Phase Measuring (e.g., Group Delay, Propagation Effect, Etc.) Patents (Class 455/67.16)
  • Patent number: 11941663
    Abstract: A location-aware electronic device is provided. The electronic device trains feature extraction layers, reconstruction layers, and classification layers. The training may be based on a reconstruction loss and/or a clustering loss. The electronic device processes a fingerprint to obtain an augmented fingerprint using randomization based on statistics of the fingerprint. The feature extraction layers provide feature data to both the reconstruction layers and the classification layers. The classification layers operate on the codes to obtain an estimated location label. An application processor operates on the estimated location label to provide a location-aware application result to a person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xi Chen, Hang Li, Chenyi Zhou, Xue Liu, Di Wu, Gregory L. Dudek
  • Patent number: 11929950
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for calculating and compensating for Doppler shift in a high-speed environment. When in a high-speed environment, Doppler shifts on a transmitted radio frequency signal can become extremely large, which may make it difficult or even impossible for a receiving device to accurately decipher the signal. Therefore, embodiments of the present disclosure describe how tracking reference signals can be transmitted from multiple transmission/reception points, and processed by the UE. For example, the TRS transmitted from the TRP can be enhanced to allow for TRS information from two different TRPs. Additionally, or alternatively, a flag can be set within TRS information that identifies it as having originated from either a first TRP or a second TRP. Additionally, the UE can calculate Doppler shift information and report that information back to the base station in a report message, such as an SRS message. In this manner, the base station can precompensate for the Doppler shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Weidong Yang, Chunxuan Ye, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang
  • Patent number: 11832192
    Abstract: The present invention includes: a plurality of antenna sections, each of which to generate base station reception beams and to receive, by using the base station reception beams, one or more signals transmitted from a wireless terminal using one or more terminal transmission beams; a measurement unit that measures reception quality of each of the signals for each of the base station reception beams; and a control unit that groups the base station reception beams into groups in units of the antenna sections, and perform transmission power control on the terminal transmission beams of the wireless terminal in units of the groups, on the basis of a result of measurement of the measurement unit in units of the groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriyuki Fukui, Keijiro Take
  • Patent number: 11764817
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a machine learning-based receiver that operates on the basis of a wide-band RF front-end. The RF front-end outputs clean IQ data to a SPectrum-Analysis-Isolation-Synthesis (SPAIS) system in order to collect analytics of signals present within the monitored band of frequencies, including signal center frequencies, bandwidth and power. The SPAIS system pre-processes the captured wideband IQ data in order to locate frequency bands with signal energy, isolate and synthesize the located frequency bands in corresponding IQ data for individual processing by a neural network with high classification accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC.
    Inventors: Ioannis Syllaios, Alex Saunders, Katherine Olsen, Michael Calabro
  • Patent number: 11700670
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for managing a wireless network are described herein. A wireless network may include a gateway device, an access point, and a group of client devices. An analytics engine may determine a signal characteristic data for a client device, which may indicate network telemetry data for each of the client devices or associated locations during a time period. The analytics engine may utilize a trained classifier to determine that a signal characteristic indicated by the signal characteristic data for a client device satisfies a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Tianwen Chen, Hongcheng Wang, Hong Li
  • Patent number: 11686807
    Abstract: A method of wireless ranging between an initiator node and a responder node, involves performing a measurement procedure resulting in a two-way phase measurement between an initiator node and a responder node, the measurement procedure involving the initiator node transmitting an initiator carrier signal; the responder node performing a phase measurement of the initiator carrier signal relative to a responder node clock reference; the responder node transmitting a responder carrier signal; and the initiator node performing a phase measurement of the responder carrier signal relative to the initiator node clock reference, the method further involving calculating a distance between the initiator node and the responder node using as input the two-way phase measurements for the plurality of nominal frequencies; and a clock reference offset correction of the initiator node and of the responder node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Stichting IMEC Nederland
    Inventors: Jac Romme, Pouria Zand
  • Patent number: 11533076
    Abstract: A transceiver circuit is disclosed. The transceiver circuit includes an antenna, a receiver RF chain configured to receive a receiver RF signal from the antenna, a transmitter RF chain configured to transmit a transmitter RF signal to the antenna, a frequency synthesizer configured to generate an oscillator signal, and a controller configured to cause the receiver RF chain to receive a first reflection signal from the antenna, down convert the first reflection signal to a non-zero intermediate frequency, and determine a range estimate to another transceiver circuit based on a phase of the first reflection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mohammad Ranjbar, Amir Dezfooliyan, Waleed Younis
  • Patent number: 11533084
