Crosstalk Suppression Patents (Class 370/201)
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Patent number: 7529176Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining a transmit PSD over a remotely-deployed line, which method comprising the steps of: modeling a first far-end crosstalk originating from the line and coupling into a centrally-deployed victim neighboring line, modeling a second far-end crosstalk originating from a further centrally-deployed neighboring line and coupling into the victim neighboring line, determining the transmit PSD from the first modeled far-end crosstalk and the second modeled far-end crosstalk. A method according to the invention further comprises the steps of: expressing the transmit PSD as a function of a line parameter characterizing a line segment of the further neighboring line, carrying out channel measurements of a spare line that connects the central location to the remote location, and that shares common transmission characteristics with the line segment, estimating from said channel measurements a value of the line parameter, determining therefrom the transmit PSD.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2005Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: AlcatelInventors: Jan Sylvia Verlinden, Etienne André Hubert Van Den Bogaert, Geert Bert Maarten Ysebaert
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Publication number: 20090109834Abstract: A network apparatus with a plurality of transport ports and a shared coefficient update processor is proposed. Each of the plurality of transport ports includes a PHY module. The coefficient update processor is coupled to each PHY module and is shared by the plurality of transport ports. The coefficient update processor decides coefficients of each PHY module. The coefficient update processor is dedicated to one of the plurality of transport ports for use in a period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2008Publication date: April 30, 2009Inventors: Liang-wei Huang, Chih-Yung Shih, Shieh-Hsing Kuo
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Publication number: 20090104821Abstract: A communications outlet includes eight outlet tines positioned adjacent to one another and define four pairs of outlet tines. The fourth and fifth outlet tines define a first pair, the first and second outlet tines define a second pair, the third and sixth outlet tines define a third pair, and the seventh and eighth outlet tines define a fourth pair. Each outlet tine has a free end near which a plug tine is adapted to contact the outlet tine and each outlet tine has a fixed end coupled through a corresponding conductive tine to a corresponding electrical contact. The communications outlet includes an internal crosstalk compensation stage having a plurality of conductive fingers. Each conductive finger is physically connected to a corresponding one of the outlet tines proximate the free ends of the tines.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2008Publication date: April 23, 2009Applicant: Leviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.Inventors: Franklin C. Marti, Jason Erickson, Jeffrey P. Seefried
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Publication number: 20090097391Abstract: An Ethernet link may comprise a plurality of active and/or silent channels. Training of one or more link partners for one or more silent channels may be triggered based on monitoring training parameters for an active channel. The link partners may be trained for the silent channels and link partners corresponding to the silent channels may be configured according to the training. Training parameters for an active channel may be compared to a threshold or relative change value. The threshold or relative change value may be fixed, may be based on measurement results and/or may be programmable. The link partners may be configured for silent channels for an echo canceller, a far-end crosstalk canceller and/or a near-end crosstalk canceller. The silent channels may be trained based on transmitting a pulse or LDPC frame via the silent channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventors: Wael William Diab, Patricia Ann Thaler
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Publication number: 20090097389Abstract: An Ethernet link may comprise silent and active channels and may support energy efficient Ethernet communication. Training parameters from the one or more active channels may be utilized for determining and/or adjusting training parameters for silent channels prior to activation. Training parameters for silent channels may be determined based on copying training parameters from active channels. Determination of training parameters for silent channels may be based on a weighted average of the active channel training parameters. A delta between active channel training parameters from a prior time and subsequent time may be utilized to determine a correction factor for adjusting training parameters for a silent channel from a prior time. Silent channels may be adjusted based on active channel training parameters and then subsequently may be trained. Training parameters may be adjusted for one or more of an echo canceller, a near-end crosstalk canceller and a far-end canceller.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventors: Wael William Diab, Howard Frazier
