Patents Assigned to Lucent Technologies, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20150236769
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods implemented in a base station having a plurality of antennas and one or more user terminals. One embodiment of the method includes receiving feedback from at least one user in response to transmitting a first frame to said at least one user. The first frame is formed by pre-coding at least one symbol using at least one first code word selected from at least one first code book associated with the at least one user. The method also includes transmitting at least one second frame to the user(s). The second frame(s) are pre-coded using at least one second codeword selected from at least one second codebook. The second codebook(s) determined based on the feedback and the first codeword(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Publication date: August 20, 2015
    Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Angeliki Alexiou, Federico Boccardi, Howard C. Huang
  • Publication number: 20150111501
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods of managing interference in a wireless communication system. The methods may include receiving information indicative of a portion of an interfering signal received by a first wireless communication device, decoding the portion of the interfering signal, and providing at least one back-off instruction destined for a second wireless communication device based on the decoded portion of the interfering signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2015
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Lester Tse Wee Ho, Hamid Reza Karimi, Holger Claussen, Louis Gwyn Samuel
  • Publication number: 20140064217
    Abstract: An architecture and procedures by which an NGN can provide the following capabilities to an NGCN user: basic terminating service in the peering model; enhanced terminating services in the peering model; enhanced originating services in the peering model; and roaming service in the subscription and peering models. All capabilities are provided in an easily scalable manner via provisioned subscriber data and small modifications to existing IMS procedures. In one embodiment, an NGN is configured among the external networks to receive all SIP requests intended for the NGCN users of an NGCN interconnected to the NGN via the peering model (this NGN is the trunking home NGN), and the NGN forwards these requests to the NGCN for handling using request retargeting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Richard P. Ejzak, Hong Xie
  • Publication number: 20130322338
    Abstract: Methods of reverse link power control are provided. A first example method includes first adjusting OFDMA transmission power based on first feedback signals during an OFDMA transmission and second adjusting OFDMA transmission power based on second feedback signals during periods between OFDMA transmissions. A second example method includes sending first power adjustment indicators based on measured OFDMA SINRs when receiving OFDMA transmissions from a mobile station and sending second power adjustment indicators based on estimated OFDMA SINRs when not receiving OFDMA transmissions from the mobile station. A third example method includes receiving a plurality of interference indicating signals from different base stations and determining whether to adjust a maximum transmit power threshold based on the plurality of interference indicating signals, the maximum transmit power threshold indicating the maximum permitted transmission power level below which transmissions are constrained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Suman DAS, Shirish NAGARAJ, Harish VISWANATHAN
  • Publication number: 20130308179
    Abstract: In one aspect, an optical gain device is provided. The optical gain device comprises a metallic film and an optical gain medium. The metallic film has a plurality of slits therethrough. The plurality of slits are configured such that the film selectively and resonantly transmits light over a preselected frequency range. The optical gain medium is situated within or substantially near at least one slit of the plurality of slits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Chen, Ronen Rapaport
  • Publication number: 20130202582
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition for selectively delivering an active agent to a portion of an organism. The composition comprises first and second polymer portions, having first and second functional groups attached as a side-chain thereto, respectively. The first and second functional groups form cross-links between the first and second polymer portions. The cross-links are capable of being broken by a substance of the organism, thereby resulting in release of the active agent. The composition provides a novel means for controlling the selective release of the active agent in the organism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicants: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Noshir Langrana, David Lin, Bernard Yurke
  • Publication number: 20130104362
    Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus comprising a substrate and first and second disks. The disks are rotatably located over the substrate, each disk having an outer circumference with teeth thereon. The first disk is positioned to interleave one or more of its teeth with the teeth of the second disk. The substrate includes a channel with an exit port located near the teeth of one of the disks. Another apparatus comprises at least one disk rotatably located over a substrate and in a well of the substrate, the disk having an outer circumference with teeth thereon. The disk is positioned to provide a maximum distance of less than about 10 microns between each one the teeth and a nearest wall defining the well. The substrate includes a channel with an exit port located near the teeth of the disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventor: Lucent Technologies Inc.
