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A wireless communication system for enabling a wireless connection between a computing device and a plurality of peripheral devices is provided. The system comprises a first wireless transceiver connected to a host bridge, wherein the host bridge is coupled to a central processing unit of the computing device; and a wireless docketing apparatus that communicates with the host bridge over a wireless interconnect bus, wherein the wireless docketing apparatus is coupled to a plurality of peripheral devices, thereby enabling the wireless connection between the computing device and the plurality of peripheral devices.
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- This application is a continuation of a U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/964,715 filed on Dec. 27, 2007, now allowed, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/950,691, filed on Jul. 19, 2007, U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/938,190 filed May 16, 2007, and U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/889,379 filed Feb. 12, 2007. The contents of which are herein incorporated by reference.
- The invention relates generally to peripheral component interconnect buses, and more particularly to interconnect buses over a wireless medium.
- As technology has evolved the functionality of mobile devices, such as laptops computers, cellular phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and media players, has become correspondingly more robust. Such devices now offer capabilities that were once the exclusive domain of personal computers (PCs). In fact, some of these mobile devices now resemble small, low-end PCs with wireless access to data networks, including the Internet.
- Unlike desktops or portable computers, hand-held devices and other wireless communication devices typically fail to include a keyboard, a large display, a mouse, a printer, or any other peripheral. In some instances such peripherals do exist but are either cumbersome or too small for effective use. Such devices may utilize a docking station or a port replicator to attach a standard set of peripheral devices to the computing platform. A physical connection is made between the hand-held device and the docking station, at which time the docking station provides the necessary ports to connect to those peripherals.
- The primary purpose of replicators or docking stations is to provide a fast and convenient mechanism to allow the hand-held device to attach or detach from peripheral devices. This is achieved by plugging the hand-held device into the docking station, however it is not necessary to physically connect and disconnect each of the peripheral devices from the hand-held device.
- With the emergence of wireless technologies, hardwired docking station connections are replaced with a wireless connection, typically by means of an ultra-wideband (UWB) connection. Examples for such wireless docking stations can be found, for example, in US patent application Nos. 2005/0246470, 2006/0061963, and 2006/0061963, incorporated herein by reference for the useful understanding of the background of the invention.
- The solutions in the above-cited applications enable wireless connectivity between a hand-held device and its respective peripherals by providing a wireless computer docking system. Specifically, a hand-held device is equipped with a UWB wireless transceiver to form a wireless connection with UWB-enabled peripheral devices without the need for a physical docking station. That is, these solutions are based on an UWB link that emulates an undefined type of input/output (I/O) bus.
- Such architectures introduce major drawbacks that limit the performance of the hand-held device. For example, the UWB link requires a dedicated-controller to allow the I/O bus to operate with different peripheral standards. It also requires the installation of dedicated software to map peripheral interfaces to the I/O bus. In addition, the UWB link multiplexes between peripheral devices in order to transfer data on a relatively small bandwidth.
- It would be therefore advantageous to provide a solution that would provide a wireless docking system that overcomes the drawbacks of prior art solutions.
- Various embodiments are particularly pointed out and distinctly claimed in the claims at the conclusion of the specification. The foregoing and other objects, features, and advantages of various embodiments described herein will be apparent from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
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FIG. 1 is an illustration of a typical architecture of a hand-held device useful in describing the principles of the invention; -
FIG. 2 is an illustration of a typical architecture of a hand-held device that includes a wireless interconnect bus constructed useful for explaining certain exemplary embodiments of the invention; -
FIG. 3 is a non-limiting block diagram of a wireless docking station useful for explaining certain exemplary embodiments of the invention; and -
FIG. 4 is a non-limiting and exemplary diagram that describes the dock-in process realized in accordance with the principles of an embodiment of the invention. - The embodiments disclosed are only examples of the many possible advantageous uses and implementations of the innovative teachings presented herein. In general, statements made in the specification of the present application do not necessarily limit any of the various claimed inventions. Moreover, some statements may apply to some inventive features but not to others. In general, unless otherwise indicated, singular elements may be in plural and vice versa with no loss of generality. In the drawings, like numerals refer to like parts through several views.
- To overcome the shortcomings of the prior-art docking stations or port replicators, a wireless docking station is provided that allows the wireless connection between a hand-held computing device and a plurality of peripheral devices by unwiring the main computing bus of the hand-held device. The hand-held device may be, but is not limited to, a personal computer, a laptop computer, a notebook computer, a media player, a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), and the likes.
