Patents Assigned to METANOIA COMMUNICATIONS INC.
  • Patent number: 8842701
    Abstract: Various embodiments of primary synchronization signal detection are provided. In one aspect, a method receives one or more signals at one or more antennas of a receiver. The method processes the one or more received signals by decimation filtering the one or more received signals to provide one or more decimated signals, each of the one or more decimated signals having a predetermined symbol size, and enumerating correlation of the one or more decimated signals with a plurality of reference signals to provide correlation results. The method then detects a primary synchronization signal (PSS) based on the correlation results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Metanoia Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Strait, Emanoil Felician Bors
  • Publication number: 20140269957
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a mechanism of dynamic allocation of bandplan are provided. In one aspect, a communication device utilizes a bandplan during initialization in a digital communication system. The communication device modifies the bandplan after one or more channel estimations to optimize data rates of communications in a downstream direction and an upstream direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Metanoia Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Chun-Che Chang
  • Publication number: 20130294298
    Abstract: The present disclosure outlines mechanisms, systems, methods, techniques and devices that reposition a RMC symbol in a TDD frame. In one aspect, a method queues data transmission units (DTUs) for transmission in a TDD OFDM communication system, with each of the DTUs occupying a single symbol partially or fully, or multiple symbols, of a series of symbols in a TDD frame. The method also forms a management symbol for transmission in a kth symbol position of the series of symbol positions, k>1. The method further transmits the symbols sequentially in the TDD frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: Metanoia Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Chun-Che Chang, Sam Mungall
  • Patent number: 8553800
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a transmit diversity decoding techniques are provided. In one aspect, a method receives a first input that includes signals transmitted by M transmit antennas on C channels and received by N receive antennas, where M, N and C is each a positive integer greater than 1. The method also receives a second input that includes estimates of channel matrix elements. The method further generates an output that includes at least an estimate of a transmit signal transmitted by one of the M transmit antennas on one of the C channels based at least in part on the first and the second inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Metanoia Communications Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey C. Strait
  • Publication number: 20130142228
    Abstract: Described herein are a technique, method, device and system related to reducing memory requirements and complexity in receivers. According to the present disclosure, the capability to request precoded ACE symbols is added to receivers in a mode under the g.hn MIMO standards that uses precoding to enhance the capacity of links. Using precoded ACE symbols, memory requirements for the receiver can be reduced as it is not necessary for the receiver to save the precoder coefficients. Additionally, the frequency of updates required for the precoding coefficients can be reduced by adapting the MIMO decoder using the precoded ACE symbols as reference symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2012
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: METANOIA COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventor: Metanoia Communications Inc.
  • Publication number: 20130121435
    Abstract: In the present disclosure, several techniques are proposed to estimate the worst-case crosstalk noise and use it for bit-loading and SRA calculations so that fluctuating crosstalk when PET mode is enabled does not lead to system instability. One of the proposed techniques involves strategically placing some marker tones in the transmitters of the affecting lines. The noise floor may be inferred by interpolating the noise observed on these marker tones (tones that are always-on) and applying to the entire frequency band on the victim line. Another proposed technique involves periodically transmitting a set of marker symbols (fully loaded OFDM symbols), so that a victim channel can estimate the SNRs in a worst case crosstalk scenario.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: METANOIA COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventor: METANOIA COMMUNICATIONS INC.
  • Publication number: 20120324262
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a power saving scheme in data communication are provided. In one aspect, a method transmits a plurality of symbols each of which containing an overhead portion and at least a portion of a respective data transmission unit (DTU). In particular, the method transmits the overhead portion of a first symbol of the plurality of symbols and the at least a portion of a respective DTU of the first symbol when the at least a portion of the respective DTU of the first symbol contains payload data. The method transmits the overhead portion of a second symbol of the plurality of symbols without transmitting the at least a portion of a respective DTU of the second symbol when the at least a portion of the respective DTU of the second symbol contains no payload data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: METANOIA COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Chun-Che Chang, Sam Mungall, Ravi Mantri