Systems Using Alternating Or Pulsating Current Patents (Class 375/259)
  • Patent number: 10594373
    Abstract: A method, in a radio network node, comprises identifying, among a predetermined codebook of precoding matrix codewords, a subset of precoding matrix codewords that are not to be reported by the wireless device in channel-state-information, CSI, feedback, and transmitting, to the wireless device, a bitmap identifying the subset of precoding matrix codewords that are not to be reported by the wireless device; where each bit in the bitmap corresponds to only one combination of a first dimension index l?1 and a second dimension index l?2 out of the possible combinations of the first dimension index l?1 and the second dimension index l?2, and where the first dimension index l?1 and the second dimension index l?2 identify a two-dimensional beam, the two-dimensional beam being defined by a vector of complex numbers comprised within at least one column of a precoding matrix codeword in the codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Siva Muruganathan, Mattias Frenne, Shiwei Gao, Robert Mark Harrison
  • Patent number: 10581546
    Abstract: A transmitter using a channel aggregation in which available channels existing in various frequency bands are bound and transmitted and using an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM), an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), or a system similar to them as a modulation system. One or a plurality of transmission units are provided in parallel, and one or a plurality of transmission processing units are provided in parallel. The transmission processing unit has an inverse fast Fourier transforming circuit or a discrete inverse Fourier transforming circuit, a GI and overlap margin (OM) insertion circuit, and a time-domain windowing processing unit. The time-domain windowing processing unit multiplies a universal time-domain window function in accordance with a spectrum mask and transport electric power which are required in each channel, thereby suppressing out-of-band radiation electric power every channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Keiichi Mizutani, Hiroshi Harada
  • Patent number: 10582500
    Abstract: A sub-band scheduling method, including: sending, to a base station on a source sub-band, a first message that carries information about a data attribute requirement of to-be-transmitted data, where the information about the data attribute requirement includes at least one of the following: a transmission delay, a transmission delay type, a data bandwidth requirement, or a packet loss sensitivity; receiving, on the source sub-band, a second message that carries sub-band information of a target sub-band, where the target sub-band is a sub-band that is scheduled by the base station and that meets the data attribute requirement of the to-be-transmitted data, and the sub-band information includes at least one of the following: a sub-band number, a sub-band frequency channel number, a timing advance, an uplink resource allocated by the base station, a sub-band sending power level, or a bandwidth; and transmitting data on the target sub-band according to the sub-band information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yalin Liu, Guangzhu Zeng, Lei Chen
  • Patent number: 10575308
    Abstract: A resource allocation method to resolve a problem that a transport block of a typical enhanced voice service (EVS) scenario in an air interface is much smaller than a transport block of a conventional adaptive multi rate (AMR), and use of a resource allocation method in the existing long term evolution (LTE) causes a waste of user spectrum resources such that spectrum utilization in an EVS scenario can be improved. The method includes determining resource allocation information and resource allocation block indication information, where the resource allocation information includes information indicating at least one fractional resource block (FRB) allocated to user equipment, and the resource allocation block indication information indicates that a resource allocation block is the FRB, where a resource occupied by the FRB is less than one RB, and notifying the user equipment of the resource allocation information and the resource allocation block indication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dongdong Wei, Yi Zhang, Hao Tang, Zhenfei Tang
  • Patent number: 10568082
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for reduced overhead signaling when a user equipment device is being configured with multiple bandwidth parts for downlink transmission. When a user equipment device is being configured with multiple bandwidth parts (channels on an aggregate carrier), the signaling that indicates the codebook subset restriction bit map, rank restriction bit map, and beam restriction bit map needs to be repeated for each bandwidth part. Often however, the restriction bit maps are repeated in the bandwidth parts, and so overhead can be reduced by encoding a confirmation bit in each bandwidth part, such that if the confirmation bit is set to “1”, the user equipment device can know to apply the restriction bit map from the primary bandwidth part to the secondary bandwidth part, without having to encode the secondary bandwidth part restriction bit map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 10567069
