Single Message Via Plural Modulation Of Single Carrier Patents (Class 455/61)
  • Patent number: 11304238
    Abstract: In a beamforming system, each User Equipment (UE) transmits an uplink probe. Each Base Station (BS) carries out a spatial search of the uplink probes, estimates an Angle of Arrival (AoA) of the uplink probe received from each UE, and estimates the uplink channel frequency response on an uplink dedicated beam formed toward the UE's AoA. The BS transmits a reference signal to each UE on a downlink dedicated beam formed toward the UE's AoA, from which the UE estimates the downlink frequency response. The UE forms channel impulse response matrices for the uplink and the downlink, using the estimated uplink and downlink channel frequency responses. The BS uses the channel impulse response matrices to form downlink and uplink dedicated beams that put boresight of the beams toward the AoA of one UE and put nulls toward the AoAs of the other UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Inventors: Ahmad Jalali, Kasra Jalali
  • Patent number: 10251196
    Abstract: A mobile ad hoc network communication system is disclosed with a medium access control (MAC) protocol that combines features of contention and reservation to provide a hybrid MAC protocol. Gaining initial access to a channel is achieved using random access, such as a carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) type protocol, in which contention for a channel occurs among users only over available (non-reserved) channels. Once communication between nodes is established over an available channel, the channel is reserved by indicating its use in packet headers, and other users do not attempt transmission over the channel until it is released. Communication on reserved channels does not require backoff or delay, creating a virtual pipe that improves throughput and delay over standard multiple-access protocols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Matthew Johnston, Ceilidh Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 8995916
    Abstract: A wireless transmitter controls the number of transmission beams to be formed for transmitting a data stream depending on the number of data streams to be transmitted, and a wireless receiver selectively receives any one or more of the transmission beam from the transmission beams. In this manner, by changing the number of transmission beams (the original number of beams selectable on the receiving side) to be formed depending on the number of transmitting data streams, high throughput characteristics by a low interbeam correlation at the time of the multistream transmission and a large directional gain at the time of a single stream may be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Fujitsu, Limited
    Inventors: Masafumi Tsutsui, Hiroyuki Seki
  • Patent number: 8948154
    Abstract: Techniques for supporting data transmission based on a low-complexity transmission scheme are described. In one design, a first user equipment (UE) generates a first transmission for a single subcarrier assigned to the first UE. The first UE sends the first transmission on the single subcarrier concurrently with a SC-FDMA transmission sent on multiple subcarriers by a second UE. In one design, the first UE generates a continuous sinusoidal signal at a frequency corresponding to the single subcarrier. The first UE modulates the continuous sinusoidal signal with data symbols and reference symbols. In one design, the first transmission includes a cyclic prefix followed by a useful portion in each symbol period and has phase discontinuity at symbol boundary. A base station processes a received signal to recover the first transmission sent by the first UE and the SC-FDMA transmission sent by the second UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Gaal, Ravi Palanki
  • Patent number: 8891678
    Abstract: A receiver receives, using a plurality of antennas, a multiplexed signal that includes (i) a first OFDM modulation signal with a subcarrier carrying a symbol including multiplex information and a subcarrier carrying a pilot symbol and a subcarrier carrying a data symbol and (ii) a second OFDM modulation signal with a subcarrier carrying a symbol including multiplex information and a subcarrier carrying the pilot symbol and a subcarrier carrying the data symbol. A decoder uses the symbol including multiplex information and decodes the data symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Wi-Fi One, LLC
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Masayuki Orihashi, Akihiko Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8849211
    Abstract: A wireless transmission method capable of transmitting a data stream between a wireless transmitter having a plurality of transmitting antennas and a wireless receiver, the wireless transmission method includes controlling to increase the number of transmission beams to be formed for transmitting said data stream depending on the number of data streams to be transmitted from said transmitting antennas becoming small, and receiving any one or more transmission beam from said transmission beams by said wireless receiver, wherein said transmission beams are formed by predetermined number of the plurality of transmitting antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Masafumi Tsutsui, Hiroyuki Seki
  • Patent number: 8849212
    Abstract: A wireless transmitter capable of transmitting a data stream to a wireless receiver, the wireless transmitter includes a plurality of transmitting antennas; and a scheduler controls to increase the number of candidate beams selectable for transmitting said data stream depending on the number of data streams to be transmitted from said transmitting antennas becoming small, wherein said beams are formed by predetermined number of the plurality of transmitting antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Masafumi Tsutsui, Hiroyuki Seki
  • Patent number: 8836171
    Abstract: The present invention provides a modulation circuit and a method for modulating a wireless power transfer circuit. The modulation circuit has a switching circuit having a first state and a second state. The modulation circuit also has a modulation mode in which the first state defines a normal state and the second state defines an operative state. In the operative state, the modulation circuit modulates an electrical parameter of the wireless power transfer circuit in a modulation direction. The modulation circuit is configured to apply a trial modulation to the electrical parameter to determine whether the modulation direction is in a desired modulation direction. The modulation circuit is also configured to apply a modulation translation if the modulation direction is not in the desired modulation direction, with the modulation translation changing the modulation mode such that the modulation direction is in the desired modulation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: ConvenientPower HK Ltd.
