Particular Pulse Demodulator Or Detector Patents (Class 375/340)
  • Patent number: 10623111
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for delivering information to an individual, group, or device. The information is carried by audio signals beyond the audible frequency range of human hearing, but within the frequency range of an audio system. The information is modulated onto an ultrasonic frequency and embedded into an audio signal transmitted by the audio system. Each individual, group member, or device may have or be coupled to a receiver configured to receive an acoustic signal transmitted by the audio system that includes the modulated ultrasonic frequency. The receiver extracts the information from the modulated ultrasonic frequency and provides the information to the individual, group member, or device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Ohio State Innovation Foundation
    Inventors: Can Emre Koksal, Harihara Varma Indukuri
  • Patent number: 10623106
    Abstract: Embodiments herein may relate to an interconnect that includes a transceiver, where the transceiver is configured to receive a data stream, convert the data stream to a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) mapping/shaping signal, where the QAM mapping/shaping signal is a frequency component of the data stream, convert the QAM mapping/shaping signal to a Hilbert transform signal, where the Hilbert transform signal includes a reverse order of an in-phase component of the QAM mapping/shaping signal and a reverse order of a quadrature component of the QAM mapping/shaping signal, convert the Hilbert transform signal to a QAM mapping/shaping signal, where the QAM mapping/shaping signal is a single sideband (SSB) time domain mm wave signal, where the SSB time domain mm wave signal is the Hilbert transform signal converted to a time domain signal, and communicate the SSB time domain mm wave signal over a waveguide using a waveguide interconnect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hyung-Jin Lee, Cho-ying Lu, Henning Braunisch, Telesphor Kamgaing, Georgios Dogiamis, Richard Dischler
  • Patent number: 10615953
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for compensating carrier or clock signal phase fluctuations. An apparatus comprises a digital phase locked loop (210) comprising a phase error output (214) for a phase error (216) between a reference signal (218) and an output signal (212) generated by the digital phase locked loop, and a phase rotator (220) coupled to the phase error output (214) and configured to rotate a phase of a data signal based on the phase error (216).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Uri Perlmutter, Michael Kerner, Uri Parker
  • Patent number: 10606494
    Abstract: A methods and systems for handling requests for data corresponding to a volume of data are disclosed. A method involves receiving a request from an application, the request related to retrieving a chunk of data from a volume of data or persisting a chunk of data to the volume of data, the request comprising an offset and a size of the chunk of data, establishing a short condition register for the chunk of data as a function of the offset and the size, establishing a long condition register for the chunk of data as a function of the offset and the size, and performing a retrieve operation from the volume of data or a persist operation to the volume of data as a function of the short condition register and the long condition register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: StorageOS Limited
    Inventor: Alex Chircop
  • Patent number: 10609693
    Abstract: A method is provided for receiving a user equipment (UE) specific reference signal based-downlink data channel by a UE in a wireless communication system. The UE receives, from a network, a downlink control channel including either first scheduling information or second scheduling information, and receives the UE-specific reference signal based-downlink data channel from the network based on the downlink control channel. When the downlink control channel includes the first scheduling information, antenna ports of a certain reference signal which can be assumed to be quasi co-located with antenna ports of a UE-specific reference signal is configured by an indicator indicating one of two or more parameters configured by a higher layer. When the downlink control channel includes the second scheduling information, the antenna ports of a certain reference signal is configured by a parameter of a minimum index among the two or more parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jonghyun Park, Eunsun Kim, Illsoo Sohn, Kijun Kim, Hanbyul Seo
  • Patent number: 10601629
    Abstract: Probabilistic generation and decoding modulation symbols for use with optical communication. Codewords are generated using combinations of symbols from a modulation symbol alphabet, and each type of modulation symbol is sequentially generated using a hardware efficient combination generator that performs as a virtual lookup table (LUT). Likewise, decoding can be performed by sequentially identifying locations of individual modulation symbols within the received codeword.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Murali Krishnan, Yan Cui, Yu Sheng Bai
  • Patent number: 10595325
