Patents Examined by Freshteh N. Aghdam
  • Patent number: 11677597
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes an estimation observation unit that observes a channel condition by estimating a tendency of a long delay wave and a channel fluctuation from a received signal in which a training signal is added to a data frame, a first equalizer that compensates for the received signal, a second equalizer that compensates for the received signal with a property of having a higher long delay wave tolerance and a lower channel fluctuation tolerance than the first equalizer, and a control unit that performs control which switches such that the first equalizer or the second equalizer performs compensation for the received signal, on the basis of the channel condition observed by the estimation observation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato Fukuzono, Keita Kuriyama, Tomohiro Tokuyasu, Tsutomu Tatsuta
  • Patent number: 11664840
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, by a first radio module at a first location, a wireless signal, to obtain a first received RF signal. The wireless signal includes information originating at a remote transmitter and conveyed via a wireless channel. An envelope of the first received RF signal is detected by the first radio module without requiring a local oscillator, to obtain a first baseband signal. The first baseband signal may be filtered and/or amplified, after which it is provided to a processor. The processor also obtains a second digital signal from a second radio module receiving the wireless signal at a second location and determines an estimate of the information originating at the remote transmitter according to the first and second signals. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC, AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ralf Bendlin, Jonathan David Chisum, Nicholas Joseph Estes, Bertrand Martyn Hochwald, Aditya Chopra
  • Patent number: 11658860
    Abstract: A transmitting device configured to obtain a message to be transmitted; map the obtained message onto a two-dimensional 2n-symbol constellation to obtain a sequence of discrete constellation symbols, where n is an odd number not less than 3. A receiving device configured to receive a sequence of noisy discrete constellation symbols; demap the sequence of noisy discrete constellation symbols to output data using a two-dimensional 2n-symbol constellation, where n is an odd number not less than 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Stefano Calabro, Maximilian Schaedler, Fabio Pittala, Maxim Kuschnerov
  • Patent number: 11652673
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for providing a decision feedback equalizer are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method and apparatus for reduction of inter-symbol interference (ISI) caused by communication channel impairments is disclosed. In some embodiments, a decision feedback equalizer includes a plurality of delay latches connected in series, a slicer circuit configured to receive an input signal from a communication channel and delayed feedback signals from the plurality of delay latches and determine a logical state of the received input signal, wherein the slicer circuit further comprises a dynamic threshold voltage calibration circuit configured to regulate a current flow between output nodes of the slicer circuit and ground based on the received delayed feedback signal and impulse response coefficients of the communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shu-Chun Yang, Wen-Hung Huang
  • Patent number: 11646814
    Abstract: A wireless device may include: a radio frequency (RF) front end circuit to receive and process an RF signal; a mixer to downconvert the RF signal to a second frequency signal; a digitizer to digitize the second frequency signal; a channel filter to channel filter the digitized signal; a selection circuit having a first input coupled to the channel filter and a plurality of outputs each to couple to one of a plurality of demodulators; and the plurality of demodulators coupled to the selection circuit. The selection circuit may route the channel filtered digitized signal to a first demodulator of the plurality of demodulators based on a first configuration setting. The wireless device may also include a non-volatile storage with a configuration file including the first configuration setting. The configuration file may be automatically generated by a hardware configurator in response to a plurality of user input parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Mark Gorday, Guner Arslan
  • Patent number: 11637684
    Abstract: A timing recovery apparatus for signal reception in a data transmission system comprises an equalizer to equalize a received signal and a phase detector connected after the timing recovery equalizer that generates a clock tone from absolute values of the received signal after equalization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nebojsa Stojanovic
  • Patent number: 11637584