    Inventors: Wai Pong Choi, Xun Liu
  • Patent number: 8781399
    Abstract: A dynamically reconfigurable universal transmitter system is disclosed herein. The electronic device includes multiple transmitter resources for generating transmission signals, an output bus; and an antenna summer coupled to the output bus. The output bus is selectively coupled to the plurality of transmitter resources and it selectively receives transmission signals from the plurality of transmission resources. The antenna summer stores transmission signals received on the output bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Joel D. Medlock, Uma Jha, David M. Holmes, Andrea Y. J. Chen, Madasamy Kartheepan
  • Patent number: 8744005
    Abstract: A method of generating modulation signals is disclosed including generally three steps. A plurality of modulation signals are generated, each of which is to be transmitted from a different one of a plurality of antennas in an identical frequency band, wherein each modulation signal includes a pilot symbol sequence including a plurality of pilot symbols used for demodulation. Each of the pilot symbol sequences is inserted at the same temporal point in each modulation signal, wherein the pilot symbol sequences are orthogonal to each other with zero mutual correlation among the plurality of modulation signals, each pilot symbol having a non-zero amplitude, the quantity of the plurality of pilot symbols in each sequence being greater than the quantity of the plurality of modulation signals to be transmitted. The plurality of modulation signals each including different transmission data and one of the pilot symbol sequences are output to the antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Masayuki Orihashi, Akihiko Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8706030
    Abstract: A radio frequency communication device has data transmission means and data receiving means. The data transmission means comprise load modulating means being adapted to receive a radio frequency carrier signal emitted by another RF communication device and to modulate the RF carrier signal by means of load modulation in accordance with data to be sent. The data receiving means comprise a RF frequency carrier signal generator being adapted to emit a radio frequency carrier signal and load demodulating means being connected to an emission path of the radio frequency carrier signal and demodulating the radio frequency carrier signal when it has been load modulated by another RF communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Harald Witschnig, Erich Merlin, Alexander Maier
  • Patent number: 8688044
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for selective equalization enablement based on modulation type are disclosed. One such method includes receiving a signal via an RF channel, detecting a modulation type of the signal, and selecting an equalization circuit for processing the signal based on the modulation type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Brima Ibrahim, Hea Joung Kim, Paul Lettieri
  • Patent number: 8644427
    Abstract: A radio frequency receiver with dual band reception and dual analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) can be configured to operate in a single channel mode or a dual channel mode to receive a single RF input channel or two RF input channels at the same or different frequency bands. In the single channel mode, the dual ADCs can be used to improve the performance of the receiver for the single input signal or the dual ADCs can be configured for reduced power consumption. In the dual channel mode, the dual ADCs operate on the individual RF input signals to realize dual band reception. In one embodiment, the receiver is configured for asymmetric dual band reception to receive a wideband input signal on a first input signal path and a narrow band input signal on a second input signal path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: SiGear Europe Sarl
    Inventors: Alain-Serge Porret, Friederich Mombers, Melly Thierry
  • Patent number: 8599948
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for symbol mapping in wireless communication systems utilizing OFDM transmission technology in combination with advanced coding schemes. In the method according to the present invention, adapted for use in a wireless communication system utilizing OFDM transmission technology, an OFDM grid is defined by at least a first dimension and a second dimensions from the dimensions time, frequency or space. The advanced coding scheme, for example Alamouti coding, outputs symbols that are related via the coding. At least some of the symbols, defining a code related symbol group should experience identical, or at least very similar, radio channels. According to one embodiment of the present invention, symbols from the same code related symbol group is placed as close together in the OFDM grid as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Unwired Patent, LLC
    Inventor: Jonas Karlsson
  • Patent number: 8594242
    Abstract: A method for receiving modulation signals includes receiving a plurality of multiplexed modulation signals each transmitted from multiple antennas of a communication partner, wherein each modulation signal includes a pilot symbol sequence consisting of plural pilot symbols used for demodulation. Each of the pilot symbol sequences is inserted at the same temporal points in the each modulation signal. The pilot symbol sequences are orthogonal to each other with zero cross correlation among the plurality of modulation signals, each pilot symbol having a non-zero amplitude, the quantity of the plural pilot symbols in each sequence being greater than the quantity of the plurality of transmitted modulation signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Masayuki Orihashi, Akihiko Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8571119