    Abstract: A method by which a base station transmits terminal grouping information in a non-orthogonal multiple access scheme can comprise the steps of: grouping terminals sharing the same frequency resource on the basis of any one of a data transmission rate requested by each terminal, scheduling impartiality among the terminal, and a timing distance of each terminal; and allocating reference symbols for each grouped terminal group such that the reference symbols do not overlap for each terminal group in a time domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hojae Lee, Hyunsoo Ko, Kukheon Choi, Kwangseok Noh, Dongkyu Kim, Sangrim Lee
  • Patent number: 10594432
    Abstract: An encoder outputs a first bit sequence having N bits. A mapper generates a first complex signal s1 and a second complex signal s2 with use of bit sequence having X+Y bits included in an input second bit sequence, where X indicates the number of bits used to generate the first complex signal s1, and Y indicates the number of bits used to generate the second complex signal s2. A bit length adjuster is provided after the encoder, and performs bit length adjustment on the first bit sequence such that the second bit sequence has a bit length that is a multiple of X+Y, and outputs the first bit sequence after the bit length adjustment as the second bit sequence. As a result, a problem between a codeword length of a block code and the number of bits necessary to perform mapping by a set of modulation schemes is solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 10585844
    Abstract: A more robust universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter (UART) protocol utilizing a pattern matching methodology to evaluate and decode a serial data stream in noisy environments is provided. The UART protocol is may further allow for adjustment of the expected edge of a data bit within the serial data stream to reduce and/or eliminate drift in the data stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth S. Goekjian, Dale C. Earl, Christopher A. Metildi
  • Patent number: 10578745
    Abstract: A positioning signal receiving method includes receiving a positioning signal by which unit data that includes sequence information of navigation message data and one or more error detection information is sequentially transmitted, performing a first determination that determines whether or not an error occurs in first received unit data, based on the error detection information that is included in the first received unit data performing a second determination that determines whether or not an error occurs in second received unit data, based on the error detection information that is included in the second received unit data, if it is determined that an error occurs according to the first determination, and determining that the sequence information of the second received unit data or the sequence information of the first received unit data is correct, if it is determined that an error does not occur according to the second determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Hideo Sasahara
  • Patent number: 10575292
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods for transmitting and receiving a control channel, a base station, and a user equipment, which relate to the communication field, and can solve a transmission problem of available changing transmission resources caused by introduction of an E-PDCCH. A method includes determining, by a terminal device, a resource set and resource elements (REs) of predetermined overheads in the resource set. The REs of the predetermined overheads include an RE of at least one of a paging channel and a synchronization channel, with at least one of following REs: an RE of a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS), an RE of a cell-specific reference signal (CRS), an RE of a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), or a muted RE. The terminal device receives from a base station, a control channel on an RE subset comprised in the resource set, wherein the RE subset comprises a part of the REs in the resource set and do not contain the REs of the predetermined overheads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Hauwei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunpeng Liu, Chaojun Li, Qiang Wu
  • Patent number: 10574273
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a method for dynamically scaling log-likelihood ratio (LLR) values of received data bits before decoding the received data bits. A plurality of data bits are received corresponding to a data packet. A first set of data bits of a first type are determined from the plurality of data bits based on a modulation scheme corresponding to the received data bits. A first LLR histogram is generated corresponding to the first set of data bits of the first type. A first scaling factor is calculated based on the first LLR histogram such that a first LLR value range corresponding to the first set of data bits is expanded to a maximum LLR value range. All LLR values are scaled by the first scaling factor. The scaled LLR values corresponding to the plurality of data bits are sent to a decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Sri Varsha Rottela, Vijay Ahirwar
  • Patent number: 10574371
