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Infineon Technologies Ag

Intel Mobile Communications Gmbh

Ayman Fawzy Naguib

Saumitra Mohan Das

Nambirajan Seshadri

Arthur Robert Calderbank

Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov

Alok Aggarwal

Vinay Sridhara

Tingfang Ji

Arak Sutivong

Dhananjay Ashok Gore

Hui Chao

Rajarshi Gupta

Vahid Tarokh

Ravi Palanki

Avneesh Agrawal

Pranav Dayal

Robert Golshan

Edward Thomas Lingham Hardie

Arun Yadav

Je Woo Kim

Sameera Poduri

Danila Zaev

Naga Bhushan

Tamer Adel Kadous

Peter J Black

Parag Arun Agashe

Qiang Wu

Roberto Padovani

Yeliz Tokgoz

Hamid Jafarkhani

Robert W Brumley

Yin Chen

Jiajian Chen

Wanlun Zhao

Ahmed M Soliman

Jin Guo

Stephen William Edge

Hemanth Sampath

Tom Chin

Miguel Griot

Su Khiong Yong

Lochan Verma

Lionel Jacques Garin

Farouk Belghoul

Rafael L Rivera-Barreto

Rohan C Malthankar

Christian W Mucke

Joachim S Hammerschmidt

Steven D Cheng

Payam Pakzad

Ben-Heng Juang

Yann Ly-Gagnon

Nayeem Islam

Faraz Mohammad Mirzaei

Subash Marri Sridhar

Yagil Burowski

Sumit Saxena

Kushal M Chawda

Stephane Joseph Beauregard

Kuo-Chun Lee

Guangming Shi

Rajiv Vijayan

Ramin Samadani

Jong Hyeon Park

Mohammad Jaber Borran

Murat Mese

Serguei A Glazko

Ashok Bhatia

Te-Won Lee

Matthias Brehler

Jaber Mohammad Borran

Doo Seok Kim

Tae Ryun Chang

Firouz Behnamfar

Peter John Black

Dakshi Agrawal

Mingguang Xu

Manasi Deepak Navare

Guangming Carl Shi

Parag A Agashe

Techniques are described herein for effectuating a transaction by an intermediary. An example method can include receiving a first message from a second device, the first message comprising a request for a first item, wherein the first message is received by a backend process executing on the first device. A second message that includes a request for a first information associated with the first item, can be transmitted. A third message comprising the first information associated with the first item can be received. A fourth message comprising a request to initiate a transaction for the first item can be transmitted to a third device. A fifth message can be received from the third computing device, the fifth message comprising a confirmation of the transaction based at least in part on the fourth message.

Distributed communication between devices

Techniques are described herein for effectuating a transaction by an intermediary. An example method can include instructing a device to monitor a status of a first item, and to transmit a first request for a target item based at least in part on the status of the first item, the target item being a same item type as the first item. Receiving, by the from the device, the first request for the target item. Determining a first source device of a plurality of source devices to which to transmit a second request for the target item. Transmitting, to the first source device of the plurality of source devices, the second request for the target item based at least in part on the determination. Receiving a confirmation of the second request.

Methods and apparatus to support scheduled access control for an electronic lock are described herein. An initiating central wireless device obtains an ephemeral identity resolving key (IRK) to use in resolving an ephemeral resolvable private address (RPA) of a peripheral wireless device. The initiating central wireless device can subsequently connect securely to the peripheral wireless device in order to unlock an electronic lock controlled by the peripheral wireless device to gain access during a scheduled time period. The ephemeral IRK and ephemeral RPA can be used for a limited period of time and/or for a predetermined number of usages during the scheduled time period.

Scheduled access control for an electronic lock

This disclosure relates to techniques for performing communication in a wireless communication system. The communication may be semantic communication and/or may use a programmable protocol stack. A protocol stack at a transmitter and/or receiver may include customization from an application platform, e.g., which may replace one or more layers relative to a non-customized protocol stack. A transmitter may transmit data, via the customized protocol stack, using a best effort data channel, e.g., with transmission characteristics that are relatively lossy in comparison to a data channel used by the non-customized protocol stack. A receiver may receive the data and may determine whether reception is successful, e.g., from a semantic point of view. A media access control layer may interact with both the customized and non-customized stacks. The proposed system may support higher data rates, less retransmissions, and/or better quality of user experience.

Semantic communication and programmable protocol stack: media access control

A communication system may include an access point (AP), user equipment (UE) device, and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The UE may control the RIS by transmitting control signals that configure antenna elements on the RIS. The RIS may reflect wireless signals between the UE and the AP. The RIS may be known to the network. The UE may transmit a report to the AP that includes information about the RIS. The UE may receive assistance information from the AP. The UE may control the RIS based at least in part on the assistance information. The UE may transmit measurement reports to the AP. The AP may update its signal beams based on the information about the RIS and the measurement reports. Providing the network with awareness of the RIS may serve to optimize the wireless performance of the UE device and/or the network.