    Abstract: In a repeater, a mechanism checks multiple parameters and makes repeater bandwidth, radio configuration, and ADC clock speed adjustments. multiple repeater parameters are checked and the repeater bandwidth is optimized based upon any of adjusting bandwidth based on best throughput; adjusting bandwidth based on Internet speed; adjusting mapping based on overlapping access points (106); adjusting bandwidth based on the client's range; adjusting ADC clock speed; adjusting transmit (TX) radio setting based on associated clients; adjusting receive (RX) radio setting based on associated clients; client type considerations; and adjusting CPU settings based on clients or backhaul. In embodiments, for example, bandwidth can be adjusted from 80 MHz to 40 MHz to 20 MHz or a smaller bandwidth, e.g. 5 MHz, for an 802.11ac/11ax/11ac device. For an 802.11n/a/b/g/ah device, bandwidth can adjusted using from 40 MHz to 20 MHz to a smaller bandwidth, e.g. 1 MHz, 2 MHz, or 5 MHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: NETGEAR, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph Amalan Arul Emmanuel, Peiman Amini
  • Patent number: 10566410
    Abstract: Warping of a semiconductor wafer occurring due to a difference in the thermal expansion rates of an insulating film and the semiconductor wafer is restricted. Therefore, processing failures and conveying failures in the manufacturing process, as well as cracking of the semiconductor wafer, are restricted. Provided is a high breakdown voltage passive element including a substrate, a lower metal layer and upper metal layer stacked on the substrate, and an insulating unit formed between the lower metal layer and upper metal layer, wherein the insulating unit has a first insulating film whose thermal expansion rate is lower than the thermal expansion rate of the substrate, and a second insulating film, formed on the first insulating film, whose thermal expansion rate is higher than the thermal expansion rate of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Masaharu Yamaji
  • Patent number: 10567054
    Abstract: This application provides a channel state information (CSI) sending method, an apparatus, and a system. In this solution, a terminal device feeds back a first rank used for a common channel and a first precoding matrix indicator, and feeds back a second rank used for a traffic channel and a second precoding matrix indicator to a base station. The first precoding matrix indicator is used to indicate a first precoding matrix in a first precoding matrix set. The second precoding matrix indicator is used to indicate a second precoding matrix in a second precoding matrix set. The first precoding matrix set is different from the second precoding matrix set. Different precoding matrix sets are used on the common channel and the traffic channel, to obtain channel state information, thereby reducing bits required for feedback while satisfying a system requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jianqin Liu
  • Patent number: 10536928
    Abstract: A resource conflict reducing method, including determining, by a first user equipment (UE), N available resources from S resources detected at the UE, where S is a quantity of resources that are indicated by resource configuration information obtained by the first UE, and where S is an integer greater than or equal to 1, determining, by the first UE, M resources according to the N available resources, and sending, by the first UE, data to at least one second UE by using the M resources, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to S, and wherein M is an integer greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xingwei Zhang
  • Patent number: 10516274
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments of a guided surface wave transmitter/receiver configured to transmit a guided surface wave at a first frequency and to receive guided surface waves at a second frequency, concurrently with the transmission of guided surface waves at the first frequency. The various embodiments can be configured to retransmit received power and applied the received power to an electrical load. The various embodiments of the guided surface wave transmitter/receiver also can be configured as an amplitude modulation (AM) repeater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: CPG Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: James F. Corum, Kenneth L. Corum, James D. Lilly, Basil F. Pinzone, Jr., Joseph F. Pinzone
  • Patent number: 10515476
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, devices and computer-readable media for image fetching for timeline scrubbing of digital media. In some implementations, a method comprises: receiving at a first time prior to receiving a scrub command, a first set of scrub images associated with digital media, the first set of scrub images having a first set of positions on a timeline of the digital media; receiving a first scrub command; receiving at a second time after the first time, a second set of scrub images associated with the digital media, the second set of scrub images having a second set of positions on the timeline that fill time gaps in the first set of positions on the timeline; animating, a timeline overlay including the timeline, a playhead and a scrub image window; and selecting a scrub image from the first or second sets of scrub images for presentation in the scrub image window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David Alan Pound, Roger N. Pantos, Christopher L. Oklota, David L. Biderman, John Y. Su
  • Patent number: 10512045
    Abstract: A communication device includes transmitting means for transmitting a signal in one or more frequency bands of a frequency channel including a plurality of frequency bands, identifying means for identifying occupancy of the plurality of frequency bands, and control means for controlling transmission power for transmitting the signal from the transmitting means, on the basis of an identification result obtained by the identifying means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hajime Shimura
