TECHNIQUES FOR THE OPERATION OF MULTIPLE CLASSES OF DEVICES IN A WIRELESS PERSONAL AREA NETWORK

• US 20090168693A1
• Filed: 12/31/2007
• Published: 07/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Fleming, Kris, Li, Guoqing, Roberts, Richard
• Application Number:
  US11/967,329
• Publication Number:
  US 20090168693A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/10 Small scale networks; Flat hierarchical networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/182 Network node acting on behalf of an other network entity, e.g. proxy
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass

Abstract

An embodiment of the present invention provides a method, comprising communicating and coexisting in a wireless personal area network (WPAN) by a at least one device operating as an advanced device (AD) and at least one device operating as a simple device (SD) by using the at least one AD as a proxy for the at least one SD to control the communication of the at least one SD.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

communicating and coexisting in a wireless personal area network (WPAN) by at least one device operating using advanced device (AD) and at least one device operating by simple device (SD) by using said at least one AD as a proxy for said at least one SD to control the communication of said at least one SD.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one AD performs in band MAC functions and said AD and said SD operate on the same frequency.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said in-band MAC functions include device discovery and reservations.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one SD requires an AD to be present to be a surrogate to set up the WPAN, Beacon and reserve time for said at least one SD to communicate with said at least one AD.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said at least one SD communication and interference range is required to be less than said at least one AD.

6. A WPAN system, comprising:

at least one device operating in said WPAN using advanced device (AD); and

at least one device operating in said WPAN by simple device (SD), wherein said at least one SD uses said at least one AD as a proxy to control the communication of said at least one SD to enable communicating and coexisting in said wireless personal area network (WPAN).

7. The system of claim 6, wherein said at least one AD performs in band MAC functions.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein said in-band MAC functions include device discovery and reservations.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein said at least one SD requires an AD to be present to be a surrogate to set up the WPAN, Beacon and reserve time for said at least one SD to communicate with said at least one AD.

10. The system of claim 6, wherein said at least one SD communication and interference range is required to be less than said at least one AD.

11. An apparatus, comprising:

a first transceiver operable in a wireless personal area network (WPAN) operating as a simple device (SD), wherein said first transceiver uses a second transceiver operable in said WPAN that is operating as an advanced device (AD) as a proxy to control the communication of said first transceiver to enable coexistence in said WPAN.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein said second transceiver performs in band MAC functions.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein said in-band MAC functions include device discovery and Reservations.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein said first transceiver requires said second transceiver to be present to be a surrogate to set up the WPAN, Beacon and reserve time for said first transceiver to communicate with said second transceiver.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein said first transceiver communication and interference range is required to be less than said second transceiver.