    Abstract: Automatic adjustment of the transmission power, of 5G and 6G wireless messages, is necessary for efficient energy utilization and minimizing background generation, especially in high-density communication environments. However, the power level needed for adequate reception is a complex compromise among competing factors related to network performance, message features, and constantly changing noise/interference backgrounds. Disclosed are artificial intelligence systems and methods configured to determine an appropriate power level for communications. The AI model is trained to account for a wide range of conditions in real-time. For field use, an algorithm derived from the AI model, may be simplified and reduced in size to be appropriate for mobile user devices. The base station may prepare a map of signal attenuation factors, noting especially the “dead zones” of poor reception, and increase the transmission power whenever a mobile user device enters such a location. Many other aspects are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: ULTRALOGIC 6G, LLC
    Inventors: David E. Newman, R. Kemp Massengill
  • Patent number: 11438033
    Abstract: In 5G/6G wireless networks, user devices and base stations may adjust their transmission power according to the distance to the recipient, and thereby provide sufficient reception without wasting energy or generating interference. User devices can determine their own location by GPS, for example, and transmit that data to the base station so that the base station can adjust its downlink power accordingly. Likewise. base stations can transmit their location coordinates to user devices in, for example, a system information message. Sidelink, or V2V and V2X, messages can likewise be power-adjusted after user devices exchange their location coordinates. Mobile user devices can also indicate their speed and direction of travel, so that the base station or other user devices can calculate the changing distance and compensate power accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: ULTRALOGIC 6G, LLC
    Inventors: David E. Newman, R. Kemp Massengill
  • Patent number: 11424787
    Abstract: Base stations and user devices can transmit 5G and 6G messages with a wide range of transmission power levels. Selecting the appropriate power level for each message is a complex problem, dependent on the distance to the recipient, the background noise and interference level, priority, and many other conflicting factors. To provide an objective recommendation of the transmitter power level, an artificial intelligence model may be trained, using actual network and message parameters, to accurately predict the subsequent network performance versus power level. Then, a practical algorithm may be derived from the trained AI model, and used by base stations and user devices to select an appropriate transmission power level according to current network conditions and message properties. Use of an appropriate transmission power level for each message may reduce message faults, enhance reliability, mitigate external noise and interference, and save energy especially for battery-operated user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: ULTRALOGIC 6G, LLC
    Inventors: David E. Newman, R. Kemp Massengill
  • Patent number: 11368267
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for signaling of reception-to-transmission measurements from gNBs and user equipments (UEs) for round trip time (RTT) based positioning in wireless networks such as new radio (NR). In multi-RTT positioning, the flow of messages that are exchanged differ depending on the entity acting as the location server determining the position of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexandros Manolakos, Sony Akkarakaran, Sven Fischer, Jay Kumar Sundararajan, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 11363416
    Abstract: A location-aware electronic device is provided. The electronic device trains feature extraction layers, reconstruction layers, and classification layers. The training may be based on a reconstruction loss and/or a clustering loss. The electronic device processes a fingerprint to obtain an augmented fingerprint using randomization based on statistics of the fingerprint. The feature extraction layers provide feature data to both the reconstruction layers and the classification layers. The classification layers operate on the codes to obtain an estimated location label. An application processor operates on the estimated location label to provide a location-aware application result to a person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xi Chen, Hang Li, Chenyi Zhou, Xue Liu, Di Wu, Gregory L. Dudek
  • Patent number: 11335145
    Abstract: The application relates to an access system (100, 200, 500, 600, 700) comprising at least one first gate (102, 602.1, 602.2, 702.1, 702.2) configured to enable an access from a first area (104) to a second area (106), the first gate (102, 602.1, 602.2, 702.1, 702.2) comprising at least one first array antenna arrangement (108, 208, 308, 308.1, 308.2, 508, 608.1, 608.2, 708.1, 708.2) configured to process at least one information signal (234, 446, 564.1, 564.2, 564.3, 562, 662.1, 662.2, 734) including at least one modulated signal part (458) and at least one unmodulated signal part (456), wherein the first array antenna arrangement (108, 208, 308, 308.1, 308.2, 508, 608.1, 608.2, 708.1, 708.2) comprises a plurality of gate antennas (110, 210, 510) arranged adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Scheidt & Bachmann GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Miller, Maximilian Rüßmann
  • Patent number: 11303746
    Abstract: A terminal apparatus that can connect to an audio instrument by one or both of a first wireless communication system or a second wireless communication system having a bandwidth narrower than that of the first wireless communication system, the terminal apparatus being configured to determine whether or not the first wireless communication system is adopted for connection when a button to display a library is tapped, connect to the audio instrument by the first wireless communication system in a case where the determination result is affirmative, and connect to the audio instrument by the second wireless communication system in a case where the determination result is negative.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ryoya Takayama
