Patents Assigned to Broadcom
  • Patent number: 7852239
    Abstract: One or more circuits in a mobile phone may be utilized for up sampling two or more audio signals to a same data sampling rate. Each audio signal, such as digital audio, voice, and polyringer, for example, may be received at one of a plurality of data sampling rates and one or more of the following wireless standards: WCDMA, HSDPA, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, and/or Bluetooth. Audio signals may be equalized and/or compensated with an FIR filter before up sampling or with an IIR filter to reduce overall processing latency. Multiple half-band interpolation operations may perform the up sampling. The first half-band filter may be replaced by an IIR filter to reduce overall processing latency. A gain of the up-sampled data may be adjusted to reduce noise effects. The channels of the up-sampled audio signals may be mixed and later further up sampled for subsequent communication to an output device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Hongwei Kong, Huaiyi (Hanks) Zeng, Nelson Sollenberger, Li Fung Chang, Taiya Cheng, Claude Hayek
  • Patent number: 7852160
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for recovering a clock or time reference for A/V systems. One method comprises receiving at least one input time reference generated using a first clock and generating, using a second clock asynchronous to the first clock, at least one time reference value representative of the at least one input time reference. The method further comprises outputting the generated time reference value used by the A/V system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Brian Schoner
  • Patent number: 7853268
    Abstract: A wireless terminal enacts a boundary violation notification rule that includes geographic boundary and an action or a mobility violation notification rule that includes a mobility parameter and an action. The wireless terminal determines its location and/or rate of motion by accessing the GPS receiver of the wireless terminal. The wireless terminal then compares its location to the geographic boundary and/or its rate of motion to the mobility parameter. When comparison is unfavorable, the wireless terminal executes the action by sending a message to a destination device via its wireless interface and a supporting wireless network infrastructure. This message may be sent to a partnered wireless terminal, a partnered landline terminal, a monitoring location, or to another location to which the message is relevant. In addition to sending the message, the wireless terminal may also issue an audible alarm, take a picture, or perform another action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Jeyhan Karaoguz, James D. Bennett
  • Patent number: 7852058
    Abstract: An integrated circuit and method in an integrated circuit for providing electrical power utilizing digital power regulation. Various aspects of the present invention provide an integrated circuit comprising a power supply module that outputs electrical power at an output voltage level. An error determination module may receive a power supply reference signal and a signal indicative of the output voltage level and output a power supply error signal. A digital controller module may receive the power supply error signal, digitally process the power supply error signal, and output a power supply control signal. A power output-monitoring module may monitor the electrical power output from the power supply module and output the signal indicative of the output voltage level. The power supply module may receive the power supply control signal and output the electrical power based, at least in part, on the power supply control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Tom Kwan
  • Patent number: 7853234
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) front-end includes a plurality of power amplifier modules and a plurality of impedance matching circuits. Each of the plurality of impedance matching circuits includes an input connection and an output connection, wherein outputs of the plurality of power amplifier modules are coupled to corresponding input connections of the plurality of impedance matching circuits to provide a desired loading of the plurality of power amplifier modules and wherein the output connections of the plurality of impedance matching circuits are coupled together to add power of the plurality of power amplifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Ali Afsahi
  • Patent number: 7852950
    Abstract: Embodiments of an apparatus, system, and method are described for a multi-carrier communication system that cancels at least some correlated noise estimated to be present in a channel in the multi-carrier communication system. Values of noise present on at least on reference channel in a multi-channel communication system may be measured. Correlated noise on a target channel using the noise measurement on the reference channel may be estimated. A residual noise on the target channel may be determined by canceling the estimated correlated noise on the target channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Hossein Sedarat
  • Patent number: 7853734
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for a bus, link or interface. More specifically, systems and methods are discloses for a bus, link or interface adapted to transmit data and control information to at least one processing module and provide synchronization between the data and the control information without requiring the transmission of blank pixels or timing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick Law, Darren Neuman, David Baer