    Abstract: A Software Defined Radio (SDR) subsystem capable of supporting a multiple communication standards and platforms for modulation, demodulation and trans-modulation of an input signal is provided. The SDR subsystem includes a Signal Conditioning Cluster (SCC) unit that includes a signal conditioning CPU adapted for sample based signal processing, a Signal Processing Cluster (SPC) unit that includes a signal processing CPU adapted for block based signal processing, and a Channel Codec Cluster (CCC) unit that performs a channel encoding or a channel decoding operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2013
    Assignee: Saankhya Labs Pvt. Ltd
    Inventors: Parag Naik, Anindya Saha, Hemant Mallapur, Sunil Hr, Gururaj Padaki
  • Patent number: 8559877
    Abstract: A radio base station (100) is provided with a stream determination unit (141) for determining whether communication quality of a radio communication channel between the radio base station (100) and a receiving device is lower than a predetermined threshold, and an antenna selector (142) for selecting, from among transmitting antennas (131-134), transmitting antennas such that the distance between the transmitting antennas (131-134) becomes shorter than that before the communication quality is determined to be lower than the predetermined threshold when the communication quality is determined to be lower than the predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshimasa Kusano, Taku Nakayama
  • Patent number: 8520748
    Abstract: In a cellular system using an OFDM scheme, a transmitter multiplies subcarriers for channel estimation by codes and transmits them, the codes being such that a phase difference ? of the code multiplied with consecutive subcarriers for channel estimation is constant, and a code of every M consecutive subcarriers (M being 2 or an integer greater than 2) is mutually orthogonal with a code multiplied with same subcarriers of another transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Kimihiko Imamura, Shimpei To, Hideo Namba
  • Patent number: 8520768
    Abstract: A method of communicating signals between a transmitter and a receiver in a mobile communication system, and the transmitter and the receiver for the same are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method of transmitting signals by a transmitter in a mobile communication system includes: mapping, by the transmitter, a sequence generated by using a Zadoff-Chu sequence having a root index to frequency domain indexes; and transmitting, by the transmitter, the mapped sequence. The root index is selected from a predetermined index set consisting of three indexes. The three indexes include a first index and a second index. A sum of the first index and the second index corresponds to a length of the Zadoff-Chu sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seung Hee Han, Min Seok Noh, Yeong Hyeon Kwon, Hyun Woo Lee, Dong Cheol Kim, Jin Sam Kwak
  • Patent number: 8515352
    Abstract: A dynamically reconfigurable universal transmitter system is disclosed herein. The electronic device includes multiple transmitter resources for generating transmission signals, an output bus, and an antenna summer coupled to the output bus. The output bus is selectively coupled to the plurality of transmitter resources and it selectively receives transmission signals from the plurality of transmission resources. The antenna summer stores transmission signals received on the output bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Joel D. Medlock, Uma Jha, David M. Holmes, Andrea Y. J. Chen, Madasamy Kartheepan
  • Patent number: 8503373
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate multiplexing of localized transmissions and distributed transmissions to reduce overhead transmission costs. According to various aspects, systems and/or methods are described that enable selection of an optimal transmission scheme in order to accommodate various traffic services, user abilities and channel properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jelena M. Damnjanovic, Durga Prasad Malladi
  • Patent number: 8498347
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus used in a mobile communication system adopting a single carrier scheme in an uplink includes: multiplexing means configured to multiplex a pilot channel, a control channel, and a data channel; and transmission means configured to transmit a transmission symbol including at least the pilot channel and the control channel using the uplink. A first pilot channel used for a reception apparatus to measure channel state of the uplink is transmitted using a frequency band over a plurality of resource blocks. A second pilot channel for compensating for a channel transmitted by the uplink is transmitted by a resource block assigned to the transmission apparatus. Control channels of the transmission apparatus and the apparatus other than the transmission apparatus are orthogonalized with each other by a FDM scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8498351
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus used in a mobile communication system adopting a single carrier scheme in an uplink includes: multiplexing means configured to multiplex a pilot channel, a control channel, and a data channel; and transmission means configured to transmit a transmission symbol including at least the pilot channel and the control channel using the uplink. A first pilot channel used for a reception apparatus to measure channel state of the uplink is transmitted using a frequency band over a plurality of resource blocks. A second pilot channel for compensating for a channel transmitted by the uplink is transmitted by a resource block assigned to the transmission apparatus. Control channels of the transmission apparatus and the apparatus other than the transmission apparatus are orthogonalized with each other by a FDM scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Teruo Kawamura, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8493901
