Pre-association discovery

B Mahaffy, DV Stokes, R Asbury - US Patent 8,817,662, 2014 - Google Patents
The present disclosure describes techniques for pre-association discovery. In some aspects
a frame having information useful to identify a service provided by a wireless device is …

Wakeup beacons for mesh networks

AK Shukla, S Goel - US Patent 8,767,771, 2014 - Google Patents
This disclosure describes techniques and apparatuses for wakeup beacons for mesh
networks, which often permits nodes of a mesh network to save power when operating in a …

Bluetooth scan modes

Y Lin, L Tse, PB Leong, M Tsai, R Mack… - US Patent 8,649,734, 2014 - Google Patents
Different scan modes are provided for Bluetooth devices. In at least some embodiments, a
narrowband scanning mode looks for signal energy on individual transmission frequencies …

Short-range wireless communication

R Banerjea - US Patent 8,655,279, 2014 - Google Patents
US8655279B2 - Short-range wireless communication - Google Patents US8655279B2 -
Short-range wireless communication - Google Patents Short-range wireless communication …

Bluetooth and wireless LAN arbitration

G Lee, GYY Wong, T Li - US Patent 8,861,469, 2014 - Google Patents
Bluetooth and wireless LAN arbitration is described. In embodiments, a communication
device includes a Bluetooth device for Bluetooth communication according to Bluetooth …

Infrastructure and ad-hoc node device

S Goel, KS Patwardhan, RS Bhagwat - US Patent 8,817,682, 2014 - Google Patents
An infrastructure and ad-hoc node device is described. In embodiments, a node device
includes an ad-hoc interface for data communications via an ad-hoc network that includes …

Bluetooth wideband scan mode

Y Lin, L Tse, PB Leong, M Tsai, R Mack… - US Patent 8,897,706, 2014 - Google Patents
Different scan modes are provided for Bluetooth devices. In at least some embodiments, a
narrowband scanning mode looks for signal energy on individual transmission frequencies …

Method and apparatus for off-channel device invitation

SS Wagholikar, DS Nagawade - US Patent 8,750,278, 2014 - Google Patents
The present disclosure describes techniques for off-channel device invitation. In some
aspects a? rst frame is transmitted on a? rst channel of a Wireless medium effective to …

Circuit and method for adjusting a digitally controlled oscillator

D Cousinard, CT Tu, M Vuletic, L Smaini - US Patent 8,923,788, 2014 - Google Patents
In one embodiment the present invention includes a method of generating an oscillating
signal at different frequencies. The method comprises configuring a digitally controlled …

Mesh network operations

S Goel, AK Shukla - US Patent 8,902,745, 2014 - Google Patents
Various embodiments provide improved mesh networks with properties that address various
shortcomings of current mesh network implementations. At least some embodiments are …