Transmitter And Receiver At Same Station (e.g., Transceiver) Patents (Class 455/73)
  • Patent number: 9755804
    Abstract: There are provided a method of user equipment monitoring control information and user equipment using the method. The method includes receiving information about a first reference position for a first Enhanced-Physical Control Format Indication Channel (E-PCFICH) from a Base Station (BS); detecting the first E-PCFICH in a resource indicated by the information about the first reference position; obtaining information about a reference position for a second E-PCFICH based on the information about the first reference position, wherein each of the first E-PCFICH and the second E-PCFICH is a control channel including information about the size of the frequency domain for an Enhanced-Physical Downlink Control Channel (E-PDCCH) for demodulating the control information by using a UE-specific Reference Signal (URS); and detecting the second E-PCFICH based on the obtained information about the reference position for the second E-PCFICH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Ji Won Kang, Jin Young Chun, Ki Tae Kim, Su Nam Kim, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Patent number: 9749889
    Abstract: In a technique for communication with a station on a wireless network, the technique includes forming a plurality of narrow-band beams, each having a different angular direction from an antenna of a base station and collectively distributed over a beamspace to form a pseudo-omni-directional beam pattern. That beamspace may span an entire spherical region or a portion thereof, for example, when the narrow-band beams are broadcast over a sector of an entire spherical region. The technique may assign each of the plurality of narrow-band beams to a different frequency band (such as a different channel band or sub-channel) on the wireless network. The technique may simultaneously broadcast the plurality of narrow-band beams in a time-varying manner such that the angular direction of each of the plurality of narrow-band beams varies with time, where that variation may be random or ordered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungwon Lee, Hui-Ling Lou
  • Patent number: 9705557
    Abstract: A front end circuit includes: a first antenna terminal from/to which transmission/reception signals of a low band (LB) and a high band (HB); a second antenna terminal from/to which a transmission/reception signal of a middle band (MB) is output/input; an LB terminal to/from which the transmission/reception signal of the LB is input/output, an MB terminal to/from which the transmission/reception signal of the MB is input/output; an HB terminal to/from which the transmission/reception signal of the HB is input/output; and a separating circuit that passes the transmission and reception signals of the LB and suppresses the transmission and reception signals of the MB and the HB between the first antenna terminal and the LB terminal, and that passes the transmission and reception signals of the HB and suppresses the transmission and reception signals of the LB and the MB between the first antenna terminal and the HB terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Saji, Yuki Endo, Nobuaki Matsuo
  • Patent number: 9699889
    Abstract: A wireless communication module includes: a wireless circuit configured to transmit/receive a wireless signal; a first inter-board connector; a first board on which the wireless circuit and the first connector are mounted; a signal processing circuit configured to process the wireless signal transmitted/received by the wireless circuit; a second inter-board connector configured to be connected to the first connector; and a second board on which the signal processing circuit and the second connector are mounted. The first board overlaps at least partially with the second board under a condition where the first connector and the second connector are interconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomohiro Ikuta
  • Patent number: 9693157
    Abstract: A hearing aid system with a positioning tool is disclosed. The hearing aid system has a hearing aid, an adhesive interconnection unit and a positioning tool. The interconnection unit can be connected to both the hearing aid and the positioning tool. The positioning tool facilitates a correct positioning of the interconnection unit on the hairless skin area behind the outer ear and ensures that neither the hearing aid nor the interconnection unit touches the skin of the outer ear. The hearing aid position can be fine-tuned by turning it in relation to the interconnection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: MED-EL Elektromedizinische Geraete GmbH
    Inventor: Patrik Westerkull
  • Patent number: 9686049
    Abstract: A method and system for Bluetooth (BT) delayed acknowledgment is presented. Aspects of the system may include an initiator device, such as a WLAN access point (AP), which enables transmission of a protocol data unit, such as a BlockAckReq frame, to a responder device, such as a Smartphone, via a first network, for example a WLAN. The Smartphone may be equipped with capabilities that enable communication via WLAN and Bluetooth networks. The AP may wait to receive a response protocol data unit, such as a BlockAck frame, via the first network (WLAN) for a response time duration. The response time duration may be based on the communication slot time duration for communication by the Smartphone on a second network, for example a BT piconet. The communication slot time duration may correspond to the time duration for a BT slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd
    Inventor: Matthew J. Fischer
  • Patent number: 9686748