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus, which is capable of operating in an active mode and a sleep mode, comprises an antenna control unit, which controls a half-value angle and a directivity angle of an antenna for communication, and a mode control unit, which controls a change between the active mode and the sleep mode. When the wireless communication apparatus is in the sleep mode, the antenna control unit sets the half-value angle of the antenna to be a larger half-value angle than the half-value angle with respect to the active mode, and sets the directivity angle of the antenna to a predetermined angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Norihito Aoki
  • Patent number: 8483294
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving a common control channel in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) mobile communication system. In the transmission apparatus, when a plurality of bursts are transmitted during a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) of the common control channel, an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) mapper generates bursts that are shifted in a frequency domain by applying a predetermined cyclic shift offset between the bursts, and maps the generated bursts in a resource block. A transmission unit transmits the bursts to a receiver. In the reception apparatus, a reception unit receives a burst, and a combining unit combines the received burst with a burst stored in a buffer. A decoder decodes each of the combined bursts, and upon a successful decoding, detects a TTI start timing of the common control channel from the successfully decoded burst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Joon-Young Cho, Ying-Yang Li, Jianzhong Zhang, Ju-Ho Lee, Hwan-Joon Kwon
  • Patent number: 8442134
    Abstract: Synchronization tracking in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) receiver by obtaining a DFT output vector; determining a sample timing offset indication using reference symbols extracted from the DFT output vector; and adapting the OFDM symbol timing using said determined indication. To provide an improved post-DFT algorithm for estimating time tracking error in OFDM receivers the determining includes (a) estimating the channel transfer function at equidistant frequency positions using said reference symbols, for a first OFDM symbol; determining plural frequency correlations for said equidistant frequency positions for said OFDM symbol; (c) repeating steps (a) and (b) for subsequent OFDM symbols; (d) linearly combining said plural frequency correlations for said plural OFDM symbols obtained in steps (a) through (c), for obtaining said sampling clock offset indication wherein the linear combining uses nonzero weights only. An OFDM receiver circuit arrangement performing this method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Andreas Gerhard Bury
  • Patent number: 8369786
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) communication device (1, 1?, 10) has data transmission means and data receiving means. The data transmission means comprise load modulating means (3) being adapted to receive a radio frequency carrier signal (CS1, CS2) emitted by another RF communication device (1, 1?, 10) and to modulate the RF carrier signal (CS1, CS2) by means of load modulation in accordance with data to be sent. The data receiving means comprise a RF frequency carrier signal generator (4) being adapted to emit a radio frequency carrier signal (CS1, CS2) and load demodulating means (5) being connected to an emission path (4a) of the radio frequency carrier signal and demodulating the radio frequency carrier signal (CS1, CS2) when it has been load modulated by another RF communication device (1, 1?, 10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Harald Witschnig, Erich Merlin, Alexander Maier
  • Patent number: 8358178
    Abstract: A phase modulation apparatus and method are provided. The phase modulation apparatus includes a storage to store phase modulation setting values corresponding to various communication modes; a phase modulation setting value selector to select, when a communication mode is changed, phase modulation setting values corresponding to the changed communication mode among the phase modulation setting values stored in the storage; and a phase modulator to modulate a phase of a transmission signal using the phase modulation setting values selected by the phase modulation setting value selector. According to the phase modulation apparatus, since a frequency characteristic of a loop filter in a PLL circuit is changed depending on a transmission mode of a communication apparatus and phase modulation is performed using appropriate bandwidths according to various transmission modes, it is possible to prevent noise characteristics from degrading when a PLL bandwidth changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventor: Myung-Soon Kim
  • Patent number: 8295389
    Abstract: A method for allowing a reception end to effectively detect a sequence used for a specific channel of an OFDM communication system, and apparatus for the same are provided. During the sequence transmission, a specific part of a Zadoff-Chu sequence corresponding to the frequency “0” is omitted from a transmitted signal. In addition, first 31 constituent components of the sequence are continuously mapped to frequency resource elements of “?31” to “?1”, and the last 31 constituent components of the sequence are continuously mapped to frequency resource elements of “1” to “31”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seung Hee Han, Min Seok Noh, Yeong Hyeon Kwon, Hyun Woo Lee, Dong Cheol Kim, Jin Sam Kwak
