Patents Examined by Edward Urban
  • Patent number: 9253657
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes first wireless communication unit 2 for performing wireless communication with information terminal 21 through wireless LAN, and for obtaining frequency channel of interference wave by detecting interference wave due to wireless communication through wireless LAN between information terminal 24 and portable information terminal 25; second wireless communication unit 3, third wireless communication unit 4, . . . , nth wireless communication unit 5 for performing wireless communication with mobile terminal 22 or wireless headphone 23 by Bluetooth or wireless audio; channel aggregation unit 10 for setting the frequency channel of first wireless communication unit 2 at the same frequency channel as the frequency channel of interference wave the first wireless communication unit 2 obtains; and assignment control unit 9 for allocating frequency channels of the second, third, . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasunori Hoshihara, Hisao Nakano
  • Patent number: 9247438
    Abstract: A searching method for finding a target location in a variable space is provided. The variable space is constructed by a set of variables and has multiple sub-spaces. The target location renders an output result of a wireless communication system to satisfy a target value. The search method includes steps of: providing the set of variables; identifying a target sub-space where the target location is located from the sub-spaces; obtaining a plurality of gradients of the output result at a predetermined location from the target sub-space, each of the gradients corresponding to a direction of change; and selecting one from the directions of change according to the gradients, and changing values of the set of variables according to the selected direction of change to find the target location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: MStar Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Li-Wei Sheng, Ying-Chieh Chiang
  • Patent number: 9247549
    Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for super high frequency (SHF)/extremely high frequency (EHF) band wireless transmission on a multi-level configuration. The apparatus may include a list managing unit to receive and manage a first list associated with an SHF/EHF band signal from a terminal connected to a wireless network, a path finding unit to select a path having a communication quality value greater than or equal to a first threshold value by referring to the first list, and a scheduling unit to schedule available SHF/EHF band radio resources for the selected path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Seung Chan Bang, Pyeong Jung Song, Hyeong Jun Park, Tae Joong Kim
  • Patent number: 9240827
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless and/or inductive communications are provided in connection with improving remote NFC device detection through use of an oscillator circuit connected to an NFC antenna and matching network. In one example, a communications device is equipped to monitor frequency oscillations generated by an oscillator circuit associated with a transmitter path of a NFC antenna and matching network, determine that a number of occurrences of the frequency oscillations from a reference frequency is greater than a frequency deviation threshold, and perform a NFC polling procedure in response to the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Roger Brockenbrough, Sang-Min Lee, Angelica Wong
  • Patent number: 9231694
    Abstract: The present invention provides a platform for translating between devices, updating device software, receiving and normalizing device signals, processing them, and determining appropriate responses to containers. The present invention seeks to keep intelligence at the back end allowing smart devices to remain effective under the complex conditions of the intermodal shipping industry. According to a further preferred embodiment, the invention further includes container transponders adapted to receive local signals and repeat or forward the signals. Further, the present invention discloses a method designed to increase signal reliability between smart devices which may act as relay nodes to communicate with existing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: GlobalTrak, LLC
    Inventor: Richard C. Meyers
  • Patent number: 9231550
    Abstract: A wideband harmonic trap includes a first resonant tank in the form of a parallel LC circuit, and a second resonant tank in the form of a series LC circuit. The LC circuits are connected to a common input, an output of the parallel LC circuit is connected to a load and to ground via a shunt capacitor, and an output of the series LC circuit is connected to the ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Rui Ma, SungWon Chung, Koon Hoo Teo
  • Patent number: 9232558
    Abstract: A multi-sector antenna system is disclosed that includes two or more flat panel antennas facing different directions and configured to communicate with two separate sites using millimeter wave RF signals. A processing module is communicatively coupled to each of the flat panel antennas. In some embodiments, the processing module may be configured to receive incoming RF signals from a first site via a first flat panel antenna, convert the incoming RF signals to outgoing RF signals, and transmit the outgoing RF signals to a second site via the second flat panel antenna. The flat panel antennas may be configured to transmit and receive RF signals at frequencies in the range of about 57 GHz to 86 GHz. The multi-sector antenna system may be utilized in a mesh network system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Eduardo Tinoco, Terry McManus
