Patents Examined by Emmanuel Bayard
  • Patent number: 11251819
    Abstract: A transmitter for a communication system comprises a digital pre-distortion (DPD) circuit configured to generate a digital intermediate signal by compensating an input signal for distortions resulting from an amplifier, and an adaptation circuitry configured to update the first parameter based on the adjustment signal, the input signal, and an output signal output by the amplifier and based on the digital intermediate signal. The DPD circuit includes an infinite impulse response filter configured to implement a transfer function based on a first parameter, and thermal tracking circuitry configured to generate an adjustment signal corresponding to a thermal change of the amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Hongzhi Zhao, Xiaohan Chen, Hemang Parekh, Vincent C. Barnes
  • Patent number: 11251841
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices, systems and methods between a between a plurality of collaborating Access Points (APs) and a receiving station (STA) operating in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The method include the steps of: transmitting, by each AP in the plurality of collaborating APs, a data frame to the receiving STA, each data frame has a preamble portion, the preamble portion including a signal (SIG) field, and the SIG field has a subfield including information representative of a total number of spatial streams transmitted by the plurality of collaborating APs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung Hoon Suh, Osama Aboul-Magd, Yan Xin
  • Patent number: 11251839
    Abstract: Various aspects of the technology described herein are directed towards a generalized beam management framework in which beam management takes into account interference to steer a beam. Aspects comprise configuring a report request comprising a resource setting with channel state information-reference signal resource data and an associated report setting with parameter data corresponding to the one or more channel state information-reference signal resources. The report request is configured to instruct a user equipment device to include interference information when performing user equipment device beam management and reporting. Upon receiving the report request, the user equipment performs a beam measurement operation that includes interference information when generating the beam management report sent to the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Salam Akoum, Xiaoyi Wang, Arunabha Ghosh, Thomas Novlan
  • Patent number: 11245430
    Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a baseband processor, a digital transmitter, a digital-to-analog-converter (DAC), and an antenna. The baseband processor may produce baseband signals. The digital transmitter may generate self-interference-compensated signals based on the baseband signals. The DAC may generate radio-frequency signals for transmission by the antenna based on the self-interference-compensated signals and square-wave local oscillator waveforms. The digital transmitter may include a self-interference canceller that generates the self-interference-compensated signals. The self-interference-compensated signals may mitigate the creation of self-interferer repetition replicas that land on the carrier frequency of the radio-frequency signals. This may allow the radio-frequency signals to be free from error vector magnitude degradation and spectral regrowth that would otherwise be produced due to self-interference in the radio-frequency signals output by the DAC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Yen-Ling Huang
  • Patent number: 11245566
    Abstract: A communication apparatus includes a receiver and a decoder. The receiver includes a plurality of antenna elements and, in operation, receives from a base station apparatus a modulated signal mapped to one of a plurality of subframes defined in a frame corresponding to a communicable range to which the communication apparatus belongs. The plurality of subframes are defined by time-division, frequency-division, or time-and-frequency division of the frame. A maximum number of modulated signals that can be simultaneously transmitted in a subframe from the base station apparatus varies depending on the communicable range. The decoder, in operation, decodes the received modulated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventor: Yutaka Murakami
  • Patent number: 11228347
    Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to user equipment assisted multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink configuration. Features are described for a user equipment determination of a desired transmission mode and/or active set of serving nodes for wireless communication service(s). The user equipment may submit a request for the desired mode and/or nodes to a network controller such as a baseband unit. The user equipment may subsequently receive a configuration for the requested wireless communication service(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: XCOM Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter John Black, Matthew Stuart Grob, Michael Mingxi Fan, Tamer Adel Kadous
  • Patent number: 11228471
    Abstract: A digital radio receiver has a matched filter bank of filter modules for receiving phase- or frequency-modulated radio signals. Each module cross-correlates a sampled signal with a respective multi-symbol filter sequence, using a plurality of samples in each symbol period. The matched filter bank calculates first values (zn(1)), for respective symbol periods, of a cross-correlation of the sampled signal with a first complex exponential function defined at sample points over one symbol period, and calculates second values (zn(?1)), for the respective symbol periods, of a cross-correlation of the sampled signal with a second, different, complex exponential function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Nordic Semiconductor ASA
    Inventors: Wei Li, Daniel Ryan
  • Patent number: 11224014