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FIG. 1 shows an exemplary illustration of atypical architecture 100 of a hand-held computing device useful for describing the principles of the invention. Thearchitecture 100 is based on a main computing bus which is, for example, a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) bus. Ahost bridge 110 is coupled toendpoints 120, a central processing unit (CPU) 130, amemory 140, and aswitch 150. Typically, thehost bridge 110 and theswitch 150 are referred to as a “north bridge” and a “south bridge” respectively. The peripheral components are connected throughendpoints 120. Multiple point-to-point connections are accomplished by theswitch 150, which provides the fanout for the I/O bus. Theswitch 150 provides peer-to-peer communication betweendifferent endpoints 120. That is, traffic betweenswitch 150 andendpoints 120 that does not involve cache-coherent memory transfers, is not forwarded to thehost bridge 110. Theswitch 150 is shown as a separate logical element but it could be integrated into thehost bridge 110. - The wireless connection between a hand-held device and respective peripherals is achieved by unwiring the “north bridge” from the “south bridge”. In accordance with principles of the invention this is achieved by means of a wireless interconnect bus, for example, a wireless PCIe bus. Examples for such buses may be found in U.S. Pat. No. 8,050,290 entitled “A Wireless Interconnect Bus” and in U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/021,290 “A Distributed Interconnect Bus”. Both applications are assigned to common assignee and which are hereby incorporated herein, in their entirety, by reference thereto.
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FIG. 2 shows an illustration of atypical architecture 200 of a hand-held computing device that includes awireless interconnect bus 210. Thewireless interconnect bus 210 includes afirst transceiver 220 which is coupled to a host bridge 230 (the “north bridge”) and asecond transceiver 240 coupled to a switch 250 (the “south bridge”). Thehost bridge 230 identifies theendpoints 260 connected to theswitch 250 as a standard endpoint. That is, there is no need to install specific software in order to recognize and communicate with peripherals coupled to theendpoints 260. Specifically, the communication protocols between theswitch 250 andendpoints 260 may be any of a high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI), a digital visual interface (DVI), a serial advanced technology attachment (SATA), a video graphics array (VGA), a universal serial bus (USB), PCIe, Bluetooth and the likes. - In one embodiment of the invention the
wireless interconnect bus 210 emulates a wireless PCI Express (wPCIe™) bus. In this embodiment the link between thefirst transceiver 220 and asecond transceiver 240 aggregates an unbound number of PCIe lanes with a transfer data rate of 2.5 Gb/s per lane over an unlicensed frequency band like 57-64 GHz or 5-6 GHz. In an exemplary embodiment the number of aggregated lanes is 32. It would be apparent to a person skilled in the art that the bandwidth of the aggregated lanes is sufficient to wirelessly transfer data from or to peripherals without multiplexing between them. -
FIG. 3 shows a non-limiting block diagram of awireless docking station 300 in accordance with an embodiment of the invention. Thedocking station 300 includes awireless transceiver 310 coupled to aswitch 320, and a plurality of input/output (I/O)controllers 330 that connect to theswitch 320. Thewireless transceiver 310 receives and transmits wireless signals from and to a hand-held device, which communicates using thetransceiver 220. In one embodiment the wireless signals are preferably in a form of symbols. Thewireless transceiver 310 controls and manages the access to the wireless link in either a full-duplex or half-duplex mode of operation. Furthermore, thewireless transceiver 310 establishes the link between thedocking station 300 and the hand-held device and acts as a medium access controller (MAC) layer. Thewireless transceiver 310 is also capable of reconstructing data from the received symbols. - To perform the tasks mentioned above the
wireless transceiver 310 preferably includes a wireless receiver and wireless transmitter (not shown) that together implement a wireless modem, such as an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modem, a single-carrier modem, a multi-carrier modem, and the likes. Furthermore, the wireless receiver and wireless transmitter can implement sophisticated communication techniques, such as multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO), beam forming, advanced coding, space time block codes, and so on. Thewireless transceiver 310 further supports a layered protocol of the wireless interconnect bus. Such protocol includes at least a wireless physical (WPHY)layer 410, awireless adaptation layer 420, a data link layer 430, and a transaction layer 440. The operation of this layered protocol is descried in detail in the 60/938,190 provisional application mentioned above. - The data constructed by the