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Publication number: 20090097390Abstract: An Ethernet link may comprise one or more link partners that may be communicatively coupled via one or more silent channels. One or more circuits and/or parameters corresponding to silent channels may be retrained, refreshed and/or updated based on various triggers, for example, fixed times, periodic or aperiodic time intervals, random or pseudorandom timer, events, link statistics, physical conditions such as noise, temperature level, cable type and/or cable length, communication from a corresponding link partner and/or based on programming from, for example, a layer above the physical layer. The retraining, refreshing and/or parameter updating may occur for one or more of an echo canceller, a far-end crosstalk canceller and a near-end crosstalk canceller corresponding to the one or more silent channels. Subsequent to the retraining, refreshing and/or parameter updating, the one or more silent channels may be activated and/or may remain silent.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventors: Wael William Diab, Howard Frazier
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Publication number: 20090097392Abstract: It may be determined via monitoring whether a first link partner and/or a second link partner coupled via an Ethernet link has trained or refreshed circuitry and/or has updated at least one parameter. Based on the determination, a corresponding link partner may be trained, refreshed and/or updated. One or more of an echo canceller, a far-end crosstalk canceller and a near-end crosstalk canceller for one or more channels may be configured based on the training, refreshing and/or updating. One or more channels may be silent and/or one or more may be active. Link partners may communicate via one or more of in-band signaling, out-of-band signaling to determine which link partner may monitor and/or which may control or initiate operation. The controlling link partner may be assigned a master mode of operation. Training, refreshing and/or updating for the monitoring link partner may be based on a timer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventors: Wael William Diab, Patricia Ann Thaler
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Publication number: 20090097393Abstract: Training, refreshing and/or updating Ethernet link partners for silent channels and/or silent directions of channels may be determined based on control parameters. This may be used to improve energy efficiency in Ethernet communication. Control parameters may comprise a default value and/or may be determined based on prior training, refreshing and/or updating. New values for the control parameters may be generated based on a magnitude of change between current and prior control parameter values or based on performance such as bit error rate. User input may be utilized to determine when to execute the training, refreshing and/or updating. The training, refreshing and/or updating may be done for one or more of a near-end crosstalk canceller, alien near-end crosstalk canceller, far-end crosstalk canceller, alien far-end crosstalk canceller and echo canceller. After the training, refreshing and/or updating, the silent channels may transition to active and/or may remain silent.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventors: Wael William Diab, Scott Powell
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Publication number: 20090097394Abstract: An apparatus for channel interference cancellation includes a first interference-cancellation module and a first cancellation-signal generating circuit. The first interference-cancellation module comprises a first processing circuit including a grouping circuit and a first transforming circuit. The grouping circuit divides received data into a plurality of groups of first sub-data. The first transforming circuit sequentially transforms the groups of first sub-data from a first domain to a second domain to generate a plurality of groups of first transformed sub-data. The first cancellation-signal generating circuit comprises a delay unit, a first processing unit and a second processing unit. The delay unit sequentially delays the groups of first transformed sub-data to generate a plurality of groups of delayed sub-data. The first and the second processing unit output a first and a second processed signal according to the groups of first transformed sub-data and the groups of delayed sub-data respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2008Publication date: April 16, 2009Inventors: Liang-Wei Huang, Chih-Yung Shih, Shieh-Hsing Kuo
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Publication number: 20090092036Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for estimating a first parameter (|H12(f)|, arg(H12(f))) that characterizes a first crosstalk channel (XCHDS12) from a first transmission medium (12b) towards a second transmission medium (12a) in a first direction of communication (DS). A method according to the invention further comprises the steps of: estimating a second alike parameter (|G21(f)|, arg(G21(f))) that similarly characterizes a second crosstalk channel (XCHUS21) from the second transmission medium towards the first transmission medium in a second opposite direction of communication (US) and at a first frequency index (f1), thereby yielding a first parameter value (|G21(f1)|, arg(G21(f1))), estimating the second parameter at a second distinct frequency index (f2), thereby yielding a second parameter value (|G21(f2)|, arg(G21(f2))), deriving a value (|H12(f3)|, arg(H12(f3))) for the first parameter at a third distinct frequency index (f3) from the first parameter value and the second parameter value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2008Publication date: April 9, 2009Inventors: Michael Peeters, Mamoun Guenach, Jochen Maes