    Abstract: An audio processor includes a detector configured to determine a correlation of first and second data corresponding to an analog FM component and an HD FM component, respectively, of a broadcast RF signal. A signal processor is configured to receive an input audio signal, to generate an analog FM audio signal and an HD FM audio signal therefrom and to control a relative timing of the analog FM audio signal and the HD FM audio signal based on the determined correlation. The signal processor may include a multiband limiter configured to generate a multiband limited audio signal responsive to the input audio signal, an HD FM audio processor configured to generate the HD FM audio signal responsive to the multiband limited audio signal, and an analog FM audio processor configured to generate the analog FM audio signal responsive to the multiband limited audio signal and to delay the analog FM audio signal responsive to the timing control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: WHEATSTONE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jeffrey Allan Keith
  • Patent number: 10567125
    Abstract: A method for modulating data for transmission within a communication system. The method includes establishing a time-frequency shifting matrix of dimension N×N, wherein N is greater than one. The method further includes combining the time-frequency shifting matrix with a data frame to provide an intermediate data frame. A transformed data matrix is provided by permuting elements of the intermediate data frame. A modulated signal is generated in accordance with elements of the transformed data matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Cohere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronny Hadani, Shlomo Selim Rakib
  • Patent number: 10542530
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for reducing the decoding complexity for low cost devices (e.g., low cost UEs). One technique may include simplifying the PDCCH format. This may include generating a compact DCI format for transmitting DCI to a low cost device. The compact DCI format may correspond to at least one standard DCI format used by a regular UE and may comprise a reduced number of bits when compared to the standard DCI format. Another technique may include reducing the number of blind decodes. This technique may include selecting a set of resources for transmitting DCI from a limited set of decoding candidates, such that a receiving low cost device need only perform blind decodes for the limited set of decoding candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorprated
    Inventors: Wanshi Chen, Hao Xu, Juan Montojo, Peter Gaal
  • Patent number: 10542512
    Abstract: There is provided a method for time synchronization of stations (STAs) in a wireless local area network. An access point (AP) transmits a request to at least two STAs for the at least two STAs to transmit a response to the AP, the request indicating which frequency sub-band each of the at least two STAs is to use for transmitting the response. Responses to the request are received from the at least two STAs, wherein each of the responses comprises orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA) symbols. For each of the at least two STAs, a time delay is determined based on the responses. Then, control signalling is transmitted to the at least two STAs, the control signalling comprising time alignment commands for the at least two STAs, wherein each time alignment command is based on the time delay for one of the at least two STAs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Thomas Nilsson, Dzevdan Kapetanovic, Leif Wilhelmsson
  • Patent number: 10530614
    Abstract: Systems and methods for electronic devices including two or more semiconductor devices coupled via an interconnect. The interconnect includes multiple lanes each having a link between the first and second semiconductor devices. One or more lanes of the multiple lanes each include clock and data recovery circuitry to perform full clock and data recovery. One or more other lanes of the multiple lanes each do not include clock and data recovery circuitry and instead includes a phase adjustment and clock multiplier circuit that is slave to clock and data recovery circuitry of the one or more lanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hsinho Wu, Masashi Shimanouchi, Peng Li
  • Patent number: 10505777
    Abstract: An all-digital software-only modem using distributed processing resources of cloud computing is provided. In particular, all processes that were previously supported by purpose built software, firmware, Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) hardware description language (HDL) firmware, and an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) are in the instant disclosure supported entirely by a High Performance Computing (HPC) server inside a cloud computing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Envistacom, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Beeler, Kasra Toyserkani
  • Patent number: 10491260