  • Patent number: 11277239
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products relating to phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) design, for example, for discrete Fourier transform spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DFT-S-OFDM), are provided. One method may include forming, by a network node, a phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) sample sequence using outer-most constellation points corresponding to scheduled modulation order of data channel, and scrambling the phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) sample sequence with a user equipment-specific sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Tero Ihalainen, Kari Pajukoski, Youngsoo Yuk
  • Patent number: 11140604
    Abstract: A system that determines a cell density and cell type in an area corresponding to a location of a user equipment; determines a mobility state of the user equipment based on the determined cell density and the determined cell type; and controls cell reselection for the user equipment based on the determined mobility state of the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Xiaodong Xu, Cuibo Yu, Yateng Hong, Ya Liu, Cong Zheng, Liyao Wei, Xiaojia Song, Zhongbin Qin
  • Patent number: 11056784
    Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to calibrate a phased antenna array. The wireless device may begin a calibration process with a second wireless device. The first wireless device may receive a calibration signal from the second wireless device and may calibrate a subset (e.g., all but one) of the antennas of the array. The first wireless device may receive a subsequent signal and estimate the angle of arrival using the calibrated subset of antennas. Further, the first wireless device may calibrate a complete set of antennas using calibration signals from a plurality of directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Zohar Agon
  • Patent number: 10938467
    Abstract: A transmitting station includes a transmitting antenna whose orientation direction is changeable, and a controller that controls the orientation direction of the transmitting antenna according to an orientation direction of the transmitting antenna determined together with receiving stations to receive data transmitted from the transmitting antenna based on estimate values of received signal quality at receiving stations that are candidates for receiving stations to receive data transmitted from the transmitting antenna. The transmitting station can maintain received signal quality at a plurality of receiving stations at a desired value or more in a data transmission system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Shigenori Tani, Hiroyasu Sano, Katsuyuki Motoyoshi, Akinori Fujimura, Futaba Ejima, Kyoichiro Izumi
  • Patent number: 10775471
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus receive a signal from a first wireless device through a first antenna, of a plurality of antennas, the signal including a first segment and a second segment. Responsive to detecting a change in the signal from the first segment to the second segment, embodiments traverse the plurality of antennas to receive the second segment through each of the plurality of antennas. Embodiments determine a plurality of phase samples, each associated with the second segment received through one of the plurality of antennas. Embodiment then use the plurality of phase samples to calculate direction data associated with the first wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Hulvey
  • Patent number: 10674513
    Abstract: Systems and methods for assigning default an alternative BSS colors in a wireless local area network (WLAN) including a network graph representing radio neighbors include assigning a frequency range and EIRP for each radio represented in the network graph; generating a subgraph of radios operating at the same frequency range; for the subgraph, determining a minimum number of basic service set (BSS) colors required to BSS color the subgraph without BSS color conflict; based on the minimum number of BSS colors, assigning a default BSS color to each radio in the subgraph to avoid BSS color conflict among radios in the subgraph; based on remaining BSS colors, assigning one or more alternative BSS colors to each radio in the subgraph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Dongwoon Hahn, Sachin Ganu, Eldad Perahia, Gaurav Patwardhan
  • Patent number: 10631311
    Abstract: A transmitter includes: a plurality of transmission antennas; a channel estimator configured to estimate channels between the plurality of transmission antennas and a plurality of receivers; a scheduler configured to schedule a combination of target receivers of transmitting downlink signals on same radio resource among the plurality of receivers; and a transmitter configured to transmit downlink signals intended for the combination scheduled by the scheduler by beam forming from the plurality of transmission antennas on the same radio resource. The scheduler modifies a selecting rule related to the combination of target receivers in accordance with a delay time of an opportunity of transmitting the downlink signal from a timing of estimating the channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Seyama, Takashi Dateki
  • Patent number: 10567021
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concepts disclosed herein are directed to a system for cancelling interference. The system may include a first antenna and a second antenna spatially separated from the first antenna. The system may include a first time delay unit, coupled to the first antenna, and configured to apply a first time delay and first power gain on a first signal received by the first antenna. The system may include a control circuit, coupled to the first time delay unit, and configured to determine the first time delay and first power gain to cause a modified version of the first signal and a second signal, received by the second antenna, to be aligned in time and power levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: ROCKWELL COLLINS, INC.
