Patents Assigned to Sequans Communications
  • Patent number: 10531416
    Abstract: A method of synchronizing uplink between a UE and a cell, the method comprising determining PRACH capabilities of the UE, determining a negative timing offset for use with the transmission of at least one PRACH signal, determining an order for utilizing the negative timing offset, transmitting from the UE, at least one PRACH signal from a group of N PRACH signals, each of the at least one PRACH signals having a predetermined power level and transmitted by the UE at a time based on the negative timing offset, the order, and the PRACH capabilities of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SEQUANS COMMUNICATIONS S.A.
    Inventors: Ioannis Xirouchakis, Serdar Sezginer
  • Patent number: 10528009
    Abstract: A phase locked loop comprising a time to digital converter and a fractional-n feedback loop, the PLL being configurable by a phase compensator module to reduce the dynamic range of the TDC required to maintain PLL performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SEQUANS COMMUNICATIONS S.A.
    Inventor: Martin Wiezell
  • Patent number: 10362556
    Abstract: A method of providing position assistance to a UE, the method comprising providing, by a location server, at least one unsolicited message, each message comprising one of data selected from a list comprising GNSS ephemeris assistance data, GNSS acquisition assistance data, OTDOA assistance data and eNB position data for a predefined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Sequans Communications S.A.
    Inventor: Bertrand Muquet
  • Patent number: 10264616
    Abstract: A method of receiving LTE data by a user device, the data being transmitted on a channel of an unlicensed band comprising the steps of receiving a cell ID from a primary LTE cell, receiving system information from the primary LTE cell for access to an unlicensed channel, receiving LTE data on the channel of an unlicensed band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: SEQUANS COMMUNICATIONS S.A.
    Inventors: Jerome Bertorelle, Guillaume Vivier
  • Patent number: 10243776
    Abstract: A method of spatially multiplexing data comprising a signal vector, the method comprising selecting first and second modulation schemes for the data transmission wherein the second modulation scheme is an interpolation in the plane of the first modulation scheme; and further wherein the modulation schemes are selected so as to maintain the same minimum Euclidean distance between vectors comprising the first and second modulation schemes as the minimum Euclidean distance within the first and second modulation schemes; and selecting a plurality of antennae, each of the plurality to concurrently transmit respective symbols of the signal vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Sequans Communications S.A.
    Inventors: Hikmet Sari, Serdar Sezginer
  • Patent number: 10219238
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for providing OTDOA timing information comprising defining an FFT window pair for estimating a value of reference signal time difference “RSTD” for at least one base station and a reference cell, receiving a PRS from the at least one base station and the reference cell, executing an FFT per OFDM symbol of the PRS for each FFT window of the FFT window pair, obtaining a first FFT output vector per OFDM symbol of each FFT window, for each first output vector, descrambling tones corresponding to the known position of the PRS, wherein all other tones are set to zero, combining vectors based on respective first FFT output vectors, executing an iFFT to convert to the time domain; and calculating an estimated value of reference signal time difference “RSTD” for the at least one base station and the reference cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Sequans Communications S.A.
    Inventors: Moussa Abdi, Serdar Sezginer, Alain Kouioumdjian, Imran Latif, Aymane Hamahmy, Bertrand Muquet
  • Patent number: 10034191
    Abstract: A computer implemented method of providing RSTD data comprising receiving an uncertainty window centered around an expected RSTD value, determining the PDP of each reference OFDM symbol within the uncertainty window, obtaining a main PDP by calculating a parameter indicative of signal quality for each determined PDP, the main PDP having the highest signal quality, obtaining a preceding PDP of the Main PDP, obtaining a succeeding PDP of the Main PDP, determining PDP metrics comprising, determining a channel metric for each of the main, preceding and succeeding PDPs, determining a channel main tap for each of the main, preceding and succeeding PDPs, determining a delay estimate for each of the main, preceding and succeeding PDPs, wherein if the main PDP is a combined PDP, performing coherence testing on the PDP metrics to detect any ambiguity in the delay estimate of the main PDP, and correcting any ambiguity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: SEQUANS COMMUNICATIONS S.A.
    Inventors: Van Minh Nguyen, Moussa Abdi, Alain Kouioumdjian, Aymane Hamahmy, Imran Latif, Serdar Sezginer
  • Patent number: 9800420
    Abstract: There is provided an LTE device configured to connect to an LTE network, connect to or provide a LAN, and to provide eMBMS services over the LAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignees: SEQUANS COMMUNICATIONS S.A., EXPWAY
    Inventors: Jérôme Bertorelle, Cédric Thiénot
  • Patent number: 9667302
    Abstract: A computer implemented method of calibrating a device comprising the steps of: deriving an analytic expression for a variable to be optimized of the device in terms of at least one parameter of the device, transforming the analytic expression into polynomial form of the at least one parameter of the device, the polynomial form comprising N coefficients, capturing at least N samples of a value of the variable from the device under calibration, each sample being a result of a different independent pre-determined value of the at least one parameter, applying the captured variable values and the corresponding at least one parameter values to the polynomial form, obtaining optimal values of the at least one parameter from the applying step to calibrate the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SEQUANS COMMUNICATIONS LTD.
