Patents Examined by Janice N Tieu
  • Patent number: 11075782
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for improving uniformity between levels of a multi-level signal are described. Techniques are provided herein to unify vertical alignment between data transmitted using multi-level signaling. Such multi-level signaling may be configured to capture transmitted data during a single clock cycle of a memory controller. An example of multi-level signaling scheme may be pulse amplitude modulation (PAM). Each unique symbol of the multi-level signal may be configured to represent a plurality of bits of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy M. Hollis, Feng Lin
  • Patent number: 11070416
    Abstract: An electronic device discussed herein may include an imbalance compensation logic that determines an imbalance parameter based at least in part on received quadrature signals from quadrature generation circuitry. The imbalance parameter may be determined using noise received by a receiver as an input radio frequency signal. By using the systems and methods described herein, an accuracy of detecting the imbalance may improve. Furthermore, by including the imbalance compensation logic internal to the electronic device, the imbalance compensation logic may provide continued imbalance detection over a lifespan of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad Janani, Carlos H. Arrabal Azzalini
  • Patent number: 11070267
    Abstract: There is provided a solution for transmitting periodic signals in a cell. According to an aspect a method comprises in a network node: generating a plurality of radio beams in a cell, wherein said plurality of radio beams comprise a plurality of beamforming configurations, and wherein at least one radio beam comprised in the plurality of radio beams comprises a discovery signal transmission; determining, for the at least one radio beam, whether or not at least one terminal device is located in a coverage area of the at least one radio beam; defining a transmission periodicity of the discovery signal transmission on the basis of said determining.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Sami-Jukka Hakola, Esa Tapani Tiirola
  • Patent number: 11063689
    Abstract: An transmission apparatus of the present disclosure comprises a transmission signal generator which, in operation, generates a transmission signal that includes a non-legacy preamble and a data field, the non-legacy preamble comprising a first field for indicating a number of spatial streams (Nss) in the data field and a second field for indicating one of a plurality of modulation and coding schemes (MCSs), wherein two or more frequency diversity transmission schemes are supported and each of the two or more frequency diversity transmission schemes is specified based on a value of the Nss; and a transmitter which, in operation, transmits the generated transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Yoshio Urabe, Rojan Chitrakar
  • Patent number: 11057247
    Abstract: A transmitting device includes an output node, at least one driver circuit and transition equalization circuitry. The driver circuit drives an output data signal including a data transition onto the output node. The output of the transition equalization circuitry is coupled to the output node. The transition equalization circuitry begins to drive the output node at the data transition and ends driving of the output node a pre-determined delay after beginning to drive the output node. The transition equalization circuitry drives the output node by injecting current onto the output node if the data transition is a positive transition, and sinking current from the output node if the data transition is a negative transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventor: Yikui Jen Dong
  • Patent number: 11043999
    Abstract: Provided are a wireless communication method and device. A feedback method for feeding back the signal quality of multiple transmitting beams of a network device by means of a terminal device can be improved, so that the communication performance of the terminal device can be improved. The method comprises: a terminal device determining a first feedback mode for feeding back the signal quality of multiple transmitting beams of a network device, wherein the first feedback mode differs from the other feedback modes supported by the terminal device in at least one of the following aspects: receiving the capability of receiving beams or receiving beam groups for signal quality feedback, and the number of receiving beams or receiving beam groups for signal quality feedback; and the terminal device feeding back the signal quality to the network device according to the first feedback mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhi Zhang, Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 10998933
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmitting data from a transmitter device to one or more receiver devices connected to the transmitter device via a respective wire connection, the transmitter device being operable to transmit signals onto the wire connections and a further wire connection at different tones, the method comprising: for each tone, allocating signals transmitted on the further wire connection as supporting signals for a particular wire connection, and measuring electromagnetic coupling between the further wire connection and that particular wire connection; using the measurements, determining a power allocation for transmitting a supporting signal on the further wire connection; for one or more of the tones: transmitting a signal onto the particular wire connection, and transmitting a supporting signal onto the further wire connection at the determined transmission power, thereby to cause crosstalk interference in the particular wire connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company
    Inventors: Anas Al Rawi, Leslie Humphrey, Trevor Linney
