Patents Examined by Leila Malek
  • Patent number: 11700072
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method receives a first time from a network device. The first time is derived from a first timing source in a first domain. The method receives a second time in a second domain from a second timing source. A difference time value is calculated between the first time and the second time. The method then sends the difference time value to the network device where the network device uses the difference time value to send a delay value to other computing devices to synchronize timing of the other computing devices in the second domain. The other computing devices are configured to synchronize the respective time using the delay value with mobile network devices to allow timing synchronization between the mobile network devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Yair Neugeboren, Eliezer Baruch, Ian G. Wheelock
  • Patent number: 11689316
    Abstract: A transmitter includes a data stream encoder layer having an output and a pattern generator having a bit pattern output. The transmitter further includes a first multiplexer having first and second inputs and a first multiplexer output. The first input is coupled to the output of the data stream encoder layer, and the second input is coupled to the bit pattern output of the pattern generator. While at least a portion of the data stream encoder layer is powered down, the pattern generator is configured to provide bit patterns on its bit pattern output, a control signal to the first multiplexer is configured to select the second input of the first multiplexer, and the first multiplexer is configured to output the bit patterns on the output of the first multiplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Sanjay Pennam, Vamsi Krishna Kandalla, Brahmendra Reddy Yatham, Shailesh Wardhen, Jaiganesh Balakrishnan, Jawaharlal Tangudu
  • Patent number: 11689255
    Abstract: Disclosed are a device and method in a wireless communication system. The device comprises: a first generating unit configured to generate a first pre-coding matrix according to first channel information on a channel between a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus; a second generating unit configured to generate a second pre-coding matrix according to the first pre-coding matrix and second channel information on the channel; and a pre-coding unit configured to pre-code a data signal according to the first pre-coding matrix and the second pre-coding matrix. According to the embodiments of the present invention, interference between user equipment can be effectively removed, the operation complexity is reduced, and the whole performance of the system is optimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chen Qian, Zhaocheng Wang, Wendong Liu, Jinhui Chen
  • Patent number: 11689405
    Abstract: An apparatus of a transmitter may include, for example, a Golay builder to build modulated Golay sequences for at least a non-EDMG Short Training Field (L-STF), and a non-EDMG Channel Estimation Field (L-CEF) of a PPDU; a scrambler to generate scrambled bits by scrambling bits of a non-EDMG header (L-header) and a data field of the PPDU; an encoder to encode the scrambled bits into encoded bits according to a low-density parity-check (LDPC) code; a constellation mapper to map the encoded bits into a stream of constellation points according to a constellation scheme; a spreader to spread the stream of constellation points according to a Golay sequence; and a transmit chain mapper to map a bit stream output from the Golay builder and the spreader to a plurality of transmit chains by applying a spatial expansion with relative cyclic shift over the plurality of transmit chains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Maltsev, Carlos Cordeiro, Artyom Lomayev, Michael Genossar, Claudio Da Silva
  • Patent number: 11689265
    Abstract: An antenna system for a mobile communications base station and a method of operating a communications network including a base station is described. The antenna system includes an antenna array for beamforming and is configured either as a radar sensor, a communications antenna or a combined radar sensor. A radar image may be used to determine a map of objects in the vicinity of the antenna system and to adapt the beamsteering or beamforming of the antenna system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Paul Mattheijssen, Konstantinos Doris, Dominicus Martinus Wilhelmus Leenaerts, Mark Tomesen
  • Patent number: 11683211
    Abstract: An apparatus of a transmitter may include, for example, a Golay builder to build modulated Golay sequences for at least a non-EDMG Short Training Field (L-STF), and a non-EDMG Channel Estimation Field (L-CEF) of a PPDU; a scrambler to generate scrambled bits by scrambling bits of a non-EDMG header (L-header) and a data field of the PPDU; an encoder to encode the scrambled bits into encoded bits according to a low-density parity-check (LDDC) code; a constellation mapper to map the encoded bits into a stream of constellation points according to a constellation scheme; a spreader to spread the stream of constellation points according to a Golay sequence; and a transmit chain mapper to map a bit stream output from the Golay builder and the spreader to a plurality of transmit chains by applying a spatial expansion with relative cyclic shift over the plurality of transmit chains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Maltsev, Carlos Cordeiro, Artyom Lomayev, Michael Genossar, Claudio Da Silva
  • Patent number: 11670848
