Pilot Patents (Class 370/491)
  • Patent number: 11696218
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for multiplexing initial access transmissions with data and/or control transmissions. For example, the techniques include a method for wireless communication by a first base station (BS). The method includes communicating, in a first time interval, with at least a first user equipment (UE), via directional transmissions using a first set of frequency resources, and participating in at least one of an access or management procedure, during the first time interval, via directional transmissions using a second set of frequency resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Navid Abedini, Bilal Sadiq, Sundar Subramanian, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11316655
    Abstract: A device with wireless communication includes: an input receiver configured to receive an input signal having a carrier frequency; a delay circuit configured to generate a delayed signal by delaying the input signal; and a clock generator configured to generate a clock signal having a clock frequency based on the delayed signal and the input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seong Joong Kim, Joonseong Kang
  • Patent number: 11221237
    Abstract: In an absolute encoder, a system of linear equations is built based on the mathematical analysis that each phase-delayed displacement signal from a plurality of position sensors placed at certain electrical phase angle positions in a 360° electrical cycle contains a component of its two orthogonal displacement signals, sin(?) and cos(?). The two orthogonal displacement signals are optimally obtained by solving the system of linear equations based on the principle that the sum of all other tap's signals other than own tap's signal is forced to be zero at each tap, which is essentially applying the zero-force (ZF) equalization to the phase-delayed sinusoidal or square wave displacement signals of position sensors. By applying the ZF equalization to distortion-prone raw signals of a plurality of position sensors, signal components, other than the two orthogonal displacement signals, are eliminated and distortion-minimized optimal two orthogonal displacement signals are synthesized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Inventor: Chun Soo Park
  • Patent number: 11133889
    Abstract: A method performed by a network node for handling a damaged transmission of data due to data puncturing is provided. The network node receives (201), from a User Equipment, (UE) a Negative Acknowledgment (NACK) feedback of a previous transmission of data transmitted to the UE. The network node checks (202) whether or not the data is punctured in the previous transmission corresponding to the NACK feedback. When the data is punctured in the previous transmission, the network node selects (203) a Redundancy Version (RV), for a retransmission of the data, according to characteristics of the punctured data and puncturing data. The network node then sends (204) a Puncturing Indication (PI), the selected RV and the retransmission of the data to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Kittipong Kittichokechai, Niklas Andgart, Alexey Shapin, Mårten Sundberg, Gustav Wikström
  • Patent number: 11005593
    Abstract: A receiver is configured to capture a plurality of linearly distorted OFDM symbols transmitted over a signal path. The receiver forms the captured OFDM symbols into an overlapped compound data block that includes payload data and at least one pseudo-extension, processes the overlapped compound block with circular convolution in the time domain using an inverse channel response, or frequency domain equalization, to produce an equalized compound block, and discards end portions of the equalized block to produce a narrow equalized block. The end portion corresponds with the pseudo-extension, and the narrow block corresponds with the payload data. The receiver cascades multiple narrow equalized blocks to form a de-ghosted signal stream of OFDM symbols. The OFDM symbols may be OFDM or OFDMA, and may or may not include a cyclic prefix, which will have a different length from the pseudo-extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas H. Williams, Gregory Charles White
  • Patent number: 10855414
    Abstract: A cross-subband or cross-carrier scheduling method, a base station and a user equipment are provided. The method includes: determining a first start symbol and a first end symbol for scheduling a user equipment to transmit and receive data using a time-frequency resource on a second subband or carrier, based on two numerologies corresponding to two subbands or carriers; and transmitting downlink control information to the user equipment on the first subband or carrier, so that the user equipment can transmit and receive data using the time-frequency resource on the second subband or carrier according to the downlink control information, where the downlink control information includes an identification number of the second subband or carrier allocated for the user equipment and the first start symbol and the first end symbol for scheduling the user equipment to transmit and receive data using the time-frequency resource on the second subband or carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huayu Zhou, Yanan Jia, Weijie Xu
  • Patent number: 10819552