    Abstract: A terminal communicating with at least one wireless communication device determines whether a first data is received from the at least one wireless communication device in a first mode, in which power is supplied to a display portion, determines whether a second data is received during a first time period from the time when the first data is received, and switches to a second mode in which the power supplied to the display portion is blocked according to whether the second data is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Do-Young Kim, Dong-Keon Kong, Hyeon-Cheol Pu, Nae-Hyun Lim, Hyoung-Kyu Lim, Yong Chang
  • Patent number: 9661598
    Abstract: A method for communicating a signal from a transmitting terminal to a receiving terminal determines a distance between the receiving terminal and an interfering terminal, commands the interfering terminal to stop its transmission when the distance is less than a threshold and transmits the signal to the receiving terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyeong Jin Kim, Philip Orlik
  • Patent number: 9660688
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for power amplifier output matching is provided. In certain configurations, an output matching circuit includes a supply voltage biasing circuit electrically connected between an input node and a power high supply voltage, a second-order harmonic series resonant circuit electrically connected between the input node and a power low supply voltage, a third-order harmonic parallel resonant circuit electrically connected between the input node and a harmonic frequency grounding node, a third-order harmonic series resonant circuit electrically connected between the harmonic frequency grounding node and the power low supply voltage, and a DC blocking capacitor electrically connected between the harmonic frequency grounding node and an output node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Daniel Lee Kaczman
  • Patent number: 9661560
    Abstract: A scanning method and apparatus in wireless LAN is disclosed. The method comprises determining, by an access point (AP), whether to accommodate a station (STA) conducting an initial link setup and transmitting, by the AP, a frame to the STA, the frame including scanning redirection information for the STA to switch other channel, other band, or a neighbor AP when the AP determines not to accommodate the STA. The scanning redirection information includes a band field and a channel field. The band field indicating a band in which the STA conducts the initial link setup when the STA conducts the initial link setup from current band to the other band. The channel field indicating a channel in which the STA conducts the initial link setup when the STA conducts the initial link setup from current channel to the other channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Giwon Park, Kiseon Ryu, Hangyu Cho, Jinsam Kwak
  • Patent number: 9642142
    Abstract: Disclosed are a transmission device and a transmission method with which it is possible to prevent delays in data transmission and to minimize the increase in the number of bits necessary for the notification of a CC to be used, in cases where a CC to be used is added during communication employing carrier aggregation. When a component carrier is to be added to a component carrier set, a setting section provided in a base station: modifies a CIF table that defines the correspondence between code points, which are used as labels for the respective component carriers contained in the component carrier set, and the identification information of the respective component carriers; and assigns a vacant code point to the component carrier to be added, while keeping the correspondence between the code points and the component carrier identification information defined in the CIF table before modification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Sun Patent Trust
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Seigo Nakao
  • Patent number: 9642185
    Abstract: In a handheld communication device capable of a plurality of wireless communication modes, a method of communication begins by receiving, at the handheld communication device, a notification of an available one of the wireless communication modes. Then, in a data communication window of the communication device, a user-indication of an active one of the available wireless communication modes is provided in accordance with the received communication mode indication. The data communication window is configured to facilitate data communication via the plurality of wireless communication modes, and facilitates the data communication via the active wireless communication mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Robert John Edwards, Andrew Douglas Bocking
  • Patent number: 9642129
    Abstract: A method for processing a control channel at a user agent (UA) to identify at least one of an uplink and a downlink resource allocated by a resource grant within a multi-carrier communication system wherein resource grants are specified by control channel element (CCE) subset candidates wherein the carriers used for data transmission and reception are configured carriers, the method comprising the steps of receiving activation signals specifying active and deactivated carriers from among the configured carriers, for active carriers (i) identifying a number of CCE subset candidates to decode and (ii) decoding up to the identified number of CCE subset candidates in an attempt to identify the resource grant; and for deactivated carriers, ignoring CCE subset candidates associated with the deactivated carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Golden Valley Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Sean Michael McBeath, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai
  • Patent number: 9614605