  • Patent number: 10511356
    Abstract: A multi-antenna network system has a reduced operational complexity for matrix inversion by referring to the variations of the status of a plurality of communication channels at a first time duration and a second time duration. Therefore, the speed for calculating matrix inversion is improved. Accordingly, the amount of servo antennas and/or user antennas operating in the same multi-antenna network system can be increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: ALPHA NETWORKS INC., INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Chia-Lung Liu, Dong-Shing Wu, Ren Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 10510359
    Abstract: A command processing device and method are provided. The command processing device includes a receiving device and a processing device. The receiving device receives an audio signal from an electronic device, wherein the audio data includes data signals and clock signals, and the data signals correspond to a first sound channel and the clock signals correspond to a second sound channel. The processing device is coupled to the receiving device. The processing device obtains the data signals from the first sound channel, and obtains the clock signals from the second sound channel. The processing device obtains one or more commands according to the data signals and clock signals, and performs operations corresponding to the commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Lin Hsieh, Chieh-Sheng Ding, Ming-Ju Tsai, Jyun-Ching Luo, Ming-Tsung Yen
  • Patent number: 10505605
    Abstract: This application provides a technical solution for rank indication, and especially when a CQI number is not configured or a CQI number is 1, a network device configures a rank indication restriction parameter as that at least one of ranks whose index numbers are 0, 1, 2, and 3 is allowed to be reported by the terminal device; or even if the network device does not perform the foregoing configuration, and none of the ranks whose index numbers are 0, 1, 2, and 3 is allowed to be reported, the terminal device may select at least one rank for RI reporting, so as to resolve a problem that a system cannot work. In addition, according to embodiments of this application, bit overheads required for RI reporting may further be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shibin Ge, Wei Han, Xiaoyan Bi, Hongzhe Shi, Ye Wu, Huangping Jin
  • Patent number: 10491365
    Abstract: Apparatus(es) and method(s) for CDR are described. In a CDR circuit, there is a bang-bang phase detector (“BBPD”), a baud-rate phase detector (“BRPD”), a multiplexer, and a control circuit. The BBPD, configured to receive data and crossing samples, generates a first result indicating a first phase difference between data and crossing samples. The BRPD, configured to receive data and peak samples, generates a second result indicating a second phase difference between data and peak samples. The multiplexer is configured to select either such result as a phase-detect output for a mode of operation. A control circuit is configured to clear a metastable state: for receipt of the first detect result, check for dithering, determine a direction for phase adjustment responsive to detection of the dithering, and provide a phase adjustment in the direction; and for receipt of the second detect result, operate to use the second phase difference generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventor: Winson Lin
  • Patent number: 10484133
    Abstract: A decoder or a decoding method for decoding a data signal is provided by iteratively constructing a decoding tree comprising nodes, each representing a component of a symbol of a data signal, each iteration comprising, for a current node of the tree stored in the top of the stack; generating a reference child node of the current node from the data signal; from the reference child node, generating a first and second neighbor child nodes by subtracting/adding a positive integer parameter from/to the value of the reference node; storing in the stack three child nodes derived from the reference, first and second neighbor child nodes, the nodes stored in the stack being ordered by increasing values of a node metric; removing the current node stack; selecting the top node of the stack as the new current node. The data signal is estimated from the stack node information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
    Inventors: Asma Mejri, Ghaya Rekaya-Ben Othman
  • Patent number: 10476718
    Abstract: A system for selecting a sub-carrier spacing includes an access node configured to deploy a radio air interface to provide wireless services to a plurality of wireless devices. The access node includes a processor configured to determine a value of at least one parameter relating to at least one of radio frequency impairment, mobility, and service latency. The processor is also configured to compare the value of the at least one parameter with a predetermined threshold. The processor is further configured to select the sub-carrier spacing from a plurality of sub-carrier spacings based on a result of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
    Inventors: Justin Sungki Park, Saied Kazeminejad, Durga Prasad Satapathy
  • Patent number: 10476722