    Abstract: To provide a terminal apparatus, a base station apparatus, and a communication method that enable a communication apparatus (terminal apparatus and/or base station apparatus) supporting multiple subcarrier spacings to perform efficient communication. A terminal apparatus includes: a control unit configured to identify a subcarrier spacing set applicable to a data channel, based on a first parameter included in higher layer signaling; and a reception unit configured to receive a control channel including data channel assignment information. Based on a type of the data channel assignment information, the terminal apparatus selects, from the subcarrier spacing set, a subcarrier spacing applicable to the data channel assigned based on the data channel assignment information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Hayashi, Wataru Ouchi, Tatsushi Aiba, Shoichi Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10735228
    Abstract: The present application provides a method for a terminal device to transmit uplink service data to a base station. The terminal device obtains uplink service data from a user input in a service session. The terminal device obtains a codebook from a preset codebook set of the terminal and a pilot sequence corresponding to the codebook. The terminal device generates an uplink data signal according to the codebook and the uplink service data, and generates a pilot signal corresponding to the pilot sequence. The terminal device transmits the uplink data signal and the pilot signal to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yiqun Wu, Shunqing Zhang, Yan Chen
  • Patent number: 10736130
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for uplink control signal transmission, a user terminal and a storage medium. The method includes: sending, by the user terminal, K predefined sequences on M transmission symbols in a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) to transmit B-bit uplink control information, wherein M is a positive integer, K is an integer, 1?K?2B, the B is an integer greater than or equal to 1, one of the K predefined sequences is sent on each of the M transmission symbols, the predefined sequences have a length of N and are mapped to N subcarriers of corresponding transmission symbols, N=2n with n being a positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xianghui Han, Shuqiang Xia, Wen Zhang, Jing Shi, Min Ren
  • Patent number: 10652768
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provided techniques that may be applied in systems to allow for communication over a control channel utilizing a relatively narrowband (e.g., six physical resource blocks) based search space. An exemplary method, performed, for example, by a machine type communication (MTC) UE, generally includes identifying, within a subframe, a first search space to monitor for a control channel that occupies a first number of physical resource blocks (PRBs) that represents a narrowband within a system bandwidth comprising a plurality of narrowbands and monitoring at least the first search space for the control channel, wherein the control channel comprises broadcast control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hao Xu, Wanshi Chen, Madhavan Srinivasan Vajapeyam, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 10548100
    Abstract: The base station that is configured to transmit in a beamformed manner may set different transmission rates for different directions of the beams. During an initial access stage, the base station may set different transmission rates for different transmission directions, and may transmit initial access signals based on the transmission rates in the different transmission directions The apparatus may be a base station. The base station determines transmission rates for a plurality of transmission directions, where each transmission rate is determined for a respective transmission direction of the plurality of transmission directions. The base station transmits at least one initial access signal in each of one or more of the plurality of transmission directions based on a corresponding transmission rate of the transmission rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Ozge Koymen, Navid Abedini, Sundar Subramanian, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 10411866
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for receiving, by a terminal which has been assigned multiple component carrier groups, control information in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving control information for the multiple component carrier groups; and receiving data information via component carriers that belong to the multiple component carrier groups using the received control information, wherein the control information may comprise multiplex control information for each of the multiple component carrier groups, or single control information for the component carriers included in each of the multiple component carrier groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyunho Lee, Suckchel Yang, Joonkui Ahn, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 9973369
    Abstract: A likelihood generation apparatus for acquiring a likelihood of a 16QAM signal includes a first likelihood generation unit configured to generate a likelihood of each of two bits of a 16QAM signal point of the 16QAM signal from a relationship of each of an I-axis component and a Q-axis component with a likelihood when the 16QAM signal point is mapped on a constellation diagram, and a second likelihood generation unit configured to generate a likelihood of each of remaining two bits other than the two bits of the 16QAM signal point of the 16QAM signal based on a position of the 16QAM signal point in a lookup table, which is configured to input the I-axis component and the Q-axis component of the 16QAM signal point as arguments, and includes regions acquired by dividing the constellation diagram based on a possible value of each of the bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Konishi, Kenya Sugihara, Yoshikuni Miyata, Hideo Yoshida, Kazuo Kubo
  • Patent number: 9813280
