Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Single radio serving multiple wireless links
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Application No.: US15149109Application Date: 2016-05-07
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Publication No.: US10470058B2Publication Date: 2019-11-05
- Inventor: Mark William Casebolt , Stanley William Adermann , Ranveer Chandra , Amy Kumar
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Current Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Alleman Hall Creasman & Tuttle LLP
- Main IPC: H04W24/02
- IPC: H04W24/02 ; H04H20/38 ; H04J1/04 ; H04J3/16 ; H04L29/12 ; H04W40/00 ; H04W72/12 ; H04W84/12 ; H04W88/08

Abstract:
A computing device (such as a computer gaming console) uses only a single radio to concurrently communicate with a wireless network access point and wireless client devices such as game controllers or peripherals. To establish and maintain both a high-throughput link with the access point, and a low-latency link with the client device(s), the single Wi-Fi radio of the computing device is configured to periodically switch between a channel used for the high-throughput link and a different channel that is used for the low-latency link—thus implementing a combination of frequency division multiplexing (FDM) and time division multiplexing (TDM). The console may use aspects of the Wi-Fi protocol standard to ensure that periodically switching its single radio between the two channels is accomplished while maintaining reliable communication on both channels.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170325102A1 SINGLE RADIO SERVING MULTIPLE WIRELESS LINKS Public/Granted day:2017-11-09
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