  • Publication number: 20120174274
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a multi-layered armor. The multi-layered armor includes a stack of layers, each layer including a mesh of fibers of first polymer molecules, surfaces of the fibers being functionalized by at least one of hydroxyl, ketone, and amine groups. The multilayered armor also includes second polymer molecules being hydrogen bonded to the fiber surfaces, some of the second polymer molecules having hydroxyl, ketone, amine or carboxylic acid groups. The multilayered armor further includes a composition of third polymer molecules molded over the stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2007
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Ashok J. Maliakal
  • Publication number: 20120176424
    Abstract: Apparatus including a color mixing light source having a first laser configured to lase at one or a plurality of light emission wavelengths of 459 nanometers or less and a second laser configured to lase at one or a plurality of light emission wavelengths of 470 nanometers or more; and a controller having a color control data input and a color control data output configured to cause the color mixing light source to generate a perceptual mixture of light having a perceptual color, the perceptual mixture including light emissions from the first and second light sources. System configured to map first color control data to second color control data. Method of forming a perceptual mixture of light having a perceptual color. Method of converting color control data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Gang Chen, Ronen Rapaport, Michael J. Schabel
  • Publication number: 20120122300
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a microelectromechanical system. The microelectromechanical system includes a crystalline structural element having dislocations therein. For at least about 60 percent of adjacent pairs of the dislocations, direction vectors of the dislocations form acute angles of less than about 45 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: George Patrick Watson
  • Publication number: 20120107176
    Abstract: Apparatus comprising surface site comprising substantially inorganic surface having chemical composition selected from group consisting of metals, semiconductors, insulators, and mixtures thereof, the surface positioned within polypeptide bonding region and having selective bonding affinity for polypeptide; plurality of interlayers between which surface site is interposed; distal site end on surface site and distanced from interlayers, the surface being provided on distal site end; surface site and interlayers being interposed between first and second supports; first and second conductors provided on first and second supports and having respective first and second distal conductor ends positioned within polypeptide bonding region; conductors being capable of applying external voltage potential across polypeptide bonding region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Robert L. Willett, Kirk W. Baldwin, Loren N. Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20120088308
    Abstract: Method that includes providing plurality of test sites each having first and second layers respectively including inorganic first and second surface sites forming parts of interior of a well, the surface sites having positions and thicknesses being configured for locating thereon portion of unidentified amino acid-containing molecules; exposing each of a first plurality of the test sites to a fluid containing a different one of plurality of pre-identified amino acid-containing molecules and determining bonding signatures onto each of first plurality of test sites; exposing each of second plurality of test sites to another fluid containing unidentified amino acid-containing molecule and determining bonding signatures onto second plurality of test sites; and comparing bonding signatures to determine or exclude identity of unidentified amino acid-containing molecule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Robert L. Willett, Kirk W. Baldwin, Loren N. Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20120075598
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image projector has a spatial light modulator (SLM) adapted to modulate illumination from a laser with a spatial pattern such that the modulated illumination projects an image on a viewing screen. The image projector further has an optical diffuser located on an optical path between the laser and the SLM. The laser is adapted to illuminate the SLM through the optical diffuser to create an illuminated area at the SLM. The optical diffuser is adapted to introduce an angular spread into the light transmitted therethrough. The image projector is adapted to move the illuminated area with respect to the SLM to mitigate speckle in the projected image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Gang Chen, Roland Ryf
  • Publication number: 20120038010
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a microelectromechanical system. The microelectromechanical system includes a crystalline structural element having dislocations therein. For at least about 60 percent of adjacent pairs of the dislocations, direction vectors of the dislocations form acute angles of less than about 45 degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2008
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: George Patrick Watson
  • Patent number: 8116638