    Abstract: A likelihood generation apparatus for acquiring a likelihood of a 16QAM signal includes a first likelihood generation unit configured to generate a likelihood of each of two bits of a 16QAM signal point of the 16QAM signal from a relationship of each of an I-axis component and a Q-axis component with a likelihood when the 16QAM signal point is mapped on a constellation diagram, and a second likelihood generation unit configured to generate a likelihood of each of remaining two bits other than the two bits of the 16QAM signal point of the 16QAM signal based on a position of the 16QAM signal point in a lookup table, which is configured to input the I-axis component and the Q-axis component of the 16QAM signal point as arguments, and includes regions acquired by dividing the constellation diagram based on a possible value of each of the bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Konishi, Kenya Sugihara, Yoshikuni Miyata, Hideo Yoshida, Kazuo Kubo
  • Patent number: 9806925
    Abstract: An OFDM system uses a normal mode which has a symbol length T, a guard time TG and a set of N sub-carriers, which are orthogonal over the time T, and one or more fallback modes which have symbol lengths KT and guard times KTG where K is an integer greater than unity. The same set of N sub-carriers is used for the fallback modes as for the normal mode. Since the same set of sub-carriers is used, the overall bandwidth is substantially constant, so alias filtering does not need to be adaptive. The Fourier transform operations are the same as for the normal mode. Thus fallback modes are provided with little hardware cost. In the fallback modes the increased guard time provides better delay spread tolerance and the increased symbol length provides improved signal to noise performance, and thus increased range, at the cost of reduced data rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc.
    Inventor: D.J. Richard Van Nee
  • Patent number: 9705721
    Abstract: A communication apparatus performs a communication using a communication frame corresponding to a predetermined frequency bandwidth including a first frequency bandwidth and a second frequency bandwidth. The communication frame includes a first communication channel that corresponds to the first frequency bandwidth and that has a plurality of subcarriers and a second communication channel that corresponds to the second frequency bandwidth and that has a plurality of subcarriers. The communication apparatus sets a first phase vector with respect to the first communication channel, sets a second phase vector with respect to the second communication channel, generates communication data by adjusting a phase of symbol data using the first phase vector and the second phase vector, and transmits the communication data using the communication frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisao Koga, Shigekiyo Nosaka, Koji Ikeda
  • Patent number: 9577865
    Abstract: A receiver may comprise: a symbol receiver configured to receive a first modulated symbol at a first resolution and thereafter a second modulated symbol at a second resolution greater than the first resolution; an output path coupled to the symbol receiver and configured to forward the first modulated symbol; a decision device coupled to the symbol receiver and configured to determine a most probable symbol represented by the first modulated symbol; a phase detector coupled to the decision device and configured to compare the first modulated symbol and the most probable symbol to generate a phase error value; and a phase modifier coupled to the decision device and configured to determine a phase correction value based on the phase error value and to adjust the phase of the second modulated symbol based on the phase correction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Aviat U.S., Inc.
    Inventor: Sreco Plevel
  • Patent number: 9444219
    Abstract: Even when some light emitting elements among the plurality of light emitting elements fail, a repeater, can be continuously operated. Means for solving the problems A light source unit 50 which includes a plurality of pumping light source modules 51 (51a to 51d) which include light emitting elements 52 (52a to 52d) for emitting an excitation light and monitor elements 53 (53a to 53d) for monitoring the excitation lights of the light emitting elements 52 (52a to 52d), respectively, a distribution unit 40 which combines the excitation lights from the plurality of pumping light source modules 51 (51a to 51d) and distributes it, and a control unit 60 which supplies a drive current flowing serially through the plurality of light emitting elements 52 (52a to 52d) in a plurality of excitation modules 51 (51a to 51d) are included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Motoyoshi Kawai
  • Patent number: 9337964
    Abstract: A receiver may comprise: a symbol receiver configured to receive a first modulated symbol at a first resolution and thereafter a second modulated symbol at a second resolution greater than the first resolution; an output path coupled to the symbol receiver and configured to forward the first modulated symbol; a decision device coupled to the symbol receiver and configured to determine a most probable symbol represented by the first modulated symbol; a phase detector coupled to the decision device and configured to compare the first modulated symbol and the most probable symbol to generate a phase error value; and a phase modifier coupled to the decision device and configured to determine a phase correction value based on the phase error value and to adjust the phase of the second modulated symbol based on the phase correction value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Aviat U.S., Inc.