  • Patent number: 10998949
    Abstract: A method, wireless device and network node for determining an indication of a precoder are provided. According to one aspect, a method in a wireless device includes determining and the indication of the precoder from a codebook, the indication comprising a first beam phase parameter and a second beam phase parameter corresponding to a first beam and a second beam respectively. The first beam phase parameter takes on one of a first integer number of phase values and the second beam phase parameter takes on one of a second integer number of phase values. At least one of the following conditions apply: the second integer number of phase values is less than the first number of phase values, and the second frequency-granularity is greater than the first frequency-granularity. The method includes transmitting the determined indication of a precoder to the network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Sebastian Faxér, Shiwei Gao, Stephen Grant, Robert Mark Harrison, Siva Muruganathan
  • Patent number: 10985791
    Abstract: A method and device for adaptive performance optimization of wireless receivers operating in dynamic electromagnetic environments are disclosed. The wireless receiver measures the frequency and amplitude of all interference signals that can affect the quality of the desired received signal. Based on the interference signals, the wireless receiver estimates the effects of the interference signals on the desired received signal and mitigates the influence of the interference signals by totally suppressing or at least significantly reducing the interference signals through the use of adjustable components along the receiving chain. By dynamically adapting the receiver's sensitivity and selectivity, the most optimal conditions for receiving the desired signal at each moment are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: OPTIMIFY PTY LTD
    Inventors: Motti Haridim, Vyacheslav Snitkovsky, Martin Thazler
  • Patent number: 10979257
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to DC interference cancelation in received wireless signals. Disclosed techniques may be performed in the digital domain, in conjunction with analog cancelation techniques. In some embodiments, a receiver apparatus operates a local oscillator at a frequency corresponding to a particular pilot symbol in a received wireless signal. In some embodiments the receiver estimates DC interference at the frequency based on the received pilot symbol (this may be facilitated by the fact that the contents of pilot symbols are known, because they are typically used for channel estimation). In some embodiments, the receiver apparatus is configured to cancel the DC interference based on the estimate to determine received data in subsequently received signals at the frequency. Disclosed techniques may allow narrowband receivers to efficiently use more of their allocated frequency bandwidth, rather than wasting bandwidth near the frequency of the local oscillator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Konstantinos Sarrigeorgidis, Tarik Tabet, Lydi Smaini
  • Patent number: 10965396
    Abstract: A receiver for receiving data in a broadcast system comprises a broadcast receiver configured to receive, via said broadcast system, a receiver input data stream comprising a plurality of channel symbols represented by constellation points in a constellation diagram. A demodulator demodulates said channel symbols into codewords and a decoder decodes said codewords into output data words. A redundancy unit selects or requests, if demodulation of a channel symbol and/or decoding of a codeword is erroneous or likely to fail, redundancy data for demodulation of future channel symbols and/or decoding of future codewords via a broadband system and a broadband receiver obtains said redundancy data via said broadband system. Said demodulator and/or said decoder is configured to use the obtained redundancy data to demodulate the respective future channel symbols and to decode the respective future codewords, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC
    Inventors: Jan Zoellner, Lothar Stadelmeier
  • Patent number: 10951305
    Abstract: An orbiting multiple access transceiver communicates with terrestrial mobile stations which are also capable of communicating with terrestrial base stations. The multiple access transceiver is configured to sample a signal when a terrestrial mobile station of interest is not transmitting to produce a sample signal. The sample signal may be processed to produce an out-of-phase signal that may be applied to a signal when the terrestrial mobile station of interest is transmitting to produce a clearer signal from the terrestrial mobile station of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Lynk Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyghe Robert Speidel, Kevin Jackson, Zheng Liu, Andrew J. Gerber
  • Patent number: 10944444
    Abstract: A digital predistortion (DPD) system includes an input configured to receive a DPD input signal. In some embodiments, a non-linear datapath is coupled to the input, where the non-linear datapath includes a plurality of parallel datapath elements each coupled to the input. By way of example, each of the plurality of parallel datapath elements is configured to add a different inverse non-linear component to the DPD input signal corresponding to a non-linear component of an amplifier. In various examples, a first combiner combines an output of each of the plurality of datapath elements to generate a first predistortion signal. In some embodiments, the DPD system further includes a linear datapath coupled to the input in parallel with the non-linear datapath to generate a second predistortion signal. In addition, a second combiner combines the first predistortion signal and the second predistortion signal to generate a DPD output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher H. Dick, Hongzhi Zhao, Hemang M. Parekh, Xiaohan Chen
