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Qi, Emily H.; Park, Minyoung

Patent US10122817

Issued 2018-11-06

Methods And Arrangements For Device Profiles In Wireless Networks

Embodiments provide a device profile mechanism for wireless devices. Many embodiments comprise a medium access control (MAC) sublayer logic to build frames comprising a device profile index element for a first device. Embodiments may facilitate access by a second device to a device profile for the first device without communication of the entire device profile from the first device. In some embodiments, the second device may access a storage medium integrated with or accessible to the second device to determine the device profile. Some embodiments may store the device profile index element in memory, in logic, or in another manner that facilitates transmission of the device profile index element in frames. Some embodiments may receive and detect communications with the device profile index element. Further embodiments may generate and transmit a communication with the device profile index element.

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1. A method comprising: determining, by a medium access control sublayer logic, data to indicate if a communications device is a sensor; determining, by the medium access control sublayer logic, data for a specific type of the communications device to indicate if the communications device is designed for services comprising healthcare, home, or security monitoring; generating, by the medium access control sublayer logic, a frame comprising the data to indicate if the communications device is a sensor; and the data for a specific type of the communications device to indicate if the communications device is designed for services comprising healthcare, home, or security monitoring; creating, by a physical layer logic, a physical layer protocol data unit with the frame and a preamble to transmit; and transmitting, by an antenna, the frame with a preamble.
8. A communication device, comprising: a memory; a medium access control sublayer logic coupled to the memory to determine data to indicate if the communications device is a sensor; and to determine data for a specific type of the communications device to indicate if the communications device is designed for services comprising healthcare, home, or security monitoring; to generate a frame comprising the data to indicate if the communications device is a sensor; and the data for a specific type of the communications device to indicate if the communications device is designed for services comprising healthcare, home, or security monitoring; a physical layer logic coupled to the memory to prepend the frame with a preamble to create a physical layer protocol data unit to transmit; and a transmitter coupled with the medium access control sublayer logic to transmit the frame.
16. One or more non-transitory computer readable media comprising instructions to, upon execution of the instructions by a processor of a wireless station (STA) configured to operate in a wireless network, cause the wireless STA to: determine, by a medium access control sublayer logic of the wireless STA, data to indicate if the wireless STA is a sensor; determine, by the medium access control sublayer logic, data for a specific type of the wireless STA to indicate if the wireless STA is designed for services comprising healthcare, home, or security monitoring; generate, by the medium access control sublayer logic, a frame comprising the data to indicate if the wireless STA is a sensor; and the data for a specific type of the wireless STA to indicate if the wireless STA is designed for services comprising healthcare, home, or security monitoring; create, by a physical layer logic, a physical layer protocol data unit with the frame and a preamble to transmit; and transmit, by an antenna, the frame with the preamble.