Methods, devices, servers, apparatus, and systems for wireless internet of things applications

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10833912-B2
Application number	US-201816125748-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 9, 2018
Priority date	Dec 5, 2012
Publication date	Nov 10, 2020
Grant date	Nov 10, 2020

Abstract

The present teaching relates to wireless Internet of Things. In one example, a time reversal client is disclosed. The time reversal client comprises a processor, a memory communicatively coupled with the processor, and a set of instructions, when executed by the processor based on the memory, that cause the time reversal client to perform the following steps: communicatively coupling with a time reversal server through a network, obtaining a set of channel state information (CSI), wherein the set of CSI is captured when at least one probing signal is sent from the wireless transmitter to the wireless receiver through a wireless multipath channel associated with a space, and causing the set of CSI to be sent to the time reversal server through the network.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A client device, comprising:
at least one of: a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver,
a processor;
a memory communicatively coupled with the processor;
a set of instructions to be executed by the processor in a sandbox using the memory to:
communicatively couple with a server through a network,
obtain a set of channel information (CI),
wherein the set of CI is captured when at least one probing signal is sent from the wireless transmitter to the wireless receiver through a wireless multipath channel associated with a space,
compute at least one of: a set of parameters based on at least one of: the set of CI or another set of CI, or a set of analytics based on at least one of: the set of CI or the set of parameters,
cause at least one of: the set of CI, an identification data associated with the client device, a status information associated with the client device, the set of parameters, or the set of analytics, to be sent to the server through the network, and
cause a task to be performed based on the set of parameters.

2. The client device of claim 1 , wherein at least one of:
(a) the network is at least one of: internet, an internet-protocol network and another multiple access network; and
(b) the wireless transmitter and the wireless receiver are associated with the physical layer of at least one of: a wireless PAN, IEEE 802.15.1 (Bluetooth), a wireless LAN, IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), a wireless MAN, IEEE 802.16 (WiMax), WiBro, HiperMAN, mobile WAN, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, HSCSD, iDEN, D-AMPS, IS-95, PDC, CSD, PHS, WiDEN, CDMA2000, UMTS, 3GSM, CDMA, TDMA, FDMA, W-CDMA, HSDPA, W-CDMA, FOMA, 1×EV-DO, IS-856, TD-SCDMA, GAN, UMA, HSUPA, LTE, 2.5G, 3G, 3.5G, 3.9G, 4G, 5G, 6G, 7G and beyond, another wireless system and another mobile system.

3. The client device of claim 1 , wherein an identification data is sent from the client device to the server which associates the client device with a user based on the identification data.

4. The client device of claim 1 , wherein the probing signal to comprise at least one of: an impulse signal, a pseudo-random sequence, and another probing signal.

5. The client device of claim 1 , wherein at least one of:
(a) the set of CI to comprise at least one of a channel impulse response, a channel frequency response, another channel state data, and a physical layer channel information of the wireless multipath channel between the wireless transmitter and the wireless receiver; and
(b) each of the wireless transmitter and the wireless receiver has at least one antenna, and each of the set of CI is captured when one of the at least one probing signal is sent through the wireless multipath channel from one of at least one antenna of the wireless transmitter to one of at least one antenna of the wireless receiver.

6. The client device of claim 1 , wherein at least one of:
(a) the client device is associated with a user; and
(b) the client device is associated with at least one of: a user and a user client, by an identification server through the server using the identification data of the client device.

7. The client device of claim 1 , wherein at least one of:
(a) the set of CI is stored in a CI-storage format in a CI storage module through the server;
(b) the set of CI is provided in a CI-transmission format to at least one of: a parameter generation module and an authorized application module; and
(c) the set of CI is at least one of: preprocessed, processed and analyzed.

8. The client device of claim 1 , wherein at least one of:
(a) the space is to be guarded based on the set of CI associated with the wireless transmitter and the wireless receiver; and
(b) at least one analytics associated with the space is computed based on the set of CI associated with the wireless transmitter and the wireless receiver.

9. The client device of claim 1 , wherein at least one of:
(a) at least one event associated with the space is classified based on the set of CI associated with the wireless transmitter and the wireless receiver, and
(b) at least one security event associated with the space to be secured is classified based on the set of CI associated with the wireless transmitter and the wireless receiver.

10. The client device of claim 1 , wherein at least one of:
(a) at least one periodic activity associated with the space is identified based on the set of CI associated with the wireless transmitter and the wireless receiver; and
(b) at least one breathing analytics associated with a living object in the space is computed based on the set of CI associated with the wireless transmitter and the wireless receiver.

11. The client device of claim 1 , wherein a digital data is communicated between the wireless transmitter and the wireless receiver using the set of CI.

12. The client device of claim 1 , wherein power is wirelessly transferred between the wireless transmitter and the wireless receiver using the set of CI.

13. The client device of claim 1 , wherein wireless charging is performed by transferring power wirelessly between the wireless transmitter and the wireless receiver using the set of CI.

14. The client device of claim 1 , wherein at least one waveform is chosen using the set of CI for at least one of: wireless power transfer, wireless communication, wireless event detection, and wireless channel analysis, associated with the wireless transmitter and the wireless receiver.

15. The client device of claim 1 , wherein multiple intermediate parameters computed based on at least one of: the set of CI and the another set of CI are combined to provide a final parameter.

16. The client device of claim 1 ,
wherein the parameter comprises at least one of: a time reversal resonance strength (TRRS), a cross-correlation, an inner product of two vectors, a similarity score and a distance score, of two particular CI from at least one of: the set of test CI and the another set of CI.

17. The client device of claim 1 , wherein a task is requested by a user device through the server.

18. The client device of claim 1 , wherein a user device to request the server to perform a task based on a parameter which is based on at least one of: the set of CI and another set of CI;
wherein the user device to send a user identification data to the server;
wherein the user device is associated with at least one of: the client device, the wireless transmitter, the wireless receiver, the wireless multipath channel, the space and the set of CI, by an identification server associated with the server through the user identification data from the user device and an identification data from the client device.

19. A method of a client device, comprising:
communicatively coupling the client device with a server through a network using a processor and a memory of the client device through a set of instructions executed by the processor using the memory, wherein execution of the set of instructions by the processor using the memory is sandboxed;
wherein the client device comprises at least one of: a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver;
obtaining a set of channel state information (CI),
wherein the set of CI is captured when at least one probing signal is sent from the wireless transmitter to the wireless receiver through a wireless multipath channel associated with a space;
computing at least one of: a set of parameters based on at least one of: the set of CI or another set of CI, or a set of analytics based on at least one of: the set of CI or the set of parameters;
causing at le

Assignees

• Origin Wireless Inc

Inventors

• Au Oscar Chi-Lim
• Marumo Masato
• Wang Beibei
• Lai Hung-Quoc Duc
• Liu K J Ray
• Chen Chen
• Xu Qinyi
• Han Yi
• Wu Zhung-Han
• Zhang Feng
• Safar Zoltan
• Lee Jeng-Feng
• Buttermore Jr Thomas Nelson

Classifications

• H04W72/21

  in the uplink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards the network · CPC title

• H04L5/0057 Primary

  Physical resource allocation for CQI · CPC title

• H04B1/38

  Transceivers, i.e. devices in which transmitter and receiver form a structural unit and in which at least one part is used for functions of transmitting and receiving · CPC title

• H04L27/362 Primary

  Modulation using more than one carrier, e.g. with quadrature carriers, separately amplitude modulated (H04L27/366 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04W72/0413

  Electricity · mapped topic