    Abstract: A multi-radio border router for synchronizing communications of multiple border router radios is provided. For example, the border router includes a border router component connected to each of the plurality of border router radios. The border router component configured for selecting one of the plurality of border router radios as a master radio and assigning channel offset parameters for each of the plurality of border router radios. The master radio is configured for broadcasting synchronization beacons based on which the non-master radios synchronize their respective clocks with that of the master radio. After the synchronization, each of the border router radios communicates with endpoints associated therewith according to a channel hopping pattern modified by applying a channel offset determined based on the channel offset parameters assigned to the respective radio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: LANDIS+GYR INNOVATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: James Patrick Hanley, Christopher Scott Hett
  • Patent number: 11637685
    Abstract: A method of encoding input data includes identifying an input packet of the input data, the input packet including a plurality of input words, each of the input words including pre bits, groupID bits, and post bits, organizing the plurality of input words into a plurality of groups based on groupID bits of the plurality of input words, identifying a key group of the plurality of groups based on a number of input words in each of the plurality of groups, determining a key value based on the pre bits, the groupID bits, and the post bits of one of the plurality of input words corresponding to the key group, and generating a plurality of coded words based on the key value and the plurality of input words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Aliazam Abbasfar, Dale F. Stolitzka
  • Patent number: 11632262
    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate handshake procedures for Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) communication in connection with various DSL (Direct Subscriber Line) technologies. Various embodiments can employ different methods of separation of signaling to arrange P2MP handshake procedures based on existing Point-to-Point (P2P) handshake procedures. Example embodiments can employ one of separation in frequency, separation in time, or separation in transmission power level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: MaxLinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir Oksman, Dietmar Schoppmeier, Martin Fuss
  • Patent number: 11606165
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method, a medium, a program product, and a modem for setting modulation modes. The method includes detecting by a modem whether a modulation mode of the modem is inverted, the modem being capable of operating in a plurality of modulation modes, and each modulation mode having a different modulation order; and in response to the determination that the number of times of inversion of the modulation mode within a first predetermined time has reached a threshold, setting by the modem the modulation mode of the modem to a modulation mode other than a modulation mode with the highest modulation order in all modulation modes included in the inversion process and maintaining the set modulation mode for a second predetermined time. By the above method, the modulation mode is prevented from repeatedly inverting, thereby maintaining the downstream data throughput at a high level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Wei Lu, Bei Li, Jing Xiao, Jing Sun, Xuebo Chen
  • Patent number: 11575549
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for generating a time-varying information signal at an output of a continuous time linear equalizer (CTLE), asynchronously sampling a data signal according to a sampling clock having a frequency less than a data rate of the data signal; generating corresponding pattern-verified samples for at least two data patterns, each of the at least two data patterns having a respective frequency content; determining corresponding frequency-specific voltage measurements associated with each of the at least two data patterns based on the corresponding pattern-verified samples of the at least two data patterns; and adjusting an equalization of the data signal based on a comparison of the corresponding frequency-specific voltage measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: KANDOU LABS SA
    Inventor: Ali Hormati
  • Patent number: 11575553
    Abstract: A transmission method includes mapping processing, phase change processing, and transmission processing. In the mapping processing, a plurality of first modulation signals and a plurality of second modulation signals are generated using a first mapping scheme, and a plurality of third modulation signals and a plurality of fourth modulation signals are generated using a second mapping scheme. In the phase change processing, a phase change is performed on the plurality of second modulation signals and the plurality of fourth modulation signals using all N kinds of phases. In the transmission processing, the first modulation signals and the second modulation signals are respectively transmitted at a same frequency and a same time from different antennas, and the third modulation signals and the fourth modulation signals are respectively transmitted at a same frequency and a same time from the different antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11569934
    Abstract: PBCH design may affect timing indication in a wireless network and polar code interleaver design, among other things. Mechanisms may indicate half frame timing though de-modulation reference signal sequence initialization, de-modulation reference signal mapping order, or de-modulation reference signal resource element location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: IPLA HOLDINGS INC.