    Inventor: Sreco Plevel
  • Patent number: 9271272
    Abstract: A communication system is presented in which a base station is provided for communicating with a plurality of mobile communication devices in a cellular communication system. The base station operates one of more communication cells and communicates subframes, with each of the plurality of communication devices within the cell(s), each comprising the communication resources of a control region for communicating a control channel and the communication resources of a data region for communicating a respective data channel. The base station communicates a control channel having a first DMRS sequence in a control region of some subframes and a control channel having a second DMRS sequence in a control region of other subframes. The second control channel may be transmitted in a radio beam focussed spatially in a direction of a communication device. The first control channel may be transmitted omnidirectionally throughout the cell(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Yassin Aden Awad, Yasushi Maruta, Toshifumi Sato
  • Patent number: 9252993
    Abstract: An OFDM system uses a normal mode which has a symbol length T, a guard time TG and a set of N sub-carriers, which are orthogonal over the time T, and one or more fallback modes which have symbol lengths KT and guard times KTG where K is an integer greater than unity. The same set of N sub-carriers is used for the fallback modes as for the normal mode. Since the same set of sub-carriers is used, the overall bandwidth is substantially constant, so alias filtering does not need to be adaptive. The Fourier transform operations are the same as for the normal mode. Thus fallback modes are provided with little hardware cost. In the fallback modes the increased guard time provides better delay spread tolerance and the increased symbol length provides improved signal to noise performance, and thus increased range, at the cost of reduced data rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Conversant Intellectual Property Management Inc.
    Inventor: D. J. Richard Van Nee
  • Patent number: 9191167
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus which transmit/receive at least one demodulation reference signal by using a CDM group and/or a transmission rank of a user device that have been used to transmit the at least one demodulation reference signal for the user device, an OCC that has been used to spread the demodulation reference signal, etc. Also, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus which change an antenna port for transmitting the demodulation reference signal by using NDI for a disabled transmission block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Moon II Lee, Jae Hoon Chung, Hyun Soo Ko, Seung Hee Han
  • Patent number: 9172504
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, an apparatus and a system for downlink channel transmission. The method for downlink channel transmission includes: sending PDCCH information, where original information of the information includes a first part of the information and a second part of the information; the second part of the information includes downlink control information DCI content information, and the first part of the information includes indication information for indicating a related parameter of the DCI content information in the second part of the information; after receiving the PDCCH, obtaining, by a receiving end, the first part of the information and verifies it, if correct, obtaining the related parameter of the DCI content information in the second part of the information according to the indication information, and performing convolutional decoding for specific DCI content information in the second part of the information according to the related parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuchun Wu
  • Patent number: 9148156
    Abstract: A phase detector circuit compares the phases of first and second periodic input signals to generate an output signal. The phase detector includes a circuit that makes two different combinations of the first and the second periodic input signals to generate third and fourth periodic signals. This circuit causes the third periodic signal to be based on a first combination of the first periodic signal and the second periodic signal that imparts a first relative phase shift. The circuit causes the fourth periodic signal to be based on a second combination of the first periodic signal and the second periodic signal to provide a different relative phase shift. The phase detector also includes a comparison circuit that compares a measure of the power of the third periodic signal to a measure of the power of the fourth periodic signal to generate the phase comparison output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: Lattice Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Farshid Aryanfar, Hae-Chang Lee, Carl Werner
  • Patent number: 9014165
    Abstract: A method of allocating pilot bits in a wireless communication system using a multiple carrier modulation (MCM) is disclosed. The method includes allocating a plurality of precoded data symbols precoded by a precoding matrix module and a plurality of non-precoded pilot bits to a plurality of subcarriers, and transmitting the allocated precoded data symbols and the allocated non-precoded pilot bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hak Seong Kim, Bong Hoe Kim, Dong Wook Roh, Joon Kui Ahn, Dong Youn Seo, Jung Hoon Lee
  • Patent number: 9007921
