Apparatus, system and method of communicating a wakeup packet

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9974023-B2
Application number	US-201514864930-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 25, 2015
Priority date	Sep 25, 2015
Publication date	May 15, 2018
Grant date	May 15, 2018

Abstract

Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of a wakeup packet response. For example, an apparatus may include circuitry configured to cause a first wireless device to transmit a frame comprising mapping information to map a plurality of Modulation and Coding Schemes (MCS) to a respective plurality of preamble lengths; generate a wakeup packet comprising a preamble having a preamble length of the plurality of preamble lengths corresponding to an MCS of a non-wakeup transmission from the first wireless device; and transmit the wakeup packet to a second wireless device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus comprising:
a memory; and
a processor configured to cause a first wireless device to:
transmit a frame comprising mapping information to map a plurality of Modulation and Coding Schemes (MCS) to a respective plurality of preamble lengths;
generate a wakeup packet comprising a preamble having a preamble length of said plurality of preamble lengths corresponding to an MCS of a non-wakeup transmission from said first wireless device the preamble of said wakeup packet modulated according to an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) scheme, and a payload of the wakeup packet modulated according to an On-Off keying (OOK) modulation scheme; and
transmit the wakeup packet to a second wireless device.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said non-wakeup transmission comprises a beacon frame transmission.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said non-wakeup transmission comprises a data transmission to said second wireless device.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to cause the first wireless device to, when said wakeup packet comprises beacon information, generate said wakeup packet comprising said preamble, said preamble having a length corresponding to an MCS of a beacon frame transmission from said first wireless device.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 configured to cause the first wireless device to, when said wakeup packet comprises a wakeup indication to wakeup a radio of said second wireless device, generate said wakeup packet comprising said preamble, said preamble having a length corresponding to an MCS of a data transmission to said second wireless device.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 configured to cause the first wireless device to determine the MCS of said data transmission based on MCS information received from said second wireless device.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein said frame comprising said mapping information comprises a beacon frame or a probe response frame.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising an Access Point (AP).

9. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising a radio to transmit said wakeup packet.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 comprising one or more antennas.

11. A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one processor, enable the at least one processor to cause a first wireless device to:
transmit a frame comprising mapping information to map a plurality of Modulation and Coding Schemes (MCS) to a respective plurality of preamble lengths;
generate a wakeup packet comprising a preamble having a preamble length of said plurality of preamble lengths corresponding to an MCS of a non-wakeup transmission from said first wireless device the preamble of said wakeup packet modulated according to an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) scheme, and a payload of the wakeup packet modulated according to an On-Off keying (OOK) modulation scheme; and
transmit the wakeup packet to a second wireless device.

12. The product of claim 11 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the first wireless device to, when said wakeup packet comprises beacon information, generate said wakeup packet comprising said preamble having a length corresponding to an MCS of a beacon frame transmission from said first wireless device.

13. The product of claim 11 , wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the first wireless device to, when said wakeup packet comprises a wakeup indication to wakeup a radio of said second wireless device, generate said wakeup packet comprising said preamble having a length corresponding to an MCS of a data transmission to said second wireless device.

14. An apparatus comprising:
a memory; and
a processor configured to cause a first wireless device to:
process a frame received from a second wireless device, the frame comprising mapping information to map a plurality of Modulation and Coding Schemes (MCS) to a respective plurality of preamble lengths;
switch a radio of the first wireless device to a power save mode; and
process a wakeup packet received from said second wireless device, the wakeup packet comprising a preamble having a preamble length of said plurality of preamble lengths corresponding to an MCS of a non-wakeup transmission from said second wireless device the processor configured to cause the first wireless device to demodulate the preamble of said wakeup packet according to an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) scheme, and to demodulate a payload of the wakeup packet according to an On-Off keying (OOK) modulation scheme.

15. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein said non-wakeup transmission comprises a beacon frame transmission from said second wireless device.

16. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein said non-wakeup transmission comprises a data transmission from said second wireless device.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 configured to cause the first wireless device to wakeup said radio to receive said data transmission.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 configured to cause the first wireless device to transmit to said second wireless device MCS information to indicate the MCS to be applied to said data transmission.

19. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein said preamble has a length corresponding to an MCS of a beacon frame transmission from said second wireless device, when said wakeup packet comprises beacon information.

20. The apparatus of claim 14 , wherein said preamble has a length corresponding to an MCS of a data transmission from said second wireless device, when said wakeup packet comprises an indication to wakeup said radio.

21. The apparatus of claim 14 comprising one or more antennas and a memory.

22. The apparatus of claim 14 comprising said radio, and a wakeup receiver to receive said wakeup packet.

23. A product comprising one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one processor, enable the at least one processor to cause a first wireless device to:
process a frame received from a second wireless device, the frame comprising mapping information to map a plurality of Modulation and Coding Schemes (MCS) to a respective plurality of preamble lengths;
switch a radio of the first wireless device to a power save mode; and
process a wakeup packet received from said second wireless device, the wakeup packet comprising a preamble having a preamble length of said plurality of preamble lengths corresponding to an MCS of a non-wakeup transmission from said second wireless device, the instructions, when executed, cause the first wireless device to demodulate the preamble of said wakeup packet according to an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) scheme, and to demodulate a payload of the wakeup packet according to an On-Off keying (OOK) modulation scheme.

24. The product of claim 23 , wherein said preamble has a length corresponding to an MCS of a data transmission from said second wireless device, when said wakeup packet comprises an indication to wakeup said radio.

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Min Alexander W
• Park Minyoung

Classifications

• H04W72/23

  in the downlink direction of a wireless link, i.e. towards a terminal · CPC title

• H04W76/27

  Transitions between radio resource control [RRC] states · CPC title

• H04W52/0229 Primary

  where the received signal is a wanted signal · CPC title

• H04L1/0003

  by switching between different modulation schemes · CPC title

• H04W8/24

  Transfer of terminal data · CPC title