US 12,336,010 B2
Over-the-air BLE link-cluster operation
Yaron Alpert, Hod Hasharon (IL); and Yuval Matar, Kiryat Mozkin (IL)
Assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US)
Filed by TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US)
Filed on Mar. 24, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/703,841.
Prior Publication US 2023/0309146 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 74/08 (2024.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 74/0808 (2024.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 74/0825 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0073 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 76/15 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
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1. A device comprising:
a link layer (LL) controller configured to:
maintain links of a link cluster between the device and one or more connected devices that share parameters associated with the link cluster; and
process packets associated with the links at a LL, the parameters including coordination parameters for connection events on the links and synchronization parameters for packet transmission in the connection events; and
physical link (PHY) interfaces coupled to the LL controller and configured to:
exchange the packets in the connection events on the links;
interface with the LL controller; and
process the packets at a PHY layer according to the parameters, wherein the PHY interfaces are configured to:
exchange the packets in transmission events and reception events within the connection events at different respective transmission frequencies among the links of the link cluster; and
determine start and end times for first overlapping intervals in time of the transmission events on the links and for second overlapping intervals in time of the reception events, the first overlapping intervals in time not overlapping with the second overlapping intervals in time on the links.