    Abstract: A signal receiver, such as an RF-matched filter receiver, includes an optical source (e.g. a mode-locked laser) providing an optical signal, and a first optical modulator to modulate the optical signal with a received RF signal and provide a modulated optical signal. A second optical modulator modulates the modulated optical signal with a reference signal and provides a twice modulated optical signal. The modulators may be Mach-Zehnder Modulators (MZM) and/or Indium Phosphide (InP) modulators. An optical detector receives the twice modulated optical signal and provides a detected signal, and a processing unit receives the detected signal and extracts or measures cross-correlation between the received RF signal and the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignees: Harris Corporation, University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Fitzgerald, Richard DeSalvo, Young Kai Chen, Andreas Leven, Peter J. Delfyett
  • Publication number: 20120000848
    Abstract: Apparatus including a rigid fluid-permeable body, having a first non-planar fluid-permeable body surface, and having a second fluid-permeable body surface; a plurality of fluid-permeable cells in the fluid-permeable body; and a plurality of raised micro-scale features on the first fluid-permeable body surface. Apparatus including a fluid-permeable body having first and second fluid-permeable body surfaces; a plurality of fluid-permeable cells in the fluid-permeable body; a plurality of raised micro-scale features on the first fluid-permeable body surface; and a fluid containment body forming, together with the second fluid-permeable body surface, a second fluid containment structure. Methods, utilizing an apparatus, of treating a liquid with a fluid, and of maintaining a superhydrophobic surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Publication date: January 5, 2012
    Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Alan M. Lyons, John Mullins, Michael J. Schabel
  • Publication number: 20110295029
    Abstract: A composition includes an inorganic particle core and an initiator molecule chemically bonded thereto. The particle core is formed of a material having a dielectric constant of about fifteen or more. The initiator molecule includes a chain having about twenty or fewer carbon atoms and a phosphorous atom chemically bonded to an end of the chain. An alkyl derivative of an aryl moiety terminates another end of the chain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: Lucent Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Ashok J. Maliakal
  • Publication number: 20110294296
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a structure over a semiconductor substrate. To form a trench, a patterned layer is formed on a portion of a substrate such that the patterned layer forms a target area located adjacent an edge of the patterned layer. A self-assembled monolayer (SAM) is coupled to the substrate up to the patterned layer, but excluded from the patterned layer. The substrate is then removed within the target area. A wire is formed in a similar fashion except that the first SAM is exchanged with a second SAM in the target area. Then either the substrate outside of the target area is removed, or conductive metal crystals are grown within the target area. Such structures may be advantageously used in the manufacture of a number of active or passive electronic devices, such as a field effect transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Joanna Aizenberg, Vikram Sundar
  • Publication number: 20110244189
    Abstract: Superlyophobic Surface Structure, including a substrate having a surface; a plurality of nanoscale raised features on the substrate surface, each nanoscale raised feature having a length measured in a direction approximately perpendicular to the substrate surface, each nanoscale raised feature having a raised feature diameter along the length and measured in a direction approximately parallel to the substrate surface; a nanoscale top feature on each of a plurality of the nanoscale raised features, each nanoscale top feature having a top feature diameter measured in a direction approximately parallel to the substrate surface; in which an average top feature diameter is greater than an average raised feature diameter. Method of fabricating a Superlyophobic Surface Structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Nikita Krupenkin, Joseph Ashley Taylor
  • Publication number: 20110123401
    Abstract: Apparatus comprising a surface site comprising a substantially inorganic surface having a chemical composition selected from the group consisting of metals, semiconductors, insulators, and mixtures thereof, the surface positioned within a polypeptide bonding region and having a selective bonding affinity for a polypeptide; a plurality of interlayers between which the surface site is interposed; a distal site end on the surface site and distanced from the interlayers, the surface being provided on the distal site end; the surface site and the interlayers being interposed between first and second supports; first and second conductors provided on the first and second supports and having respective first and second distal conductor ends positioned within the polypeptide bonding region; the conductors being capable of applying an external voltage potential across the polypeptide bonding region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Robert L. Willett, Kirk W. Baldwin, Loren N. Pfeiffer