Intel Corporation

Mythili Hegde

John M Roman

Shailendra Singh Chauhan

Walid El Hajj

Santhosh Ap

Nawfal Asrih

Arunthathi Chandrabose

Jayprakash Thakur

Anshu Agarwal

Manuel Blazquez De Pineda

Jay Vishnu Gupta

Sajal Kumar Das

Zhen Yao

Richard S Perry

Robert Paxman

Robert Schum

Madhukiran Sreenivasareddy

Prathibha Peddireddy

Zaman Zaid Mulla

Aline C Kenfack Sadate

Shashi Kant Singh

George D Sworo

Ashish Upadhyaya

Aneesh R

Ricardo Velasco

Samir V Gundawar

Poondi Balaji Venkatachalapath Gopi Sudarson

John Michael Roman

A wireless communication device including a processor; a memory, coupled to the processor, to store instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: connect an antenna to an energy harvesting (EH) circuit, wherein the antenna is configured to capture a Wi-Fi radio frequency (RF) signal; send the Wi-Fi RF signal to the EH circuit; determine a RF signal strength of the Wi-Fi RF signal; and determine a location of the wireless communication device based on the RF signal strength.

Ambient RF/WiFi energy harvesting, indoor location tracking and improved Wi-Fi connectivity using machine learning algorithm

For example, an apparatus may include a computing device housing configured to house a motherboard of a computing device, the computing device housing including a base surface, a top surface opposite to the base surface, and a side-wall surface between the base surface and the top surface; and a light communicator configured to extend outward from the side-wall surface of the housing to communicate modulated light of a Visible Light Communication (VLC) transmission in a range of VLC directions.

Apparatus, system and method of Visible Light Communication (VLC)

A method and apparatus for implementing host-centric antenna control. An apparatus may include a plurality of antennas for wireless transmission and reception, a wireless modem for processing a signal for wireless transmission and reception via the antennas, a processor (host), and an antenna tuner circuitry. The processor is configured to run an antenna tuner software module configured to generate a control signal to configure at least one antenna. The antenna tuner circuitry is configured to switch or tune the at least one antenna based on the control signal. The apparatus may include at least one sensor coupled to the processor. The antenna tuner software module may be configured to generate the control signal based on inputs from the at least one sensor. The antenna tuner software module may be configured to receive RF parameters from the wireless modem and generate the control signal based on the RF parameters.

Method and apparatus for implementing host-centric antenna control

This disclosure presents methods and devices that implement dynamic transmit power control techniques in terminal devices with multiple radio frequency (RF) transmitters and/or in a multi-terminal device environment to comply with regulatory RF exposure limits and standards while enhancing device performance. For example, the present disclosure provides a device including a processor configured to monitor a transmit power for each of a plurality of transmitters; determine a transmit power reduction to be applied to the plurality of transmitters based on a total simultaneous transmit power of the plurality of transmitters exceeding a threshold; define a respective amount of the transmit power reduction to be applied to each transmitter of the plurality of transmitters based on one or more parameters; and apply the respective amount of the transmit power reduction to each transmitter of the plurality of transmitters.

Methods and devices of transmit power control for multiple transceivers in a single device or in a multiple device scenario

An apparatus comprises a circuit board comprising a connector in or on the circuit board. The apparatus is to be coupled to a bus via the connector. The apparatus comprises first circuitry to communicate with a processor via the connector and bus, second circuitry to detect a utilization state of the first circuitry, determine, based on the detected utilization state of the first circuitry, a level of current to be conducted with the connector; and generate a signal indicating of whether the level of current exceeds a threshold current capacity of the connector, and third circuitry to select a first operational mode from among multiple operational modes. The first circuitry is to operate in any of the multiple operational modes responsive to the third circuitry. Additional circuitry may be provided to identify a voltage level capability of the apparatus and to configure voltage level shifting circuitry connected to the bus.

Control of power use of a device powered by a communication bus and determining sideband signaling voltage level

For example, a User Equipment (UE) may be configured to generate a client identity element including a user identifier (ID) and a device ID, the user ID based on an identity of a user of the UE, the device ID based on a device identifier of the UE; transmit a registration message from the UE to a device management server to register the UE, the registration message including the client identity element; and transmit a service request to a service provider to initiate access of the UE to a service of the service provider, wherein the service request includes the client identity element.

Apparatus, system, and method of client identity for user equipment (UE) service access

The proposed techniques enable dynamic hardware and software (HW/SW) configurations to enable an expansion card to be adapted for use in various original equipment manufacturer (OEM) devices. The techniques use a software-based solution to detect device modes, states, etc. of a device in which the expansion card is implemented by leveraging the device's system resources. In doing so, the need for dedicated hardware pins and general purpose input-output (GPIO) pins, which are otherwise required to detect the current operating mode of the device using hardware-based solutions, are eliminated.

Hardware connector pin reduction for expansion slot interfaces

A wireless device includes a voltage regulator circuit configured to generate a voltage signal of a first input voltage, and a wireless baseband processing circuitry (WBPC) coupled to the voltage regulator circuit to receive the voltage signal. The WBPC is configured to process signals for transmission or reception using wireless technology. The WBPC includes a sub-system processor circuit configured to detect a wireless bandwidth of an application executing on an application processor of the wireless device; determine a second input voltage based on the wireless bandwidth of the application and a maximum voltage supported by the WBPC; and encode a feedback signal for communication to the voltage regulator circuit. The feedback signal causes adjustment of the voltage signal to the second input voltage.

Application-based power control for a wireless device

Disclosed embodiments include a modified M.2 interface that is configured to allow an increased current capacity on power-carrying pins. The power-carrying pins are implemented using an alloy that can sustain current levels in excess of those specified in the M.2 standard while remaining within M.2 standard specified temperature limits. Sockets and corresponding cards in embodiments are modified so that a card requiring the higher current capacity cannot fit into a legacy M.2 standard socket, while a legacy M.2 card can fit into a modified high current M.2 socket. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

M2 connector with increased ampacity

A battery-powered device includes a baseband modem, configured to receive or send data according to a first operational mode, wherein the data correspond to a software application being executed on the battery-powered device; and a processor, configured to determine a resource requirement of the software application; and send a signal representing the determined resource requirement to the baseband modem; wherein the baseband modem is further configured to change from the first operational mode to a second operational mode based on the signal.

Power management in battery powered communication device and method

Methods and device to implement the use of proximity sensor data and time-averaging specific absorption rate methods in determining whether to apply or remove a power back-off to a radio frequency transmitter. The methods and devices may be configured to detect whether a body is proximately located based on obtained proximity sensor data; define an upper threshold for a radio frequency (RF) transmit power and a lower threshold for the RF transmit power; calculate an average power of an RF transmitter over a fixed time period; and based on whether the body is detected, the average power, and a comparison of the average power to the upper threshold or the lower threshold, determine whether to apply or remove a power back-off to the RF transmitter.

Methods and devices for power management techniques with time averaged SAR and proximity sensor considerations

A wireless communication device includes one or more processors, configured to determine one or more first transmission power measurements within a first transmission power measurement sampling period; calculate a first transmission power factor, the first transmission power factor representing a central tendency of the one or more first transmission power measurements from the first power measurement sampling period; determine a second power measurement during a second transmission power measurement sampling period; and calculate a second transmission power factor, wherein the second transmission power factor is a central tendency of at least one of the one or more first power measurements and the second power measurement.

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