  • Patent number: 8295768
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for selective equalization enablement based on modulation type may be found in a method for processing radio frequency (RF) signals received via a RF channel, detecting a modulation type of at least a portion of the received RF signals, and determining whether to enable or disable an equalization circuit for processing at least a subsequent portion of the received RF signals based on the detected modulation type; and selecting one of a plurality of inputs to a selector based on the detected modulation type, wherein the plurality of inputs comprise the at least a subsequent portion of the received signals and an output signal generated by the equalization circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Brima Ibrahim, Hea Joung Kim, Paul Lettieri
  • Patent number: 8265559
    Abstract: A logical channel is configured to match a modulation profile of an active channel. A network element is assigned to the logical channel and a ping request is sent to the network element. A response from the network element is measured, such as measuring the MER. The modulation profile is increased in the logical channel and another ping request is sent to the network element. The response is measured again, and the process is repeated until a non-linearity is detected in the response. The acceptable modulation profiles are indicated before the non-linearity is detected in the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: General Instrument Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Cooper, Charles S. Moore, John L. Moran, Brian Thibeault, Robert J. Thompson
  • Patent number: 8254978
    Abstract: Methods and systems or broadcasting the fast power control message in wireless communications systems are provided. In certain embodiments, the methods and systems can include receiving Carrier to Interference-plus-Noise Ratio (CINR) values from multiple mobile stations, determining a power adjustment value for each mobile station based on the CINR values, grouping the mobile stations based at least on the CINR values, and transmitting a fast power control message for each group with a different number of repetitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Tom Chin, Guangming Carl Shi, Kuo-Chun Lee
  • Patent number: 8180470
    Abstract: Methods and systems lor temporally aligning audio samples of digital and analog portions ol a radio broadcast signal involve receiving a radio broadcast signal having analog and digital portions; separating the analog and digital portions; retrieving a stored first time interval of an approximate time for a sample of the digital portion to travel through a digital signal path in a receiver including a digital demodulator: measuring a second time lor the sample of the digital portion to travel from an input of the digital signal path to an input of the digital demodulator; generating a delay amount by adding the first time to the second time; delaying second audio samples of the digital portion by tho delay amount relative to first audio samples of tho analog portion such that the second audio samples are temporally aligned with the first audio samples; and combining ihe first and second audio samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: iBiquity Digital Corporation
    Inventor: Ashwini Pahuja
  • Patent number: 8139682
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for channel estimation. In one aspect, there is provided a receiver including a demodulator for decoding a signal including at least one of a transmission parameter signaling (TPS) carrier and a data carrier. The receiver further includes a channel estimator, coupled to the demodulator, for determining a channel estimate for the TPS carrier. Moreover, the receiver includes an interpolator, coupled to the channel estimator, for determining, based on the determined channel estimate for the TPS carrier, another channel estimate for the data carrier. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices
    Inventor: Ravikiran Rajagopal
  • Patent number: 8139693
    Abstract: An estimation method is provided for use in a receiver of an OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) system to estimate the ICI (inter-carrier interference) and the noise power of a channel. Two pilot signals respectively carried by two subcarriers are received from the channel wherein the two pilot signals are adjacent and differ by a first phase angle. Another two pilot signals respectively carried by another two subcarrier are received from the channel wherein the another two pilot signals are adjacent and differ by a second phase angle. According to some embodiments of the invention, these phases are correlated with the ICI power, but are uncorrelated with the noise power. The estimation method then individually estimates the ICI power and noise power according to the first phase and the second phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Lai-Huei Wang, Pang-An Ting, Chien-Yu Kao, Chia-Hung Lin
  • Patent number: 8139660
    Abstract: User specific modulation-symbol scrambling is implemented for various uplink segments, e.g., uplink traffic acknowledgement channel (ULTACH), uplink state request channel (ULSRCH), and uplink dedicated control channel (ULDCCH) segments. A wireless terminal is assigned a wireless terminal scrambling identifier. A set of ordered input modulation symbols are determined for an uplink dedicated segment to which user specific scrambling is to be applied. One bit of the assigned wireless terminal scrambling identifier is associated with each of the ordered input modulation symbols of a segment in accordance with a predetermined mapping. For each input modulation symbol a scrambling operation, e.g., a phase rotation of the input modulation symbol, is performed as a function of the associated user specific scrambling identifier bit to obtain a corresponding output modulation symbol. A value of (0,1) for a scrambling ID bit is associated with a (first, second) amount of phase rotation, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Pablo Anigstein, Prashanth Hande, Junyi Li, Rajiv Laroia, Sathyadev Venkata Uppala
