Patents Examined by James M Perez
  • Patent number: 11201692
    Abstract: A receiver for receiving data in a broadcast system includes a broadcast receiver that receives, via the broadcast system, a receiver input data stream including plural channel symbols represented by constellation points in a constellation diagram. A demodulator demodulates the channel symbols into codewords and a decoder decodes the codewords into output data words. A broadband receiver obtains redundancy data via a broadband system, the redundancy data for a channel symbol including one or more least robust bits of the channel symbol or a constellation subset identifier indicating a subset of constellation points including the constellation point representing the channel symbol. The demodulator and/or the decoder is configured to use the redundancy data to demodulate the respective channel symbol and to decode the respective codeword, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Junge Qi, Joerg Robert, Jan Zoellner
  • Patent number: 11201775
    Abstract: A technique for transmitting data from a passive radio device (100) is described. As to a method aspect of the technique, an antenna (102) of the passive radio device (100) is exposed to an incident radio signal (502). A frequency domain representation of the incident radio signal (502) comprised at least one muted gap between active subcarriers within a bandwidth of the incident radio signal (502). The incident radio signal (502) is backscattered from the antenna by modulating an impedance of the antenna according to the data using at least two different modulation frequencies that differ by less than the bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Miguel Lopez, Leif Wilhelmsson
  • Patent number: 11201680
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards multidimensional grid sampling for radio frequency power feedback. A mobile device can sample radio frequency signal power at multiple sample points, and can send sample values to a base station. The multiple sample points can be defined with reference to a grid having a first dimension and a second dimension, such as time and frequency, or delay and Doppler. A variety of techniques are provided to define the multiple sample points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ralf Bendlin, Salam Akoum, Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11190191
    Abstract: A Multi-Chip-Module (MCM) includes an MCM substrate, and at least a data producing IC (DPIC) and a data-consuming IC (DCIC), both mounted on the MCM substrate and connected to one another through a high-speed bus including at least first and second embedded-clock data lanes. The DCIC includes a clock-data recovery circuit (CDR) and a data sampler. The CDR is configured to restore a data and a clock from the first data lane, and to output phase correction signaling. The data sampler is configured to restore the data from the second data lane by sampling the second data lane at a phase responsive to the phase correction signaling derived from the first data lane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Omer Wolkovitz, Eilon Yanai
  • Patent number: 11190335
    Abstract: A method for performing pattern detection and alignment on a programmable logic device is disclosed. A word aligner unit, implemented by a hard intellectual property block, is configured to detect a plurality of control characters by recognizing a proper subset of bits that are common among the plurality of control characters. It is determined whether a predetermined number of consecutive control characters has been detected in a frame of data. A boundary location associated with a detected predetermined number of consecutive control characters from the word aligner unit is identified. The frame of data is aligned in response to the boundary location associated with the detected predetermined number of consecutive control characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Boon Hong Oh, Ivan Fu Sun Teh, Chee Seng Tan
  • Patent number: 11184205
    Abstract: A receiving apparatus includes a receiving section that receives a data signal, a demodulation reference signal, and a specific signal in at least one of a plurality of layers, and a control section that, based on the demodulation reference signal and the specific signal, estimates interference, controls transmission of a result of the estimation, and performs a modulo operation of the data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yuki Matsumura, Satoshi Nagata, Xin Wang, Jing Wang, Xiaolin Hou
  • Patent number: 11184074
    Abstract: Facilitating sparsity adaptive feedback in the delay doppler domain in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a method can comprise determining, by a first device comprising a processor, a channel covariance matrix in a time-frequency domain based on a channel estimation associated with reference signals received from a second device. The method also can comprise decomposing, by the first device, the channel covariance matrix into a group of component matrices. Further, the method can comprise transforming, by the first device, respective matrices of the group of component matrices into respective covariance matrices in a delay doppler domain. The method also can comprise determining, by the first device, channel state information feedback in the delay doppler domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Salam Akoum, Xiaoyi Wang, Ralf Bendlin
  • Patent number: 11184078