  • Patent number: 7851938
    Abstract: A midspan power sourcing equipment (PSE) for operation with power over Ethernet (PoE). The midspan PSE provides powering over wire pairs that are also used for data communication. To reduce costs by the midspan manufacturer, the midspans can be designed without the use of data transformers. Rather, midspans can include transmit/receive couplers that have blocking capacitors and divider trees for the insertion of power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Wael William Diab
  • Patent number: 7852914
    Abstract: Processing a received signal is disclosed. It is determined that a received signal does not satisfy a prescribed signal quality criterion. Based at least in part on the determination, an equalizer tap is not updated based on the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Eddie Patton
  • Patent number: 7853255
    Abstract: A system and method supporting access, coordination, modification, updating, and management of multiple sources of multimedia information resident on a plurality of access devices is disclosed. A broadband access gateway may support applications that perform user services involving multiple sources of multimedia information across a network by acting as a focal point for access to multimedia information related to the applications. Using information that identifies such sources, the broadband access gateway may coordinate modification of one or more multimedia information sources based upon the content of other related sources of multimedia information. One such application may include the coordination of calendars for the planning of a meeting involving multiple participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Jeyhan Karaoguz, Marc Abrams, Nambirajan Seshadri
  • Patent number: 7852851
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for hash table based routing via prefix transformation are provided. Aspects of the invention may enable translating one or more network addresses as a coefficient set of a polynomial, and routing data in a network based on a quotient and a remainder derived from the coefficient set. In this regard, the quotient and the remainder may be calculated via modulo 2 division of the polynomial by a primitive generator polynomial. In one example, the remainder may be calculated with the aid of a remainder table. The primitive generator polynomial may be x16+x8+x6+x5+x4+x2+1. Additionally, entries in one or more hash tables may comprise a calculated quotient and may be indexed by a calculated remainder. In this manner, the hash tables may be accessed to determine a longest prefix match for the one or more network addresses. The hash tables may comprise 2deg(g(x)) sets, where deg(g(x)) is the degree of the primitive generator polynomial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Fong Pong
  • Patent number: 7852882
    Abstract: A system and method for discarding or inserting audio frames in a jitter buffer is described. The system and method provides improved audio quality as compared to conventional jitter buffer management systems. In one embodiment, buffer control logic determines whether to discard audio frames to be stored in a jitter buffer or to insert audio frames among audio frames to be output from a jitter buffer based not only on the number of audio frames currently stored in the jitter buffer but also based on the power of the current audio frame to be stored in or output from the jitter buffer. The system and method is generally applicable to any wireless or wired communication system in which audio signals are transmitted between entities operating in different clock domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Mickael Jougit, Laurent Pilati
  • Publication number: 20100309779
    Abstract: Carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) for multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. In wireless communication systems that operate in supporting communications via one or more clusters, appropriate determination of when to begin making such transmissions on one or more clusters is made in accordance with intelligent carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) that may be performed in a number of different ways. In accordance with this, a cluster may be any combination composed of one or more channels among one or more bands. In supporting multi-cluster access, CSMA may be performed in selecting a primary cluster and performing backoff (e.g., countdown) thereon. After backoff is finished for the primary cluster, and the availability of one or more others clusters is checked, transmissions may be made using the available clusters. Alternatively, backoff may be made for each or multiple (a subset of) clusters or even individually for each respective cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peiman Amini, Matthew James Fischer, Vinko Erceg, Joonsuk Kim, Joseph Paul Lauer
  • Publication number: 20100310010
    Abstract: A plurality of baseband clock signals by detecting an interference condition associated with at least one of the plurality of baseband clock signals and by spreading the spectrum of the at least one of the plurality of baseband clock signals when the interference condition is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: FREDERIC CHRISTIAN MARC HAYEM, HOOMAN DARABI, MIKE (HON FAI) CHU, ANATOLY GELMAN, KIRAN PUTTEGOWDA, AHMADREZA (REZA) ROFOUGARAN, MARYAM ROFOUGARAN, CLAUDE G. HAYEK, NELSON R. SOLLENBERGER, RONISH PATEL