    Abstract: Method, apparatus, and data packet format to implement transmit diversity in a multicarrier environment is disclosed. For diversity transmission operations, space frequency encoding techniques are employed creating distinguishable first and second time domain signals from a multicarrier frequency domain symbol bearing data of interest, which are then broadcast in parallel over first and second transmission units respectively. For diversity reception operations, complementary space frequency decoding is used to recover a corrected multicarrier frequency domain symbol from a time domain signal containing either this symbol, a space frequency modified symbol based on the multicarrier symbol, or a possible partial/complete combination of both. The data packet format includes portions defining a transmission diversity semaphore, a preamble enabling training of a receiver receiving the data packet, and a payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventor: Ravi Narasimhan
  • Patent number: 9609066
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for enhancing ad-hoc online meetings. In an implementation, a service client receives an initial handoff of an online session from an initial service client that was ongoing between the initial service client and at least one other service client. The service client detects when proximate to an in-room service client. When proximate to the in-room service client, the service client initiate a subsequent handoff of the online session to the in-room service client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ross Garrett Cutler, Andrew Peter Sinclair, Jonathan Adam Kauffman, Anton Krantz
  • Patent number: 9590743
    Abstract: A method, system and devices provide for transmitting, by a first device, a body area network (BAN) session initiation signal indicating an availability to establish an on-body communication with a second device. At least one BAN acknowledgement signal is received by the first device from the second device. The first device determines whether one of the at least one BAN acknowledgement signal is received via conducting across a body. The first device proceeds with BAN session initiation based on determining that one of the at least one BAN acknowledgement signal is received via conducting across a body and terminates BAN session initiation based on not determining that one of the at least one BAN acknowledgement signal is received via conducting across a body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Bengtsson, Henrik Bengtsson, Thomas Bolin, Peter Isberg, Magnus Midholt, Ola Thorn
  • Patent number: 9570084
    Abstract: A processing method for identifying data by an audio conversion device includes: connecting the audio conversion device to a first terminal; sending an identification code stored in the audio conversion device to the first terminal, and sending the identification code to a server via the first terminal, wherein the identification code is used to identify the audio conversion device; obtaining user data; uploading the user data to the server, such that the server stores a correspondence between the identification code and the user data; connecting the audio conversion device to a second terminal; sending the identification code stored in the audio conversion device to the second terminal; sending a data obtaining request containing the identification code to the server; and receiving the user data sent corresponding to the identification code in response to the data obtaining request, or receiving multimedia data matching multimedia using feature information in the user data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: IMORE INC.
    Inventors: Kuanhong Hsieh, Weizhi Yang, Shixuan Yu
  • Patent number: 9564875
    Abstract: In order to achieve a circuit device capable of stably supplying an antenna with electric power in a broad power range to output a transmission signal, the circuit device includes a current source adapted to supply a first current in a first operation mode, and supply a second current higher than the first current in a second operation mode, and a drive section supplied with the electric power from the current source, and adapted to perform drive for outputting a transmission signal to an antenna via a matching circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Minoru Kozaki, Shoichiro Kasahara
  • Patent number: 9560656
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to joint support for UEs capable of communicating data of a same bearer on first and second RATs simultaneously and UEs not capable of communicating data of a same bearer on the first and second RATs simultaneously. An eNB of a first RAT may configure radio bearers of different types for communication with a UE scapable of communicating via a first RAT and a second RAT. The eNB may select one or more of the radio bearers for routing packets to the UE via at least one of the first or second RAT, wherein the selecting is based at least in part on whether the UE is capable of communicating data of a same bearer on the first and second RATs simultaneously. The eNB may communicate with the UE using the selected radio bearers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jelena Damnjanovic, Ozcan Ozturk, Vikas Jain
  • Patent number: 9549257
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method of cancelling feedback in a vehicle communications system. The system and method may adjust a phase and a polarity of the microphone signal to produce an inverted microphone signal having a shifted phase. A speaker signal may be summed with the inverted microphone signal to cancel out at least a portion of a microphone signal component of the speaker signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Pinnacle Peak Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Steve B. Hall, James P. Roberts, Samuel W. Grove
  • Patent number: 9548623
    Abstract: A communication module includes a communication module, having an inductive energy transfer unit, a transfer driver coupled to the inductive energy transfer unit and configured to generate driver signals for operating the inductive energy transfer unit, a charging processor coupled to the transfer driver and configured to control the inductive energy transfer unit to operate in an inductive power charging operation mode, and a communication processor coupled to the transfer driver and configured to control the inductive energy transfer unit to operate in a near field communication (NFC), operation mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Gerd Bruechmann, Ulrich Rittner
