Techniques for management of shared resources in wireless multi-communication devices

• US 20090323651A1
• Filed: 06/25/2008
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Shlomo, Avital, Ghanadry, Jubran, Sharaga, Avishay, Noah, Moshe
• Granted Patent: US 8,396,014 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0067 with one or more circuit blocks in common for different bands
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0229 where the received signal is a wanted signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0274 by switching on or off the equipment or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/10 adapted for operation in multiple networks, e.g. multi-mode access points
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a network adapter configured for wireless communication using more than one technology, wherein the network adapter is configured to share a plurality of shared hardware (HW) components by generating a notification when a shared HW resource becomes available to a requesting device that needs the HW resource, and registering the requesting device so that it will receive the notifications when generated; and wherein upon receiving the notifications, the requesting device will wake up and perform a pending action.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

a network adapter configured for wireless communication using more than one technology;

wherein said network adapter is configured to share a plurality of shared hardware (HW) components by generating a notification when a shared HW resource becomes available to a requesting device that needs said HW resource, and registering said requesting device so that it will receive said notifications when generated; and

wherein upon receiving said notifications, said requesting device will wake up and perform a pending action.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein when said HW resource is no longer needed, it will deregister said requesting device from said notification.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said notification is generated by an owner of said resource or by said resource itself based on the implementation.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein a mechanism to perform notifications and registrations are project/implementation based and if there are only two owners of said resource, than one always sends said notification to the other.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, further comprising a HW resource manager and wherein if there are more than two owners, than said notifications may be generated by said HW resource manager when said HW becomes free.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, where said HW resource manager manages a list of all devices that needs it and sends said notifications only to one device at a time according to a predetermined algorithm.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein said predetermined algorithm is selected from the group consisting of:

first asked;

most important;

round robin; and

/or any combination thereof.

8. A method, comprising:

configuring a network adapter for wireless communication using more than one technology;

configuring said network adapter to share a plurality of shared hardware (HW) components by generating a notification when a shared HW resource becomes available to a requesting device that needs said HW resource, and registering said requesting device so that it will receive said notifications when generated; and

wherein upon receiving said notifications, said requesting device will wake up and perform a pending action.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising deregistering said requesting device from said notification wherein when said HW resource is no longer needed.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising generating said notification by an owner of said resource or by said resource itself based on implementation.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein a mechanism to perform notifications and registrations are project/implementation based and if there are only two owners of said resource, than one always sends said notification to the other.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising using a HW resource manager and wherein if there are more than two owners, than said notifications may be generated by said HW resource manager when said HW becomes free.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising managing a list of all devices that needs it by said HW resource manager and sending said notifications only to one device at a time according to a predetermined algorithm.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein said predetermined algorithm is selected from the group consisting of:

first asked;

most important;

round robin; and

/or any combination thereof.

15. An article comprising a storage medium having stored thereon instructions, that, when executed by a computing platform, results in configuring a network adapter for wireless communication using more than one technology;

configuring said network adapter to share a plurality of shared hardware (HW) components by generating a notification when a shared HW resource becomes available to a requesting device that needs said HW resource, and registering said requesting device so that it will receive said notifications when generated; and

wherein upon receiving said notifications, said requesting device will wake up and perform a pending action.

16. The article of claim 15, comprising further instructions that when executed further comprise deregistering said requesting device from said notification wherein when said HW resource is no longer needed.

17. The article of claim 16, comprising further instructions that when executed further comprise generating said notification by an owner of said resource or by said resource itself based on implementation.

18. The article of claim 17, wherein a mechanism to perform notifications and registrations are project/implementation based and if there are only two owners of said resource, than one always sends said notification to the other.

19. The article of claim 18, comprising further instructions that when executed further comprise using a HW resource manager and wherein if there are more than two owners, than said notifications may be generated by said HW resource manager when said HW becomes free.

20. The article of claim 19, comprising further instructions that when executed further comprise managing a list of all devices that needs it by said HW resource manager and sending said notifications only to one device at a time according to a predetermined algorithm.