Cisco Patent Applications

OPPORTUNISTIC STANDARD POWER GRANT BY AUTOMATED FREQUENCY COORDINATION

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240334416
Opportunistic power grant, and specifically to providing opportunistic power grants to Access Points (APs) by an Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC) may be provided. An Access Point may be operating in a low power mode. The AP may connect to a STA and send a token to the STA, wherein the token includes a request for a STA location. The AP may receive the STA location in response. The AP may send the token and the STA location to an AFC. The AP may then receive instructions to operate…

TRANSMITTER EFFECTIVE ISOTROPIC RADIATED POWER IMPROVEMENT BY DIRECTIONAL GAIN CALCULATION BASED ON CLIENT POSITION

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240334341
Improving transmitter Effective Isotropic Radiated Power (EIRP) may be provided. Improving EIRP may include sending a trigger frame to a client and receiving an uplink transmission from the client in response. A client Transmission (TX) power and a Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) associated with the client may be determined using the uplink transmission. Next, a client location may be determined. A pathloss associated with the client may be determined using the client location…

WIRELESS PLANNING FOR REDUCED POWER CONSUMPTION

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240334197
Wireless planning for reduced power consumption may be provided. Characteristics of a space may be received, wherein the characteristics include a representation of the space. A model of the space may be generated using the representation of the space. Next, a coverage requirement and a power saving requirement may be determined for the space. An initial wireless plan may be generated including one or more APs positioned in the model of the space. The initial wireless plan may be…

DETECTING MULTI-SEGMENT MALICIOUS EMAIL ATTACKS

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240333738
A method to perform the techniques described herein includes receiving a first email from a first sender to a first receiver. The method may include determining a first maliciousness prediction that indicates a first likelihood that the first email is malicious. The method may include determining that the first maliciousness prediction fails to satisfy a maliciousness pattern associated with malicious emails. The method may include receiving a second email from the first sender to the…

NETWORK HIERARCHY-BASED AUTOMATIC ONBOARDING OF NETWORK DEVICES

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240333598
Systems and methods provide for creating a network device hierarchy among a plurality of nodes. The network device hierarchy may include a plurality of geography-based groups defined by a corresponding number of geolocations. The operations further include associating each of the plurality of geography-based groups with a plurality of different configuration intents, associating each of the plurality of nodes with one of the plurality of geography-based groups, and deploying the…

REAL-TIME RADIO SELF-CALIBRATION

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240333404
Real-time radio self-calibration may be provided. The self-calibration may begin by sampling a Transmission (TX) signal. An achievable Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) for one or more frames may be determined based on the TX signal. Link budgets for clients may be determined using a TX power and a supported Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS). A per packet TX power is adjusted based on the achievable EVM and a TX retry rate. The PA linearity of the radio may also be adjusted based on the…

TRIGGER BASED FINE TIME MEASUREMENT IMPROVEMENT VIA EFFICIENT GROUPING

Granted: September 26, 2024
Application Number: 20240322878
Fine Time Measurement (FTM) improvement and, specifically, trigger based FTM improvements via efficiently grouping initiators may be provided. A plurality of probe requests transmitted by a plurality of initiators is received. For each probe request, a Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) and Channel State Information (CSI) is determined, and a distance between an initiator and an associated responder associated with the probe request is determined based on the RSSI and the CSI.…

METHOD FOR INTEGRATION OF ELECTRO-OPTICAL MATERIALS IN A PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

Granted: September 26, 2024
Application Number: 20240319440
A method includes providing a sacrificial wafer, contacting the sacrificial wafer to a photonic device wafer, and bonding the sacrificial wafer to the photonic device wafer. The sacrificial wafer includes a substrate and an electro-optical material strip disposed within a dielectric matrix. The photonic device wafer includes a photonic device die, and the electro-optical material strip is disposed proximate to the photonic device die. A photonic device structure includes a photonic…

MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI DETECTOR FOR LINEAR AND NONLINEAR CHANNEL IMPAIRMENT

Granted: September 19, 2024
Application Number: 20240313804
A receiver configured to receive a plurality of symbols is disclosed. The receiver includes a hard decision decoder, a look-up table (LUT) coupled to the hard decision decoder, and a soft metric generator coupled to the LUT. The hard decision decoder is to receive a first set of symbols from the plurality of symbols and provide a set of hard coded neighboring symbols to the LUT. The first set of symbols comprises a center symbol with neighboring symbols. The LUT is to store a value…

CELL EDGE PREDICTOR FOR OPTIMIZED ROAMING

Granted: September 19, 2024
Application Number: 20240314578
Cell edge prediction for optimized roaming may be provided. Cell edge prediction can include predicting cell edges for a plurality of APs including a connected AP and one or more additional APs. A cell edge prediction can be for a client connected to the connected AP. The cell edge prediction may comprise an indication of one or more candidate APs for the client to roam to of the one or more additional APs and an estimated time the client will reach the cell edge of the connected AP.…