  • Patent number: 8130856
    Abstract: Systems and methods for adjustable transmit diversity (adjustable PSTD) are provided. A base station transmits information to a mobile station over two antennas. Using information received from the mobile station related to channel conditions, the base station can adjust a frequency offset between the information transmitted over the two antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Nextel Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Nagi A. Mansour
  • Patent number: 8073070
    Abstract: Provided are a multi-pilot generation method and a detection method in a multi-antenna communication system. In the method, a transmission side superimposes a first preamble sequence and a third preamble sequence to generate a second preamble sequence, which is subjected to serial/parallel conversion before the first preamble sequence and the second preamble sequence are successively transmitted from a plurality of antennas by time division. A reception side receives the first preamble sequence and the second preamble sequence by a plurality of antennas, separates the third preamble sequence from the second preamble sequence by a spatial division process, and performs a pilot correlation process by using the first preamble sequence and the separated third preamble sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Zheng Zhao, Jifeng Li
  • Patent number: 8027418
    Abstract: To improve an S/N of an AM signal in a diversity reception circuit while suppressing an increase in a circuit size of A/D conversion circuits therein. In the diversity reception circuit, a single AM signal is supplied to each of the A/D conversion circuits provided for A/D converting a plurality of FM signals, and a plurality of obtained results of the conversions are added by an adding circuit, thereby improving the S/N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Yuji Motoda
  • Patent number: 8018894
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for implementing a blind seamless channel change (BSCC) when at least one of a plurality of wireless communication devices is jammed on a current communication channel includes the first wireless communication device transmitting a BSCC message on the current communication channel to a second wireless communication device that includes information relating to a communication channel selected from a plurality of available communication channels that the first wireless communication device is switching to next, and a time period when the first wireless communication device will be transmitting on the selected communication channel. The first wireless communication device switches to the selected communication channel. The second wireless communication device receives the BSCC message and switches to the selected communication channel. The first and second wireless communication devices resume normal wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Vincent Roy, Angelo A. Cuffaro
  • Patent number: 8000653
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for selective equalization enablement based on modulation type may be found in a method for processing a radio frequency (RF) signal that comprises receiving a Bluetooth signal via an RF channel, detecting a modulation type of the received Bluetooth signal, and selecting an equalization circuit for processing the received Bluetooth signal based on the detected modulation type. The method may also comprise determining a data rate based on the detected modulation type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Brima Ibrahim, Hea Joung Kim, Paul Lettieri
  • Patent number: 7983617
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for transmitting multiple channels on FM bands may include generating from one or more baseband signals, a plurality of radio frequency transmission signals each at a different radio frequency, wherein the one or more baseband signals comprise an in-phase signal component and/or a quadrature signal component. Suitable combinations of the one or more baseband signals may be modulated in a radio frequency transmission chain that may comprise intermediate frequency modulation and radio frequency modulation. The suitable combinations of the one or more baseband signals may be weighted sums. The plurality of radio frequency signals may each carry distinct information. One of the plurality of radio frequency signals may be centered at a frequency f1+f2 and another one of said plurality of radio frequency signals may be centered at a frequency f1?f2, where f1 and f2 are frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Brima Ibrahim
  • Patent number: 7970354
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for an electronically adjustable signal filter system, which comprises, in some embodiments, a first filter coupled to an antenna coupling network and a second filter, a power amplifier coupled to the first filter, an antenna connected to an antenna coupling network, a pilot tone generator coupled to the first filter, and a first signal source connected to the power amplifier and first filter. In some embodiments, the power amplifier amplifies the first signal, the first filter places a notch into the first signal transmitted to the antenna coupling network, the antenna coupling network combines the first signal and a second signal received from the antenna and transmits a third signal to the second filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Charles Nicholls, Alain Roussel