Communication system with network-aware reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

Methods, systems, and apparatuses are presented for utilizing a narrowband assisting network (NBAN) and a positioning assisting network (PAN) to assist in establishing and managing communications on a THz band wireless communication network. The THz network may be capable of transmitting/receiving with high bandwidth, but may be resource intensive and may be constrained to line-of-sight (LoS) communications. The NBAN and PAN may help to minimize the resources consumed by the THz network. The NBAN may identify a set of nodes of the THz network as candidates for establishing a connection with a user equipment (UE). The PAN may determine a position of each candidate relative to the UE, and may communicate the position to the respective candidate and to the UE, which may use the position information to expedite a beam alignment procedure. The NBAN may provide scheduling and other control signaling for the THz network.

End-to-end system design for THz network

An electronic device may include wireless circuitry that detects the location of external objects. A signal generator may concurrently transmit different radio-frequency ranging signals over two or more transmit antennas. The ranging signals may include waveforms with time-varying frequencies, where each waveform includes frequencies that are non-overlapping with the frequencies of each of the other waveforms at any given time. Antennas may receive reflected versions of the ranging signals and a processor may process the reflected versions of the ranging signals to identify the location of the external objects. This may prevent interference between the ranging signals and may significantly reduce the latency of location detection relative to examples where the ranging signals are transmitted by different transmit antennas in series.

Electronic devices with multi-antenna sensing

This disclosure relates to techniques for performing communication in a wireless communication system. The communication may be semantic communication and/or may use a programmable protocol stack. A protocol stack at a transmitter and/or receiver may include customization from an application platform, e.g., which may replace one or more layers relative to a non-customized protocol stack. A transmitter may transmit data, via the customized protocol stack, using a best effort data channel, e.g., with transmission characteristics that are relatively lossy in comparison to a data channel used by the non-customized protocol stack. A receiver may receive the data and may, e.g., if the data is corrupted, select one or more model to recover the data and/or determine whether reception is successful, e.g., from a semantic point of view. The proposed system may support higher data rates, less retransmissions, and/or better quality of user experience.

Semantic communication: protocol stack and model selection

Methods performed by a first device. The methods include transmitting a first ranging poll to a plurality of second devices, receiving a polling response message from each of at least a first subset of the second devices, determining a propagation delay for each of the received polling response messages and determining a distance to each of the first subset of the second devices based on at least the respective propagation delays. The methods further include receiving a ranging poll from a second device, wherein the ranging poll is one of a multicast transmission or a broadcast transmission, determining a type of response to be transmitted to the second device based on at least a capability of the first device and transmitting a response of the determined type to the second device.

Secure multicast/broadcast ranging

A mobile device can include ranging circuitry to determine distance to another mobile device. Ranging between multiple mobile devices can present challenges due to clock drift between the devices resulting in missed messages due to collisions between ranging messages. Techniques can be implemented to reduce the number of collisions by designating time slots for ranging sessions based on timing from a coordinator mobile device. Alternative techniques allow for splitting up channels at different time amount different pairs of devices. The ranging techniques can be used to share information between devices with a predefined distance for applications such as augmented reality.

Many to many ranging techniques

An electronic device configures two or more virtual responders associated with different subsets of capabilities of a physical responder in the electronic device, where the physical responder comprises a radio-frequency (RF) transceiver and multiple antennas, and where a given virtual responder corresponds to the RF transceiver and a given antenna. Then, the electronic device performs, based at least in part on wirelessly communication with a second electronic device and using at least the virtual responders, measurements on wireless signals from the second electronic device to the electronic device, where the measurements correspond to a time of flight of the wireless signals. Next, the electronic device determines, based at least in part on the measurements, a range between the electronic device and the second electronic device, where the determination uses the measurements from different virtual responders to correct for an environmental condition and/or increase an accuracy of the determined range.

Wireless ranging using physical and virtual responders

Techniques are provided for transmitting a secure frame by a wireless device. For example, the wireless device may determine a location within a data sequence of a secure frame to puncture the data sequence with a puncture. The wireless device may then generate the secure frame that includes the punctured data sequence and transmit the secure frame to a second wireless device. The second wireless device may then authenticate the secure frame based at least in part on the location of the puncture within the punctured data sequence.

Dynamic data sequence puncturing

A network controller, a user equipment (UE) device, and associated methods for conducting intelligent enhanced multimedia broadcast multicast services (eMBMS). A network controller receives user preference information and location information from a plurality of UEs. The network controller selects one or more data packages to transmit using eMBMS in one or more broadcast regions based on the user preference information and the location information. The one or more data packages may comprise an updated machine learning model in a distributed learning application. The network controller provides an indication to a remote device to broadcast the one or more data packages in the respective one or more broadcast regions using eMBMS.

Expanded implementation of enhanced broadcast multicast services for broadcast multicast content selection and service

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Ayman Fawzy Naguib