    Abstract: A data transmission method includes: receiving beam configuration information sent by a base station; according to the beam configuration information, obtaining a plurality of candidate beams from among a plurality of beams supported by the base station; performing data reception according to the plurality of candidate beams. A plurality of candidate beams can therefore be obtained from among a plurality of beams supported by a base station according to beam configuration information sent by the base station, and thus perform data reception according to the plurality of candidate beams, thereby implementing a multi-beam data reception solution, reducing the probability of packet loss during data reception, and increasing the reliability of data reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yajun Zhu, Ming Zhang
  • Patent number: 11177986
    Abstract: Adaptive equalizer circuitry including both a continuous time equalizer (CTE) and a discrete time equalizer (DTE) and a method of jointly adapting the CTE and DTE in lane adaptation. Jointly adaptation of the CTE and DTE is performed by adapting the DTE at each of a plurality of filter characteristic settings of the CTE and determining a figure of merit for signals filtered by the CTE and DTE at that condition. Adaptation of the DTE may be performed by dynamically adjusting a convergence coefficient based on a history of error gradients. After a figure of merit is determined for each of the plurality of CTE filter characteristics, a CTE filter characteristic setting is then selected based on those figure of merit values, for example at a CTE setting near a midpoint of an acceptable region of figure of merit values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Aravind Ganesan, Harshavardhan Adepu, Rakesh Chikkanayakanahalli Manjunath
  • Patent number: 11177995
    Abstract: Aspects of the present application provide methods and devices for time domain implementation of a single carrier waveform such as single carrier quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) DFT-s-OFDM and single carrier Offset QAM (OQAM). A time domain implementation allows flexible symbol lengths, lower implementation complexity as a large IDFT operation is not required in the time domain and support for variable cyclic prefix (CP) length. An OQAM implementation utilizes a pre-processing step to convert a K complex QAM symbol sequence into a 2K OQAM symbol sequence and generates a sequence for transmission in the time domain as opposed to the frequency domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nuwan Suresh Ferdinand, Ming Jia, Jianglei Ma
  • Patent number: 11171739
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An encoder of a wireless device may receive a transport block (TB) for transmission and segment the transport block into a set of multiple, smaller data segments that respectively In correspond to a plurality of code blocks of the TB. The encoder may generate a code block level (CB-level) error detection code (EDC) for a subset of the data segments. The encoder may generate a transport block-level (TB-level) EDC for the TB using the data segments. Each of the code blocks (CBs) may be of the same size and may include one of the data segments. A subset of the CBs may include a data segment from the subset of the data segments and one of the CB-level EDCs. The remaining CBs that are not part of the subset may include a remaining data segments and the TB-level EDC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorproated
    Inventors: Changlong Xu, Liangming Wu, Jian Li, Kai Chen, Jing Jiang, Gabi Sarkis, Hao Xu
  • Patent number: 11165609
    Abstract: This application provides a signal generation apparatus and method, and a system. The signal generation apparatus includes an encoder, a serializer, an equalizer, and N amplifiers. The encoder is configured to encode to-be-sent data, to obtain a first electrical signal. The serializer is configured to perform parallel-to-serial processing on the first electrical signal, to obtain a second electrical signal. The equalizer is configured to process the second electrical signal, to obtain a third electrical signal. The third electrical signal is amplified by the N amplifiers, to obtain N pairs of differential signals, where N is an integer greater than 2. In embodiments of this application, the N amplifiers amplify differential signals to obtain N pairs of differential signals, and the N pairs of differential signals are directly used as drive signals, so that power consumption for generating a drive signal can be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Lei Gao, Behzad Dehlaghi
  • Patent number: 11166060
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for streaming media content over a network are provided. One exemplary method of streaming media content over a network involves transmitting one or more portions of the media content to a client device via a delivery route between a content delivery source and the network, determining a performance metric associated with the transmitting of the one or more portions via the delivery route, and dynamically adjusting the delivery route between the content delivery source and the network based at least in part on the performance metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: DISH Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventor: Robert Drew Major
  • Patent number: 11163036
    Abstract: An ADS-B spoofer being an false ADS-B squitter, an ADS-B squitter being an aircraft position information signal transmitted to secondary radars, the ADS-B squitters being detected over time at different bearings of the antenna in rotation of the radar, the method comprises, for each secondary radar, at least the following steps: a first step of detection of an ADS-B spoofer; a second step of location of the position in azimuth of the ADS-B spoofer generator, the second step comprising the following operations: measurement of the azimuth of the antenna of the secondary radar and of the received powers on the sum, difference and control patterns of the antenna upon the detection of an ADS-B squitter; generation and storage of at least one assumption of azimuth of the spoofer for each ADS-B squitter detected, the assumption being equal to the sum of the azimuth of the antenna and of the estimated bearing of the spoofer, the estimated bearing being characterized by the ratio of the received power on the sum patte
