US 12,238,749 B2
Apparatuses and methods involving communications utilizing different protocols in a common channel
Vincent Pierre Martinez, Venerque (FR); Cornelis Marinus Moerman, Waalre (NL); and Rui Cao, Sunnyvale, CA (US)
Assigned to NXP B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed by NXP B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed on Apr. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/658,451.
Claims priority of application No. 21305552 (EP), filed on Apr. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0353868 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 72/53 (2023.01); H04L 69/08 (2022.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 72/53 (2023.01) [H04L 69/08 (2013.01); H04W 4/40 (2018.02); H04W 84/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
communication circuitry to communicate signals according to a first protocol, over a wireless channel;
logic circuitry configured and arranged with the communication circuitry to:
generate a set of signals including first data configured in accordance with the first protocol and including second data configured in accordance with a second protocol, the first protocol is a synchronous protocol and the second protocol is an asynchronous protocol, the second data including an 802.11 packet, the 802.11 packet including a legacy short training field, a legacy long training field, a signal field, and data; and
communicate the set of signals as a sequence of subframes over the wireless channel, each subframe including a plurality of OFDM symbols, one or more subframes of the sequence including the first data corresponding to the first protocol for communicating with receivers operating in accordance with the first protocol, and one or more of a first OFDM symbol of a subframe of the sequence or a last OFDM symbol of a previous subframe of the sequence including the second data to communicate with receivers operating in accordance with the second protocol; and
wherein the logic circuitry is configured and arranged with the communication circuitry to communicate at least a first portion of the second data in the last OFDM symbol of a subframe of the sequence and at least a second portion of the second data in the first OFDM symbol of a next subframe of the sequence.