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method performed by a wireless device, for receiving system information from a network node of a wireless communication system. The system information is received in a synchronization signal (SS) block of an SS burst set comprising at least one SS block. The system information is multiplexed with information providing a time index indicating which SS block of the SS burst set that is being received. The method comprises receiving the information providing the time index, and receiving the system information, which comprises descrambling the system information using a scrambling sequence generated based on the information providing the time index. The method also comprises determining an accuracy of the information providing the time index, based on an error-detection code related to the received system information. The disclosure also relates to corresponding network node method and apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jianfeng Wang, Asbjörn Grövlen, Henrik Sahlin
  • Patent number: 10476618
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing network timing functionality. In some embodiments, a grand master clock(s) might receive a first timing signal from a global positioning system (“GPS”) source via a GPS antenna(s), and might send a second timing signal (which might be based at least in part on the first timing signal) to a slave clock(s), in some cases, via one or more network elements or the like. A computing system might calculate various transmission times for the second timing signal to be transmitted between the grand master clock(s) and the slave clock(s), and might calculate any time delay differences in the transmission times, might generate a third timing signal based at least in part on the calculated time delay differences (if any), and might send the third timing signal to one or more network elements, thereby providing Accurate Synchronization as a Service (“ASaaS”) functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Jeff Farra, Paul Johnson, Thomas Schwengler
  • Patent number: 10469299
    Abstract: A multi-carrier data communications system and method having high spectral efficiency. The method includes encoding input digital data at selected phase angles of a plurality of sinusoidal waveforms to create a plurality of modulated sinusoidal waveforms. An output analog waveform is generated where the output analog waveform includes a plurality of encoded analog communication signals corresponding to a plurality of digital representations of the plurality of modulated sinusoidal waveforms. The encoding is performed so that adjacent ones of the plurality of modulated sinusoidal waveforms are separated in frequency by less than 15 Hz and any sideband included within the output analog waveform is of a power at least 50 dB below a power of the encoded analog communication signal associated with the sideband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Inventor: Torsten Schultze
  • Patent number: 10470068
    Abstract: An embodiment for user equipment that receives a plurality of measurement gap repetition patterns from a network. Each measurement gap repetition pattern may be assigned to a different frequency of the network. The plurality of measurement gap repetition patterns may include skipping measurement patterns. Further embodiments may include the user equipment receiving a repetition period in a measurement object frame or receiving a plurality of measurement gap repetition patterns in which the measurement gaps are non-colliding with measurement gaps of other repetition patterns assigned to the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Candy Yiu, Yang Tang, Yujian Zhang, Rui Huang
  • Patent number: 10454748
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating a radio frequency signal based on a symbol within a constellation diagram is provided. The constellation diagram is spanned by a first axis representing an in-phase component and an orthogonal second axis representing a quadrature component. The apparatus includes a processing unit configured to select one of a plurality of segments of the constellation diagram containing the symbol. The segment is delimited by two radially extending boundaries, wherein the two radially extending boundaries span an opening angle of the segment that is different from 90°. The processing unit is further configured to calculate a first coordinate of the symbol with respect to a third axis, and a second coordinate of the symbol with respect to a fourth axis. At least one of the third axis and the fourth axis coincides with one of the two radially extending boundaries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Burkhard Neurauter, Christian Mayer, Jan Zaleski, Jovan Markovic
  • Patent number: 10454526
    Abstract: Systems and apparatuses for electromagnetic communications are provided. One of the apparatuses includes a housing portion for an electronic device, wherein the housing portion comprises: a first region formed from a first material; and a second region comprising an arrangement of structures formed from the first material and a second material, wherein the arrangement of structures reduce propagation of electromagnetic radiation propagating through the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Keyssa Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Ahmed Khidre, Mohamed Sameh Mahmoud, Eric Sweetman
  • Patent number: 10446216
    Abstract: Embedded refresh controllers included in memory devices and memory devices including the embedded refresh controllers are provided. The embedded refresh controllers may include a refresh counter and an address generator. The refresh counter may generate a counter refresh address signal in response to a counter refresh signal such that the counter refresh address signal may represent a sequentially changing address. The address generator may store information with respect to a hammer address that is accessed intensively and may generates a hammer refresh address signal in response to a hammer refresh signal such that the hammer refresh address signal may represent an address of a row that is physically adjacent to a row of the hammer address. Loss of cell data may be reduced and performance of the memory device may be enhanced by detecting the intensively-accessed hammer address and performing the refresh operation based on the detected hammer address efficiently.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jong-Min Oh, Ho-Young Song, Do-Yeon Kim