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Patent number: 7516033Abstract: A method and apparatus for identifying echo sources in a communication path. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an echo measurement device (EMD) having a transmit module to transmit an echo canceller deactivation signal in a communication path of the communication system, wherein the echo canceller deactivation signal deactivates one or more echo cancellers in said communication path. The transmit module can also transmit a test signal in the communication path which is looped back at an end point identified as having an echo problem, wherein the test signal is transmitted at a remote location from the end point. The EMD can further include a detection module to detect one or more echo signals associated with the test signal. Additional embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2006Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.Inventors: Wallace F. Smith, James H. James, David B. Ramsden
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Patent number: 7512192Abstract: A phase conjugation vectoring (PCV) of signals propagating in telephone cables of twisted pairs provides crosstalk free transmission therethrough. The cable is considered a non-uniform physical media, and criteria for phase conjugation of electromagnetic fields are established. Method and system provide PCV for both asymmetric and symmetric transmission.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2004Date of Patent: March 31, 2009Inventor: Ilya M. Fishman
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Publication number: 20090080325Abstract: A crosstalk cancellation system and method is disclosed for use in a multi-channel communication system. Crosstalk which couples between channels is cancelled through use of an in-line FFE filter and in-line delay. A cross-connect system associated with each channel includes a cross-connect delay and cross-connect filter. The cross-connect system generates a cancellation signal for each of the channels, which is routed into a junction. The junction subtracts the cancellation signal from the received signal, which has also been delayed and filtered, to remove unwanted cross-talk. During training, cancellation magnitude is monitored at various delay offsets to determine which offset and corresponding filter coefficients, for each delay, maximizes cancellation. The filters are set with filter coefficients that maximize cancellation. The cross-connect delay with the maximum offset is set to zero and its calculated offset amount is established as the in-line delay offset.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2007Publication date: March 26, 2009Inventor: Gavin D. Parnaby
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Publication number: 20090073867Abstract: Embodiments related to determining of coupling coefficients in a Vector transmission system are described and depicted.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2007Publication date: March 19, 2009Applicant: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AGInventor: Heinrich Schenk
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Publication number: 20090073868Abstract: The present invention relates to a crosstalk estimation device for estimating crosstalk between disturber communication lines and victim communication lines. The crosstalk estimation device is able to change the power spectral density PSD on the victim communication lines and/or the disturber communication lines. The crosstalk estimation device further receives measured changes in operational parameters on the victim communication lines and/or disturber communication lines in order to estimate the crosstalk induced in the victim communication lines and/or disturber communication lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Inventors: Mamoun Guenach, Danny Van Bruyssel, Geert Bert Maarten Ysebaert, Jochen Maes, Michael Peeters
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Publication number: 20090059781Abstract: An apparatus capable of inter-carrier interference (ICI) cancellation in a communication system, the apparatus comprising a detecting module configured to detect an ISI-free region free from inter-symbol interference (ISI) in a guard interval (GI) of a symbol in time domain, a windowing module configured to provide a windowing function in time domain, identifying a weight value in the windowing function based on the ISI-free region, and multiplying a channel response related to the symbol by the windowing function in time domain to obtain a windowing result, wherein the windowing result comprises a first portion corresponding to the ISI-free region and a second region corresponding to an end portion of the symbol, the end portion and the ISI-free region having the same length, and a combination module configured to combine the first portion and the second portion of the windowing result in time domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2007Publication date: March 5, 2009Inventors: Ming-Chien TSENG, Kun-Yi LIN, Chorng-Ren SHEU
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Publication number: 20090059780Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for compensating for crosstalk using adaptation of data signals transmitted over respective channels of a communication system. For example, a method includes the following steps. A first set of estimated measures of crosstalk is obtained for at least a selected portion of a plurality of communication channels over which data signals are to be transmitted from a transmitter to at least a selected portion of a plurality of receivers. A first set of data signals based on the first set of estimated measures of crosstalk is adapted to generate a first set of adjusted data signals. The first set of adjusted data signals is transmitted to corresponding ones of the plurality of receivers. A second set of estimated measures of crosstalk is obtained for the selected portion of the plurality of communication channels. A second set of data signals for transmission based on the second set of estimated measures of crosstalk is adapted to generate a second set of adjusted data signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2007Publication date: March 5, 2009Inventors: Adriaan J. De Lind Van Wijngaarden, Gerhard Guenter Theodor Kramer, Carl J. Nuzman, Philip Alfred Whiting, Miroslav Zivkovic