  • Patent number: 9497654
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for communication at a network entity comprise receiving one or more technology layer measurements during a measurement period. The methods and apparatus further comprise determining that a first subset of the one or more technology layer measurements satisfies an adequate user equipment (UE) communication condition. In addition, the methods and apparatus comprise determining that a second subset of the one or more technology layer measurements satisfies at least one measurement threshold value. Moreover, the methods and apparatus comprise identifying a network entity conflict when the first subset of the one or more technology layer measurements satisfies the adequate UE communication condition and the second subset of the one or more technology layer measurements satisfies the at least one measurement threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Cong Shen, Andrei Dragos Radulescu, Rajat Prakash, Farhad Meshkati
  • Patent number: 9485076
    Abstract: A method for sending a data from an electromagnetic radiator by polarization modulation of an electromagnetic wave includes radiating from the radiator first and second electromagnetic waves including first and second polarizations respectively, the first polarization being different than the second polarization. The first and second electromagnetic waves form a third electromagnetic wave having a third polarization different from the first or second polarization. The method includes modulating the third polarization responsive to the data by modulating one or more parts of the third electromagnetic wave. The data is sent in the third polarization. A system for sending a data includes an oscillator adapted to generate an oscillating signal, and a phase shifter coupled to the oscillator and adapted to generate a first phase-shifted oscillating signal having a first phase. The phase shifter is adapted to vary the phase difference across a predefined range in response to the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Steven Bowers, Kaushik Dasgupta, Amirreza Safaripour Tabbalvandani, Seyed Ali Hajimiri
  • Patent number: 9479970
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention include a bearer switching method, a home NodeB gateway, and a home NodeB. The method includes: receiving a first relocation request message sent by a source home NodeB HNB, where the first relocation request message is used to request switching of a local IP access LIPA bearer; and determining, according to the first relocation request message, whether a target HNB supports LIPA mobility, so as to perform a corresponding switching operation. According to the bearer switching method, switching of an LIPA bearer is effectively managed, thereby saving a resource and signaling, and avoiding resource waste and an invalid signaling overhead caused when an HNB that does not support the LIPA mobility prepares the resource for the LIPA bearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO, LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoying Xu, Dong Chen
  • Patent number: 9471528
    Abstract: Embodiments of a system and method are disclosed. One embodiment is a Controller Area Network (CAN) transceiver. The CAN transceiver includes a CAN bus interface, a TXD interface, an RXD interface, a transmitter connected between the TXD interface and the CAN bus interface, a receiver connected between the RXD interface and the CAN bus interface, a traffic control system connected between the CAN bus interface, the TXD interface, and the RXD interface. The traffic control system detects the presence of CAN Flexible Data-rate (FD) traffic on the CAN bus interface and if the traffic control system detects the presence of CAN FD traffic on the CAN bus interface, the traffic controls system changes an operating state of the transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Matthias Muth
  • Patent number: 9445275
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for mitigation of radio interference between two or more wireless concurrently operating interfaces in a wireless device having an aggressive form factor. In one embodiment, the interfaces are used for different tasks (e.g., WLAN for data and PAN for human interface devices), and the device includes logic configured to evaluate the priority of the tasks and adjust the operation of one or more of the interfaces accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Camille Chen, David Cheung, Hsin-Yao Chen, Michael J. Giles, Christopher B. Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 9438456
    Abstract: Example embodiments of the systems and methods of polyphase generation involve quadrature generation in high frequency digital transceivers. An oscillation signal is received and converted to complex variables with lead and lag phase rotation while performing compensation and calibration due to non-idealities of the in-phase and quadrature phase component parts. In addition to orthagonalizating, the quadrature generator also provides signal amplification and filtering. The quadrature phase generation scheme may be extended to odd harmonics of the fundamental frequency at the input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Sudipto Chakraborty, Swaminathan Sankaran
  • Patent number: 9419587
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a circuit having a filter circuit and a controller. The filter circuit drives a load circuit having different input impedances under different operation conditions. The filter circuit is configured to have a first output circuit coupled with a first resistor and a second output circuit coupled with a second resistor. The controller is configured to generate control signals to select one of the first output circuit and the second output circuit based on an operation condition of the load circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhigang Xu, Junxiong Deng, Taotao Yan