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an anti jamming system for a wireless communication system an antenna array comprising N antenna elements. At least two multiphase filters being connected to the antenna array and configured to receive an antenna element signal from each one of the N antenna elements. An anti-jamming system for a wireless communication system comprising an antenna array comprising N antenna elements and a filter configured to attenuate jamming signals from sources that is greater than, less than, or equal to N. An anti-jamming system for a wireless communication system comprising a multiphase filter connected to the antenna array to receive an antenna element signal from each antenna element of the antenna array, the multiphase filters comprising a first phase and a second phase, wherein the first phase of the multiphase filter executes a Frost's algorithm and the second phase of the multiphase filter executes a Maximin algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hyuck M. Kwon, Krittetash Pinoyoanuntapong, Khanh Pham
  • Patent number: 11671287
    Abstract: An interconnect module device is provided. The interconnect module device includes a line control command (LCC) detecting circuit configured to identify an LCC signal; an equalizer control circuit configured to generate a control signal based on the LCC signal; a receiving equalizer configured to perform receiving equalization on a first signal received from a first universal flash storage (UFS) device based on the control signal to generate a second signal; and a transmitting equalizer configured to perform transmitting equalization on the second signal to generate a third signal based on the control signal, and transmit the third signal to a second UFS device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Youngsan Kang, Byungyo Lee
  • Patent number: 11671166
    Abstract: Provided is a transmitting device which can expand a communication range when performing multicast/broadcast communication. The transmitting device includes a plurality of transmission antennas, and includes: a signal processor which generates a first baseband signal by modulating data of a first stream, and a second baseband signal by modulating data of a second stream; and a transmitter which generates, from the first baseband signal, first transmission signals having different directivities, generates, from the second baseband signal, second transmission signals having different directivities, and transmits the first transmission signals and the second transmission signals at a same time. When the transmitter has received, from a terminal, a request to transmit the first stream, the transmitter further generates, from the first baseband signal, third transmission signals which are different from the first transmission signals and have different directivities, and transmits the third transmission signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11664863
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a processor; a memory; a PMU; a wireless interface adapter for communicating, via a plurality of transceiving antennas operated by one or more radio frequency (RF) subsystems, wireless links; an antenna controller to receive: a wireless ecosystem persona, a link persona, a system configuration persona, and a usage persona; the antenna controller to execute an antenna selection algorithm to use, as input, the wireless ecosystem persona, the link persona, the system configuration persona, and the usage persona to output a connectivity resource mapping used to assign the plurality of antennas to be communicatively coupled to the one or more peripheral devices and plurality of operating wireless links; and the antenna controller to switch between operating transceiving antennas by accessing RF switches to dynamically change the assignment of the plurality of antennas to the or more peripheral devices and plurality of operating wireless links.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Suresh K. Ramasamy, Abeye Teshome, Liam B. Quinn, Julius Mueller
  • Patent number: 11665034
    Abstract: A Radio Frequency (RF) receiver may include a lower-order phase shift keying (PSK) demodulation circuit configured to generate at least one locking parameter when performing a lower-order PSK demodulation of an RF receive signal having an interfering PSK signal component. A higher-order PSK demodulation circuit has a higher order than the lower-order PSK demodulation circuit, and locks to the RF receive signal using the at least one locking parameter from the lower-order PSK demodulation circuit. The higher-order PSK demodulation circuit performs the higher-order PSK demodulation of the RF receive signal based upon locking to the RF receive signal to determine the interfering PSK signal component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: L. Andrew Gibson, Alexander Kimani, Lance R. Lindsay, Christian Schlegel, Christopher L. Brown
  • Patent number: 11637640
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) configured to perform self-calibration. The UE includes a first radio configured to perform implicit beamforming and further configured to transmit and receive signals during the calibration procedure. The UE further includes a first plurality of antennas communicatively coupled to the first radio, a second radio configured to transmit and receive signals during the calibration procedure and at least one second antenna communicatively coupled to the second radio. The calibration procedure includes the second radio transmitting a tone signal over the calibration frequency and a first antenna of the first radio receiving the tone signal and a second antenna of the first radio receiving the tone signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kai Bai, Wassim El-Hassan, Linchao Liao, Ding Nie
  • Patent number: 11637724
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for communicating multiple logic states across a digital isolator. The digital isolator is a universal serial bus (USB) isolator in some embodiments. The digital isolator includes one or more single-bit data channels. Three or more logic states of information are transmitted across the single-bit data channel(s). The logic states are distinguished by a pulse sequence, and in particular a number of edges of the pulse sequence and a final value or final edge of the pulse sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric C. Gaalaas, Dongwan Ha, Jason J. Ziomek, Bikiran Goswami, Brian Jadus
  • Patent number: 11621754