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Patent number: 7499487Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for determining mitigating noise in multi-pair communication system. A receiver coordinated system can include an error estimator that estimates noise for a first line of a plurality lines and provides an error estimate for the first line. A noise predictor applies a predetermined cross-correlation value to the error estimate to provide a correlated noise term that describes noise cross-correlation between the first line and a second line of the plurality of lines. A noise decorrelation component applies the cross-correlated noise term to substantially decorrelate noise for the second line.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2005Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Georgios Ginis, Chia-Ning Peng
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Publication number: 20090046568Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for communication are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2007Publication date: February 19, 2009Inventor: Wen Xu
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Patent number: 7489621Abstract: Various embodiments are described for adaptive puncturing techniques involving an adaptive bit loading block to select a modulation scheme and a puncturing pattern for each of a plurality of subcarriers or subcarrier bands based on subcarrier channel state information.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2003Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Inventors: Alexander A Maltsev, Ali S. Sadri, Alexei V. Davydov
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Patent number: 7474884Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for a digital receiver and a receiver exploiting second order statistics for adaptive co-channel interference rejection in wireless communication. It uses digitally I, in phase, and Q, quadrature, branches of a received transmitted signal as input to the receiver, a coarse synchronization and a coarse frequency offset compensation have being performed on the signal. It comprises a means for derotation, means for separation, means for filtering, means for estimating and means for detecting transmitted symbols in the received signal. The invention thereby improving co-channel rejection in wireless communication, thus making it possible to increase the number of communication channels for frequencies used.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2006Date of Patent: January 6, 2009Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Martin Kristensson, Bjorn Ottersten, David Astély
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Patent number: 7471670Abstract: Methods and apparatus describe techniques for reducing interference signals in a communication signal. A communication signal is received through a receiver. The communication signal contains an interference signal. A digital replica of the interference signal is generated, the digital replica is converted into a corresponding analog replica of the interference signal. The analog replica of the interference signal is subtracted from the communication signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2004Date of Patent: December 30, 2008Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Xiaopeng Chen, Runsheng He
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Publication number: 20080297093Abstract: Various systems and methods for reducing cross coupling in proximate signals are disclosed. As one example, a system for reducing cross-coupling in adjacent signals that includes an active slew rate limiter circuit is disclosed. The active slew rate limiter circuit is operable to receive an input signal, and to provide an output signal based on the input signal with a controlled slew rate. In some cases, such systems may be included within a storage device that includes a read head. In such cases, the systems may operate to assure a substantially constant power dissipation within the read head.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2006Publication date: December 4, 2008Inventors: Robert J. Wimmer, Ram S. Narayan, Jaydip Bhaumik, Michael J. Peterson, David W. Kelly
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Publication number: 20080291989Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for measuring crosstalk between at least two communication channels of a communication system. A receiver of the system receives a signal over a given one of the communication channels from a transmitter of the system. The receiver correlates the received signal with a sequence of time-domain signals associated with another of the communication channels, and generates a measure of crosstalk between the given communication channel and the other communication channel based on the correlation between the received signal and the sequence of time-domain signals. The sequence of time-domain signals may be selected from a designated set of M-sequences.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2007Publication date: November 27, 2008Inventors: Alexei Ashikhmin, Philip Alfred Whiting, Adriaan J. De Lind Van Wijngaarden
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Publication number: 20080267055Abstract: Methods and apparatus to cancel noise using a common reference wire-pair are disclosed. An example method comprises measuring a first signal present on a first wire-pair at a noise canceller, the first wire-pair to be connected to the first noise canceller and to be connected to a customer-premises digital subscriber line (DSL) modem, wherein the noise canceller and the customer-premises DSL modem are to be disposed at different customer-premises locations, and cancelling a first noise received on a second wire-pair at the noise canceller based on the first signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2007Publication date: October 30, 2008Inventor: Thomas Starr