  • Publication number: 20100309872
    Abstract: Medium accessing mechanisms within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. A multi-user super-frame (MU-SF), as controlled by a MU-SF owner, is used to govern the manner by which various wireless communication devices have access to the communication medium. When various wireless communication devices operate within a wireless communication system, communication medium access can be handled differently for wireless communication devices having different capabilities. Per the MU-SF, those having a first capability may get medium access in accordance with a first operational mode (e.g., carrier sense multiple access/collision avoidance (CSMA/CA)), while those having a second capability may get medium access in accordance with a second operational mode (e.g., scheduled access).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peiman Amini, Matthew James Fischer, Vinko Erceg, Joseph Paul Lauer, Joonsuk Kim
  • Publication number: 20100309373
    Abstract: Video data is processed. A first high definition program stream is received that includes a first high definition video stream component. A first standard definition program stream is derived from the high definition program stream. A second standard definition is received having been derived from the first standard definition program stream. A second high definition program stream is derived from the second standard definition program stream and the first high definition video stream component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter Besen, Stephen Gordon
  • Publication number: 20100310003
    Abstract: Transmission acknowledgement within multi-user wireless communication systems. Within multi-access wireless communication systems such as those operating in accordance with multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO), orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), and/or MU-MIMO/OFDMA, acknowledgement of receipt (e.g., using ACKs) is provided back to the sending or transmitting wireless communication device from each (or a subset) of the intended recipient wireless communication devices. Appropriate coordination of these ACKs from the respective, receiving wireless communication devices may be performed using instructions embedded within a multi-user packet that is provided to the receiving wireless communication devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: JOSEPH PAUL LAUER, JOONSUK KIM, VINKO ERCEG, MATTHEW JAMES FISCHER, PEIMAN AMINI
  • Publication number: 20100310064
    Abstract: A power status signal is received in an integrated circuit that indicates an inductive power status of an off-chip inductive power module and a battery power status of a battery. A power mode is selected based on the at least one power status signal. A power mode signal is generated based on the selected power mode. A power supply signal is generated and adjusted in response to the power mode signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran
  • Publication number: 20100311352
    Abstract: A Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver includes a baseband processor, a receiver section, and a transmitter section. The receiver section communicatively couples to the baseband processor and includes a plurality of tuned RF circuits. The transmitter section communicatively couples to the baseband processor and includes a plurality of tuned RF circuits. In a calibration operation, the transmitter section applies a RF test signal to its plurality of tuned RF circuits. The baseband processor applies a plurality of tuning control settings to each the tuned RF circuit. The baseband processor, for each of the plurality of tuning control settings, measures an output of the tuned RF circuit. The baseband processor selects a tuning control setting for the tuned RF circuit based upon at least one measured output of the tuned RF circuit. Finally, the baseband processor is operable to apply a selected tuning control setting to the tuned RF circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Arya Reza Behzad
  • Publication number: 20100309871
    Abstract: Scheduled clear to send (CTS) for multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. Before sending transmissions, a request to send (RTS)/clear to send (CTS) exchange takes place between a transmitting wireless communication device and multiple receiving wireless communication devices may take place therein. The transmitting wireless communication device (e.g., an AP) may generate and transmit a multi-user request to send (mRTS) frame to a number of receiving wireless communication devices (e.g., STAs). The mRTS frame can include information and instructions therein to direct the manner by which all or a subset of the receiving wireless communication devices are to provide CTS responses back to the transmitting wireless communication device. The mRTS frame may be an OFDMA frame, a MU-MIMO frame, or a combination thereof. The CTS responses may be received in accordance with any one or combination of OFDM signaling, OFDMA signaling, and MU-MIMO signaling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew James Fischer, Peiman Amini, Vinko Erceg, Joseph Paul Lauer, Joonsuk Kim