DIRECTIONAL NEIGHBOR REPORTS FOR ROAMING OPTIMIZATION

Granted: September 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240306054
Roaming optimization, and particularly transmitting directional neighbor reports to optimize roaming may be provided. For roaming optimization, it is first determined that a client is going to roam to a new Access Point (AP). In response to determining the client is going to roam to a new AP, an estimated path of the client is determined. One or more candidate APs are determined based at least in part on the estimated path, and probabilities of roaming to the one or more candidate APs is…

DYNAMIC SECURITY FOR FABRIC NETWORKS

Granted: September 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240303336
A method of protecting networks may include detecting a compromised computing device associated with a security event generated by a unified security policy from a plurality of sites within a network. A context of the compromised computing device may be extracted. The context may be propagated to a controller. The method may further include fetching from an identity services engine (ISE), user identity associated with the compromised computing device, and provisioning the controller with…

ULTRA-WIDEBAND RANGING AND LOCATION TRACKING

Granted: September 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240302484
Ultra-Wideband (UWB) ranging and location tracking, and particularly an UWB antenna array system and methods for improving the accuracy for Phase-Difference-of-Arrival (PDOA) is provided. UWB ranging may include receiving a poll signal from a client via a first and second antenna. PDOA between the first and second antenna is determined based on the poll signal. A response signal is transmitted to the client, and a first portion of a final signal is received via the first antenna and a…

FINE TIME MEASUREMENT LOCATION CONFIGURATION INFORMATION PROTECTION

Granted: September 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240298178
Fine Time Measurement (FTM) Location Configuration Information (LCI) protection and, specifically, FTM LCI protection with authentication and selective client enablement may be provided. To perform FTM LCI protection, a controller may first obtain a key-pair including a public key and a private key from a Certificate Authority (CA). The controller my determine a venue location where an Access Point (AP) is located. The controller may send a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) with the…

Bus Bar Subassembly and Electrical Assembly

Granted: August 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240291180
A bus bar subassembly adapted to connect a first circuit board and a second circuit board includes a first bus bar, a second bus bar and a first electrical connector. The first bus bar is electrically connected to the first circuit board. The second bus bar is electrically connected to the second circuit board. The first connector is electrically connected to the first bus bar and the second bus bar.

THERMO-OPTIC PHASE SHIFTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS

Granted: August 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240288717
In part, the disclosure relates to opto-electrical system. The system may include a waveguide defining an optical input and an optical output; a thermo-optic phase shifter (TOPS) that includes a first electrical contact and a second electrical contact, and a resistive heater in electrical communication with the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact, the TOPS configured to change a first phase of light entering the optical input to a second phase for light exiting the…

MEMS MIRROR FOR COUPLING AND COMPENSATING LASER DEVICE TO PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT

Granted: August 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240288679
Disclosed is an opto-electronic module including a first substrate, a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) attached to the first substrate, a laser assembly attached to the first substrate, and a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) micro-mirror device positioned between the laser and the waveguide. The PIC comprising a waveguide. The laser assembly is configured to generate a laser beam to optically couple to the waveguide. The laser assembly includes a thermal electric cooler (TEC) and a…

PREDICTING CONNECTION ISSUES IN A WIRELESS BAND

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240283506
Connection issue prediction may be provided. A computing device may receive first Channel State Information (CSI) for a first link associated with a client device. The first CSI may be collected when beamforming was trained on a second link associated with the client device. Second CSI may be received for the first link associated with the client device. The second CSI may be collected at a time subsequent to when beamforming was trained on the second link associated with the client…

SCALE BY USING A TIERED MULTI-LEVEL SCHEDULING APPROACH

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240284437
Scaling by using tiered multi-level scheduling may be provided. Connectivity information associated with a plurality of Access Points (APs) may be received by a computing device. A plurality of Connectivity Groups (CGs) may be determined from the plurality of APs based on the connectivity information. Transmissions may be scheduled for the plurality of CGs such that when any of the plurality of CGs sends a transmission, the transmission is substantially unaffected by interference from…

MULTI-BAND POWER AMPLIFIER FOR NON-SIMULTANEOUS TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE (NSTR) MULTI-LINK DEVICES

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240283688
Crest Factor Reduction (CFR) parameters are determined for a dual band Power Amplifier (PA). A first band of the dual band PA is associated with a first Multi-Link Operation (MLO) link and a second band of the dual band PA is associated with a second MLO link. Determining the CFR parameters comprises determining based on a configuration of the first MLO link and the second MLO link. A first portion of the CFR parameters is provided to a first crest factor reduction block. First portion…