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Patent number: 7436786Abstract: Minimizing the effects of the requisite AGWN packets on transmission channel utilization without diminishing any of the aesthetic quality of the AGWN white noise on the voice or audio communication.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2003Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Oliver Keren Ban
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Publication number: 20080239936Abstract: A method and apparatus for mitigating the effect of adjacent channel interference in a multicarrier modulation system is provided. The method includes receiving an encoded signal over multiple subcarriers at different frequencies. The signal includes a plurality of pilot symbols and data symbols modulated onto the subcarriers using a modulation technique. Further, the method includes: grouping the subcarriers into multiple sets of subcarriers based on their frequencies, wherein each set includes one or more subcarriers; estimating, for each set of subcarriers, a noise value associated with at least a portion of the pilot symbols received over subcarriers included in the set; and generating a decoded signal comprising a plurality of decoded data bits, using the estimated noise values.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: MOTOROLA, INC.Inventor: KEVIN G. DOBERSTEIN
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Publication number: 20080239938Abstract: Embodiments disclose a method of coordinating reception of uplink transmissions in order to reduce interference among transceivers in an OFDM wireless transmission system, or similar communication system, including a number of receivers communicating with one or more basestations in cell or sector arrangements. A basestation within each sector includes an uplink coordinated reception process that imposes coordinated reception techniques across sector or cell boundaries in order to improve uplink transmission quality between target terminals and basestations within each sector.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Louay Jalloul, Djordje Tujkovic, Vummintala Shashidhar, Bertrand Hochwald, Arogyaswami Paulraj
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Publication number: 20080239937Abstract: Signals in a multi-channel, impaired communication system are post-processed at the receiver. A triangular matrix Decision Feedback Demodulator (DFD) at the receiver extracts channels without requiring delivery of receiver parameters to the transmitter. Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) processing matrices and DFD parameters are computed by first applying matrix transformations to diagonalize the noise covariance matrix of the multiple channels received at the receiver. QR decompositions (i.e., decompositions into orthogonal and triangular matrices) are then applied to the main channels to obtain triangular channel matrices. The noise-diagonalizing transformations and QR decompositions are then combined to form the MIMO postprocessing matrices and DFD parameters. MIMO postprocessing matrices and DFD parameters are computed from training data and then adapted during live data transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2007Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITEDInventors: Mark Alan Erickson, Thorkell Gudmundsson, Ioannis Kanellakopoulos, John Josef Hench
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Publication number: 20080239939Abstract: A cancellation system is disclosed for processing incoming and outgoing signals in a transform domain to create a cancellation signal for reducing or removing unwanted interference. Data is ordered based on Good-Thomas indexing into a two dimensional array in a buffer. The two dimensional array may have lr rows and lw columns. From the buffer, the columns of data undergo a Winograd small transform. The rows of data undergo a Cooley-Tukey operation to complete the transform operation into the frequency domain. Multipliers scale the transformed data to generate a cancellation signal in the frequency domain. Inverse (Cooley-Tukey) and Winograd transforms perform inverse processing on the cancellation signal to return the cancellation signal or data to the time domain. Re-ordering the data and combination of the cancellation signal or data with incoming or outgoing signals achieve interference cancellation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Inventors: Gavin D. Parnaby, George A. Zimmerman, Chris Pagnanelli, William W. Jones
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Publication number: 20080232233Abstract: A device for reducing mutual crosstalk of a signal routed across a first line and a second signal routed across a second line, wherein by the mutual crosstalk at an output of the first line a first interfered signal may be obtained and at an output of the second line a second interfered signal may be obtained, comprising a modifier for modifying the first interfered signal that is interfered by crosstalk due to the second signal, and for modifying the second interfered signal that is interfered by crosstalk due to the first signal, wherein the modifier is adapted to model an interference due to the mutual crosstalk, and a combiner for combining the first interfered signal with the modified second interfered signal to obtain a first corrected signal and for combining the second interfered signal with the modified first interfered signal to obtain a second corrected signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2008Publication date: September 25, 2008Inventors: Wolfgang Spirkl, Holger Steffens