  • Patent number: 10924173
    Abstract: High frequency wireless communication networks rely on directional transmit and receive beams to achieve large gains and overcome large pathlosses associated with high frequency signals. With highly directional signals, link failure may occur. Network nodes associated with the link failure, may need to identify new beam pairs and establish a new link as quickly as possible. In several aspects, beam sweep procedures are expedited, allowing for rapid link reestablishment. Disclosed techniques allow for rapid link reestablishment with and without beam correspondence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tianyang Bai, Navid Abedini, Juergen Cezanne, Muhammad Nazmul Islam, Vasanthan Raghavan, Jianghong Luo, Sundar Subramanian, Junyi Li
  • Patent number: 10924161
    Abstract: This application describes methods, systems, and techniques for performing communication based on a beam group. In a method, for example, a terminal device groups transmit beams of a network device based on a receive beam of the terminal device. The method may also include the terminal device determining spatial direction information of each beam group. Furthermore, the method may include the terminal device sending, to the network device, the spatial direction information of each beam group or information about a correlation between beam groups determined based on the spatial direction information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Gao Xiang, Huang Huang
  • Patent number: 10917184
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for computing and reporting a relevance metric for a positioning beacon beam. In an aspect, a first node receives, from a second node, a plurality of beams, determines a relevance metric for each of one or more beams of interest from the plurality of beams, wherein the relevance metric for each beam of the one or more beams of interest is based on a time of arrival at the first node of the beam and a signal strength of the beam, and sends, to the second node, a report identifying each of the one or more beams of interest and including the relevance metric for each of the one or more beams of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bilal Sadiq, Naga Bhushan, Junyi Li, Vasanthan Raghavan, Tianyang Bai, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Alexandros Manolakos, Pavan Kumar Vitthaladevuni, Juergen Cezanne
  • Patent number: 10917122
    Abstract: Apparatuses (and methods of manufacturing same), systems, and methods concerning polyphase digital filters are described. In one aspect, an apparatus is provided, including at least one pair of subfilters, each having symmetric coefficients, and a lattice comprising two adders and feedlines corresponding to each of the at least one pair of subfilters, each having symmetric coefficients. In one aspect, the apparatus is a polyphase finite impulse response (FIR) digital filter, including an interpolator and a decimator, where each of the interpolator and the decimator have at least one pair of subfilters, each having symmetric coefficients, and a lattice comprising two adders and feedlines corresponding to each of the at least one pair of subfilters, each having symmetric coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Inventors: Liangbin Li, Pranav Dayal, Jungwon Lee, Gennady Feygin
  • Patent number: 10892863
    Abstract: Embodiments of an access point (AP), station (STA) and method of communication are generally described herein. An AP may be configurable to operate as a master AP of a multi-AP group comprising the master AP and one or more satellite APs. The master AP may select, from the multi-AP group, a set of APs that is to communicate with a STA in accordance with joint processing. The master AP may allocate one or more spatial streams to each of the APs of the set of APs for a joint transmission of a null data packet (NDP) to the STA for channel sounding. The master AP may transmit an NDP announcement (NDPA) that indicates that the APs of the set of APs are to perform the joint transmission of the NDP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Xiaogang Chen, Qinghua Li, Feng Jiang, Po-Kai Huang, Laurent Cariou, Robert J. Stacey, Thomas J. Kenney, Ziv Avital
  • Patent number: 10892926
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a device for differently applying phase rotations for each antenna by dividing a frequency band in order to solve a problem in which reception performance deteriorates in a specific subcarrier when the correlation between antennas is high. According to the present invention, a method by which a transmitter transmits a signal comprises the steps of: estimating the transmission correlation between respective transmission paths; calculating a phase rotation value to be applied to a transmission signal on the basis of the estimated transmission correlation; applying a phase rotation in accordance with the phase rotation value to the transmission signal; and transmitting the transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seijoon Shim, Hayoung Yang, Chongdon Kim, Chanho Choi
  • Patent number: 10868605
    Abstract: A method of a base station (BS) for channel state information (CSI) estimation in a wireless communication system is provided. The method of BS comprises: receiving, from a user equipment (UE), a sounding reference signal (SRS) for the CSI estimation; determining whether the received SRS is measurable for the CSI estimation; initializing a set of uplink parameters based on a result of the determination; updating the set of uplink parameters based on SRS history stored in a buffer; and performing, using a channel prediction model and channel reciprocity, the downlink CSI estimation based on the updated parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Rui Wang, Junmo Sung, Jianzhong Zhang, Young-Han Nam, Shouvik Ganguly