申请号：US15495441

申请日：2017-04-24

Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated

Inventor： ARVIND KANDHALU RAGHU ,  KAICHIEN TSAI ,  RAMANUJA VEDANTHAM

IPC: H04W28/14 ,  H04L12/721 ,  H04W74/08 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04L12/801 ,  H04W8/00 ,  H04W40/02 ,  H04W84/18 ,  H04W4/00

CPC classification number: H04L45/72 ,  H04B7/15 ,  H04L47/34 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W8/005 ,  H04W28/14 ,  H04W40/023 ,  H04W74/0808 ,  H04W84/18 ,  H04W88/04

Abstract: A BLE-Mesh device includes a controller, an RF driver for driving the transceiver adapted to be coupled to an antenna, and a counter. The controller implements an applications layer including BLE and Mesh Applications, and a BLE stack and a mesh stack. A redundant traffic suppression relaying algorithm is for waiting for a random time within a selected time window from W1 to a later W2 before attempting to transmit a first packet that has the first relay device's sender's source (SRC) address and a sequence (SEQ) number. If during the random time a packet with both the device's SRC address and the SEQ number is received, the counter is incremented from an initial count to a current count. After the random time elapses, the current count is compared to a Cthreshold value, and the first packet is transmitted only if the current count

公开(公告)号：US20230050792A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-16

申请号：US17888447

申请日：2022-08-15

Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED

Inventor： BISWADIP MITRA ,  XIAOLIN LU ,  RICHARD WALLACE ,  KAICHIEN TSAI ,  JIANWEI ZHOU ,  CHEICK KANTE

IPC: H01Q9/40 ,  H01Q1/38

Abstract: An electronic device includes a printed circuit board (PCB) with electronics configured to generate and receive data by a radio-frequency carrier signal via a signal terminal. A monopole antenna having first and second ends is connected to a signal terminal of the PCB at the first end. A first section of the antenna extends away from the signal terminal by a first length in a first direction. A second section of the antenna extends away from the first section by a second greater length in a second direction different from the first direction. The first section is spaced apart from the PCB by a third section of the antenna, and the second end of the antenna is spaced apart from the PCB by a dielectric spacer. The length of the antenna may be ¼ of a carrier frequency provided by the signal terminal.

公开(公告)号：US20220060962A1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-24

申请号：US17517700

申请日：2021-11-03

Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED

Inventor： ARITON XHAFA ,  JIANWEI ZHOU ,  XIAOLIN LU ,  IL HAN KIM ,  KAICHIEN TSAI

IPC: H04W40/02 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L12/931 ,  H04W8/26 ,  H04W72/00 ,  H04L12/18 ,  H04W74/08

Abstract: A network includes a mobile network node (MNN) that includes a mobile node communications manager (MNCM) to facilitate wireless communications to a plurality of stationary network nodes (SNNs) in a wireless network via a wireless network protocol. The MNCM utilizes a multicast address received over the wireless network. The multicast address is assigned to a predetermined network time slot to communicate uplink data from the MNN to the SNNs. The MNN receives downlink data via a separate predetermined network address and time slot assigned to a given SNN.

公开(公告)号：US20180242266A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-23

申请号：US15703700

申请日：2017-09-13

Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED

Inventor： ARITON E. XHAFA ,  JIANWEI ZHOU ,  IL HAN KIM ,  KAICHIEN TSAI ,  XIAOLIN LU

IPC: H04W56/00 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W48/16

CPC classification number: H04W56/001 ,  H04B1/70718 ,  H04J3/0652 ,  H04L5/0005 ,  H04W24/08 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W72/1263

Abstract: A network includes a plurality of parent nodes to communicate in a wireless network via a wireless network protocol. A network node establishes a network connection to one of the parent nodes of the plurality of parent nodes in response to received beacons from the parent nodes. A signal analyzer in the network node processes a received signal strength of the beacons and the number of beacons received over a given time period from each of the parent nodes. The signal analyzer selects the parent node by analyzing the received signal strength for a number of beacons received from each parent node with respect to a number of expected beacons transmitted from each parent node of the plurality of parent nodes over the given time period.

公开(公告)号：US20180234893A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-16

申请号：US15703668

申请日：2017-09-13

Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED

Inventor： ARITON XHAFA ,  JIANWEI ZHOU ,  XIAOLIN LU ,  IL HAN KIM ,  KAICHIEN TSAI

IPC: H04W36/00 ,  H04W72/04 ,  H04L12/931

CPC classification number: H04W36/0033 ,  H04L12/189 ,  H04L49/201 ,  H04W8/26 ,  H04W72/005 ,  H04W72/0406 ,  H04W72/0426 ,  H04W76/15 ,  H04W84/18 ,  H04W92/20

Abstract: A network includes a mobile network node (MNN) that includes a mobile node communications manager (MNCM) to facilitate wireless communications to a plurality of stationary network nodes (SNNs) in a wireless network via a wireless network protocol. The MNCM utilizes a multicast address received over the wireless network. The multicast address is assigned to a predetermined network time slot to communicate uplink data from the MNN to the SNNs. The MNN receives downlink data via a separate predetermined network address and time slot assigned to a given SNN.

公开(公告)号：US20170318453A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-02

申请号：US15494103

申请日：2017-04-21

Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated

Inventor： ARVIND KANDHALU RAGHU ,  KAICHIEN TSAI ,  RAMANUJA VEDANTHAM

IPC: H04W8/22 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04W4/00 ,  H04W84/18

CPC classification number: H04W8/22 ,  H04L41/082 ,  H04L43/10 ,  H04L43/16 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W84/18

Abstract: A BLE-Mesh device includes a controller coupled to a memory and to a transceiver adapted to be coupled to an antenna, wherein the controller implements an applications layer including BLE and Mesh applications, and a BLE stack and a mesh stack. The BLE-Mesh device has a switchable high-speed and low-speed mode and a speed switching algorithm for implementing a method of communications in BLE-mesh network. A broadcast ping is sent to neighborhood devices with a time to live (TTL)=1. A manufacturer's ID is analyzed to identify in a manufacturer's ID field in pongs received to determine a higher-speed capable device or a lower-speed device. A higher-speed data rate is utilized for mesh communications if a percentage of higher-speed capable devices is≧a threshold percentage or a lower-speed data rate is utilized for the mesh communications if the percentage of higher-speed capable devices is