  • Patent number: 10420054
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for low latency communications within a wireless communications system. An eNB and/or a UE may be configured to operate within the wireless communications system and may send triggers to initiate communications using a dedicated resource in a wireless communications network that supports transmissions having a first subframe type and a second subframe type, the first subframe type comprising symbols of a first duration and the second subframe type comprising symbols of a second duration that is shorter than the first duration. Communications may be initiated by transmitting a trigger from the UE or eNB using the dedicated resource, and initiating communications following the trigger. The duration of time between the trigger and initiating communications can be significantly shorter than the time to initiate communications using legacy LTE communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hao Xu, Durga Prasad Malladi, Naga Bhushan, Tingfang Ji, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Tao Luo, Yongbin Wei, Aleksandar Damnjanovic
  • Patent number: 10419189
    Abstract: This invention is directed to a terminal apparatus capable of preventing the degradation of reception quality of control information even in a case of employing SU-MIMO transmission system. A terminal (200), which uses a plurality of different layers to transmit two code words in which control information is placed, comprises: a resource amount determining unit (204) that determines, based on a lower one of the encoding rates of the two code words or based on the average value of the reciprocals of the encoding rates of the two code words, resource amounts of control information in the respective ones of the plurality of layers; and a transport signal forming unit (205) that places, in the two code words, the control information modulated by use of the resource amounts, thereby forming a transport signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Ogawa, Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao
  • Patent number: 10410712
    Abstract: Apparatuses for receiving an input signal in a semiconductor device are described. An example apparatus includes a signal receiver that receives information signal; a control circuit that provides a plurality of control signals; and a signal receiver replica circuit that receives a first reference signal. The signal receiver replica circuit includes a plurality of receivers. Each receiver of the plurality of receivers receives the first reference signal and a corresponding control signal of the plurality of control signals, and further provides an output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Atsushi Hiraishi
  • Patent number: 10404557
    Abstract: A method for solving an under-determined inverse problem or network inference/tomography problem in per-flow size, delay, loss and throughput inference in a computer network, through a system is presented. The method includes the following steps, which are not necessarily in order. First, establishing the computer network having a plurality of nodes wherein the per-flow size, the delay, the loss and the throughput inference are unknown. An original observation or routing matrix determines how flows are appeared on the links and construct the measurements. Next, performing a learning phase to obtain an optimal observation matrix or pseudo-optimal observation matrix. After that, performing a computer controller adaptive measurement and inference phase to estimate the set of unknowns using the measurement quantities, and a function of one of the set consisting of: the optimal observation matrix, the original observation matrix, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Inventor: Mehdi Malboubi
  • Patent number: 10404219
    Abstract: Front-end system having switchable amplifier output stage. In some embodiments, a method for operating a front-end system can include amplifying a signal in a driver stage of a power amplifier, and routing the signal from the driver stage to a selected one of a plurality of output stages, such that the selected output stage further amplifies the signal. The method can further include routing the amplified signal for transmission from the selected output stage to a selected one of a plurality of antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Leslie Paul Wallis
  • Patent number: 10404333
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a device for controlling a plurality of antenna elements of an antenna array of a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) communication system, the device comprising: a communication handler configured to receive channel information from a first user equipment of a plurality of user equipments, the channel information indicating a communication channel quality of the first user equipment, and configured to receive quality of service (QoS) information indicating a QoS requirement for the first user equipment; and a controller configured to generate a plurality of weights for beamforming the plurality of antenna elements based on the channel information and based on the QoS information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Yuan Zhu, Qinghua Li, Huaning Niu, Bin Wen