  • Patent number: 9420490
    Abstract: One innovation includes an apparatus, for wirelessly communicating with a communication system via a first wireless channel and a second wireless channel, including a memory unit that is configured to store a first data packet and a second data packet, the first data packet and the second data packet have consecutive sequence numbers. The apparatus further includes a processor configured to retrieve the first data packet and the second data packet from the memory unit, a transceiver that is configured to transmit the first data packet to the communication system via the first channel, to receive a first acknowledgement from the communication system and to transmit the second data packet to the communication system via the second channel after the processor detects that the first acknowledgement comprises a positive acknowledgement of the first reception information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Zhanfeng Jia, Shu Du, Sandip HomChaudhuri
  • Patent number: 9398572
    Abstract: Technology for communicating enhanced physical downlink control channels (ePDCCHs) configured for inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) for a plurality of cells in a physical resource block (PRB) is disclosed. One method can include a node mapping a serving cell control channel element (CCE) in an serving cell ePDCCH in a PRB and a coordination cell CCE in a coordination cell ePDCCH in the PRB. The node can transmit the map of the serving cell CCE and the coordination cell CCE to a wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuan Zhu, Xiaogang Chen, Qinghua Li, Kamran Etemad, Seunghee Han
  • Patent number: 9391705
    Abstract: A non-contact connector is the solving means that a plurality of new light sources discretely distributed over a circumferential direction are generated from one light source on a rotator, and the lining is performed as the new light source with the characteristic which are not in an original light source. At the time of rotation of the light source, at least one in two or more new light sources maintain connection with an external output terminal and switch the remaining new light sources, so an always-on connection state is secured and the hit of the time-axis of the line signal at the time of an optical path change is avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: CHUBU NIHON MARUKO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Kojima, Hiroyuki Koitabashi
  • Patent number: 9379682
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for adjusting gain of a receiver. Adaptation circuitry is operable to identify, based on a matrix representation of a receiver's output generated from horizontal and vertical sweeps of the receiver's output, an eye opening of the receiver's output. The adaptation circuitry is also operable to determine whether a size of the eye opening needs to be changed. When it is determined that the size of the eye opening needs to be changed, the adaptation circuitry is operable to generate a digital signal to change a gain setting of the receiver. When the signal at the receiver's output is under-equalized, the AC gain of the receiver is increased. When the signal at the receiver's output is over-equalized, the AC gain of the receiver is decreased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Tim Tri Hoang, Nam V. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 9362973
    Abstract: A radio module is disclosed that includes a baseband device, a layer device, and a multi radio antenna. The baseband device is arranged to perform digital modulation and/or demodulation. The baseband device provides a data connection available to a digital system using the radio module for radio communication. The multi radio antenna includes an analog radio device arranged to perform analog signal processing, and an antenna array connected to the analog radio device. The layer device is arranged to map each baseband device to one or more of the at least one multi radio antennas, and the radio module is connectable to a second equivalent radio module. A corresponding radio assembly and method are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Leonard Rexberg, Bernt Johansson
  • Patent number: 9351154
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to configuring a wireless device. The wireless device has a first module implementing a first wireless protocol and a second module implementing a second wireless protocol. After the wireless device identifies a need to configure a second wireless protocol, the wireless device begins periodically wirelessly broadcasting advertisement packets by the first module. Each advertisement packet has a payload storing a configuration request indicator. A host receives one of the advertisement packets, optionally establishes, with the first protocol, a channel with the wireless device. The host transmits a reply packet of the first protocol that contains configuration data for the second wireless protocol. The wireless device uses the reply packet to configure itself for connectivity using the second wireless protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Herndon Steve
  • Patent number: 9349236
    Abstract: A passive entry system, in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising: a mobile device to be carried by a user, said mobile device comprising a low-frequency transceiver for short range communication, an ultra-high-frequency transceiver for long range communication and information concerning access, such as an access code, which is transmittable by said transceivers; and a locking device which is to be unlocked by the mobile device, said locking device comprising a low-frequency transceiver for short-range communication and an ultra-high frequency transceiver for long range communication to receive said information concerning access, such the access code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Assa Abloy Czech & Slovakia s.r.o.