    Inventor: Thomas Winiecki
  • Patent number: 9496838
    Abstract: An envelope tracking amplifier for a transmitter has a voltage mapping linearly related to the square of the amplitude of the baseband signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: SEQUANS COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
    Inventor: Thomas Winiecki
  • Patent number: 9431967
    Abstract: A method of providing a power supply of an amplifier of a wireless transmission system comprising, determining the power at an antenna when transmitting a signal to be transmitted by the amplifier, determining the modulation scheme for transmitting the signal, determining the frequency allocation of the signal to be transmitted, determining a transmit channel characteristic, and adjusting a parameter of the power supply of the amplifier based on the determining steps to maintain amplifier linearity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Sequans Communications Limited
    Inventors: Thomas Winiecki, Gregory G. F. Fron
  • Patent number: 9432097
    Abstract: A method of transmitting data comprising choosing a transmit modulation scheme of the transmission, choosing a transmit parameter of the transmission, transmitting the data stream according to the chosen transmit modulation and transmit parameter such that data of the data stream is transmitted by the modulation scheme and the choice of transmit parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Sequans Communications S.A.
    Inventors: Serdar Sezginer, Hikmet Sari
  • Patent number: 9313055
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for reducing unwanted spectral emissions of a complex signal to be transmitted comprising calculating the nth power of the complex signal to be transmitted, calculating the complex conjugate of the nth power of the complex signal to be transmitted, applying a scaling factor to the complex conjugate to form a scaled correction signal, and adding the scaled correction signal to the signal to be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Sequans Communications Limited
    Inventor: Thomas Winiecki
  • Patent number: 9294938
    Abstract: A dynamic data transmission adjustment method in a wireless communication system. The system includes a base station and a user equipment. The base station and the user equipment communicate amongst themselves by using a first transmission technique. The method includes transmitting a plurality of frames between the base station and the user equipment using a regular transmission scheme according to the first transmission technique, and at least one iteration of the following steps: calculating a specific error rate in at least one specific region of the transmitted frames; and adjusting the regular transmission scheme when a value representative of the specific error rate associated to the specific region exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: SEQUANS COMMUNICATIONS
    Inventors: Jerome Bertorelle, Ambroise Popper
  • Patent number: 9218513
    Abstract: A switching circuit is linearized by using a capacitor to apply a drive voltage to an FET, wherein the drive voltage is independent of the signal switched by the switching circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Sequans Communications
    Inventors: Thomas Winiecki, Olujide Adeyemi Adeniran
  • Patent number: 9124323
    Abstract: A method for calibrating signal transmission equipment. The equipment includes at least two signal transmission subsystems, a first subsystem implementing a first signal transmission technology and a second subsystem implementing a second signal transmission technology. The method includes transmitting, by the first subsystem, a signal at a predetermined transmission power; measuring, by the second subsystem, an amount of noise perceived on at least one channel associated with the second subsystem; and recording, in a data structure, the amount of noise for the at least one associated channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Sequans Communications
    Inventors: Gregory Fron, David Choukroun
  • Patent number: 9094017
    Abstract: An arrangement is described in which phase parity or phase opposition between two signals can be determined, and if necessary remedial action may be taken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: Sequans Communications Ltd.
    Inventors: Jackson Harvey, Peter Martin
  • Patent number: 9077601
    Abstract: User equipment is provided for receiving an OFDM signal. The user equipment includes a plurality of carrier processing chains and a carrier aggregation module, aggregating the signals received on each carrier processed by the plurality of carrier processing chains. The aggregation module delivers a set of aggregated signals of the plurality of carrier processing chains at the input of a Fast Fourier Transform module of a PHY layer processing subsystem of the user equipment. The Fast Fourier transform module is able to process a size of data according to a predetermined rate depending on the aggregated bandwidth of the set of aggregated signals of the plurality of carrier processing chains, and the carrier aggregation module includes at least one frequency shifter for frequency shifting carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: SEQUANS COMMUNICATIONS
    Inventors: Bertrand Muquet, Mauricio Briceno
  • Patent number: 8947995
    Abstract: A method and a system for the fractional reuse of frequencies in a wireless network. The method includes the following steps: obtaining at least one PHY based index defining a preferred allocation of a mobile station among at least two frequency reuse zones in a cell of said communication network; and scheduling bursts of packets to transmit to the mobile station, by at least one frequency reuse zone among the at least two frequency reuse zones, in view of transmission requests and the at least one PHY based index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Sequans Communications
    Inventors: Lior Uziel, Inbar Anson Bratspiess
  • Patent number: 8929491
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for cancelling interferences of a received MIMO RF signal. The method includes: receiving a signal y; an initial step of obtaining, from the received signal y, at least one data representative of the received signal, called decoded data; computing the decoded data as a function of at least one predetermined criterion, delivering feedback data and a feedback decision; and, as a function of the feedback decision, at least one iteration of the following steps: constructing a set of feedback symbols from the feedback data; obtaining, from the set of feedback symbols, at least one data representative of a feedback decoded signal, called feedback decoded data; computing the at least one feedback decoded data as a function of the at least one predetermined criterion, delivering the feedback data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Sequans Communications
    Inventors: Yang Liu, Serdar Sezginer