Wireless USB host, wireless USB device, method of providing function of dual role device host, and method of performing function of dual role device host

• US 20070086401A1
• Filed: 09/27/2006
• Published: 04/19/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Hong, Jin-woo, Sung, Hyun-ah, Bae, Dae-gyu, Moon, Se-hoon
• Application Number:
  US11/527,520
• Publication Number:
  US 20070086401A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/385 for adaptation of a particular data processing system to different peripheral devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2213/3814 Wireless link with a computer system port
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 56/00 Synchronisation arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/20 Control channels or signalling for resource management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A wireless universal serial bust (USB) host, a wireless USB device, a method of providing the function of a dual role device host, and a method of performing the function of the dual role device. The wireless USB host includes a searching unit which searches whether a wireless USB device can create a beacon on the basis of a message received in a wireless USB point-to-point communication environment; a control transfer packet creating unit which creates a control transfer packet including beacon synchronization information, channel time allocation information, and information on a transmission direction of data on the basis of the searched result; and a transmitting/receiving unit which transmits the control transfer packet on the basis of the beacon synchronization information and performs data communication with the wireless USB device on the basis of the channel time allocation information and the information on the transmission direction of data.

Claims

1. A wireless universal serial bus (USB) host comprising:

a searching unit which searches whether a wireless USB device can create a beacon on the basis of a message received in a wireless USB point-to-point dual role device communication environment;

a control transfer packet creating unit which creates a control transfer packet comprising beacon synchronization information, channel time allocation information, and information on a transmission direction of data on the basis of the searched result; and

a transmitting/receiving unit which transmits the control transfer packet on the basis of the beacon synchronization information and performs data communication with the wireless USB device on the basis of the channel time allocation information and the information on the transmission direction of data.

2. The wireless USB host of claim 1, wherein the message comprises a device capability descriptor transmitted by the wireless USB device.

3. The wireless USB host of claim 2, wherein the message is received in response to a management packet generated by the wireless USB host, and

wherein the management packet comprises information indicating that the wireless USB device can perform a function of a wireless USB point-to-point dual role device host.

4. The wireless USB host of claim 1, wherein, if the wireless USB device does not support the beacon, the control transfer packet comprises a flag instructing the wireless USB device to be operated as a point-to-point dual role device host.

5. The wireless USB host of claim 1, wherein the control transfer packet is transmitted in a beacon synchronization period in the wireless USB point-to-point dual role device communication environment.

6. The wireless USB host of claim 1, wherein the transmitting/receiving unit transmits the control transfer packet to the wireless USB device and performs data communication with the wireless USB device through a default link.

7. A wireless universal serial bus (USB) device comprising:

a packet analyzing unit which analyzes a control transfer packet received in a wireless USB point-to-point dual role device communication environment;

a management packet creating unit which creates a management packet comprising channel time allocation information and information on a transmission direction of data on the basis of the analyzed result; and

a transmitting/receiving unit which transmits the management packet and performs data communication with a wireless USB host on the basis of the channel time allocation information and the information on the transmission direction of data.

8. The wireless USB device of claim 7, wherein the control transfer packet comprises a flag instructing the wireless USB device to be operated as a point-to-point dual role device host.

9. The wireless USB device of claim 7, wherein the control transfer packet is received in a beacon synchronization period in the wireless USB point-to-point dual role device communication environment.

10. The wireless USB device of claim 7,

wherein the management packet comprises a micro-scheduled management command packet defined by a wireless USB standard.

11. The wireless USB device of claim 7, wherein the transmitting/receiving unit transmits a device capability descriptor comprising information indicating whether the beacon can be created by the wireless USB device.

12. The wireless USB device of claim 11, wherein the device capability descriptor is transmitted in response to another management packet generated by the wireless USB host, and

wherein the other management packet comprises information indicating that the wireless USB device can perform a function of a wireless USB point-to-point dual role device host.

13. The wireless USB device of claim 7, wherein the transmitting/receiving unit transmits the management packet to the wireless USB host and performs data communication with the wireless USB host through a default link.

14. A method of providing a function of a dual role device host, comprising:

searching whether a wireless USB device can create a beacon on the basis of a message received in a wireless USB point-to-point dual role device communication environment;

creating a control transfer packet comprising beacon synchronization information, channel time allocation information, and information on a transmission direction of data on the basis of the searched result; and

transmitting the control transfer packet on the basis of the beacon synchronization information and performing data communication with the wireless USB device on the basis of the channel time allocation information and the information on the transmission direction of data.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the message comprises a device capability descriptor transmitted by the wireless USB device.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the message is received in response to a management packet comprising information indicating that the wireless USB device can perform a function of a wireless USB point-to-point dual role device host.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein, if the wireless USB device does not support the beacon, the control transfer packet comprises a flag instructing the wireless USB device to be operated as a point-to-point dual role device host.

18. The method of claim 14, wherein the control transfer packet is transmitted in a beacon synchronization period in the wireless USB point-to-point dual role device communication environment.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein, in the transmission of the control transfer packet and the data, the control transfer packet is transmitted to the wireless USB device and data communication with the wireless USB device is performed through a default link.

20. A method of performing a function of a dual role device, comprising:

analyzing a control transfer packet received in a wireless USB point-to-point dual role device communication environment;

creating a management packet comprising channel time allocation information and information on a transmission direction of data on the basis of the analyzed result; and

transmitting the management packet and performing data communication with a wireless USB host on the basis of the channel time allocation information and the information on the transmission direction of data.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the control transfer packet comprises a flag instructing a wireless USB device to be operated as a point-to-point dual role device host.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein the control transfer packet is received in a beacon synchronization period in the wireless USB point-to-point dual role device communication environment.

23. The method of claim 20, wherein the management packet comprises a micro-scheduled management command packet defined by a wireless USB standard.

24. The method of claim 20, further comprising transmitting a device capability descriptor comprising information indicating whether the beacon can be created by a wireless USB device.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the device capability descriptor is transmitted in response to another management packet comprising information indicating that the wireless USB device can perform a function of a wireless USB point-to-point dual role device host.

26. The method of claim 20, wherein, in the transmission of the management packet and the data, the management packet is transmitted to the wireless USB host and data communication with the wireless USB host is performed through a default link.