    Inventors: Carlo Secondo Mutti, Davide Spedaliere
  • Patent number: 9338781
    Abstract: A method for transmitting and receiving a carrier segment in a wireless communications system, including a base station and a user equipment, is disclosed. The carrier segment includes a first band having a first bandwidth and a second band having a second bandwidth, wherein a first segment gap is disposed in a frequency domain between the first band and the second band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Phong Nguyen, Satha Sathananthan
  • Patent number: 9330045
    Abstract: Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a CAN device is disclosed. The CAN device includes a TXD input interface, a TXD output interface, an RXD input interface, an RXD output interface, and a traffic control system connected between the TXD input and output interfaces and between the RXD input and output interfaces. The traffic control system is configured to detect the presence of CAN Flexible Data-rate (FD) traffic on the RXD input interface and if the traffic control system detects the presence of CAN FD traffic on the RXD input interface, disconnect the RXD input interface from the RXD output interface and disconnect the TXD input interface from the TXD output interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Matthias Muth, Bernd Elend
  • Patent number: 9326014
    Abstract: A computer system for determining TV viewership information for one or more TV panelists is provided, the computer system having memory to store programs and one or more processors for executing the one or more programs. The programs include instructions for: receiving TV broadcast information from a TV metering device, wherein the TV broadcast information identifies a current status of a TV in a household and an associated timestamp; receiving TV panelist status information from a first login/logout device that is different from the TV metering device, wherein the TV panelist status information identifies a viewership status of the TV panelist and an associated timestamp; and correlating the TV broadcast information with the TV panelist status information in accordance with their respective timestamps to determine a relationship between the TV panelist and a respective TV program currently broadcasted by the TV in the household.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: Simon Michael Rowe
  • Patent number: 9325545
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing communications between communications systems is provided. A set of data channels available for use in exchanging data between a communications system and a set of communications systems is identified. A number of constraints for a modulation waveform are identified based on the set of data channels identified and environmental information about a communications environment for the communications between a radio and a set of radios. The modulation waveform that meets the number of constraints is identified. The modulation waveform is configured for use in exchanging the data between the communications system and the set of communications systems over the set of data channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventor: Gary Alan Ray
  • Patent number: 9326171
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a first low noise amplifier (LNA) in a first receive path. The apparatus further includes receive circuitry in the first receive path. The receive circuitry is configured to receive an output of the first LNA and to receive an output of a second LNA within a second receive path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Kohlmann, Charles James Persico, Beomsup Kim
  • Patent number: 9324666
    Abstract: The present invention relates to electronic technology and discloses an electronic device and an electronic apparatus, capable of solving the problem that an electronic device cannot perform a wireless data communication with another electronic device. The electronic device comprises: a first communication chip provided in a first body and operative to transmit/receive a signal directionally; and at least one second communication chip provided in a second body and operative to transmit/receive a signal directionally, the second body being physically connected to the first body in a detachable manner, wherein the first body is capable of performing wireless data communication with the second body by using the first communication chip for transmitting/receiving data to/from the second communication chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: LENOVO (BEIJING) LIMITED
    Inventor: Xuhui Zhang
  • Patent number: 9319914
    Abstract: A method in a wireless communication device includes performing measurements of a first serving cell on a first carrier frequency at a first rate, determining whether a signal level of a second serving cell on a second carrier frequency exceeds a threshold, and performing measurements of the first serving cell at a second rate if the signal level of the second serving cell is below the threshold, wherein the second rate is higher than the first rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Murali Narasimha, Sandeep H. Krishnamurthy, Ravi Kuchibhotla
  • Patent number: 9301260
    Abstract: To perform control so as to achieve a transmission power that satisfies a desired communication quality by an access method which a mobile station apparatus uses, in consideration of the frequency-selective diversity effect, when switching an access method to the one having a different frequency-selective diversity effect. In a wireless communication system in which a communication control apparatus and a communication terminal apparatus that are able to use a plurality of types of access methods perform wireless communication using any of the access methods, the communication control apparatus, when the necessity of changing the access method arises, determines the access method after change and notifies the communication terminal apparatus of switching the access method before change to the determined access method, and performs the transmission power control in accordance with communication characteristics of the determined access method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Jungo Goto, Yasuhiro Hamaguchi, Kazunari Yokomakura, Osamu Nakamura, Hiroki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9300352