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for noise tolerant signal processing in a pilot assisted data receiver, including: given received pilots with common pilot components and individual pilot components, computing coefficients associated with the individual pilot components of the received pilots; and applying the computed coefficients to the received pilots to obtain conditioned pilots. The individual pilot components result from relatively slow changes of the received pilots relative to the common pilot components. The common pilot components result from relatively fast changes of the received pilots relative to the individual pilot components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Vladimir Pelekhaty, Michael Y. Frankel
  • Patent number: 8971305
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate scrambling of downlink reference signals utilizing a pseudo-random sequence (PRS) corresponding to a primary synchronization code (PSC) and secondary synchronization code (SSC) combination. Utilization of the combination allows for orthogonal sequencing to be removed from the scrambling. This can be beneficial, for example, where resources required for orthogonalizing the reference signal outweigh the benefit of utilizing the orthogonal sequences. In such scenarios, selective scrambling can be utilized such that the orthogonal sequence or instead the PSC/SSC combination can be provided to leverage advantages of both mechanisms in the given scenarios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Durga Prasad Malladi, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 8964658
    Abstract: A method for contention-based (CB) uplink transmission in a wireless communication network is provided. A base station (eNB) first transmits CB configuration information and CB grant to a user equipment (UE). The UE derives a plurality of transmission opportunities from the uplink CB grant and in response transmits uplink CB data via one of the transmission opportunities. The UE then receives an acknowledgment from the serving base station. If the uplink CB data is non-decodable by the eNB due to multiple contention UEs, then the UE retransmits the uplink data in response to a negative acknowledgment. In one novel aspect, the uplink transmission radio resource carriers both the uplink CB data and UE-selected signature information. In one embodiment, the UE-selected signature information is transmitted via pilot tones. By eliminating a separate phase of contention resolution, the overall latency of CB transmission is reduced and transmission efficiency is improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Mediatek Inc.
    Inventors: Yih-Shen Chen, Chia-Chun Hsu, Chih-Yuan Lin, Pei-Kai Liao
  • Patent number: 8923148
    Abstract: A UE in a wireless communication network transmits succinct, direct channel state information to the network, enabling coordinated multipoint calculations such as joint processing, without substantially increasing uplink overhead. The UE receives and processes reference symbols over a set of non-uniformly spaced sub-carriers, selected according to a scheme synchronized to the network. The frequency response for each selected sub-carrier is estimated conventionally, and the results quantized and transmitted to the network on an uplink control channel. The non-uniform sub-carrier selection may be synchronized to the network in a variety of ways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Jung-Fu Cheng, Kambiz Zangi, Dennis Hui, Leonid Krasny
  • Patent number: 8897251
    Abstract: A base station device is provided with features in which multicast data can be prevented from deterioration in the accuracy of channel estimation due to interference of a unicast data pilot signal when multicast data and unicast data are multiplexed for transmission. In this device, a unicast pilot signal generating unit (105-1) generates a unicast data pilot signal, a multicast pilot signal generating unit (105-2) generates a multicast data pilot signal, a disposing unit (106) disposes a unicast data symbol, a multicast data symbol, the unicast data pilot signal, and the multicast pilot signal at either position on a two-dimensional plane comprised of a frequency axis and a time axis to output them to an IFFT unit (107). In this case, the disposing unit (106) disposes the multicast data pilot signal at a position on the two-dimensional plane comprised of the frequency axis and the time axis where the unicast data pilot signal does not interfere with it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Kenichi Miyoshi, Akihiko Nishio, Yuichi Kobayakawa
  • Patent number: 8891491
    Abstract: The method includes receiving a signal in a multiple carrier mobile communication system, the signal including at least two reference symbols of different types, determining a first channel estimate at a symbol position of a first reference symbol of a first type, determining a second channel estimate at a symbol position of a second reference symbol of a second type, and determining a quantity being a function of a cross-correlation between the first and second channel estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Cecilia Carbonelli, Michael Horvat
  • Patent number: 8891557