    Abstract: A method for an apparatus that supports full-duplex radio (FDR) communication controlling a self-interference duplication signal for removing self-interference comprises the steps of: transmitting two reference signals; and measuring the power of the two reference signals that arrive as self-interference signals; and a self-interference duplication generation unit for duplicating and generating a self-interference signal including three elements controlling two elements of the three elements based on the measured power of a first reference signal of the two reference signals, and controlling the remaining element based on the measured power of a second reference signal, wherein the three elements comprise a time delayer, a phase shifter and an attenuator, and the two reference signals are orthogonal to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignees: LG Electronics Inc., Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Yonsei University
    Inventors: Dongkyu Kim, Donghyun Lee, Byung-Wook Min, Kwangseok Noh
  • Patent number: 10484136
    Abstract: A deinterleaver device, a method for deinterleaving, an interleaver device, and a method for interleaving are provided. The method for deinterleaving includes: providing a memory and a stream count for a frame; virtually dividing the memory into equal sections, wherein a section count equals the stream count; calculating a write address for a sample of the samples based on a location of the sample in the frame and a correspondence of the location to one of the sections; receiving the sample; and writing the received sample to the write address, wherein the calculating and the write address corresponds to a correct deinterleaving location in one of the sections for the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Hughes Network Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Sri Bhat, Bala Subramaniam, Yanlai Liu
  • Patent number: 10484986
    Abstract: A method of two-stage scheduling in downlink control channel is proposed to enhance downlink control information (DCI) forward compatibility and hardware flexibility. The DCI comprises a basic DCI and an extended DCI. The basic DCI provides basic scheduling information of the scheduled data. The extended DCI provides extended scheduling information of the scheduled data channel. The basic DCI can be unicast to a single UE over UE-specific search space. The basic DCI can also be broadcast or multicast to a group of UEs over common search space. UE performs blind detection of the basic DCI only, while the location and size of the extended DCI can be provided by the basic DCI or provided by a higher layer signaling. Cross-slot/subframe and Multi-slot/subframe scheduling can also be applied in the two-stage scheduling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Pei-Kai Liao, Yi-Ju Liao
  • Patent number: 10469122
    Abstract: Various aspects described herein relate to low-loss multi-band multiplexing schemes for a wireless communications system, for example, a 5th Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) system. In an aspect, a multiplexer for multi-band wireless communications comprises at least one tuning component configured to transmit or receive at least one signal within a frequency band that is selected from a plurality of frequency bands. The multiplexer further comprises at least one combining component, communicatively coupled with the at least one tuning component, configured to transmit or receive the at least one signal within the selected frequency band. In an aspect, the at least one tuning component is integrated on a chip and the at least one combining component is not integrated on the chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chirag Dipak Patel, Lai Kan Leung, Zhang Jin, Chinmaya Mishra, Ravi Sridhara, Youngchang Yoon
  • Patent number: 10469061
    Abstract: A method including operations of receiving an input clock at an input node, coupling the input node to a first internal node using a first capacitor, inverting a first internal signal at the first internal node into a first interim signal at a first interim node using a first inverter, coupling the first interim node to the first internal node using a first resistor, coupling the input node to a second internal node using a second resistor, inverting a second internal signal at the second internal node into a second interim signal at a second interim node using a second inverter, coupling the second interim node to the second internal node using a second capacitor, and using a buffer to receive the first interim signal and the second interim signal and output a first phase and a second phase of an output clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP.
    Inventor: Chia-Liang (Leon) Lin
  • Patent number: 10470156
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining locations of wireless nodes in a network architecture are disclosed herein. In one example, an asynchronous system includes a first wireless node having a wireless device with one or more processing units and RF circuitry for transmitting and receiving communications in the wireless network architecture including a first RF signal having a first packet. The system also includes a second wireless node having a wireless device with a transmitter and a receiver to enable bi-directional communications with the first wireless node in the wireless network architecture including a second RF signal with a second packet. The one or more processing units of the first wireless node are configured to execute instructions to determine a coarse time of flight estimate of the first and second packets and a fine time estimate of the time of flight using channel information of the first and second wireless nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Locix, Inc.