  • Patent number: 9231711
    Abstract: Method for mitigating interference is established by means of a local wireless communication (204, 206) between a first portable communication device (PCD) (102, 301) and a second PCD (104, 302). The first and second PCD (301, 302) respectively communicate with first wireless network (110, 306, 310) and second wireless network (112, 308, 312) having different wireless air interface protocols. The local wireless communication link (107) is used to share (208) information (109, 111) concerning one or both of the first and second PCD. The information is then used to determine a communication priority (210) as between the first and second PCD with respect to at least one communication mode. The information is also used to selectively establish (212) an interference mitigation policy (304) to provide assured communications for the PCD with priority. The interference mitigation policy is executed (214) in the first and second PCD to cooperatively provide assured communication for the PCD with priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventor: Daniel W. Ericson
  • Patent number: 9231536
    Abstract: A power amplifier (PA) system is provided for multi-mode multi-band operations. The PA system includes one or more amplifying modules, each amplifying module including one or more banks, each bank comprising one or more transistors; and a plurality of matching modules, each matching module being configured to be adjusted to provide impedances corresponding to frequency bands and conditions. A controller dynamically controls an input terminal of each bank and adjusts the matching modules to provide a signal path to meet specifications on properties associated with signals during each time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: ETHERTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Laurent Descios, Alexandre Dupuy
  • Patent number: 9231627
    Abstract: The output of a Radio Frequency (RF) Power Amplifier (PA) is sampled and down-converted, and the amplitude envelope of the baseband feedback signal is extracted. This is compared to the envelope of a transmission signal, and the envelope tracking modulation of the RF PA supply voltage VCC is adaptively pre-distorted to achieve a constant ISO-Gain (and phase) in the RF PA. In particular, a nonlinear function is interpolated from a finite number gain values calculated from the feedback and transmission signals. This nonlinear function is then used to pre-distort the transmission signal envelope, resulting in a constant gain at the RF PA over a wide range of supply voltage VCC values. Since the gains are calculated from a feedback signal, the pre-distortion may be recalculated at event triggers, such as an RF frequency change. Furthermore, the method improves nonlinearity in the entire transmitter chain, not just the RF PA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
    Inventor: Patrik Arno
  • Patent number: 9226160
    Abstract: Radio spectrum trading involves determining available radio spectrum and requestors desiring to lease portions of the available radio spectrum, and for allocating the available spectrum to the requestors. A pricing curve may be set based on historical information and/or requests to lease spectrum. A determination may then be made as to whether an amount of available spectrum is less than or greater than an amount spectrum being requested. If it is determined that the amount of available spectrum is less than the amount of spectrum being requested, then an auction may be conducted for the available spectrum with the initial bid being set based on the pricing curve. If the amount of available spectrum is greater than the amount of spectrum being requested, then the requests may be sorted based on predicted revenue generation and the available spectrum may be allocated in order from highest to lowest revenue generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Mohamed Elrefaey, Mohamed H. Shoeb, Hani H. Elgebaly
  • Patent number: 9220003
    Abstract: A radio unit configured to connect to a baseband processing unit includes a transformation unit configured to obtain uplink time domain signal data and transform the uplink time domain signal data into uplink frequency domain signal data; and a compression unit configured to compress the uplink frequency domain signal data by using a compression algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Xinhao Cheng, Mingqiang Li, Yonghua Lin, Qing Wang, Chao Xue, Rong Yan, Hai Zhan, Chao Zhu
  • Patent number: 9215664
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a power control method, including: obtaining a current main carrier power of a main carrier and a current supplementary carrier power of a supplementary carrier; selecting a reference carrier from the main carrier and the supplementary carrier; calculating a difference between the main carrier power and the supplementary carrier power to obtain a first difference; determining a quantized value corresponding to the first difference by querying a preset configuration parameter table according to the first difference; and determining, according to the power of the reference carrier and the quantized value, a total transmit power for transmitting the main carrier and the supplementary carrier. In the whole process, a power of a previous timeslot does not need to be introduced, therefore, error accumulation can be avoided, thereby reducing a power control error and improving control precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianhong Yin, Anhua Mei, Jiaji Zhang
  • Patent number: 9210659