    Inventor: Dana J. Jensen
  • Patent number: 10397928
    Abstract: Systems and methods for assigning default an alternative BSS colors in a wireless local area network (WLAN) including a network graph representing radio neighbors include assigning a frequency range and EIRP for each radio represented in the network graph; generating a subgraph of radios operating at the same frequency range; for the subgraph, determining a minimum number of basic service set (BSS) colors required to BSS color the subgraph without BSS color conflict; based on the minimum number of BSS colors, assigning a default BSS color to each radio in the subgraph to avoid BSS color conflict among radios in the subgraph; based on remaining BSS colors, assigning one or more alternative BSS colors to each radio in the subgraph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Dongwoon Hahn, Sachin Ganu, Eldad Perahia, Gaurav Patwardhan
  • Patent number: 10317508
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) device is provided. The RF device includes an antenna interface, a receive circuit configured to extract data from incoming signals, a playback circuit configured to associate a predefined delay with the data, a transmit circuit configured to generate outgoing signals based on the data and the predefined delay, and a control circuit configured to calculate range based in part on the predefined delay and phase differences between incoming signals and outgoing signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SILICON LABORATORIES INC.
    Inventor: Øyvind Janbu
  • Patent number: 10200178
    Abstract: In an infrastructure equipment forming part of a mobile communications network, a controller is configured in combination with a receiver and transmitter to receive from one or more communications devices a channel state report for each of one or more predefined candidate channels within a frequency range, each of the candidate channels representing a minimum unit of communications resource usable to receive data on a downlink. The controller is configured to select, from the one or more candidate carriers, one or more component carriers for use in transmitting signals to the communications devices within the second frequency range to form a downlink providing a secondary cell, based on the received channel state reports, and to transmit an indication identifying the selected one or more component carriers to the one or more communications devices for use in transmitting signals to the one or more communications devices via the frequency range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jussi Tapani Kahtava, Dimitris Koulakiotis, Brian Alexander Martin, Anders Berggren, Rickard Ljung, Peter C. Karlsson, Lars Nord
  • Patent number: 9985771
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes communicating using a first radio based on a first radio technology; configuring a second radio based on a second radio technology different from the first radio technology to assist the first radio with a first-radio operation; and performing at least a portion of the first-radio operation at the second radio. The first-radio operation includes at least one of multiple subscriber identity module (SIM) page monitoring and page/data processing, higher order diversity data acquisition and processing, interference measurement and management, E-UTRAN cell global identifier (ECGI) determination and reporting, a reference signal time difference (RSTD) measurement, beacon detection for small cell identification, a minimization of drive test (MDT) measurement, and a speed estimation measurement. The first radio technology is a wireless wide area network (WWAN) technology and the second radio technology is a wireless local area network (WLAN) technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Awoniyi-Oteri Omolade Olufunmilola, Soumya Das, Bongyong Song, Yong Sang Lee, Martin Stone, Samir Salib Soliman
  • Patent number: 9915724
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and methods of determining a Time of Arrival (ToA) of a wireless communication signal. For example, a method may include receiving a signal over a wireless communication channel, detecting a symbol boundary of a symbol of the signal, and determining a ToA of the signal based on the symbol boundary and a channel estimation of the wireless communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuval Amizur, Leor Banin
  • Patent number: 9762456
    Abstract: An access node (e.g., Node B), a control node (e.g., RNC) and various methods are described herein for adapting a reporting period for a user equipment, wherein the reporting period indicates how often the user equipment is to send a feedback message containing a channel quality indicator (CQI) to the access node (e.g., Node B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Faris Mismar, Sairamesh Nammi
  • Patent number: 9628232
    Abstract: Radio transmission in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex, OFDM, based cellular wireless radio transmission system, wherein radio access equipment of the system connects to multiple geographically spread radio antennas of a Distributed Antenna System, DAS, for transmitting to and receiving radio signals from user equipment. Transmit timings for radio transmission between the user equipment and the antennas of the DAS are established. The radio transmission is scheduled based on the established transmit timings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Henrik Sahlin, Ulf Lindgren, Kambiz Zangi
  • Patent number: 9609535
