Patents Examined by David B. Lugo
  • Patent number: 11750359
    Abstract: An integrated circuit receiver is disclosed comprising a data receiving circuit responsive to a timing signal to detect a data signal and an edge receiving circuit responsive to the timing signal to detect a transition of the data signal. One of the data or edge receiving circuits comprises an integrating receiver circuit while the other of the data or edge sampling circuits comprises a sampling receiver circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventor: Jared L. Zerbe
  • Patent number: 11750320
    Abstract: A communication apparatus is disclosed including a processor that performs a first encoding procedure to generate a first sequence of encoded bits from a first sequence of bits, and performs a second encoding procedure to generate a second sequence of encoded bits from a sequence of known bits; and a second sequence of bits comprising the first sequence of bits and the first sequence of encoded bits; and a transmitter that transmits a signal generated from the second sequence of encoded bits, wherein the second sequence of encoded bits is determined based on a length of the second sequence of bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takeda, Satoshi Nagata, Runxin Wang, Chongning Na
  • Patent number: 11743091
    Abstract: A method of estimating a clock frequency offset in a mobile device relative to a clock frequency of a controller within a UWB network comprises (a) determining, for each of a plurality of anchors, an anchor clock frequency offset relative to the controller clock frequency, (b) broadcasting an anchor data packet from each anchor, the anchor data packet including the respective anchor clock frequency offset, (c) receiving at least one anchor data packet at the mobile device, (d) estimating a mobile device clock frequency offset relative to the anchor clock frequency of the anchor from which the at least one anchor data packet was received, and (e) estimating the clock frequency offset in the mobile device based on the estimated mobile device clock frequency offset and the anchor clock frequency offset included in the at least one received anchor data packet. Furthermore, a TDoA-based localization method and a TDoA-based localization system are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Pablo Corbalán Pelegrín, Michael Schober, Srivathsa Masthi Parthasarathi, Stefan Lemsitzer
  • Patent number: 11736176
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes: a first antenna configured to provide a first gain pattern at a millimeter-wave radio frequency and having a first boresight direction; a second antenna configured to provide a second gain pattern at the millimeter-wave radio frequency and having a second boresight direction that is different from the first boresight direction; and an electrically-conductive device; where the first antenna, in combination with the electrically-conductive device, is configured to provide a third gain pattern that has a first gain differential relative to the second gain pattern that is greater than a second gain differential between the first gain pattern and the second gain pattern over a range of angles relative to the wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Lizhi Zheng, Guining Shi, Allen Minh-Triet Tran, Mahmoud Shirazi
  • Patent number: 11736210
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for channel state information (CSI) feedback in a wireless network. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving signaling including a first Non-Zero Power (NZP) CSI-reference signal (RS) configuration for channel measurement; a second NZP CSI-RS configuration; and a CSI interference measurement (CSI-IM) configuration for interference measurement. The method includes receiving a CSI feedback request and estimating the CSI based on at least the signaled first NZP CSI-RS configuration, the second NZP CSI-RS configuration, and the CSI-IM configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Shiwei Gao, Sebastian Faxér, Mattias Frenne, Stephen Grant, Robert Mark Harrison, Siva Muruganathan
  • Patent number: 11728877
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, information associated with identifying a communication diversity configuration. The UE may receive, from the base station, a transport block on a downlink in accordance with the communication diversity configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Iyab Issam Sakhnini, Tao Luo
  • Patent number: 11729040
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques to compensate frequency systematic known error (FSKE) in reflector or initiator radios using a hybrid RF-digital approach in multi-carrier phase-based ranging. The hybrid RF-digital approach combines a coarse frequency compensation technique in the RF domain and a fine frequency compensation technique in the digital domain to remove the FSKE across all carrier frequencies from a device. The coarse frequency compensation performed in the RF domain may use a PLL to multiply the crystal frequency to arrive close to a target carrier frequency to compensate for a coarse portion of the known FSKE at the target frequency. The fine frequency compensation may use digital techniques to remove the remaining portion of the known FSKE not compensated by the RF. The hybrid approach reduces the number of fractional bits in the multiplier of the PLL when compared to an approach that uses only the RF-PLL to remove the FSKE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Pouria Zand, Kiran Uln, James Wihardja, Yan Li
  • Patent number: 11722350