    Abstract: Power management for remote units in a wireless distribution system. Power can be managed for a remote unit configured to power modules and devices that may require more power to operate than power available to the remote unit. For example, the remote unit may be configured to include power-consuming remote unit modules to provide communication services. As another example, the remote unit may be configured to provide power through powered ports in the remote unit to power-consuming devices. Depending on the configuration of the remote unit, the power-consuming remote unit modules and/or power-consuming devices may demand more power than is available at the remote unit. In this instance, the power available at the remote unit can be distributed to the power-consuming modules and devices based on the priority of services desired to be provided by the remote unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Christian Heidler, Jonathan Richard Hull, Jessica Joy Kedziora, Michael Sauer, Wolfgang Gottfried Tobias Schweiker
  • Patent number: 11223377
    Abstract: A front-end circuit includes a power amplifier circuit configured to amplify power of multiple transmission waves having different frequency bands, a transmission filter provided between the power amplifier circuit and an antenna and configured to pass a predetermined transmission frequency band of an output signal of the power amplifier circuit, a switch provided between the power amplifier circuit and the antenna, and a matching circuit. In accordance with switching of whether the matching circuit is connected, an insertion loss in a frequency band of an intermodulation distortion within a communication band in an intra-band carrier aggregation mode is increased as compared to an insertion loss in a frequency band of an intermodulation distortion within the communication band in a single mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Kani
  • Patent number: 11212145
    Abstract: A signal shaping device includes: a generation unit to perform plural types of predetermined processes on blocks obtained by dividing plural sequences of bit strings by a predetermined length, and generate a plurality of candidate blocks that are candidates for a shaped block to be transmitted; a calculation unit to calculate, on a candidate-block-by-candidate-block basis, a weight of a one-dimensional modulation symbol when a plurality of bits included in the candidate block are converted into the one-dimensional modulation symbol; a selection unit to select, from among the candidate blocks, the shaped block on a basis of the weight; an addition unit to add, to the shaped block, selection information indicating a selection result; and a symbol mapping unit to generate a one-dimensional modulation signal by converting a plurality of bits included in the shaped block, into the one-dimensional modulation symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Binkai, Tsuyoshi Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11212143
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for signal equalization are provided. Multiple decision components are arranged in a sequence, beginning with a history portion and ending with a decode portion. Each decision component performs a decode decision on a symbol. Decode decisions are passed forward to other decision components where they can be used to compensate for intersymbol interference. Decode decision output by the history portion are otherwise discarded, while decode decisions output by the decode portion are output as a decoded signal. In the next decode cycle, input previously provided to the decode portion is again provided to the history portion, in a sliding, overlapping block manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: James Raymond Bailey, Mohammad Hossein Shakiba
  • Patent number: 11212745
    Abstract: Power management for remote units in a wireless distribution system. Power can be managed for a remote unit configured to power modules and devices that may require more power to operate than power available to the remote unit. For example, the remote unit may be configured to include power-consuming remote unit modules to provide communication services. As another example, the remote unit may be configured to provide power through powered ports in the remote unit to power-consuming devices. Depending on the configuration of the remote unit, the power-consuming remote unit modules and/or power-consuming devices may demand more power than is available at the remote unit. In this instance, the power available at the remote unit can be distributed to the power-consuming modules and devices based on the priority of services desired to be provided by the remote unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Christian Heidler, Jonathan Richard Hull, Jessica Joy Kedziora, Michael Sauer, Wolfgang Gottfried Tobias Schweiker
  • Patent number: 11212858
    Abstract: The same or similar physical signals can be used for both user equipment (UE) and an integrate access backhaul (IAB) node. Different configurations of the resources and/or transmission periods of the signals can be used for initial access for access UEs and IAB nodes. In addition, to support topology formation, mobility/multi-connectivity procedures, and backhaul link management, periodic measurements and reports can be configured by a parent IAB node to a child IAB node UE function. This can comprise radio resource management (RRM), radio link monitoring (RLM), and beam management (L1-BM) measurements and reports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Thomas Novlan, Arunabha Ghosh, Salam Akoum, Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11190056
    Abstract: A method and device for transmitting (20) to an electrical element (4) the power of a radio frequency type signal received by a radio frequency receiver (1), e.g., a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip, the receiver (1) having a receiving antenna (2) and a voltage rectifier (3) of the signal received by the antenna (2), the transmission device (20) including a voltage converter (30) connected to the rectifier (3) of the chip and to the electrical element (4). The device includes a control system (40) configured to momentarily derive the signal from the rectifier (3) in order to define an optimal input voltage of the converter (30) for which the input impedance of the converter corresponds to the output impedance of the rectifier (2), and to redirect the DC signal to the voltage converter (30) by providing the converter with an input voltage setpoint corresponding to the optimal voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: EM MICROELECTRONIC-MARIN S.A.