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Publication number: 20080225687Abstract: One embodiment relates to a method for coordinating signals within a multi-domain network. At least one node within one network domain of the multi-domain network is identified, where the one node is affected by interference due to another node of another network domain of the multi-domain network. Global signals are provided to the one network domain to coordinate domain signals within that network domain to limit the interference from the another node. Other systems and methods are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Inventor: Vladimir Oksman
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Patent number: 7406028Abstract: A method of communicating data across a channel that experiences near-end cross talk (NEXT) interference and far-end cross talk (FEXT) interference in alternate intervals. In one embodiment, the method comprises: a) determining NF, the number of bits per symbol usable in a FEXT-only mode of operation; b) determining NS, a number of bits per symbol usable in a single mode of operation; c) determining whether the FEXT-only mode or the single mode provides a higher data rate; and d) configuring a modem to transmit using the mode having a higher data rate. The FEXT-only mode may be determined to have a higher data rate when 126NF>340NS.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2003Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Konrad W. Kratochwil, Thomas N. Zogakis, Peter J. Melsa
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Patent number: 7394752Abstract: Methods, apparatus, techniques and computer program products for joint reduction of crosstalk in a synchronized, time division duplexed DSL systems use sequential removal of NEXT interference followed by removal of FEXT interference from a received DSL signal. Crosstalk is removed from a primary signal in a synchronized TDD DSL system having a primary channel that carries the primary signal, at least one NEXT generating channel that generates NEXT interference in the primary signal and at least one FEXT generating channel that generates FEXT interference in the primary signal. Signal data is acquired, where the signal data includes received signal data for the primary channel and at least one FEXT generating channel, transmitted signal data for at least one NEXT generating channel, and channel data comprising channel transfer function data and crosstalk coupling coefficient data for the primary channel, each NEXT generating channel and each FEXT generating channel.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2002Date of Patent: July 1, 2008Assignees: The Board of Trusttees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Fujitsu LimitedInventors: Kazutomo Hasegawa, Georgios Ginis, Carlos Aldana, John M. Cioffi
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Publication number: 20080151742Abstract: A device for determining an information indicating a length of a part of a first cable, the first cable connecting a first transceiver unit and a first subscriber device, wherein the part of the first cable extends from the first transceiver unit to a point of the first cable from where a second cable, which connects a second transceiver unit to a second subscriber device, joins the first cable to extend from the second transceiver unit to the second subscriber device, the device comprising an input to couple the device to the second cable, a first apparatus coupled to the input to measure a quiet line noise related to crosstalk from the first cable to the second cable, and a second apparatus to determine information indicating the length of the part of the first cable based on the quiet line noise.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2006Publication date: June 26, 2008Applicant: Infineon Technologies AGInventors: Reinhard Stolle, Thyagarajan Umashankar
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Publication number: 20080144485Abstract: A signal received by an antenna or the like is input from an input terminal, and is amplified by an amplifier section together with thermal noise superimposed on the received signal. An addition section adds the signal amplified by the amplifier section to a cancellation signal generated by a cancellation signal generation section, whereby the noise superimposed on the received signal is canceled.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2007Publication date: June 19, 2008Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Kazumi MATSUMOTO
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Publication number: 20080144484Abstract: A method is provided for connecting a twisted pair conductor to a modem device selected from among a first plurality of modem devices. At least one criterion for selecting that modem device is that the selected modem should allow the reduction of cross-talk interferences that would otherwise be induced upon traffic conveyed along the twisted pair conductor by the transmission and/or reception of traffic conveyed along other twisted pair conductors that are connected to other modem devices, and/or to traffic conveyed along other twisted pair conductors connected to other modem devices, by the transmission and/or reception of traffic conveyed along that twisted pair conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2006Publication date: June 19, 2008Applicant: ECI Telecom Ltd.Inventor: Sason Sourani
