Patents Examined by April G Gonzalez
  • Patent number: 10122421
    Abstract: A system of wearable or personal area devices includes a first earpiece and a second ear piece each of the first ear piece and the second ear piece comprising an ear piece housing, an induction circuit disposed within the ear piece housing for short range communications, and a radio transceiver disposed within the ear piece housing for radio communications. The induction circuit of the first ear piece and the induction circuit of the second ear piece are adapted for communication there between using high bandwidth audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: BRAGI GmbH
    Inventors: Nikolaj Hviid, Eric Christian Hirsch
  • Patent number: 9655058
    Abstract: A system using multiple communication technologies for concurrent communication is disclosed. The system includes a transmitting subunit, a receiving subunit and a control unit. The transmitting subunit is configured to generate a transmit signal. The receiving subunit is configured to receive a receive signal. The control unit is coupled to the transmitting subunit and the receiving subunit and is configured to determine a presence or potential of crosstalk between the transmit signal and the receive signal. Additionally, the control unit is configured to reduce power of the transmitting subunit to mitigate the crosstalk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventor: Peter Laaser
  • Patent number: 9525439
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide a radio frequency (RF) system that may be implemented in a variety of devices. For example, the RF system may include a plurality of first RF-modules, each configured to process RF signals received from a corresponding antenna array to generate intermediate frequency (IF) signals and to process IF signals for transmission via the antenna array, wherein the plurality of first RF modules are coupled to each other via a first interface comprising transmission lines for carrying at least an IF signal, a local oscillator (LO) signal, and a control signals; at least one second RF module; and a baseband module configured to provide IF signals, the LO signal, and the control signals to one of the first RF modules via a second interface and to provide at least IF signals to the second RF module via a third interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Alon Yehezkely
  • Patent number: 9294945
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a test apparatus includes a reception buffer configured to store uplink data, a transmission buffer configured to store downlink data, an arithmetic processing module configured to execute reception arithmetic processing on the uplink data read from the reception buffer, and to execute transmission arithmetic processing to generate downlink data and store the generated downlink data in the transmission buffer, and a management module configured to provide, under a first predetermined condition, the arithmetic processing module with a first instruction to execute the reception arithmetic processing, and to provide, under a second predetermined condition, the transmitting/receiving module with a second instruction to transmit the downlink data stored in the transmission buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Anritsu Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Takizawa, Reiichi Hashimoto
  • Patent number: 9240824
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to wireless electronic devices. A method may comprise receiving a wireless signal with an antenna and identifying one of a wireless charging module and a near-field communication module to which the received signal is associated. The method may further comprise conveying the received signal to the identified one of the wireless charging module and the near-field communication module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: John Hillan, Miles A. Kirby, Ernest T. Ozaki, Stuart A. Heilsberg, Michael J. Mangan, Stephen Frankland
  • Patent number: 8712325
    Abstract: An apparatus, method and system for categorizing, parsing, grouping and displaying Near Field Communication (NFC) tags for presentation on a user device, including storing in a computer readable medium of a log of ones of the tags read by or written by the user device, assessing at least one category for each of the logged tags, and displaying, in conjunction with at least one indicator indicative of the respective at least one category, of each of the logged tags on the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Marcel Florin Leica, Michael William Brown