    Inventors: Manu Seth, Lingkai Kong, Tommi Ylamurto, Vivek Subramanian
  • Patent number: 10459117
    Abstract: An extended subspace method for inverting geophysical data to infer models for two or more subsurface physical properties, using gradients of an objective function as basis vectors for forming model updates. The extended set of basis vectors provides explicit mixing between gradient components corresponding to different medium parameters, for example P-wave velocity and an anisotropy parameter. In a preferred embodiment, off-diagonal elements of the mixing matrix may be scaled to adjust the degree of mixing between gradient components. Coefficients of the basis vector expansion are determined in a way that explicitly accounts for leakage or crosstalk between different physical parameters. The same extended subspace approach may be used to make further improvement to the model updates by incorporating well constraints, where well log data are available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Anatoly Baumstein, Ivan Chikichev
  • Patent number: 10454519
    Abstract: Forward error correction encoding is applied to a first stream of input bits associated with a first data layer to generate a first stream of coded bits. The first steam of coded bits is mapped to K1 binary streams. A first layer-specific set of stream-specific modulators are applied to the K1 binary streams to generate K1 independent complex-valued symbol streams. The symbol streams are transmitted using T1 resource elements out of N1 resource elements. The T1 resource elements are defined by a first layer-specific signature of length N1, where 1?T1<N1. The same process may also be carried out for a second stream of input bits associated with a second data layer using a second layer-specific set of stream-specific modulators and a second layer-specific signature, which may differ from the first layer-specific signature in terms of sparsity pattern and/or sparsity level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mahmoud Taherzadeh Boroujeni, Alireza Bayesteh, Mohammadhadi Baligh
  • Patent number: 10439664
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for communicating in a wireless network include provision of interfering signal characteristics information to a user equipment to facilitate suppression of an interfering signal present in a downlink signal being received at the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alexei Davydov, Seunghee Han, Gregory Morozov, Alexander Maltsev, Ilya Bolotin
  • Patent number: 10439859
    Abstract: A wireless communication device receives OFDM radio signals having different numerologies (i.e. different sub-carrier spacing) and determines whether the transmission, by one or more transmitting nodes, of the OFDM signals are coordinated. The meaning of “coordinated” is to be understood as the OFDM signals are time-synchronized and the determination of whether the OFDM signals are coordinated may involve such actions as reading broadcast or receiving configuration message transmitted in the system, determining a relation (for instance cell/access point beam identity) between transmitted synchronization or reference signals. If the OFDM signals are determined to be coordinated, time and/or frequency offset for the second OFDM signal having the second subcarrier spacing is derived based on the time and/or frequency offset associated with the first OFDM signal having the first subcarrier spacing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)
    Inventors: Bengt Lindoff, Magnus Astrom
  • Patent number: 10432346
    Abstract: An encoder outputs a first bit sequence having N bits. A mapper generates a first complex signal s1 and a second complex signal s2 with use of bit sequence having X+Y bits included in an input second bit sequence, where X indicates the number of bits used to generate the first complex signal s1, and Y indicates the number of bits used to generate the second complex signal s2. A bit length adjuster is provided after the encoder, and performs bit length adjustment on the first bit sequence such that the second bit sequence has a bit length that is a multiple of X+Y, and outputs the first bit sequence after the bit length adjustment as the second bit sequence. As a result, a problem between a codeword length of a block code and the number of bits necessary to perform mapping by a set of modulation schemes is solved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: SUN PATENT TRUST
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 10432253
    Abstract: Noise distribution shaping for signals, particularly for the application in receivers for CDMA signals. An embodiment provides a method for noise distribution shaping for signals comprising the acts of generating a blanking control signal by comparing a received signal comprising transitions with at least one blanking threshold, determining transitions of the received signal and zones around the determined transitions, and generating a transitions control signal comprising the determined transitions and zones, adapting the at least one blanking threshold or the received signal according to an offset value depending on the amplitude of the received signal and on the transitions control signal, and modifying the noise distribution of the received signal by applying blanking of the received signal under control of the blanking control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE GMBH
    Inventors: Francis Soualle, Mathieu Cattenoz
  • Patent number: 10419095
