Patents Assigned to NextWave Broadband Inc.
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Publication number: 20080235587Abstract: A method and system for integrated personal content access have been disclosed. The system includes a gateway which provides simulated multimedia streams by extracting digital content from a web site, converting the digital content to a simulated video stream, and sending the simulated video stream to a target display device. Neither the web site nor the target display device need to change to provide this feature. The gateway is further able to provide a shadow download feature, where if a user downloads content, the user also has access to other resolutions or formats of the same content via the gateway for his various devices. When the gateway receives a request to access the content, it obtains identifiers for the user's devices, and determines a format corresponding to each of the devices. The gateway retrieves the content for each device in their respective formats and forwards them to the respective device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2007Publication date: September 25, 2008Applicant: NEXTWAVE BROADBAND INC.Inventors: Anders Heie, Adam F. Gould, Michael S. Librizzi
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Publication number: 20080233958Abstract: In a wireless communication system, a mobility factor is used to influence handoff. If a subscriber station has been in a low mobility state for some period of time, the system may handoff operation from a first service type to a second service type. If the mobility factor indicates that the subscriber station is moving, the system may handoff operation from the second service type back to the first service type.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2007Publication date: September 25, 2008Applicant: NextWave Broadband Inc.Inventors: Barry R. Robbins, Todd R. Sutton
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Publication number: 20080220787Abstract: Multiple channels are aggregated. In an example embodiment, first data is transmitted on a first channel to a wireless device, and second data is simultaneously transmitted on a second channel to the wireless device. The first data and the second data are transmitted in a coordinated manner by aggregating the first channel and the second channel. Various example channel characteristics and combinations thereof are described. Different data allocation options for aggregated channels are described. Other alternative implementations are also presented herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2007Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: NextWave Broadband, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth L. Stanwood, Ramon Khalona, Lei Wang, Yair Bourlas, Gene W. Marsh, Robert P. Gilmore, Ron Porat, Paul W. Piggin
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Publication number: 20080220788Abstract: Multiple channels are aggregated. In an example embodiment, first data is transmitted on a first channel to a wireless device, and second data is simultaneously transmitted on a second channel to the wireless device. The first data and the second data are transmitted in a coordinated manner by aggregating the first channel and the second channel. Various example channel characteristics and combinations thereof are described. Different data allocation options for aggregated channels are described. Other alternative implementations are also presented herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2007Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicant: NextWave Broadband, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth L. Stanwood, Ramon Khalona, Lei Wang, Yair Bourlas, Gene W. Marsh, Robert P. Gilmore, Ron Porat, Paul W. Piggin
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Publication number: 20080174470Abstract: Methods and apparatus for implementing a wireless communication transceiver having receive path performance diversity. The transceiver implements a plurality of signal paths that can be configured as space diversity receive paths. Each of the plurality of signal paths includes a distinct RF filter. Each RF filter can be configured to provide a distinct frequency response, and in particular, a distinct jammer rejection profile. One of the RF filters can be configured to provide substantially no in-band jammer rejection. Each additional distinct RF filter can be configured to reject at least one distinct in-band jammer frequency or band of frequencies. A diversity receiver coherently combines the path performance diverse signals from each filter output. A transmitter can time division duplex transmit communications over at least a subset of the signal paths and their associated RF filters.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2007Publication date: July 24, 2008Applicant: NextWave Broadband Inc.Inventors: Allan Lum, Todd Sutton
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Publication number: 20080176575Abstract: Methods and apparatus for reducing out of band emissions through selective resource allocation, transmit power control, or a combination thereof. A resource controller, such as a base station, can allocate uplink resources to a requesting subscriber station based in part on an expected transmit power. The base station can allocate uplink bandwidth to the subscriber station based on an expected subscriber station uplink transmit power and a frequency of a restricted emissions band. Those subscriber stations having higher expected transmit powers are allocated bandwidth further from the restricted emissions band. The subscriber station can perform complementary transmit power control based on allocated uplink resources. The subscriber station can limit a transmit power based in part on a bandwidth allocation, modulation type allocation, or some combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2007Publication date: July 24, 2008Applicant: NextWave Broadband Inc.Inventor: Todd Sutton
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Publication number: 20080176577Abstract: Allocations for access in a wireless system may be tiled onto a subframe having a first dimension and a second dimension. In an exemplary embodiment, allocations are distributed along the first dimension while the second dimension is locked, and the allocations are distributed along the second dimension while the first dimension is locked. In another exemplary embodiment, allocations are striped by extending a length of a first allocation along the first dimension and by expanding a breadth of the first allocation along the second dimension responsive to a size of the first allocation and by extending a length of a second allocation along the second dimension and expanding a breadth of the second allocation along the first dimension responsive to a size of the second allocation. In yet another exemplary embodiment, multiple allocations are placed proximately to an allocation placement target and allocation-free areas are produced on a subframe.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2007Publication date: July 24, 2008Applicant: NextWave Broadband, Inc.Inventors: Yair Bourlas, Peter J. Graumann, Sina Zahedi, Ron Porat