    Abstract: Systems and methods for synchronize word correlation. The methods comprise: obtaining first values that each indicate a likelihood or probability that a respective timeslot in a symbol timing window of a carrier wave is meant or expected to include energy; multiplying, by the correlator, the first values respectively by correlation coefficients to produce a plurality of products (wherein at least one of the correlation coefficients comprises a negative coefficient value); generating a correlation value by combining the products together; determining whether a synchronization word has been detected with a given amount of likelihood based on the correlation value; and causing symbol timing synchronization at a receiver when a determination is made that the synchronization word has been detected with the given amount of likelihood based on the correlation value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: L. Carl Christensen, Ihab Francis
  • Patent number: 11716235
    Abstract: An OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) transmitter includes an inverse fast Fourier transform circuit, which, in operation, generates, based on digital input data, a complex time-varying digital signal having real and imaginary components; and a multiplexer adapted to generate a time-multiplexed digital signal by time-multiplexing one or more of the real components with one or more of the imaginary components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS SA
    Inventor: Fatima Barrami
  • Patent number: 11705929
    Abstract: A direct digital radio having a high-speed RF front end in communication with an antenna, and a radio subsystem that can be configured to form a programmable multi-standard transceiver system. The high-speed RF front including RF inputs configured to receive a plurality of radio frequencies (e.g., frequencies between 400 MHz to 7.2 GHz, millimeter wave frequency signals, etc.) and wideband low noise amplifiers provides amplified signals to RF data converters, analog interfaces, digital interfaces, component interfaces, etc. The programmable multi-standard transceiver is operable in frequencies compatible with multiple networks such as private LTE and 5G networks as well as other wireless IoT standards and WiFi in multi-standard network access equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SiTune Corporation
    Inventors: Marzieh Veyseh, Vahid M Toosi, Saeid Mehrmanesh
  • Patent number: 11695447
    Abstract: In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a communication device is provided, comprising: an ultra-wideband (UWB) communication unit configured to set up a UWB communication channel with a first external communication device; a further communication unit configured to set up a further communication channel with a second external communication device; an antenna configured to be selectively used by the UWB communication unit and the further communication unit; wherein the UWB communication unit is operatively coupled to the further communication unit, and wherein the further communication unit is configured to grant the UWB communication unit access to said antenna in response to receiving a request from the UWB communication unit. This aspect represents a solution to the problem of how to facilitate avoiding that UWB ranging rounds fail in a co-existence system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Srivathsa Masthi Parthasarathi, Brian Charles Cassidy, Atmaram Kota Rajaram, Ghiath Al-kadi, Hendrik Ahlendorf
  • Patent number: 11677522
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, an operating method of a base station includes determining at least one sub-carrier for allocating a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS), transmitting information relating to the PTRS allocation to a terminal, and based on the information, transmitting the PTRS to the terminal through the at least one sub-carrier. An apparatus and a method according to various embodiments of the present disclosure, may determine a sub-carrier for PTRS allocation and provide information relating to the PTRS allocation to a terminal, thus controlling PTRS interference caused from neighboring base stations and improving PTRS tracking performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyungju Nam, Hyunil Yoo, Taeyoung Kim, Jeehwan Noh
  • Patent number: 11671304
    Abstract: Embodiments include devices and methods that improves quality in radio transmission/reception using a single-carrier scheme and/or a multi-carrier scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11646506
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to receiving, from a device, a first reference signal transmitted using a first set of antenna elements over a first polarization, receiving, from the device, a second reference signal transmitted using a second set of antenna elements over a second polarization, determining, based on the first reference signal and the second reference signal, an inter-polarization phase adjustment to be applied to signals transmitted from the first set of antenna elements or the second set of antenna elements, and transmitting, to the device, an indication of the inter-polarization phase adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanthan Raghavan, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Kobi Ravid, Robert Douglas, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 11641180
    Abstract: A distribution amplifier for a communication device such as a gateway is provided. The distribution amplifier can receive an input signal and provide multiple output signals. The distribution amplifier can have a transmission line that receives the input signal and multiple amplifier stages that are connected to the transmission line to receive the input signal. The output of the amplifier stages correspond to the output signals from the distribution amplifier. The transmission line has equally spaced connection points for the amplifier stages. The transmission line can be designed to have an impedance that results in the impedance of the transmission line with the connected amplifier stages having a final impedance that matches the input impedance to the transmission line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: ADTRAN, Inc.