  • Patent number: 10404343
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A network device, such as a base station, may transmit a set of reference symbols to a user equipment (UE). Each set of reference symbols may include two (or more) beamformed signals. The network device may receive, based on the set of reference symbols, a measurement report from the UE. The measurement report may include a co-phasing indicator associated with the set of reference symbols. The network device may identify, based at least in part on the measurement report, an antenna port precoder configuration to use for communicating with the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incoporated
    Inventors: Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Bilal Sadiq, Ashwin Sampath, Sundar Subramanian, Junyi Li, Vasanthan Raghavan
  • Patent number: 10396911
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating a probability density function eye are provided. The method preferably includes the steps of acquiring an input waveform, performing a clock data recovery in accordance with the input waveform to determine one or more expected transition times and defining a plurality of unit intervals of the input waveform in accordance with the one or more expected transition times. One or more values of one or more data points may then be determined in accordance with the input waveform in accordance with the one or more expected transition times, and a category for each unit interval in accordance with its state and its position within the input waveform may also be determined. One or more histograms may then be generated for the determined one or more values for each category of unit intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Teledyne LeCroy, Inc.
    Inventor: Martin T. Miller
  • Patent number: 10394651
    Abstract: A computing system includes an array of storage devices configured to provide access to storage data and check data corresponding to a data block length; and a storage engine, coupled to the array of storage devices, configured to: detect one more erroneous data, one more erroneous check data, or a combination thereof for representing the storage data, the check data, or a combination thereof inaccessible or failing a status check process after initial storage thereof, determine a prime shift factor for representing a smallest prime number not less than a block unit-quantity, wherein the block unit-quantity is for representing a quantity of shift units within the data block length, and iteratively generate a target recovery set based on a circular-shift mechanism utilizing the prime shift factor for recovering the one more erroneous data, the one more erroneous check data, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: CNEX LABS, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaojie Zhang, Bing Fan
  • Patent number: 10396937
    Abstract: An improved receiver design implements a method for modeling users in SIC turbo loop multiuser detection architectures that reduces the number of implementation cycles, and thereby reduces the computational overhead associated with computing the inverse of the received signal covariance matrix, by efficiently reusing components of a QR decomposition. By reusing some of the computational results from the previous turbo loop's equalizer calculation, the disclosed receiver significantly reduces the computational burden of updating the linear equalizer on each turbo loop. Depending on the embodiment, this reduction can be accomplished in at least two different ways, depending on the dimensionality and other aspects of the implementation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: COLLISION COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Brandon Hombs, Sayak Bose
  • Patent number: 10382163
    Abstract: A receiving device comprises a channel estimation unit, for generating a plurality of channel estimates according to a plurality of reference signals; an eigenvalue computation unit, coupled to the channel estimation unit, for generating at least one eigenvalue corresponding to the plurality of channel estimates according to the plurality of channel estimates; a channel compensation unit, coupled to the eigenvalue computation unit, for generating a correlation compensation value for compensating the plurality of channels according to the at least one eigenvalue; a channel capacity computation unit, coupled to the eigenvalue computation unit and the channel compensation unit, for generating a channel capacity according to the at least one eigenvalue and the correlation compensation value; and a selection unit, coupled to the channel capacity computation unit, for determining a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) according to the channel capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Chuan-Hu Lin, Chung-Yao Chang
  • Patent number: 10382237
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for processing data of multiple rates, where the method includes receiving, by a data processing apparatus, first data whose transmission rate is a first rate and second data whose transmission rate is a second rate, obtaining, by the data processing apparatus, N1 pieces of third data and N2 pieces of fourth data according to the first data, obtaining, by the data processing apparatus, M1 pieces of fifth data and M2 pieces of sixth data according to the second data, obtaining, by the data processing apparatus, serial seventh data according to the N1 pieces of third data, the N2 pieces of fourth data, and a first modulation scheme, and obtaining, by the data processing apparatus, serial eighth data according to the M1 pieces of fifth data, the M2 pieces of sixth data, and a second modulation scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guodao Chen, Chunrong Li
