Qualcomm Incorporated

Mayank Batra

Robin Heydon

Joel Linsky

Laurence George Richardson

Dishant Srivastava

Christopher Church

Brian A Redding

Magnus Sigverth Sommansson

Jonathan Grenville Tanner

Steven Singer

Benjamin Campbell

Ferdinando Olivieri

Richard Cardoe

Vishal Agarwal

Taher Shahbazi Mirzahasanloo

Huibert Denboer

Nicholas G Jones

Andre Schevciw

Sriman Miryala

Srivathsa Sridhara

Ravi Shekhar

Hemant Gupta

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may transmit, to one or more peripheral devices, downlink audio packets associated with a left audio channel and a right audio channel during a service period associated with a target wake time (TWT) service interval (SI) periodicity, wherein the TWT SI periodicity is a first integer multiple of a base SI periodicity. The wireless communication device may receive, from the one or more peripheral devices, uplink audio packets associated with a voice back channel (VBC) during a service period associated with a VBC SI periodicity, wherein the VBC SI periodicity is a second integer multiple of the base SI periodicity. Numerous other aspects are described.

Robustness and power saving for a stereo voice back channel in an extended personal area network

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a central device may transmit a first communication to initiate a first communication event. The central device may transmit a first synchronization message associated with a first peripheral device and a second synchronization message associated with a second peripheral device during a first time resource and a second time resource, respectively, associated with a first communication event. The central device may transmit a second communication to initiate a second communication event. The central device may monitor, during the second communication event, for a first response from the first peripheral device during a third time resource, and for a second response from the second peripheral device during a fourth time resource. Numerous other aspects are described.

Synchronization messages for peripheral devices

A device includes a memory configured to store instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions. The one or more processors are configured to execute the instructions to obtain link data corresponding to a communication link to a second device. The one or more processors are configured to execute the instructions to select, at least partially based on the link data, between an ambisonics mode and a stereo mode.

Audio encoding based on link data

A device includes a memory configured to store instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to receive a media packet and to determine, based on a field of the media packet, whether the media packet includes motion data. The one or more processors are also configured to execute the instructions to, based on the media packet including motion data, extract the motion data from the media packet.

Conveying motion data via media packets

This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for fast role switching between master and slave roles among wireless nodes. In one aspect, wireless nodes, such as wireless earbuds, coupled to a wireless source, may dynamically and intelligently swap master and slave roles to optimize battery life in the wireless nodes.

Fast role switch between bluetooth true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds

This disclosure describes a first slave device that transmits information to a second slave device indicating that a first data packet was improperly received from a master device, so that a corresponding data packet may be relayed from the second slave device to the first slave device. In an aspect, the second slave device may receive a first data packet followed by an indication that the first slave device improperly received the first data packet, where the second slave device is configured to relay the first data packet to the first slave device in response thereto. In another aspect, the second slave device may receive a request to listen for a separate data stream of the first slave device based on a first data packet being improperly received by the first slave device and transmit a second data packet of the separate data stream to the first slave device.

Broadcast relay piconet for low energy audio

The present disclosure provides a mechanism to perform a CSB burst mode between a master device and one or more slave devices. In CSB burst mode, the master device may broadcast more than one packet of data in a CSB interval, and hence, may use the time slots in a CSB interval more efficiently than while operating in traditional CSB mode. CSB burst mode of the present disclosure may be used to improve the latency and duty cycle of data transmissions, such as for example, broadcast audio. In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may determine to broadcast a set of packets during a CSB interval, where the set of packets includes a plurality of packets. In some aspects, the apparatus may broadcast the set of packets during the CSB interval to a set of second nodes.