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for testing a radio frequency index of an active antenna system are provided. In the method, a tested active antenna system is placed in a test cover for performing radio frequency index testing, wherein, the test cover includes an antenna array part and a passive network part, and the antenna array part and the antenna feeder part of the tested active antenna system are the same. The method for testing includes: monomer calibration of the test cover; near-field coupling calibration; and radio frequency index testing. With the above-mentioned method and apparatus for testing the radio frequency index of the active antenna system, the radio frequency index of the active antenna system can be directly and effectively measured without need of adding an extra test interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Boming Wang, Xiangling Li, Changjiang Cao, Xiangzi Han
  • Patent number: 9594149
    Abstract: Example Embodiments presented herein are directed towards a radio node (101, 130, 102), and corresponding methods therein, for fingerprinting positioning measurements. The radio node may be configured to provide a fingerprinting measurement result comprising radio channel related information. Non-limiting examples of radio channel information may be Doppler, speed and/or delay spread information. Example embodiments presented herein may also be directed towards a positioning node (140), and corresponding methods therein, for fingerprinting positioning management. The positioning node may be configured to receive radio channel related information from the radio node and generate a radio fingerprint based on the received radio channel related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Iana Siomina, Karl Torbjörn Wigren
  • Patent number: 9462581
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a serving base station. The serving base station receives channel feedback from a plurality of UEs. The channel feedback is based on predetermined phase rotations used by the serving base station. The serving base station selects at least one UE of the UEs for a data transmission based on the received channel feedback. The serving base station maps at least one data stream to a set of resource blocks. The serving base station transmits the set of resource blocks to the at least one UE with a phase rotation determined based on the predetermined phase rotations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jubin Jose, Xinzhou Wu, Sundar Subramanian, Junyi Li, Thomas Joseph Richardson
  • Patent number: 9414262
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an interference suppression method and apparatus, which can eliminate interference of a digital circuit with an analog circuit. The method includes: receiving a system clock, where a current frequency of the system clock is a first frequency; and converting the system clock into an optimal clock of a current sensitive frequency band, where the optimal clock and high-order harmonics of the optimal clock do not fall within a receive band of the sensitive frequency band, where the optimal clock is selected, with reference to the sensitive frequency band, from the system clock and at least one planned clock which is determined according to the first frequency, a frequency of the at least one planned clock is a second frequency, and a frequency increment of the second frequency relative to the first frequency is less than or equal to a preset threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Minjie Hu
  • Patent number: 9392410
    Abstract: Described are systems and methods for estimating a position of receiver using sets of two or more transmitters that share one or more common characteristics with each other. Features may relate to estimating the position of the receiver using signals that were each concurrently transmitted from a different transmitter in a set of co-located transmitters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: NextNav, LLC
    Inventor: Andrew Sendonaris
  • Patent number: 9380424
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a method of estimating a distance to a wireless access point in an indoor environment using a signal propagation model begins with the receipt of a first received signal strength value based on a signal received at a first device from a wireless access point in the indoor environment. Based on a predetermined characteristic of the indoor environment, an estimate is made that the received signal originated from a first distance from the first device. A signal propagation characteristic is estimated based on the first signal strength and the estimated first distance and a plurality of signal samples are received from a plurality of devices. Finally, a signal propagation model for the indoor environment is created based on the signal propagation characteristic and the signal samples, and a distance to any wireless access point in the indoor environment is estimated based on the signal propagation model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventor: Arunesh Mishra
  • Patent number: 9231841
    Abstract: For maintaining a certain quality of service for a certain type of data traffic, the data traffic may be directed to a corresponding bearer established with respect to a user equipment. By sending probe packets on the bearer and/or on a further bearer and receiving a response packets returned in response to the probe packets, a parameter corresponding to a time period between sending a probe packet and receiving the corresponding response packet can be measured. On the basis of the measured parameter, a bearer control procedure with respect to the user equipment is initiated. This bearer control procedure may for example include directing data packets of selected data traffic from one bearer to another bearer, modification of at least one quality of service parameter of a bearer, and/or establishing or releasing a bearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Juan-Antonio Ibanez, Per Willars