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling a dormancy mode of the portable terminal by minimizing the dormancy mode entry delay of the display in power-off state are provided. The method includes starting, when the application processor and the communication processor stop data communication in display power-off state, a dormancy mode timer, checking, when the dormancy mode timer expires, a dormancy mode flag indicating communication channel state, and entering, when the dormancy mode flag indicates a communication channel connection release state, the dormancy mode, wherein the dormancy mode timer counts a number of segments constituting a maximum standby time for entering the dormancy mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Taehwan Kim
  • Patent number: 9203476
    Abstract: Systems and methods for code communication are provided. A secure system wirelessly transmits, via a magnetic field transmitter, an access code to a handheld wireless communication device as a sequence of polarities of a short-range magnetic field. The wireless communication device senses the sequence of polarities and determines the code from the sensed sequence of polarities. The code provides access to the secure system. The handheld wireless communication device can wirelessly transmit the code received from the short-range magnetic field and identification information to the secure system to receive access to the secure system. The access is personalized based on at least the identification information and is maintained or validated when the handheld wireless communication device is within range of the short-range magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Roy Want, William Noah Schilit, Sean Keenan
  • Patent number: 9204398
    Abstract: In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, mobile device comprises a battery, a short-range wireless communication (SRW) chip set, a secure element incorporated into the battery, and a bootloader, wherein the SRW chip set is configured to sense proximity to a point of sales terminal and, in response, initiate bootup of the mobile device, and wherein the bootloader is configured to determine that bootup was initiated by the SRW chip set and, in response, power up only the SRW chip set and the secure element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Mikko Sakari Haikonen, Jari-Jukka Harald Kaaja, Jan-Erik Ekberg, Jarmo Tapani Arponen
  • Patent number: 9204460
    Abstract: Generic devices, systems and methods for multiple radio access technologies (RATs) are described. An arrangement can include, for example, a multiple radio access technology (RAT) platform configured to enable communications with a plurality of different RATs using procedures associated with transceiver processing functions, wherein the procedures implement the transceiver processing functions through functional units (FUs) which perform operations, the FUs being implemented in at least one of hardware and software; and wherein the FUs are configured by functional unit descriptors (FUDs) which instruct an FU regarding at least one of: (a) from which memory location to fetch data to operate upon or parameters associated with an operation to be performed by the FU, (b) to which memory location to store data as a result of an operation and (c) a message type to output after the operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Jerker Örjmark, Michael Breschel, Kent Inge Ingesson, Robert Klang, Magnus Malmberg
  • Patent number: 9203453
    Abstract: A system and method for receiving signals using a receiver with antenna switching capability is provided. The receiver is configured to poll each antenna of the plurality of antennas and process the signals from each antenna. In addition, the receiver coordinates providing power to each antenna with the polling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Farrell, Jean-Christophe Deniau, John R. Costello
  • Patent number: 9198184
    Abstract: A system provides dynamic interference avoidance in integrated multi-radio access technology (RAT) heterogeneous networks (Het-Nets). A multi-mode user equipment accesses mobile communications services using RATs. An integrated node provides a primary cell and at least one secondary cell to the multi-mode user equipment. Initial radio access technologies (RATs) are assigned to the multi-mode user equipment from among a plurality of RATs for use by the multi-mode user equipment. Quality metrics are collected across the plurality of RATs. RAT assignments are re-evaluated based on the collected quality metrics. To provide dynamic interference mitigation in multi-RAT Het-Nets, RAT assignments are periodically repartitioned from among the plurality of RATs for use by the multi-mode user equipment based on the re-evaluation of RAT assignments using the collected quality metrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Shu-Ping Yeh, Nageen Himayat, Ali Yazdan Panah, Shilpa Talwar
  • Patent number: 9197304
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for conveying information regarding the antenna configuration and/or the transmission diversity scheme to a recipient, such as a mobile device. In particular, information regarding the antenna configuration and/or the transmission diversity scheme can be conveyed by masking, such as cyclic redundancy check masking, to provide information regarding the antenna configuration and/or the transmission diversity scheme. In this regard, a set of masks can be determined based upon hamming distances between the masks and bit diversities between the masks and where each of the masks within the set is associated with an antenna configuration and a transmission diversity scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Timo Eric Roman, Bernhard Raaf, Mieszko Chmiel