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method for a terminal reporting channel state information to a base station in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a first reference signal corresponding to a row of a transmission antenna array, and a second reference signal corresponding to a column of the transmission antenna array; receiving, from the base station, a cross polarization characteristics measurement indicator; and reporting, to the base station, channel state information comprising a first precoder corresponding to the first reference signal and a second precoder corresponding to the second reference signal, wherein the channel state information comprises cross polarization characteristics information between antenna ports that have the same indexes, the antenna ports being among antenna ports having the first reference signal and the second reference signal transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jiwon Kang, Kitae Kim, Kilbom Lee, Kungmin Park, Heejin Kim
  • Patent number: 10394650
    Abstract: A method includes utilizing, by a first computing device, a first writing pattern to write a set of encoded data slices to a sharing group of sites. The first writing pattern includes writing a write threshold number of encoded data slices to storage units of a first site and writing a remaining number of encoded data slices to another storage unit(s) in another site(s). The method further includes sending, by storage units of the first site, encoded data slices of up to the write threshold number to other storage units in accordance with an inter-site storage unit relationship. The method further includes, when indicating in the inter-site storage unit relationship, sending, by storage unit(s) of the other site(s), encoded data slices of the remaining number of encoded data slices to other storage units in accordance with the inter-site storage unit relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas Dubucq, Daniel J. Scholl
  • Patent number: 10389473
    Abstract: A disclosed method for extending reach in an adaptive optical network may include selecting, for an optical channel having a given target distance and a given maximum data rate, the modulation format having the highest spectral efficiency among modulation formats supported in the adaptive optical network that are suitable for optical channels having the given target distance and the given maximum data rate, determining a symbol rate for the optical channel dependent on characteristics of transmission media for the optical channel, determining a number of subcarriers for the optical channel corresponding to the determined symbol rate, and activating subcarrier multiplexing (SCM) for the optical channel. Activating SCM may include configuring transponders to transmit or receive the traffic in the optical channel using the selected modulation format and the determined number of subcarriers. The method may be implemented by a network management system of the optical network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Olga I. Vassilieva, Inwoong Kim, Tadashi Ikeuchi
  • Patent number: 10389453
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a system for controlling gain when time-sharing a tuner in a frequency diversity receiver. Two radio-frequency automatic gain control (RFAGC) filter capacitors are used, each capacitor corresponding to one of the currently utilized frequencies in the frequency diversity scheme. The capacitors are switched in tandem with the tuner frequency selection. This allows the capacitor associated with a tuned frequency to retain the RFAGC voltage until the tuner returns to that frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL MADISON PATENT HOLDINGS
    Inventor: Mark Francis Rumreich
  • Patent number: 10390305
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication in a user equipment (UE) are described in which a cycle duration of an extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) cycle is determined. The UE enters a sleep state of the eDRX cycle and, based on the determination of the cycle duration, uses a first clock as a timer during the sleep state and uses a second clock as a timing calibrator during the sleep state. The first clock may have a lower power consumption and a higher frequency error, and the second clock may have a higher power consumption and a lower frequency error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: James Francis Geekie, Suyash Ranjan, Xu Chi
  • Patent number: 10382236
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to data communication. In a specific embodiment, a known data segment is received through a data communication link. The received data is equalized by an equalizer using an adjustable equalization parameter. The output of the equalizer is sampled, and a waveform is obtained by sweeping one or more sampler parameters. The waveform is evaluated by comparing it to the known data segment. Based on the quality of the waveform, equalizer parameter is determined. There are other embodiments as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: INPHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard Ward, Parmanand Mishra
  • Patent number: 10382598
    Abstract: A first format according to which a PHY data unit is to be generated is selected. The data unit is generated according to the first format, including generating a PHY preamble of the PHY data unit to include a first field and a second field. The PHY preamble is generated so that one or more OFDM symbols are rotated by 90 degrees with respect to other OFDM symbols in the PHY preamble to signal the first format. Or, the first field is generated to include a set of bits that according to an error detection scheme that does not conform to a second format; or the set of information bits indicates a mode not supported in connection with the second format. Or, a duplicate of at least one of the first field and the second field is included in the PHY preamble, to signal the first format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongyuan Zhang, Yakun Sun, Lei Wang
  • Patent number: 10348388