  • Patent number: 9226258
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for deriving a wireless device location from base station signaling. In a particular embodiment, a method provides monitoring signaling transmitted by a base station serving a plurality of wireless communication devices. The method further provides identifying a wireless communication device of the plurality of wireless communication devices from the signaling and identifying an active set carried in the signaling that is associated with the wireless communication device. The method further provides determining a location of the wireless communication device based on the active set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Kosol Jintaseranee, Phyllis J. Reuther
  • Patent number: 9219623
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus to self-determine equalization parameters for a channel. An initiator sends an equalization insensitive signal (EIS) to a responder on channel to be equalized and begins a count. A responder responds with an EIS. When the initiator receives the response EIS the count is terminated. The count, which constitutes a measure of delay in the channel, may be used to determine desirable equalization parameters for the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: James A. McCall, Klaus Ruff, David Shykind, Santanu Chaudhuri
  • Patent number: 9210707
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a sensing threshold determining method and a sensor node device. The sensing threshold determining method includes: measuring, by a sensor node, a target frequency band and determining used frequencies in the target frequency band and received signal strength of the sensor node at the used frequencies, where the used frequencies in the target frequency band include frequencies being used or having been used by a primary user transmitter in the target frequency band; and determining, by the sensor node, a sensing threshold for unused frequencies in the target frequency band according to the received signal strength at the used frequencies, where the unused frequencies include frequencies that are not used by the primary user transmitter in the target frequency band. With the embodiments of the present invention, a sensor node can determine a proper sensing threshold for unused frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jing Qiu
  • Patent number: 9185604
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are disclosed regarding data rate and resource allocation decisions which are made for a communications channel, such as a wireless reverse connection. The wireless reverse connection may be between stations. One of the stations may be a base station and another station may be a field unit. The field unit may transmit data to a base station at a first data rate, based on a first resource allocation. Also, the field unit may transmit, to the base station, an indication, such as a digital data word, that the field unit has the capability to support the transmission of uplink data at a second data rate. The base station may transmit a second resource allocation to the field unit. After receiving the second resource allocation, the field unit may transmit additional uplink data to the base station at the second data rate based on the second resource allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: IPR Licensing, Inc.
    Inventors: George R. Nelson, John E. Hoffmann, James A. Proctor, Antoine J. Rouphael
  • Patent number: 9166764
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE receives pilot signals from a serving base station and at least one interfering base station. The UE determines phase rotations used by the serving base station and the at least one interfering base station for transmitting resource blocks. The UE determines channel feedback based on the received pilots signals and the determined phase rotations for each of the serving base station and the at least one interfering base station. The UE sends the channel feedback to the serving base station. The UE receives data based on the determined phase rotations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jubin Jose, Sundar Subramanian, Xinzhou Wu, Junyi Li, Thomas Joseph Richardson
  • Patent number: 9167545
    Abstract: There is provided a receiver including a first delay time calculating unit configured to calculate a first delay time indicating a time lag between transmission of a transmission signal by a transmitter and reception of the transmission signal by the receiver, a second delay time calculating unit configured to calculate a second delay time indicating a time lag between transmission of a response signal by the receiver and reception of the response signal by the transmitter, and a time difference calculating unit configured to calculate a time difference between a time of a clock in the transmitter and a time of a clock in the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Osamu Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 9077490
    Abstract: In a method for transmitting a channel quality information on the quality of a communication channel in a radio communications system the system includes a regular cycle for transmitting the channel quality information in an uplink direction from a communication unit to a network, and the method including suppressing in the communication unit the transmitting of the channel quality information based on a pre-defined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Scholand, Juergen Kreuchauf, Bernd Schiele, Tilman Giese, Alberto Gabriel Perez, Hyung-Nam Choi
  • Patent number: 9042928