    Abstract: Techniques for transmitting information in a wireless network are described. In an aspect, information may be conveyed based on specific resources used to send a signal, e.g., a pilot. A pseudo-random function may receive the information to convey via the signal and possibly other information and may provide pseudo-random values, which may be used to select the resources to use to send the signal. In one design, a transmitter (e.g., a base station for a sector) may determine first information (e.g., a sector ID) to convey via a pilot and may also determine second information for absolute time (e.g. a pilot cycle index). The transmitter may determine resources (e.g., slots) to use to send the pilot based on the first and second information and possibly based further on a PN offset assigned to the sector. The transmitter may transmit the pilot in the determined resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, Qiang Wu
  • Patent number: 8879472
    Abstract: Long training field (LTF) for use within single user, multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. Classification of a signal may be performed using one or more LTF's therein. While such one or more LTF's may also be employed for performing functions such as channel estimation, channel characterization, etc., one or more particular characteristics of an LTF extracted from a received signal may also be employed to classify the signal as corresponding to one of a number of possible signal types. For example, such LTF-based classification may be used to classify the respective channel bandwidths associated with the signal (e.g., as being either 1 MHz or 2 MHz channel bandwidth). Generally, one or more LTF fields within one or more signals are employed for any of a number of additional uses beyond or in addition to such functions as channel estimation, channel characterization, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Ron Porat
  • Patent number: 8867570
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of transmitting pilot tones and data in multi-carrier spatial multiplexing transmission is disclosed. The method includes a plurality of subscribers transmitting data to a base station through common frequency sub-carrier and symbol time tiles. Each of the multiple subscribers rotating frequency sub-carrier and symbol time locations of pilot tones within the frequency sub-carrier and symbol time tiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Sriram Mudulodu, Rajesh Raja Manakkal, Sam P. Alex, Louay Jalloul
  • Patent number: 8867368
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for noise tolerant signal processing in a pilot assisted data receiver, including: given received pilots with common pilot components and individual pilot components, computing coefficients associated with the individual pilot components of the received pilots; and applying the computed coefficients to the received pilots to obtain conditioned pilots. The individual pilot components result from relatively slow changes of the received pilots relative to the common pilot components. The common pilot components result from relatively fast changes of the received pilots relative to the individual pilot components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Vladimir Pelekhaty, Michael Y. Frankel
  • Patent number: 8861551
    Abstract: Provided is a method of generating a pilot pattern capable of perform adaptive channel estimation, and a method and apparatus of a base station and a method and apparatus of a terminal using the pilot pattern. The pilot pattern selects pilot symbol positions based on distances from pilots of previous orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) symbols to a subcarrier position of a current OFDMA symbol in the frequency domain and the time domain, so that a low pilot density is maintained so as to effectively transmit data, and stable channel estimation performance can be obtained even in a bad channel environment. In addition, the minimum burst allocation size is determined according to the channel environment between the base station and the terminal, guaranteeing channel estimation performance suitable for the channel environment, and improving granularity, channel estimation latency, and channel estimation memory size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sung-Hyun Hwang, Chang-Joo Kim, Myung-Sun Song, Jung-Sun Um
  • Patent number: 8855144
    Abstract: Provided is a method of generating a pilot pattern capable of perform adaptive channel estimation, and a method and apparatus of a base station and a method and apparatus of a terminal using the pilot pattern. The pilot pattern selects pilot symbol positions based on distances from pilots of previous orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) symbols to a subcarrier position of a current OFDMA symbol in the frequency domain and the time domain, so that a low pilot density is maintained so as to effectively transmit data, and stable channel estimation performance can be obtained even in a bad channel environment. In addition, the minimum burst allocation size is determined according to the channel environment between the base station and the terminal, guaranteeing channel estimation performance suitable for the channel environment, and improving granularity, channel estimation latency, and channel estimation memory size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Sung-Hyun Hwang, Chang-Joo Kim, Myung-Sun Song, Jung-Sun Um
  • Patent number: 8848599