    Abstract: In this work, we present a novel receiving device design for communications systems that incorporates multiple antennas at the transmitting device/receiving device. Unlike existing systems, the new system does not require prior knowledge of the channel state information (CSI) at the receiving device side to extract the information symbols from the received signal. Consequently, complexity reduction and bit error rate improvement can be jointly achieved. Moreover, the new system may offer spectral efficiency enhancement since it does not require nulling to prevent the pilot symbols as in the case of conventional systems. The results obtained show that in certain scenarios the proposed system can offer up to 15 dB of bit error rate improvement over conventional systems. Moreover, the new system can provide about 16.6% of the spectral efficiency improvement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: KHALIFA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventor: Arafat Al-Dweik
  • Patent number: 10318309
    Abstract: An embedded system has a data processing apparatus that executes program code and a sequencing controller for switching components of the embedded system on and off, the data processing apparatus and the sequencing controller connected to one another via an individual control signal line, and the sequencing controller arranged to either switch off or restart the embedded system on the basis of a temporal profile of a control signal received via the control signal line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Fujitsu Technology Solutions Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventor: Timo Bruderek
  • Patent number: 10320499
    Abstract: In some applications network parameters vary over time in a manner that precludes the use of conventional swept frequency network analyzers. Swept measurements incur penalty both in terms of acquisition time, and in terms of registration between measurements taken at the beginning and at the end of a sweep. Disclosed is an architecture and method for real-time analysis of network parameters. Example applications are presented, ranging from thermal drift of amplifiers, to microwave imaging of moving objects, to characterizing materials on conveyors, to characterizing plasma buildup, and many more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: VAYYAR IMAGING LTD.
    Inventor: Yuval Lomnitz
  • Patent number: 10313170
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present invention relates to the transmission and the reception of filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC) symbols in a wireless communication system, a method for operating a transmitting end comprises the step of: generating a first symbol in which sample values of a front end are shifted to a rear end; generating a second symbol in which sample values of a rear end are shifted to a front end; and transmitting a plurality of symbols comprising the first symbol and the second symbol on a time axis in an overlapping manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yeohun Yun, Sooyong Choi, Moonchang Choi, Seongbae Han, Hyung-Ju Nam, Sang-Joon Park
  • Patent number: 10306483
    Abstract: An embodiment method for measurement gap scheduling includes generating, by a serving cell to which a UE is connected, a bitmap that indicates timing of measurement gaps for reference signals transmitted by the serving cell and at least one neighbor cell of the serving cell in beamformed and beam swept beams, and transmitting the bitmap to the UE in a configuration message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Edward Tenny, David Lecompte
  • Patent number: 10306618
    Abstract: The disclosure of the present specification provides a method for receiving a downlink control channel, which is repeated on a plurality of downlink subframes, by a wireless device in a wireless communication system. The method may comprise the steps of: attempting, by the wireless device, blind decoding of the downlink control channel, using one or more of multiple scrambling codes; when the blind decoding is successful, determining, by the wireless device, a repetition level for the downlink control channel on the basis of a scrambling code by which the wireless device has been successful in the blind decoding; and determining, by the wireless device, the number of repetitions of the downlink control channel according to the repetition level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyangsun You, Hanbyul Seo, Yunjung Yi, Daesung Hwang
  • Patent number: 10306486
    Abstract: A method of and apparatus removing of a plurality of relatively narrow banded signals in a relatively wide banded input signal. The method involves and the apparatus provides for compressively sensing one relatively narrow banded signal in the relatively wide banded input signal and removing one relatively narrow banded signal from the relatively wide banded input signal before detecting and removing another relatively narrow banded signal in the relatively wide banded input signal, the step of and apparatus for compressing sensing occurring with respect to both (i) the input signal with the previously detected narrow banded signals removed therefrom and (ii) a frequency shifted version of (i).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: HRL Laboratories, LLc
    Inventors: Cathy (Xiangming) Kong, Kang-Yu Ni
  • Patent number: 10291340
    Abstract: A repeater including an analog attenuator configured to attenuate an analog signal in response to a first control signal; an analog to digital converter (ADC) configured to convert the attenuated analog signal into a digital signal; a digital attenuator configured to attenuate the digital signal in response to a second control signal; and an attenuation controller configured to calculate average power and peak power of the attenuated digital signal, determine an attenuation value for each value of the calculated average power and peak power, and generate at least one of the first and second control signals based on the determined attenuation values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: SOLiD, INC.