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Publication number: 20080137759Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein describe a network device including a class AB common mode suppression (CMS) circuit coupled in parallel between a line voltage source and a physical layer (PHY) device that provides active EMI suppression and Phy device termination. A network connector is coupled to provide the line voltage source to the class AB CMS circuit. The class AB CMS circuit provides current to the PHY device, terminates open-drain transmit drivers of the PHY device and suppresses common mode noise thereby minimizing electromagnetic interference. In other embodiments, the class AB CMS circuit is coupled in parallel between the network connector and a physical layer (PHY) device. The class AB CMS circuit suppresses common mode noise, and terminates open-drain transmit drivers of the PHY device, thereby minimizing electromagnetic interference.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2007Publication date: June 12, 2008Inventors: Jun Cai, Amit Gattani
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Publication number: 20080130478Abstract: A device has a plurality of output terminals to provide a plurality of signals to a plurality of transmission links; at least one input terminal to receive information representing a projection of a complex valued error signal onto one direction; and a determination circuit, coupled to the at least one input terminal, to determine crosstalk compensation parameters using the received information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2006Publication date: June 5, 2008Inventor: Heinrich Schenk
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Publication number: 20080117804Abstract: A multiple access technique for a wireless communication system establishes separate channels by defining different time intervals for different channels. In a transmitted reference system different delay periods may be defined between transmitted reference pulses and associated data pulses for different channels. In addition, a multiple access technique may employ a common reference pulse for multiple channels in a transmitted reference system. Another multiple access technique assigns different pulse repetition periods to different channels. One or more of these techniques may be employed in an ultra-wide band system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2006Publication date: May 22, 2008Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Amal Ekbal, Chong U. Lee, David Jonathan Julian
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Patent number: 7369484Abstract: A radar, or other repetitive interference, detection and data flow control system and method for RF data transmissions uses an RF detector and an omni directional antenna to detect radar or similar signals. The information from the RF detector is communicated to a hub data transmission unit which processes the data about the signal provided by the detector. This information is used by the hub to schedule communications between the hub and subscriber units so that none of the communications between the hub and subscriber fall within the time period of the interfering pulses. Although there are no communications during the time periods of the pulses, the efficiency of communications is improved because collisions and retransmission of data are avoided.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2001Date of Patent: May 6, 2008Assignee: Adaptix, Inc.Inventors: Jerry Prismantas, Randy Karr, Bruce C. Rothaar, Jean-Francois Grenon, Heinz Lycklama a'Nyeholt
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Patent number: 7366086Abstract: A system for a backplane that employs i) an adjustment of positive-to-negative (P-N) driver skew of a transmit signal of a relatively high-speed differential driver to reduce far-end crosstalk, ii) a high-speed differential subtraction circuit combining a gain-adjusted replica of at least one transmit signal with a received signal to reduce near-end crosstalk, and iii) a phase-locked loop (PLL) synchronization circuit to align timing events between a set of near-end and far-end high-speed interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2004Date of Patent: April 29, 2008Assignee: Agere Systems Inc.Inventors: Christopher J. Abel, Joseph Anidjar, James D. Chlipala, Abhishek Duggal, Donald R. Laturell
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Patent number: 7352687Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing crosstalk in a multi-channel communication system is disclosed. In one embodiment, outgoing signals in a multi-channel environment are manipulated into a transform domain, such as the frequency domain. Thereafter, the signals may be combined and modified based on a weighting variable to create a cancellation signal. Combined processing greatly reduces system complexity and increases processing speed. After processing in the transform domain, the cancellation signal undergoes further processing to return the cancellation signal into the time domain. The cancellation signal may then be combined with received signals to cancel crosstalk or echo. A method and apparatus for crosstalk cancellation in the analog domain and digital domain are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2005Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Solarflare Communications, Inc.Inventors: William W. Jones, George A. Zimmerman, Christopher Jude Pagnanelli
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Publication number: 20080068978Abstract: A first device receives a first signal transmitted over a transmission line from a second device. The first signal is processed and information is generated that is related to crosstalk from other transmission lines. The information is modulated onto at least one carrier of a plurality of carriers of a second signal to be transmitted from the first device to the second device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2006Publication date: March 20, 2008Inventor: Axel Clausen
