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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2020

Filed:

May. 08, 2017
Applicant:

Intel Ip Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Seunghee Han, San Jose, CA (US);

Apostolos Papathanassiou, San Jose, CA (US);

Hong He, Beijing, CN;

Jong-Kae Fwu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Alexei Vladimirovich Davydov, Nizhny Novgorod, RU;

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04B 1/7143 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/0058 (2013.01); H04B 1/7143 (2013.01); H04B 2201/71632 (2013.01); H04L 5/0012 (2013.01); Y02D 70/126 (2018.01); Y02D 70/20 (2018.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of wireless communication devices and methods for device discovery is generally described herein. Some of these embodiments describe an apparatus having processing circuitry arranged to configure a single-tone discovery signal for transmission in a symbol in a transmission opportunity based on an assignment pattern. The assignment pattern may define frequency positions, for a set of transmission opportunities, at which the apparatus shall transmit discovery signals in the corresponding transmission opportunity. The apparatus may have physical layer circuitry arranged to transmit the single-tone discovery signal in the corresponding transmission opportunity. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.


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