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Publication number: 20080176523Abstract: Methods and apparatus for reducing transmit emissions are described herein. The transmit out of band emissions in an adjacent band can be reduced while complying with existing wireless communication standards through utilization of one or more of reduced transmit bandwidth, transmit operating band offset, and channel index remapping. The transceiver can support a receive operating band that is substantially adjacent to a band edge. The transmit operating band can be offset from an adjacent frequency band, and can use a narrower operating band than is supported by the receiver. The transmit baseband signal can have a reduced bandwidth to reduce the amount of noise. The frequency offset can introduce a larger transition band between the transmit operating band edges and the adjacent frequency band of interest. The transceiver can remap channel assignments to compensate for the frequency offset such that the frequency offset introduced in the transmitter is transparent to channel allocation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2007Publication date: July 24, 2008Applicant: NextWave Broadband Inc.Inventors: Todd Sutton, Srikanth Gummadi, Walid Hosseini, Lei Wang
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Publication number: 20080153504Abstract: A base station can communicate resource allocation to a wireless mobile station in an uplink map information element. The base station can identify destination mobile stations using a shorthand connection identifier. The base station parses the connection identifier field into a shorthand connection identifier field and an embedded subfield data field. The shorthand connection identifier field can be sized to support a predetermined number of mobile stations. The base station can further parse the embedded subfield field into a number of sub-fields, each communicating a different set of control information. In one embodiment, the base station utilizes the embedded subfield to communicate power, timing, and frequency information to the destination mobile station.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2006Publication date: June 26, 2008Applicant: NextWave Broadband Inc.Inventors: Yair Bourlas, Todd Sutton, Srikanth Gummadi, Lei Wang
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Publication number: 20080056193Abstract: Systems and methods of pre-allocating identifiers to wireless devices for use in requesting resources over a random access channel are described. A wireless communication system includes a random access channel over which wireless devices can anonymously send requests for resources. The base stations receiving and processing the anonymous requests reduces the probability of random access channel collisions and conserves the resources needed to support the anonymous requests by pre-allocating one or more codes to select wireless devices. The wireless devices having the pre-allocated codes can transmit a particular code over the random access channel as a request for resources that uniquely identifies the requester.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2006Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicant: NextWave Broadband Inc.Inventors: Yair Bourlas, Adam E. Newham, Lei Wang, Srikanth Gummadi
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Patent number: 7321328Abstract: A method for producing an analog output from a digital input is described. A digital pulse train is received having an average value which is proportional to a digital conversion value. The digital pulse train is driven at a periodic interval to produce a modulated tristate-gate output. The modulated tristate-gate output is averaged to produce an analog output. Optionally, the pulse train is also driven at an additional periodic interval having a duty cycle of more, or less, than less than 50%. The pulse train may also be driven steadily.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2006Date of Patent: January 22, 2008Assignee: NextWave Broadband Inc.Inventor: Todd Sutton
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Publication number: 20080002792Abstract: In a described implementation of early energy measurement, a wireless device adjusts a receiver gain during each current symbol time responsive to a signal energy level measured in a previous symbol time.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2006Publication date: January 3, 2008Applicant: NextWave Broadband, Inc.Inventor: Ron Shalev
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Publication number: 20070258548Abstract: Automatic gain control (AGC) methods and apparatus that implement a dynamically variable AGC setpoint. The variable AGC setpoint can be determined based in part on the type of modulation used to convey information to the receiver. The AGC setpoint can be set higher than a nominal setpoint for higher order modulation types and can be lower than the nominal setpoint for low order modulation types. The manner in which gain is adjusted can also depend on the modulation type. The gains can be increased according to a front to back priority. The gains can be decreased in a priority that is based on the modulation type. For lower order modulation types, the gain controller can decrease gain according to a back to front priority. For higher order modulation types, the gain controller can maintain linearity of front end amplifiers prior to decreasing gain according to a back to front priority.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2006Publication date: November 8, 2007Applicant: NextWave Broadband, Inc.Inventor: Todd Sutton
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Publication number: 20060264214Abstract: A communication device with the ability to switch from operating as a base station to operating as a subscriber station or from a subscriber station to a base station. This enables point-to-multipoint systems with strong quality of service (Qos) to be developed with features, such as self-healing and self organization, normally only found in mesh systems with weak QoS.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2006Publication date: November 23, 2006Applicant: NEXTWAVE BROADBAND, INC.Inventors: Kenneth Stanwood, Yair Bourlas, Michael Donahoo