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Patent number: 7345988Abstract: The present invention relates in general to a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing high-speed digital communications through a communications channel. In one aspect, the present invention employs crosstalk management techniques and structures that increase the system performance in channel communications.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2002Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.Inventors: James Gorecki, John T. Stonick, Un-Ku Moon, Stephen Robert Titus
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Patent number: 7343171Abstract: The invention concerns a method (300) and system (100) for interrupting a dispatch call. The method can be practiced in a dispatch communications system (100) having at least a first communications channel (162) for carrying voice traffic and a second communications channel (164) for carrying communications-enabling information. The method includes the steps of assigning (312) the first communications channel to at least a first caller (133) and a second caller (135) to permit the first and second callers to engage in a dispatch call and as the first caller has control over the first communications channel, transmitting (314) an interrupt message (505) over the second communications channel to inform the first caller of an interrupt status of the second caller. The transmitting step is performed without terminating the dispatch call.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2004Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: Faisal Saeed, Deepak P. Ahya
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Patent number: 7336744Abstract: A digital baseband (DBB) radio frequency (RF) receiver used for receiving and processing a wireless communication signal. The DBB RF receiver includes a demodulator, an analog to digital converter (ADC) and a digital cross-talk compensation module. The demodulator outputs analog real and imaginary signal components on real and imaginary signal paths, respectively, in response to receiving the communication signal. The ADC receives the analog real and imaginary signal components and outputs respective digital real and imaginary signal components. The digital cross-talk compensation module receives the digital real and imaginary signal components, estimates the cross-talk interference caused by each of the signal components, and outputs digital real and imaginary cross-talk compensated signal components.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2004Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: InterDigital Technology CorporationInventors: Alpaslan Demir, Leonid Kazakevich, Tanbir Haque
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Publication number: 20080037409Abstract: A wireless terminal receives a signal from a first BTS as a communication party and a signal from a second BTS when receiving the signal from the first BTS by using a communication slot that is assigned to the terminal, the terminal comprises receiving antennas; a demodulator unit that estimates channels of received signals, and demodulates the received signals by using the estimation result; and a discriminating unit discriminating the number of transmitting antennas to be used in the first BTS in the communication slot which is assigned to the terminal, in which in the case where the number of channels that are produced between the first BTS and the terminal, which is determined according to the number of transmitting antennas, is smaller than the number of channels that can be estimated by the demodulator unit, the demodulator unit estimates the channel between the terminal and the first BTS by using a signal from the first BTS, and estimates the channel between the terminal and the second BTS by using a sType: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2007Publication date: February 14, 2008Inventors: Daisuke Ogawa, Takashi Dateki, Hideto Furukawa
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Patent number: 7315592Abstract: A noise cancellation system configured to isolate and process a common mode noise signal to generate a cancellation signal. The cancellation signal is combined with a differential signal to cancel unwanted differential mode noise that coupled onto the differential signal. In one embodiment a multi-channel communication system utilizes two or more channels that are in close proximity to other alien channels. A common mode signal isolation unit is configured to isolate common mode noise. The common mode noise signal is processed with a filter or other means to generate a cancellation signal. The cancellation signal is combined with the differential signal to thereby cancel noise that coupled onto the differential signal. The processed common mode noise signal may be made to approximate the differential mode noise signal. The common mode signal may be obtained from a center tap of a transformer, or a sensing winding of a three winding transformer.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2004Date of Patent: January 1, 2008Assignee: Aktino, Inc.Inventors: Michail Konstantinos Tsatsanis, Christopher Stuart Smith, Benedict A. Itri
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Patent number: 7305216Abstract: A transmitting and receiving arrangement is disclosed having a transmission path, a reception path, and a control device for suppression of interference signals which are produced by crosstalk from the transmission path to the reception path. The control device inputs correction signals that are derived from the transmission signals into the reception path at a point therein such that the interference signals are suppressed downstream from the point. The control device has a detector that detects the interference signals on the basis of characteristics of the transmission signals.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2005Date of Patent: December 4, 2007Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventor: Zdravko Boos