wireless transceiver 310 is fed to theswitch 320 which may be operated in accordance to any standards that includes, but is not limited to, USB3, PCIe, PCIe second generation, Hypertransport, Infiniband, and the like. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention thedocking station 300 may include a bridge for transforming data from a first protocol (e.g., a PCIe) to a second protocol (e.g., a PCI). The I/O controllers 330 interface between peripheral devices connected to thedocking station 300 and the hand-held device. The I/O controllers 330 may communicate with any type of peripheral device including, but not limited to, a monitor, a keyboard, a pointing device, a mouse, a storage device, a speaker, a microphone, a modem, a compact disk (CD) player, a digital video disc (DVD) player, a projector, and the likes. - The connections between the peripheral devices and the I/
O controllers 330 may be, but are not limited to, PCIe, USB1.1, USB2.0, parallel, RS232 serial, PS/2-style mouse, keyboard connector audio like connection, SATA, VGA, DVI, HDMI-like monitor connections, and others. - It would be apparent to a person skilled in the art that as the I/
O controllers 330 manages the communication between the peripherals and the hand-held device there is no need to install dedicated software to map standard peripheral interfaces to a format of a dedicated bus. -
FIG. 4 shows a non-limiting and exemplary diagram 400 describing the dock-in process in accordance with principles of an exemplary embodiment of the invention. The dock-in process refers to wireless connecting of a hand-held computing device to thedocking station 300. Such connection is achieved if a hand-held device is placed in proximity of adocking station 300. At S410 thedocking station 300 periodically transmits beacons to indicate that it is available. The beacons are transmitted on one or more specific allocated channels. The hand-held device scans the allocated channel(s) to detect beacons transmitted by thedocking station 300. At S420, the hand-held device sends an association request key to thedocking station 300 with a unique identification (ID) number. In response, at S430, thedocking station 300 sends a challenge connection key. At S440 the hand-held device responds with its challenge connection key. At S450 thedocking station 300 may accept or reject the association with the hand-held device by sending a response that includes a session key. If the session key is accepted a connection is established between thedocking station 300 and the hand-held device. The keys used for challenge, association, and session are pre-determined using a pairing process which is performed during the initialization of the docking station and hand-held device. These keys are encrypted using, for example, an advanced encryption standard (AES) encryption technique, and the likes. - In order to “dock-out”, i.e., disconnecting the hand-held device from the docking station, the hand-held device sends a dock-out request signal. As a result, the docking station replies with undocked acknowledge signal. Thereafter, the connection session is disconnected and the first transceiver is switched to a scanning mode. The docking out process also applies if the hand-held device just moves out of “docking range.”
- In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention the bus connecting the hand-held device and the docking station is a wireless PCI express bus. In this embodiment the dock-in and dock-out processes can be implemented as “hot” plug-in and plug-out. That is, connecting or disconnecting the hand-held device while is still operating. This can be performed without the need to install dedicated software, hardware or combination therefore either in the hand-held devices of the docking station.
- It is important to note that these embodiments are only examples of the many advantageous uses of the innovative teachings herein. Moreover, some statements may apply to some inventive features but not to others. In general, unless otherwise indicated, it is to be understood that singular elements may be in plural and vice versa with no loss of generality.
- The embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as a combination of hardware, firmware and software and because some of the constituent system components and methods depicted in the accompanying drawings may be implemented in software, the actual connections between the system components or the process function blocks may differ depending upon the manner in which the invention is programmed. The software may be embodied on a computer readable medium.
- The functions of the various elements shown in the figures may be provided through the use of dedicated hardware as well as hardware capable of executing appropriate software. When provided by a processor, the functions may be provided by a single dedicated processor, by a single shared processor, or by a plurality of individual processors, some of which may be shared. Explicit use of the term “processor” or “controller” should not be construed to refer exclusively to hardware capable of executing software, and may implicitly include, without limitation, digital signal processor hardware, ROM, RAM, and non-volatile storage.
- Other hardware, conventional and/or custom, may also be included. Similarly, any switches shown in the figures are conceptual only. Their function may be carried out through the operation of program logic, through dedicated logic, through the interaction of program control and dedicated logic, or even manually, the particular technique being selectable by the implementer as more specifically understood from the context.
