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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2011
David W. Russo, Woodinville, WA (US);
Gregory Ray Smith, Bellevue, WA (US);
Uwe Pakendorf, Berlin, DE;
Denny Gumlich, Konigs Wusterhausen, DE;
David W. Russo, Woodinville, WA (US);
Gregory Ray Smith, Bellevue, WA (US);
Uwe Pakendorf, Berlin, DE;
Denny Gumlich, Konigs Wusterhausen, DE;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A wireless protocol may be implemented in a smart transceiver device that contains the physical (PHY) and media access control (MAC) layers of the wireless protocol stack. In various embodiments, a serial peripheral interface (SPI) based design may be used. Disclosed is an embodiment of a protocol which may be used to provide control and data transfer to and from the smart transceiver. In particular, an exemplary format of the protocol, the commands, and responses is disclosed. In a further embodiment, an application programming interface (API) is disclosed. The API may provide hardware independent services that can be used to establish, maintain, and transport data to and from the system and the smart transceiver device. In particular, an exemplary and non-limiting set of services, function calls, configuration methods, events, and parameters is disclosed.