    Inventor: Daniel M. Joffe
  • Patent number: 11637620
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enhancing coverage of repeater systems by time-division beamforming are provided. A repeater system includes an interface configured to communicate signals with a base station and a phased antenna array. The phased antenna array includes a plurality of antenna elements, wherein the phased antenna array is configured to generate a beam in a plurality of predefined directions and wirelessly communicate signals with user equipment in a coverage area of the phased antenna array. The repeater system further includes a beamforming circuit communicatively coupled to the phased antenna array, wherein the beamforming circuit is configured to adjust a direction of the beam generated by the phased antenna array to correspond to one of the plurality of predefined directions at a particular time according to a schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Schwab, Stefan Eisenwinter
  • Patent number: 11632144
    Abstract: A communication device includes: a plurality of wireless communication sections, each of which is configured to wirelessly receive a signal from another communication device; and a control section configured to perform a detection process of detecting specific elements with regard to a plurality of correlation computation results, each of which is obtained by correlating a first signal that is transmitted from the other communication device and each of second signals at the designated interval and includes a correlation value indicating magnitude of correlation between the first signal and the second signal as an element obtained at the designated interval, and control a change process of treating a wireless communication section having earliest time corresponding to the specific element as a first wireless communication section among the plurality of wireless communication sections, treating the other wireless communication section as a second wireless communication section among the plurality of wireless co
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENIKI SEISAKUSHO
    Inventors: Yoshiki Oishi, Satoshi Mori, Kenichi Koga, Tatsuya Koike
  • Patent number: 11627027
    Abstract: A technique for wireless communication of a punctured null data packet with a long training field sequence is disclosed. The long training field (LTF) sequence is generated for the null data packet (NDP) for transmission over a channel having a bandwidth that is an integer multiple of 80 MHz. The LTF sequence is modulated onto a plurality of tones of the channel excluding tones within a punctured subchannel of a plurality of subchannels of the channel. The modulation may be based on a size and location of the punctured subchannel and a symbol duration associated with transmitting the LTF sequence. The NDP is transmitted including the LTF sequence to a second wireless communication device via the channel. A partial bandwidth feedback may be received in response to the LTF in the punctured NDP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jialing Li Chen, Bin Tian, Youhan Kim, Cheng-Ming Chen
  • Patent number: 11621745
    Abstract: An antenna system (150) with distributed power supply is disclosed. The antenna system (150) comprises a CPU (151) comprising a central power supply (152), multiple antenna units (161, 162, . . . 171, 172 . . . ) connected to the CPU by cables and at least one distributed power supply unit (180) located at someplace along a chain of antenna units. At least one antenna unit (161) receives power from the central power supply (152). In the antenna system (150), at least one antenna unit (171) receives power from another antenna unit (172), at least one antenna unit (173) receives power from the at least one distributed power supply unit (180) such that at least two power supply domains (191, 192) are set up. In each power supply domain, a number of antenna units are connected to the same power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Pål Frenger, Jan Hederen
  • Patent number: 11611365
    Abstract: Aspects include systems, methods, devices, and non-transitory processor readable storage mediums for reducing excessive millimeter wave (mmW) radio frequency (RF) exposure to a user of a wireless device. Various aspects may enable an RF exposure condition for the wireless device to be detected while the wireless device is operating in a mmW mode during a voice. In some aspects, a mmW carrier quality report may be adjusted to deprioritize mmW in response to determining the RF exposure condition for the wireless device is occurring during the voice call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Akash Kumar, Sumitkumar Shrikant Dubey