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate efficient cell acquisition in a wireless communication system. In one aspect, a reference signal for use in cell acquisition can be constructed in a bandwidth-agnostic manner such that it contains a common central portion in a predetermined frequency band that is independent of a bandwidth utilized by an associated wireless communication system. The central portion can be constructed as a two-dimensional block in time and frequency that spans a default cell search bandwidth, a predetermined bandwidth specified by synchronization codes or other signals, or another suitable bandwidth. A reference signal can then be constructed form the central portion by tiling or expanding the central portion such that it spans the entire system bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Juan Montojo, Byoung-Hoon Kim, Durga Prasad Malladi, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 8837454
    Abstract: A system and method is presented to support simultaneous connections to multiple network connections. For example, a wireless radio of a communication device may be used to transmit or receive data from two network channels, each associated with a network connection. The communication device may allocate a first set of resources from the wireless radio to be used to communicate across a first network channel and allocate a second set of communication resources from the wireless radio to be used to simultaneously communicate a cross a second network channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Gireesh Hegde
  • Patent number: 8830977
    Abstract: A technique for encoding digital communication signals. Data symbols are augmented in pilot symbols inserted at predetermined positions. The pilot augmented sequence is then fed to a deterministic error correction block encoder, such as a turbo product coder, to output a coded sequence. The symbols in the error correction encoded sequence are then rearranged to ensure that the output symbols derived from input pilot symbols are located at regular, predetermined positions. As a result, channel encoding schemes can more easily be used which benefits from power of two length block sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: IPR Licensing, Inc.
    Inventors: John E. Hoffmann, George R. Nelson, Jr., James A. Proctor, Jr., Antoine J. Rouphael
  • Patent number: 8831042
    Abstract: A method of transmitting a sounding reference signal includes generating a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) carrying uplink control information on a subframe, the subframe comprising a plurality of SC-FDMA (single carrier-frequency division multiple access) symbols, wherein the uplink control information is punctured on one SC-FDMA symbol in the subframe, and transmitting simultaneously the uplink control information on the PUCCH and a sounding reference signal on the punctured SC-FDMA symbol. The uplink control information and the sounding reference signal can be simultaneously transmitted without affecting a single carrier characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Hak Seong Kim, Bong Hoe Kim, Young Woo Yun, Ki Jun Kim, Dong Wook Roh, Dae Won Lee, Suk Hyon Yoon, Joon Kui Ahn, Dong Youn Seo
  • Patent number: 8831080
    Abstract: A receiver in a multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) system is configured to perform a method for generating channel quality feedback information. The method includes receiving, from a MIMO transmitter, pilot signals in each MIMO layer. The method also includes estimating the MIMO channel using the received pilot signals and performing a QR decomposition of the estimated MIMO channel. The method further includes predicting a probability of error for each MIMO layer after the QR decomposition of the estimated MIMO channel. The method still further includes determining a corresponding signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for each MIMO layer based on the probability of error for the each MIMO layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ankit Gupta
  • Patent number: 8811331
    Abstract: A multi-pilot frame handler (36) of a radio access network node (28) is arranged to prepare a block of a frame of information to include a first pilot signal of a pilot signal first type and a first pilot signal of a pilot signal second type. The pilot signal of the pilot signal first type is expressed as a first Costas array base pattern of resource elements of the block; the pilot signal of the second type is expressed as a second Costas array base pattern of resource elements of the block. The multi-pilot frame handler (36) is arranged to prepare the block so that any pilot signal of the pilot signal first type is carried by at least some subcarriers of a first set of subcarriers of the block and any pilot signal of the pilot signal second type is carried by at least some subcarriers of a second set of subcarriers of the block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Havish Koorapaty, Jiann-Ching Guey, Kumar Balachandran, Rajaram Ramesh
  • Patent number: 8798008
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a mobile communication device that measures characteristics or attributes of a first communications network that vary according to physical location within that first communications network to create a fingerprint, or signature, of a location within the first communications network. When the fingerprint of the current location of the mobile device is created it can be compared to a known fingerprint associated with a second communication network to determine the mobile device's proximity to the second communications network. For example, the first communications network may be a CDMA wide area wireless communication network and the second communications network may be a 802.11 wireless LAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sanjiv Nanda, Aleksandar M. Gogic, Manoj M. Deshpande, Nikhil Jain