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventor: Philippe Billaud
  • Patent number: 11153000
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may measure a beam quality metric associated with a reference signal for each candidate beam of a plurality of candidate beams. The UE may determine a set of channel characteristics for each candidate beam of the plurality of candidate beams, where the set of channel characteristics indicates to the UE a level of channel equalization by the UE associated with processing signaling on each candidate beam of the plurality of candidate beams. In some cases, the set of channel characteristics may include a frequency selectiveness of a channel for each candidate beam of the plurality of candidate beams. The UE may select a candidate beam from the plurality of candidate beams based on the beam quality metric and the set of channel characteristics and communicate with a base station using the selected candidate beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Shay Landis, Assaf Touboul, Yehonatan Dallal, Idan Michael Horn
  • Patent number: 11153135
    Abstract: Methods and systems of adaptive equalization to compensate channel loss are disclosed. A method includes detecting a peak amplitude of an equalizer output signal and selecting a set of reference voltage levels from M sets based on the peak amplitude of the equalizer output signal, each of the M sets having N reference voltage levels. The method includes continuing to increase an equalization level in predetermined steps to a next higher equalization level if the applied equalization level does not correspond to the over-equalization level and evaluating the distribution of the resulting hit counts for each increase to the next higher equalization level until the applied equalization level corresponds to the over-equalization level. The method includes decreasing to the previously applied lower equalization level if the applied equalization level corresponds to the over-equalization level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shita Guo, Yanli Fan, Mustafa Ulvi Erdogan, Douglas Edward Wente
  • Patent number: 11153001
    Abstract: A beam management method includes: A terminal device determines a first UE posture of the terminal device in a process in which the terminal device receives, by using a first receive beam, information sent by a network device, where the terminal device includes a plurality of receive beams; when the terminal device is changed from the first UE posture to a second UE posture, the terminal device determines a second receive beam based on a direction relationship between the plurality of receive beams and a direction change status during a change from the first UE posture to the second UE posture; and the terminal device receives, by using the second receive beam, the information sent by the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaoyong Yu, Bin Liu, Wei Huang, Qi Wang
  • Patent number: 11146437
    Abstract: A base station may generate and transmit a transport stream including a sequence of frames. A frame may include a plurality of partitions, where each partition includes a corresponding set of OFDM symbols. For each partition, the OFDM symbols in that partition may have a corresponding cyclic prefix size and a corresponding FFT size, allowing different partitions to be targeted for different collections of user devices, e.g., user devices having different expected values of maximum delay spread and/or different ranges of mobility. The base station may also dynamically re-configure the sample rate of each frame, allowing further resolution in control of subcarrier spacing. By allowing the cyclic prefixes of different OFDM symbols to have different lengths, it is feasible to construct a frame that confirms to a set payload duration and has arbitrary values of cyclic prefix size per partition and FFT size per partition. The partitions may be multiplexed in time and/or frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: ONE MEDIA, LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Simon, Kevin A. Shelby, Mark Earnshaw
  • Patent number: 11146374
    Abstract: This application provides a transmission method and a transmission apparatus, so that a receive end can correctly demodulate data. A transmission method may include performing a phase compensation operation of a corresponding frequency value on each of m first signals in k signals, to obtain m second signals, where each of the m first signals is located at a non-center frequency of a current carrier, each first signal is a synchronization signal or data, m and k each are a positive integer, and m?k. The method may also include performing sending processing on the m second signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chao Li, Qian Zhang, Changguo Jiang, Jingxin Wei
  • Patent number: 11139854
    Abstract: A method for spread spectrum communication, a user equipment and a base station are provided in embodiments of the present disclosure. The method for spread spectrum communication applied to a user equipment includes: selecting spreading sequences for a plurality of symbols of data to be transmitted in a set of spreading sequences, respectively, wherein spreading sequences selected for at least two symbols are different; spreading the data by using the selected spreading sequences; transmitting the spread data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Qin Mu, Liu Liu, Wenjia Liu, Xiaolin Hou