  • Patent number: 10378785
    Abstract: A communication system comprises a communication device and communication devices. The communication device comprises a direct current power supply and a transmitter configured to transmit data by control of a current flowing through a current loop. The communication devices comprise a receiver configured to receive data by detection of the current flowing through the current loop. The communication device comprises an adjuster configured to adjust the impedance between a signal line and a common line according to the number of communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Kotake, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Takuya Mukai, Masahiro Ishihara
  • Patent number: 10372521
    Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms provide a solution space visualization of bit error rates (BER) for combinations of parameter settings of transceivers. Different types of visualizations may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: ALTERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shuangxia Zhu, Yongliang Lu, Zhi Y. Wong
  • Patent number: 10368354
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for feeding back channel state information in a wireless communication system supporting a three-dimensional multiple input multiple output (3D-MIMO) antenna. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving information on N beams, (where N is a natural number), precoded for specific antennas among a plurality of antennas constituting a 3D-MIMO antenna; selecting, from among the N beams, at least one specific beam for which to generate channel state information, and determining interference on the basis of M beams, (where M is a natural number, M?N?1), among the remaining beams; and generating channel state information for the specific beam on the basis of the interference according to the M beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Youngtae Kim, Kijun Kim, Jonghyun Park, Bonghoe Kim, Hyungtae Kim
  • Patent number: 10368246
    Abstract: In the static and exclusive spectrum allocation paradigm, the spectrum-access parameters for a service are chosen to mitigate potential harmful-interference and ensure minimum performance under worst-case conditions. The new dynamic spectrum-sharing paradigm necessitates dynamically defining and enforcing the spectrum-access rights while accommodating the dynamics of the RF environment and the spectrum-access scenarios. To enforce spectrum-access rights, emphasis is placed on capturing the use of spectrum by an individual transceiver. Spectrum-access rights are articulated in terms of the characterization of the spectrum used by an individual transceiver in the space, time, and frequency dimensions. In order to estimate the use of spectrum in real time, an RF-sensor network is employed, the network uses interference-tolerant algorithms to estimate the transceiver spectrum-access parameters and to characterize the propagation environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
    Inventors: Nilesh Khambekar, Vipin Chaudhary, Chad Spooner
  • Patent number: 10356761
    Abstract: Uplink control channel transmission in a shared radio frequency spectrum band may be transmitted using different uplink resources UCI based on a format of uplink control information (UCI) to be transmitted in the uplink control channel transmission. Different time resources, frequency resources, or combinations thereof, for the transmission of UCI by a UE may be provided by a base station and selected by the UE based on a UCI format. The resources to be used for UCI transmission may semi-statically configured, or dynamically indicated to a UE. Uplink transmissions may be configured in interlaces of frequency resources, with each interlace having one or more segments, and a base station may configure different segments for transmission of different format UCI. In some cases, different subframes, or different component carriers, may be configured for different formats of UCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivas Yerramalli, Wanshi Chen, Peter Gaal, Juan Montojo
  • Patent number: 10348546
    Abstract: A base station 100 in a radio transmission system that performs multicast/broadcast transmission comprises a multiplexing unit 110 configured to multiplex a plurality of types of transmission data transmitted in schemes different in error tolerance; and a transmitter 120 configured to transmit multiplexed data obtained by the multiplexing unit 110, by multicast/broadcast. The plurality of types of transmission data includes basic transmission data transmitted, by the transmitter, in a scheme having a first error tolerance and additional transmission data transmitted, by the transmitter, in a scheme having a second error tolerance lower than the first error tolerance. The additional transmission data is utilized in a terminal 200 by being combined with the basic transmission data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventors: Fangwei Tong, Chiharu Yamazaki, Kugo Morita, Masato Fujishiro
  • Patent number: 10342023
    Abstract: Provided herein is a method for interference cancellation for a UE having interference cancellation capability in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving information on a reference signal transmitted from an interfering cell having the possibility of causing inter-cell interference; and attempting to detect the reference signal using the received information on the reference signal, wherein the information on the reference signal is received when the interfering cell and a serving cell of the UE have the same cyclic prefix (CP) length and are synchronized with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kijun Kim, Jonghyun Park, Hyunho Lee, Hyungtae Kim