    Abstract: A method of beam steering is provided to address the squint effect that occurs in phased array antennas when wideband signals are transmitted. Beam steering weights are computed based on an optimization that takes into account performance at a set of frequencies across a bandwidth of interest, including at least endpoints of the bandwidth, and a design frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sahar Molla Aghajanzadeh, Peyman Neshaastegaran, Ming Jian
  • Patent number: 11606123
    Abstract: The described techniques provide for the use of sub-band-specific reference signal precoding. A user equipment (UE) may apply multiple precoding matrices to a reference signal to generate a set of precoded reference signals and may transmit the precoded reference signals over respective sub-bands within a given reference signal resource set. In some cases, the UE may transmit a different set of precoded reference signals in each of multiple reference signal resource sets. Upon receiving the precoded reference signals, a base station may perform wideband channel estimation for each sub-band in the given reference signal resource set. The base station may compute an average spectral efficiency for each reference signal resource set and may transmit a report to the UE. The report may include one or more communication parameters for future communications between the UE and base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chenxi Hao, Yu Zhang, Chao Wei, Liangming Wu, Wanshi Chen
  • Patent number: 11606129
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to multi user detection in distributed antenna systems. A communication system may include a central processing circuitry and a plurality of access points connected to the central processing circuitry via a fronthaul interface. Each access point of the plurality of access points may include a plurality of antennas configured to receive signals from a plurality of UEs, and a local processing circuitry connected to the plurality of antennas. The local processing circuitry may be configured to estimate channel properties of a MIMO channel between the UEs and the antennas of the access point, and determine a subset of the UEs using the channel properties. The local processing circuitry may transmit data associated with the subset of wireless communication devices to the central processing circuitry for use to perform multiuser detection at the central processing circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignees: University of Southern California, KDDI Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Issei Kanno, Takeo Ohseki, Andreas Molisch
  • Patent number: 11595234
    Abstract: An equalizer circuit, a method for sampling data and a memory are provided. The equalizer circuit includes a first input buffer circuit, a second input buffer circuit and a selecting and sampling circuit. The first input buffer circuit and the second input buffer circuit are respectively connected with the selecting and sampling circuit, and reference voltages used in the first input buffer circuit and the second input buffer circuit are different from each other. The selecting and sampling circuit selects to perform data sampling on a data signal outputted by the first input buffer circuit or the second input buffer circuit according to data outputted previously by the equalizer circuit, and takes sampled data as data outputted currently by the equalizer circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Zhiqiang Zhang
  • Patent number: 11586879
    Abstract: Systems and methods for classifying radio frequency signal modulations include receiving, at a consolidated neural network, a complex quadrature vector of interest representative of a baseband signal derived from a radio frequency signal, generating multiple data representations of the vector of interest, providing each data representation to one of multiple parallel neural networks in the consolidated neural network, and receiving, from the consolidated neural network, a classification result for the baseband signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen J. Govea, Nathanael P. Kuehner, David N. Taylor, Rodger W. Caruthers, Micah D. Silberstein, Gregory Agami
  • Patent number: 11588528
    Abstract: A radio frequency receiver comprises a set of antennas for receiving an RF signal over a communication channel represented by a channel matrix Hd, a plurality of analog beamformer for generating plurality of analog beams, wherein each analog beam former is coupled to a subset of antennas comprising a fewer number antennas in the set of antennas, a mixer for combining the plurality of analog beams to provide a down converted signal, and a digital beam former for generating a plurality of digital beams, wherein a set of analog weights (FR) of the plurality of analog beamformer and a set of digital weights (FB) of the digital beamformer are selected such that effective beam formed by their product FB FR is orthogonal and spans the same space as columns of the channel matrix Hd.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Inventors: Ganesan Thiagarajan, Sanjeev Gurugopinath
  • Patent number: 11579269
    Abstract: An optoelectronic sensor for determining the distance of an object in a monitoring area has a light transmitter for transmitting transmitted light, a light receiver for generating a received signal from remitted light remitted by the object, and a control and evaluation unit configured to modulate the transmitted light with at least a first frequency and a second frequency, to determine a phase offset between transmitted light and remitted light for the first frequency and the second frequency, and to determine a light time of flight. The control and evaluation unit is configured to determine a first amplitude and a second amplitude for the first frequency and the second frequency from the received signal and to detect whether the transmitted light impinges on an edge in the monitoring area on the basis of an evaluation of the first amplitude and the second amplitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SICK AG
    Inventors: Hartmut Gimpel, Matthias Honal