    Inventors: Jerome Saby, Maeve Petit, Thomas Coulot
  • Patent number: 11178609
    Abstract: Power management for remote units in a wireless distribution system. Power can be managed for a remote unit configured to power modules and devices that may require more power to operate than power available to the remote unit. For example, the remote unit may be configured to include power-consuming remote unit modules to provide communication services. As another example, the remote unit may be configured to provide power through powered ports in the remote unit to power-consuming devices. Depending on the configuration of the remote unit, the power-consuming remote unit modules and/or power-consuming devices may demand more power than is available at the remote unit. In this instance, the power available at the remote unit can be distributed to the power-consuming modules and devices based on the priority of services desired to be provided by the remote unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Christian Heidler, Jonathan Richard Hull, Jessica Joy Kedziora, Michael Sauer, Wolfgang Gottfried Tobias Schweiker
  • Patent number: 11171696
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a method for processing received distributed multiple-input and multiple-output (DMIMO) OFDM signals from a plurality of transmitters, including: performing an initial carrier frequency offset (CFO) correction; receiving a plurality of OFDM symbols; re-constructing the channel every N symbols based upon a channel estimate for each transmitter and an estimate of residual CFO for each of the transmitters based upon the long term fields (LTF), wherein N is an integer; and equalizing the received OFDM symbols using the re-constructed channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hari Ram Balakrishnan, Sri Varsha Rottela, Ankit Sethi, Vijay Ahirwar, Nilesh Nilkanth Khude, Sudhir Srinivasa
  • Patent number: 11165475
    Abstract: An enhanced linear combination codebook framework can support power allocation between transmission layers. Scaling between the layers of the codebook can be unequal so that power allocated between the layers can depend on the channel. For example, the network can configure the codebook to use radio resource control signaling to send codebook data to the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Wang, SaiRamesh Nammi
  • Patent number: 11153141
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods to generate a signal in a communication network. The method comprises filtering a discrete Fourier transform spread orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DFT-s-OFDM) data signal, and one of a DFT-S-OFDM and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) reference signal (RS) using a data filter and a RS filter respectively, to produce filtered data signal and filtered RS. The RS filter has one to one relationship with the data filter. Thereafter, port mapping the filtered RS to a corresponding port assigned to the transmitter to obtain port mapped filtered RS, wherein the port mapped filtered RS comprises a first subset of non-zero locations comprising of the filtered RS values and a second subset of zero locations comprising of zero values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Inventors: Kiran Kumar Kuchi, Saidhiraj Amuru, Sibgath Ali Khan Makandar
  • Patent number: 11153022
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae-hyeon Bae, Young-ho Oh, Sung-hee Hwang
  • Patent number: 11134350
    Abstract: Provided is an audio transmission method between at least two audio communication systems including a transmitting audio communication system with first and second audio transmitting devices and a receiving audio communication system with at least one audio receiving device. The method includes transmitting a first wireless audio stream, via a first wireless audio link, by the first audio transmitting device and a second wireless audio stream, via a second wireless audio link, by the second audio transmitting device; and selecting, by the at least one audio receiving device, one of the first wireless audio stream or the second wireless audio stream based on quality parameters of the first audio link and the second wireless audio link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: SONOVA AG
    Inventors: Amre El-Hoiydi, Evert Dijkstra, Hilmar Meier, Sebastian Stenzel, Timothee Jost