    Abstract: A transceiver includes an integrated circuit that enables board-level configuration of an on-chip or external transmit/receive switch. The transceiver uses a high-Q matching network, at least part of which is external, that improves receiver performance; increases transmit power while allowing for configuration of the same chip to use an internal TR switch, or external TR switch by changing connection at the board level rather than the chip level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Brinkhoff, Andrew Adams
  • Patent number: 9281849
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for compensating is described, in which a tuning network is electrically coupled to an antenna and to a phase shift network. Baseband signals travel to and from the phase shift network. A controller communicatively linked to the tuning network and to the phase shift network receives data regarding the state of a communication device. The controller changes the impedance of the tuning network, and changes the phase shift of the phase shift network based on the received data. The received data may include information regarding the channel, band, or sub-band on which a communication device is communicating; information regarding on the application state of the device; information regarding the modulator and demodulator state of the device; and information regarding the state of the communication device's antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Gregory R. Black, Armin W. Klomsdorf, William P. Alberth, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9258156
    Abstract: Digital predistortion circuity is disclosed including digital interface circuitry configured to receive a digital input signal having a signal bandwidth (BW) centered about a frequency f0 and provide a digital transmission signal based on the digital input signal. The digital predistortion circuitry includes circuitry configured to generate a digital correction signal based at least in part on the digital input signal, one or more first signal transmission paths configured to transmit the digital transmission signal, and one or more second signal transmission paths separate from the one or more first signal transmission paths and configured to transmit the correction signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephane Richard Marie Wloczysiak
  • Patent number: 9258046
    Abstract: A control point, such as a laptop, phone, wireless access point, or other device, transmits beacons to receiving stations in a wireless network. The control point may reduce power and bandwidth consumption by transmitting beacons with smaller payloads and/or less frequently to sectors with no associated stations. The stations, which may include laptops, phones, or other devices may reduce power consumption be powering on their antennas when beacons may be transmitted to their sectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Rajesh Kumar Sinha
  • Patent number: 9225380
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to impedance tuning of transmitting and receiving antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Mikael Bergholz Knudsen, Peter Bundgaard, Jan-Erik Mueller, Gert F. Pedersen, Mauro Pelosi
  • Patent number: 9214991
    Abstract: A method, device and system for implementing microwave multiple-input multiple-output, relate to the field of wireless communications. The device includes a transmit channel correction module including a transmission energy distributor and a transmission coupler; the transmission energy distributor decomposes, according to a first energy distribution parameter, each channel of transmitted signals among N channels of transmitted signals into channels of transmitted sub-signals, where the number of the channels of transmitted sub-signals is the same as the number of transmit antennas, the number of transmit antennas is N, and N is a natural number greater than 1; and the transmission coupler performs phase processing on each channel of transmitted sub-signals according to a first phase parameter, selects one channel of phase-processed transmitted sub-signals from each of the N channels of transmitted signals, and combines them to obtain N channels of output signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Meng Cai, Kun Li
  • Patent number: 9214972
    Abstract: In general, the present invention relates to an adaptive IF filter for a multiband receiver. According to certain aspects, the adaptive IF filter can be dynamically configured as a low-pass architecture or a complex band-pass architecture. According to further aspects, the adaptive IF filter enables a wideband receiver which can simultaneously receive multiple frequency bands, but still protect itself from close-in or in-band jammers by selecting a single frequency band or subset of frequency bands. This retains the multiband functionality of the receiver under nominal conditions, which is traded off dynamically for a single-frequency-band with high jammer resistance under severe jamming conditions. According to still further aspects, the approach of the invention is particularly useful for GNSS receivers, since unlike a cellular transceiver, a temporary loss of signal is not catastrophic to GNSS receivers due to the long integration times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL, LTD.
    Inventors: Noshir Dubash, Joakim Landmark