  • Patent number: 10338646
    Abstract: A mobile terminal according to the present invention includes a main transmitter to amplify and transmit a first signal of a first frequency band through a first path and a second path, and an auxiliary transmitter to amplify and transmit a second signal of a second frequency band through a third path. The mobile terminal further includes a controller to control the amplified first signal and the amplified second signal to be combined with each other when the distortion signal is to occur in frequency bands adjacent to the first frequency band due to the amplified first signal, thereby providing a radio frequency (RF) front end and a mobile terminal with improved non-linearity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Sami Vilhonen, Harri Riihihuhta, Jari Heikkinen
  • Patent number: 10317509
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, devices, systems, apparatus, servers, computer-/processor-readable media, and other implementations, including an example method to facilitate position determination operations that includes producing, by a location transmission unit (LTU) configured for downlink-only communication, one or more subframes comprising one or more LTU broadcast positioning reference signals. The LTU is detectable by at least one mobile wireless device based on LTU broadcast control signals, with at least some of the LTU broadcast control signals being transmittable by a different wireless node than the LTU. The method also includes transmitting, by the LTU, the one or more LTU broadcast positioning reference signals usable for determination of a position of at least one mobile wireless device, with the one or more LTU broadcast positioning reference signals being detectable by the at least one mobile wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Sven Fischer
  • Patent number: 10308478
    Abstract: An elevator system includes a destination control system and an input system. An elevator car is called by an identification-device of a passenger being read by the input system. The destination control system is designed to recognize a signal-pattern that is produced by the passenger moving the respective identification device relative to parts of the input system. The destination control system is programmed to process different programs depending on the signal-pattern. Furthermore, a method for biasing elevator movements of such elevator systems is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: KONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sampo Mäkilaurila, Harri Länsiö, Timo Mertanen
  • Patent number: 10305631
    Abstract: A system for frame synchronization. Coarse synchronization is performed, in some embodiments, by using soft bit decisions to generate a list of candidate frame start positions, each with an associated estimated probability. The candidate frame start positions are then tested by decoding the frame data, and a frame start position for which a criterion of decoding success is met is selected. Fine synchronization is performed, in some embodiments, by using an encoded synchronization word in the encoded frame data. A first decoding pass is used to identify the position of the synchronization word. The start of the frame is inferred from the position of the synchronization word, and a second decoding pass, using the correct initial state, in the decoder, at the start of the encoded frame data, is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventor: Mostofa K. Howlader
  • Patent number: 10305333
    Abstract: A power receiver which wirelessly receives power from at least one power source using one of magnetic field resonance and electric field resonance, including a power receiver coil, an internal circuit, a power detection resistor, a switch, a power reception control unit, and a communication circuit unit. The power receiver coil wirelessly receives the power from the power source, and the internal circuit uses the power obtained by the power receiver coil. The power detection resistor detects the power obtained by the power receiver coil, and the switch applies a received power voltage obtained by the power receiver coil by switching to the power detection resistor. The power reception control unit controls the power detection resistor and the switch, and the communication circuit unit performs communication with the power source, comprising detection information of a received power and power supply timing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Satoshi Shimokawa, Akiyoshi Uchida
  • Patent number: RE47857
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a digital broadcast system and a data processing method. A broadcast signal in which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed is transmitted and received. Then, in a broadcasting receiver, the program table information describing channel information and event information of the mobile service data according to an identifier of an ensemble in which the mobile service data are multiplexed, in the received broadcast signal. And the mobile service data is outputted by using the parsed program table information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jae Hyung Song, In Hwan Choi, Ho Taek Hong, Kook Yeon Kwak, Byoung Gill Kim, Jong Yeul Suh, Jin Pil Kim, Won Gyu Song, Chul Soo Lee, Jin Woo Kim, Hyoung Gon Lee, Joon Hui Lee