  • Patent number: 8787347
    Abstract: Embodiments describe a varied transmission time interval in wireless communication system. According to some embodiments is a method for assigning a transmission time interval. The method can include measuring a channel condition and/or a data rate of packet communicated by at least one wireless device. Based in part on the data rate and/or channel condition information, a determination can be made whether to schedule a long transmission time interval or a short transmission time interval to the packet. A long transmission time interval can be scheduled if the channel condition is poor and/or there is a low data rate. A short transmission time interval can be scheduled if the channel condition is good and/or the data rate is high or fast. The method can be repeated for multiple wireless devices. Also included is an alternative interlacing structure that supports both long transmission time intervals and short transmission time intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexei Gorokhov, Edward Harrison Teague, Aamod Khandekar
  • Patent number: 8787907
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes determining at least one neighboring apparatus from which to obtain information, obtaining information related to a plurality of channels from the at least one neighboring apparatus, selecting a channel from the plurality of channels based on the obtained information, and transmitting on the selected channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Avinash Jain, Ahmed K. Sadek
  • Patent number: 8780942
    Abstract: A detection section (8) of a communication device (1) includes a correlation calculation section for calculating correlation between a known TCCH symbol pattern and a demodulated complex symbol pattern received by a reception section (20) in each of a last symbol period in one sub-slot and subsequent one symbol period and a reception state acquisition section for obtaining, based on a result of the calculation in the correlation calculation section, a delay amount of a timing of receiving the signal from a communication partner device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Shinsuke Moriai
  • Patent number: 8774226
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and device for generating and mapping a Channel State Information Reference Signal (CSI-RS) sequence, and the method includes: generating a pseudo-random sequence according to a pseudo-random sequence initial value, performing a Quadrature Phase-Shift Keying (QPSK) modulation on the pseudo-random sequence, and obtaining a first CSI-RS sequence according to maximum bandwidth of system; and cutting the first CSI-RS sequence according to the actual bandwidth of the system, obtaining a second CSI-RS sequence, and mapping the second CSI-RS sequence to a time frequency location of a CSI-RS antenna port. The CSI-RS reference signal sequence can be generated or obtained respectively at the UE terminal and eNB terminal in accordance with the stated methods for generating and mapping the reference sequence according to known parameters by the present invention, so that the calculated CSI-RS sequence can be utilized to measure the channel at the UE terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Senbao Guo, Yunfeng Sun, Changqing Zhu, Chenchen Zhang
  • Patent number: 8761678
    Abstract: A radio transmitting apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of weight sequence sets, which are each assigned to a plurality of transmission blocks sectioned by time axes and frequency axes, by associating the plurality of weight sequence sets with the plurality of transmission blocks, a first selecting unit configured to select one transmission block from the plurality of transmission blocks, a second selecting unit configured to select one weight sequence from one weight sequence set assigned to the one transmission block signal, a converting unit configured to convert a data signal by using the one weight sequence to generate a converted signal, and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the converted signal by using the one transmission block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Koji Akita, Noritaka Deguchi, Ren Sakata, Koichiro Ban
  • Patent number: 8755453
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a transmitter includes a binary sequence generator unit configured to provide a sequence of reference signal bits, wherein the sequence is an inseparable function of a cell identification parameter, a cyclic prefix mode corresponding to the transmitter and one or more time indices of the sequence. The transmitter also include a mapping unit that transforms the sequence of reference signal bits into a complex reference signal, and a transmit unit configured to transmit the complex reference signal. In another embodiment, a receiver includes a receive unit configured to receive a complex reference signal and a reference signal decoder unit configured to detect a sequence of reference signal bits from the complex reference signal, wherein the sequence is an inseparable function of a cell identification parameter, a cyclic prefix mode corresponding to a transmitter and one or more time indices of the sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Badri Varadarajan, Anand G. Dabak, Tarkesh Pande, Eko N. Onggosanusi