Personal area network communication for wearable devices
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsQian Li, Geng Wu
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Abstract
Embodiments of a system and method for personal area network (PAN) communication for wearable devices in a wireless network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a wearable user equipment (wUE) includes processing circuitry and transceiver circuitry. The processing circuitry is to: configure the wUE to enter into an active state; and configure the transceiver circuitry to: scan, in response to entering into the active state, for a Beacon signal from a network user equipment (nUE); upon failing to detect the Beacon signal, send a probe signal to the nUE; and upon detecting the Beacon signal or upon receiving a response to the probe signal, connect to a PAN associated with the nUE.
Claims20
An apparatus of a wearable user equipment (wUE), the apparatus comprising:
- processing circuitry;
- and transceiver circuitry,
- wherein the processing circuitry is configured to:
- configure the wUE to enter into an active state;
- and configure the transceiver circuitry to:
- scan, in response to entering into the active state, for a Beacon signal from a network user equipment (nUE), wherein the Beacon signal from the nUE comprises a Random Access (RA) preamble Config used to configure an RA preamble of the wUE;
- upon failing to detect the Beacon signal after entering the active state, send a probe signal to the nUE;
- and
- upon detection of the Beacon signal or upon receipt of a response to the probe signal, connect to a personal area network (PAN) associated with the nUE and communicate within the PAN.
A method for operating a wearable user equipment (wUE), the method comprising:
- configuring the wUE to enter into an active state;
- scanning, in response to entering into the active state, for a Beacon signal from a network user equipment (nUE), wherein the Beacon signal from the nUE comprises a Sync preamble for synchronizing the nUE and the wUE in the PAN according to a timing schedule;
- upon failing to detect the Beacon signal after entering the active state, sending a probe signal to the nUE;
- and
- upon detection of the Beacon signal or upon receipt of a response to the probe signal, connecting to a personal area network (PAN) associated with the nUE and communicating within the PAN.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by one or more processors to perform operations to configure a wearable user equipment (wUE) to:
- configure the wUE to enter into an active state;
- scan, in response to entering into the active state, for a Beacon signal from a network user equipment (nUE), wherein the Beacon signal from the nUE comprises a personal area network (PAN)-temp-ID for scrambling control and data channels within the PAN;
- upon failing to detect the Beacon signal after entering the active state, send a probe signal to the nUE;
- and
- upon detection of the Beacon signal or upon receipt of a response to the probe signal, connect to a PAN associated with the nUE and communicate within the PAN.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.