- All examples and conditional language recited herein are intended for pedagogical purposes to aid the reader in understanding the principles of the invention and the concepts contributed by the inventor to furthering the art, and are to be construed as being without limitation to such specifically recited examples and conditions. Moreover, all statements herein reciting principles, aspects, and embodiments of the invention, as well as specific examples thereof, are intended to encompass both structural and functional equivalents thereof. Additionally, it is intended that such equivalents include both currently known equivalents as well as equivalents developed in the future, i.e., any elements developed that perform the same function, regardless of structure.
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1. A wireless communication system for enabling a wireless connection between a computing device and a plurality of peripheral devices, comprising:
a first wireless transceiver connected to a host bridge, wherein the host bridge is coupled to a central processing unit of the computing device; and
a wireless docketing apparatus that communicates with the host bridge over a wireless interconnect bus, wherein the wireless docketing apparatus is coupled to a plurality of peripheral devices, thereby enabling the wireless connection between the computing device and the plurality of peripheral devices.
2. The wireless communication system of claim 1 , wherein the wireless docketing apparatus includes a second wireless transceiver for communicating with the first wireless transceiver over a wireless medium;
a switch coupled to the wireless transceiver and to a plurality of input/output (I/O) controllers for sharing a connection point to the host bridge with the plurality of peripheral devices; and
a plurality of I/O controllers for communicating with one or more of the plurality of the peripheral devices.
3. The wireless communication system of claim 2 , wherein each of the plurality of I/O controllers communicates with a respective peripheral device using a standard peripheral connection respective of the peripheral device.
4. The wireless communication system of claim 3 , wherein the wireless interconnect bus is at least a wireless peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) bus.
5. The wireless communication system of claim 3 , wherein the standard peripheral connection between a peripheral device and an I/O controller comprises at least one of: a PCIe connection, a USB connection, a parallel connection, a RS232 serial connection, a PS/2-style mouse connection, a keyboard connection, an audio like connection, a serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) connection, a video graphics array (VGA) connection, a digital visual interface (DVI) connection, and a high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) like connection.
6. The wireless communication system of claim 3 , wherein each of the first and the second wireless transceivers controls and manages access to the wireless interconnect bus.
7. The wireless communication system of claim 1 , wherein each of the first and the second wireless transceivers operates in a full duplex mode.
8. The wireless docking communication system of claim 1 , wherein each of the first and the second wireless transceivers operates in a half-full duplex mode.
9. The wireless docking communication system of claim 1 , wherein the second wireless transceiver is further configured to establish a link between the wireless docking apparatus and the computing device over the wireless peripheral component interconnect express bus for wirelessly transferring data between the plurality of peripheral devices and the host bridge.
10. The wireless docking communication system of claim 7 , wherein each of the first and the second wireless transceivers is a wireless data modem.
11. The wireless docking communication system of claim 8 , wherein the wireless data modem is at least one of: an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modem, a single-carrier modem, and a multi-carrier modem.
12. The wireless docking communication system of claim 1 , wherein the first wireless transceiver implements at least a layered protocol of the wireless interconnect bus.
13. The wireless docking communication system of claim 1 , wherein the first wireless transceiver is further configured to synchronize between the wireless docking apparatus and the computing device.
14. The wireless docking communication system of claim 11 , wherein the first wireless transceiver is further configured to:
send an association key by the wireless docking apparatus, wherein the association key includes a unique identification (ID) number;
send a challenge connection key to the wireless docking apparatus in response to a challenge connection key received from the wireless docking apparatus; and
establish a connection with the wireless docking apparatus upon reception of a session key by the wireless docking apparatus.
15. The wireless docking communication system of claim 14 , wherein the first wireless transceiver is further configured to:
periodically send the association key upon receiving a beacon transmitted by the second wireless transceiver.
16. The wireless docking communication system of claim 15 , wherein the challenge connection key, the association key and the session key are pre-determined using a pairing process.
17. The wireless docking communication system of claim 15 , wherein the challenge connection key, the association key and the session key are pre-determined and encrypted.
18. The wireless docking communication system of claim 1 , wherein the computing device comprises at least one of: a laptop computer, a tablet computer, a smart phone, a notebook computer, a media player, a mobile phone, and a personal digital assistant (PDA).
19. The wireless docking communication system of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of peripheral devices is at least one of: a monitor, a keyboard, a pointing device, a mouse, a storage device, a speaker, a microphone, a modem, a CD player, and a DVD player.
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