    Abstract: A method for operating a base station in a wireless communication system in order to support a plurality of characteristics is provided. The method includes allocating resource periods for respective characteristics, transmitting system information including information on the characteristics, transmitting a reference signal with the characteristic corresponding to the relevant resource period through at least one of the resource periods, and receiving feedback information determining channel qualities for all of the characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong-Ho Park, Su-Ryong Jeong, Ji-Yun Seol, Hyun-Kyu Yu
  • Patent number: 9042857
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for wideband frequency and bandwidth tunable filtering are disclosed. According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a wideband frequency and bandwidth tunable filter that splits a filter input signal into first and second input signals, modifies the first input signal to produce a first output signal, modifies the second input signal to produce a second output signal having an intermediate frequency response, and combines the first and second output signals while adjusting their relative phases and/or amplitudes to produce a filter output signal with the target frequency response. Adjustment includes splitting the second input signal into third and fourth input signals, which are modified and then combined to produce the second output signal having the intermediate frequency response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: PHYSICAL DEVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Frederick Vosburgh, Charley Theodore Wilson, III, Jonathan Ryan Wilkerson
  • Patent number: 9037093
    Abstract: A method and system for achieving a link budget improvement in a diverse OFDM radio system by addressing the timing misalignment issue that can occur due to the differences in propagation time in signals between mobile stations and Radio Access Nodes. Timing misalignment is shared or split between the primary path to a primary Radio Access Node and a diverse path to a diverse Radio Access Node. The relative timing offsets between mobile stations are adjusted, the mobile stations are grouped into zones using a variety of different grouping techniques, and the transmission for each mobile station is scheduled, using one or more of a variety of scheduling techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Smith, Xiao-Dong Li, David Steer, Kelvin Kar-Kin Au, Robert Novak, Mark Earnshaw
  • Patent number: 9030567
    Abstract: An image capture apparatus includes an internal time information generating unit that includes an internal time source, a receiving unit configured to receive external time information generated in an external time source, and an adjusting unit configured to adjust the external time information using a first delay time information corresponding to a delay time generated in a communication path between the internal time information generating unit and a time setting unit, wherein the time setting unit is configured to perform a process for setting the external time information adjusted by the adjusting unit to the internal time source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Atsushi Ichihara
  • Publication number: 20150126133
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for testing a radio frequency index of an active antenna system are provided. In the method, a tested active antenna system is placed in a test cover for performing radio frequency index testing, wherein, the test cover includes an antenna array part and a passive network part, and the antenna array part and the antenna feeder part of the tested active antenna system are the same. The method for testing includes: monomer calibration of the test cover; near-field coupling calibration; and radio frequency index testing. With the above-mentioned method and apparatus for testing the radio frequency index of the active antenna system, the radio frequency index of the active antenna system can be directly and effectively measured without need of adding an extra test interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Boming Wang, Xiangling Li, Changjiang Cao, Xiangzi Han
  • Patent number: 9008697
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for notifying a user of an event are described herein. One or more embodiments include a computing device for notifying a user of an event. The computing device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to determine a location of a user based on location information received from a personal device of the user, receive information regarding a predicted path or range of an event, determine, based on the location of the user and the information regarding the predicted path or range of the event, if the user is located within the predicted path or range of the event, and send a notification of the event to the user if the user is located within the predicted path or range of the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Cornett, Robert C. Becker, Jerome P. Drexler
  • Patent number: 9002292
    Abstract: A speed parameter or channel quality parameter are determined in a mobile device based on variation in frequency offset measurement. A higher variation in the frequency offset measurement reflects a poorer channel quality and a higher speed; a lower variation in the frequency offset measurement reflects a better channel quality and a lower speed. The parameter(s) may be fed back to the system and used, for example, to make adaptive modulation and coding decisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Blackberry Limited
    Inventors: Nagula Tharma Sangary, Sean Bartholomew Simmons, David Blaine Dietz, Perry Jarmuszewski, Oleksiy Kravets