Bluetooth connectionless slave broadcast burst mode

Devices and methods for connected isochronous stream (CIS) swapping are disclosed. In an example Bluetooth&#x2122; setting, a smartphone can be connected to multiple earbuds. It is possible that both earbuds include microphones, but only one microphone is enabled at a given time. That is, only one of the CISes established between the smartphone and the earbuds is bidirectional, and the other is unidirectional. The disclosed techniques enable the CISes to be swapped between the earbuds so that the earbud with better microphone quality will have ownership of the bidirectional CIS.

Connected isochronous stream swapping

Reduced Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) latency on a link between a source and a pair of headphones may be achieved by improving the quality of the link between secondary and primary and establishing a direct link between the source and secondary to mitigate the link quality issues of the source and primary link. In one example, this involves receiving, via a first receiver, packets from a source on a first wireless connection, determining, by the first receiver, that a first packet received via the first wireless connection has an error, establishing a second connection between the first receiver and a second receiver, and establishing a third connection between the second receiver and the source. In particular, the first receiver may be configured as a primary True Wireless Stereo (TWS) Bluetooth device and the second receiver may be configured as a secondary TWS Bluetooth device.

Latency reduction

Motion-detection systems are often used to detect presence of humans. Such motion-detection systems are often based on passive infrared (PIR) sensors. Unfortunately, such detection systems are unable to reliably distinguish between humans and other entities such as animals and moving heat sources. To address this issue, it is proposed to detect a presence of real time clock (RTC) devices in addition to detecting the heat sources to better determine whether a detected entity is a human.

Clock oscillator detection

Two devices (e.g., two wireless Bluetooth earbuds) may exchange device address information (e.g., Bluetooth address information) and may identify a primary address. When either of the devices connect to a source device (e.g., a phone), the primary address may be used by the connecting device such that the pair of devices appear as a single device (e.g., a Bluetooth-pairable device) to the source device, regardless of the device connecting to the source device as the primary device. The primary device may then send identity information (e.g., that has been exchanged with the secondary device) to the source device, such that the source device may connect to either of the two devices. Further, once a primary device connects to the source device, the primary device may transmit, to the secondary device, connection information such that the secondary device may connect to the source device and operate in the primary role.

Address management for Bluetooth devices

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications at a wireless audio device are described. A first (e.g., primary) wireless audio device may initiate a role switch procedure with a second (e.g., secondary) wireless audio device. The first wireless audio device may disable traffic flow between the source device and the first wireless audio device and transmit synchronization information and timing information necessary for taking over the role of primary wireless audio device to the second wireless audio device. The first wireless audio device may transmit a device role switch message, and the first wireless audio device and the second wireless audio device may perform the role switch. After performing the role switch, the first wireless audio device may assume the role of a secondary wireless audio device and the second wireless audio device may assume the role of a primary wireless audio device.

Seamless link transfers between primary and secondary devices

A first device may establish, with a second device, a first logical link associated with short-range communications. The first device may detect the transmission of a first packet from a master device to the second device carried on a second logical link. The first device may decode at least part of the first packet comprising data intended for the first device. The first device may transmit, to the second device, a request for a re-transmission of the first packet when the first device fails to decode at least part of the first packet. The first device may receive, from the second device, at least one re-transmission of the first packet. The first device may apply an error correction operation on the at least one re-transmission of the first packet received from the second device and the first packet received from the master device.

Soft combining packets received from different piconets

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. One method may include determining that a quality condition of a primary Bluetooth-enabled device is lower than a quality condition of a secondary Bluetooth-enabled device. The primary Bluetooth-enabled device may transmit, to the secondary Bluetooth-enabled device, a handover request message based on the determining. The handover request message may include a subset of connection information associated with a connection between the primary Bluetooth-enabled device and a device in wireless communications with the primary Bluetooth-enabled device. The primary Bluetooth-enabled device may receive, from the secondary Bluetooth-enabled device, a handover response message based on the handover request message. As a result, the primary Bluetooth-enabled device may handover, to the secondary Bluetooth-enabled device, at least one logical transport channel of the set of logical transport channels based on the handover response message.

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Mayank Batra