    Inventors: Lakshmi R. Iyer, Allan Y. Tsai, Qing Li, Joseph M. Murray
  • Patent number: 11570023
    Abstract: A receiver for use in a data channel on an integrated circuit device includes a non-linear equalizer having as inputs digitized samples of signals on the data channel, decision circuitry configured to determine from outputs of the non-linear equalizer a respective value of each of the signals, and adaptation circuitry configured to adapt parameters of the non-linear equalizer based on respective ones of the value. The non-linear equalizer may be a neural network equalizer, such as a multi-layer perceptron neural network equalizer, or a reduced complexity multi-layer perceptron neural network equalizer. A method for detecting data on a data channel on an integrated circuit device includes performing non-linear equalization of digitized samples of input signals on the data channel, determining from output signals of the non-linear equalization a respective value of each of the output signals, and adapting parameters of the non-linear equalization based on respective ones of the value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte, Ltd.
    Inventor: Nitin Nangare
  • Patent number: 11569897
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an innovative multi-layer hybrid/digital MIMO architecture that comprises single-stream or fully-connected (FC) multi-stream beamforming tiles (with RF complex-weights) in the first layer, followed by a fully connected (analog/digital) baseband layer. This architecture overcomes the complexity versus spectral-efficiency tradeoffs of existing hybrid MIMO architectures and enables MIMO stream/user scalability, superior energy-efficiency, and spatial-processing flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jeyanandh Paramesh, Susnata Mondal, L. Richard Carley
  • Patent number: 11553065
    Abstract: A first communication device is configured to process packets that conform to a first physical layer (PHY) protocol for wireless vehicular communications and packets that conform to a second PHY protocol for wireless vehicular communications. The first communication device determines that multiple frames are to be transmitted to a second communication device during a transmit opportunity period (TXOP), and determines that one or more third communication devices neighboring the first communication device are not capable of processing packets that conform to the second PHY protocol. In response, the first communication device transmits a first packet that conforms to the first PHY protocol and that includes duration information for the TXOP, and transmits a second packet that conforms to the second PHY protocol to the second communication device during the TXOP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Hongyuan Zhang, Liwen Chu
  • Patent number: 11539569
    Abstract: A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus comprises an encoder that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation and the code rate, a non-uniform constellation from one or several groups of constellations each comprising one or more constellations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Nabil Loghin, Lothar Stadelmeier, Jan Zoellner, Yuji Shinohara
  • Patent number: 11533096
    Abstract: Designs and techniques to enhance power-efficiency and incorporate new features in millimeter-wave MIMO transceivers are described. A new mechanism for built-in dual-band, per-element self-interference cancellation (SIC) is introduced to enable multi-antenna frequency-division duplex (FDD) and full-duplex (FD) operation. Additionally, several innovative circuit concepts are introduced, including low-loss wideband antenna interface design, dual-band power combining PA, dual-band RF-SIC design, and bi-directional MIMO signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Jeyanandh Paramesh, Susnata Mondal
  • Patent number: 11533114
    Abstract: Techniques are provided which may be implemented using various methods and/or apparatuses in a mobile device to address maximum permissible exposure (MPE) proximity sensor failure. A mobile device may include a maximum permissible exposure (MPE) sensor control unit to actively monitor signals associated with proper operation of the MPE proximity sensors. Upon detecting an anomaly in any of these signals, such as a value drop below a given threshold, an MPE sensor control Unit will inform an AP (application processor, or other processor or controller) which in turn trigger display of a warning message on the display of the mobile device or the issuance of other warnings such an audible or tactile alert to inform the end user about the maximum permissible exposure (MPE) proximity sensor malfunction and/or notify the end use of a condition resulting in deactivation of the 5G new radio transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Roberto Rimini
  • Patent number: 11522739
    Abstract: A first physical layer device includes a first transmitter and a first receiver. The first transmitter transmits first data to a second physical layer device over a medium at a first line rate during a first transmit period. The first receiver is configured to not receive data during the first transmit period and an echo reflection period occurring after the first transmit period. The echo reflection period is based on a length of the medium between the first physical layer device and the second physical layer device. The first receiver is configured to, after the echo reflection period, receive second data from the second physical layer device over the medium at a second line rate that is less than the first line rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Axonne, Inc.
    Inventor: William Lo