    Inventors: Nagwon Kwon, Hyunchae Kim
  • Patent number: 10291437
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include methods and systems for measuring channel impulse responses in a digital communication system. Specifically, statistical properties of the received signals at the receiver of the digital communication system are analyzed to compute, in real time, channel coefficients indicative of the channel state information, which may be time-dependent, without the use of a training signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Davide Visani, Luca Vercesi, Fernando De Bernardinis
  • Patent number: 10284236
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) device includes a plurality of mixers, each of the plurality of mixers having a first input terminal, a second input terminal, and an output terminal; and a self-test circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventor: Saverio Trotta
  • Patent number: 10284286
    Abstract: A multiuser communication system comprises multiple transmitters and a multiuser receiver that detects multiple transmissions via iterative soft interference cancellation. An initial acquisition module and single user decoder module are also described. The multiuser receiver acquires and subtracts known users in the residual signal before acquiring new users in the residual signal, which is performed iteratively until no new users are detected or a stopping criterion is met. To aid receiver acquisition, the transmitters insert discrete tones into the transmitted signals. These allow the multiuser receiver to obtain initial estimates of the frequency, time, gain, and/or phase offset for each user. To improve the quality of cancellation the receiver refines estimates of gain, time, frequency and phase offsets for each user after each iteration, and calculates time varying SINR estimates for each user. The multiuser receiver may be satellite based, may be a distributed receiver, or process users in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Myriota Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Alexander James Grant, Gottfried Lechner, Andre Pollok, Robert George McKilliam, Ingmar Rudiger Land, David Victor Lawrie Haley, William George Cowley, Linda Mary Davis, Sorin Adrian Barbulescu, John Lawrence Buetefuer, Marc Pierre Denis Lavenant
  • Patent number: 10267936
    Abstract: Estimating an earth response can include deconvolving a multi-dimensional source wavefield from near-continuously recorded seismic data recorded at a receiver position. The deconvolving can include spreading the near-continuously recorded seismic data across a plurality of possible source emission angles. The result of the deconvolution can be the earth response estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: PGS Geophysical AS
    Inventors: Tilman Kluver, Stian Hegna
  • Patent number: 10263754
    Abstract: The disclosure provides for an apparatus for wireless communications using carrier aggregation comprised of multiple carrier components. The apparatus can include a processor configured to generate one or more instances of a codeword from a data payload. In an aspect, the apparatus also includes a modulator configured to modulate the one or more instances of the codeword onto the multiple carrier components for transmission. In an aspect, the apparatus also includes a resource manager configured to provide the processor with a virtual carrier space comprising a logical carrier having a contiguous bandwidth equivalent to the aggregated bandwidth of the multiple carrier components. In an aspect, the process may be further configured to interleave at least one of the codeword instances across the multiple carrier components. In an aspect, the modulator may be configured to modulate the codeword instance onto the multiple carrier components in accordance to the interleaving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jamie Menjay Lin, Jing Jiang, Tingfang Ji, Kambiz Azarian Yazdi, Joseph Binamira Soriaga