  • Patent number: 7957700
    Abstract: A transmitter, including at least two transmitter units, each transmitter unit being configured to input an instance of a digital transmit signal, to convert the digital transmit signal to an analog radio signal, and to amplify the analog radio signal. The transmitter is configured to determine a timing difference between the amplified signals, and to adjust timing of at least one of the input signals, so that a predetermined criterion is fulfilled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Marko Leukkunen, Kauko Heinikoski
  • Patent number: 7944873
    Abstract: The present application relates to a method for managing point-to-multi-point services in a mobile communication network, comprising: receiving from a mobile station a request for accessing a point-to-multipoint service, storing a subscriber identification in association with a point-to-multipoint service identification, performing an access enabling procedure, and providing accounting information to an accounting entity of the mobile communication network, where said accounting information identifies the subscriber who placed the request together with the point-to-multipoint service for which access was requested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Frank Hundscheidt, Thorsten Lohmar, Ralf Keller
  • Patent number: 7894835
    Abstract: A method for processing messages in MMS, which includes: after receiving a message from a user side, an MMSC notifying a home Value Added Service Applications Server corresponding to receivers of the message to process the message according to each identifier, which is carried in the message, of the receiver that belongs to the Value Added Service Applications Server and that is carried in the message. The present invention further discloses a system for processing messages in the MMS. By adopting the technique solution provided in the invention, it could successfully implement the message service of a terminal sending messages to multiple receivers which belong to the same Value Added Service Applications Server. Moreover, it could further reduce the message flux between the MMSC and the Value Added Service Applications server so as to reduce the occupancy of the communication resources, increase the efficiency and save the cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kehua Chen, Weiming Cheng, Dawei Li, Guangchang Bai
  • Patent number: 7894781
    Abstract: Multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) antenna technology is used in a point-to-point radio link to provide higher data rates than would otherwise be achievable in a similar system that did not use MIMO antenna technology. Particular embodiments of the invention implement channel coding, dual polarization, adaptive receiver combining and adaptive power control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Martin Vivian Clark, Thomas Edward Darcie, Lawrence Joel Greenstein, Carol Catalano Martin, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 7809332
    Abstract: A method and device for providing a service record for an application (e.g., a legacy application) running on a virtual serial port of a wireless transceiver device, such as a Bluetooth-enabled device. The virtual serial port emulates a serial connection (e.g., a serial cable) for the application. The virtual serial port for the application is opened by a virtual serial port driver. In accordance with the present embodiment of the present invention, the virtual serial port driver also provides the service name of the application. The virtual serial port driver can derive the service name from the name of the application, or the virtual serial port driver can use a default name. Thus, the virtual serial port driver performs the additional function of automatically providing a service name for a application, thereby introducing a standard, efficient and user-friendly approach for providing a readily-identifiable service name for a legacy application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: PalmSource Inc.
    Inventor: David Kammer
  • Patent number: 7787824
    Abstract: An adaptive array antenna part receiving a plurality of transmitted signals in which sub-carrier signal components of predetermined values is suppressed before transmission in order to distinguish a plurality of transmission antenna, by means of the plurality of transmission antennas; a part calculating weight factors suppressing the sub-carrier signal components set in the predetermined values, among sub-carrier components included in a received signal; and a part applying the weight factors to the adaptive array antenna means and receiving the plurality of transmitted signals with distinguishing the same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Wladimir Bocquet, Michiharu Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20100136913
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of communicating a message relating to a transaction of a contactless application effected between a mobile terminal equipped with a contactless module and equipment, comprising the steps of detecting the end of the transaction between the terminal and the equipment, obtaining a message containing at least information identifying said application and end of transaction information, and communicating said message. The invention also relates to a method of transmitting such a message including the steps of receiving end detection information, identifying the application associated with the transaction, and determining and transmitting the message to the mobile terminal. The invention further relates to a mobile terminal and a secure module capable of being used with a mobile terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: France Telecom
    Inventors: David Picquenot, Laurent Fourreau