Patents Examined by Siu Lee
  • Patent number: 9859963
    Abstract: A system is provided comprising: a first wireless part with a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) capability; a second wireless part with a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) capability; and circuitry in communication with the first wireless part with the multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) capability and the second wireless part with the multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) capability. The system is configured such that the first wireless part with the multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) capability selects a channel based on one or more channel characteristics and initiates a first transmission to a first multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)-capable portable wireless device via the first wireless protocol, and further initiates a second transmission to a second multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO)-capable portable wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Woodbury Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Roc Lastinger, John Spenik, Brian C. Woodbury
  • Patent number: 9853608
    Abstract: Disclosed is an envelope tracking (ET) system having a transmit (TX) section, a power amplifier (PA), a fast switched-mode power supply (Fast SMPS), and control circuitry. The TX section receives an input signal and provides a modulated signal to the PA. The TX section also generates an ET signal based on a modulation envelope of the modulated signal. The TX section provides an envelope control (EC) signal based on the ET signal to modulate a supply signal provided to the PA by the Fast SMPS. The control circuitry provides a transmit TX gain signal and an ET gain signal to the TX section based on a PA temperature signal, a TX temperature signal, a target power signal, a measured power signal. The control circuitry is configured to maintain the efficiency and linearity of the PA over a wide operating temperature range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventors: James M. Retz, Jeff Kaminski
  • Patent number: 9853836
    Abstract: An electronic device and method for signal detection in a wireless communication system is provided. The electronic device includes a receiving unit configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal, a control unit configured to process the received signal, wherein processing the received signal comprises canceling a signal corresponding to a first stage in the received signal, detecting a signal corresponding to a second stage by applying lattice reduction, and determining a final detected signal by combining the detected signal corresponding to the second stage with candidates of the signal corresponding to the first stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Jihun Koo, Hyunsub Kim, Hyukyeon Lee, Jaeseok Kim
  • Patent number: 9854432
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to determine that an application is running in a foreground. The processor is also configured to receive a mobile device speed. The processor is additionally configured to determine if the mobile device speed is above a predetermined threshold. Also, the processor is configured to determine if an interface threshold has been exceeded and lock out the application from use if the mobile device speed is above the predetermined threshold and the interface threshold has been exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Srini Racha, David Marvin Gersabeck
  • Patent number: 9843406
    Abstract: Provided are a receiver, a transmitter and a radio communication method capable of using non-orthogonal multiple access while suppressing cost increase and processing delay. A mobile station 200A receives non-orthogonal signals, also receives a reference signal to be used for interference cancellation, and extracts the non-orthogonal signal addressed to the mobile station 200A from the received non-orthogonal signals by demodulating and cancelling the radio signal addressed to another mobile station. In addition, the mobile station 200A demodulates the extracted non-orthogonal signal addressed to the mobile station 200A on the basis of the reference signal. The reference signal is multiplexed in the same radio resource block as a resource block allocated to the non-orthogonal signals, and is multiplexed in the radio resource block only when at least one signal is scheduled in the radio resource block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventor: Yoshihisa Kishiyama
  • Patent number: 9838071
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for transmitting system information for an machine type communication (MTC) user equipment (UE) and, more particularly, a method and an apparatus for performing frequency hopping of system information for the MTC UE. A base station (BS) determines an index of a narrow band used to firstly transmitting system information based on a physical cell ID and a number of narrow bands according to a system bandwidth and configures a frequency hopping pattern based on the index of the first narrow band, the number of narrow bands according to the system bandwidth, and a number of narrow bands used for frequency hopping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: KT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Seunghyun Kang, Woo-jin Choi
  • Patent number: 9838173
    Abstract: A node in a wireless communication network uses a modified data-to-subcarrier mapping on at least a selective basis, wherein the modified mapping effectively extends the cyclic prefix (CP) of a transmission targeted to a given receiver without extending the CP of the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) symbol in which the transmission is conveyed. This approach allows, for example, the node to use a first or normal data-to-subcarrier mapping for transmissions that are targeted to receivers that do not need an effective increase of the CP length, while using the modified mapping for those receivers that need a longer effective CP length, e.g., because of receiver type or channel conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Thomas Nilsson, Dzevdan Kapetanovic, Leif Wilhelmsson
  • Patent number: 9837998
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a detailed description of techniques for implementing a low power buffer with dynamic gain control. More specifically, some embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a buffer having a gain boost configuration and a current shunt circuit to control the gain of a respective gain boosting transistor of the gain boost configuration. The current shunt circuit and resulting gain are dynamically controlled by a gain control signal such that the buffer gain can be adjusted to within an acceptable range of the target gain for the current operating and device mismatch conditions. In one or more embodiments, the gain boost configuration with dynamic gain control can be deployed in a full differential implementation. Both analog and digital dynamic calibration and control techniques can be used to provide the gain control signals to multiple current shunt circuits and multiple buffers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: INPHI CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Lawrence Gorecki, Han-Yuan Tan
  • Patent number: 9832010
    Abstract: The present solution provides a signal processing device, including: an encoder which encodes second transmitting data by referring to first transmitting data which is previously transmitted and the second transmitting data which is a current transmitting target such that at least one bit signal of the second transmitting data has a binary level different from that of a corresponding bit signal of the first transmitting data; and a transmitter which sequentially transmits the first transmitting data and the second transmitting data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Korea University Research and Business Foundation
    Inventors: Chul Woo Kim, Yeon Ho Lee, Yoon Jae Choi
  • Patent number: 9826456
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and a device for effectively controlling a handover of a user equipment (UE) in a long connected mode. A method for controlling a handover by an eNB, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: checking whether a UE is in a long connected mode; and transmitting, to the UE, channel measurement configuration information of which a channel measurement report trigger condition is alleviated compared with a normal connected mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han Na Lim, Sang Soo Jeong, Song Yean Cho, Jung Je Son
  • Patent number: 9825786
    Abstract: A method for transmitting and receiving data in a communication system includes adding symbols to both ends of a transmitted signal block, filtering the transmitted signal block, removing the symbols from the filtered transmitted signal block and transmitting the transmitted signal block to a receiver through a channel. A transmitter includes a controller configured to add symbols to both ends of a transmitted signal block through the symbol adder, filter the transmitted signal block, remove the symbols from the filtered transmitted signal block through the symbol remover, and transmit the transmitted signal block through the transceiver to a receiver through a channel. A receiver includes a controller configured to add symbols to both ends of the received signal block through the symbol adder, filter the received signal block and reconstruct data from the received signal block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Seongbeom Hong
  • Patent number: 9825790
    Abstract: An electronic toll collection receiver, comprising: an enveloping module configured to envelope an amplitude modulation (AM) signal; an averaging module connected to the enveloping module, configured to obtain an average value of the enveloped AM signal; a direct current blocking module connected to the enveloping module and the averaging module, configured to eliminate the average value from the enveloped AM signal; a comparing module connected to the direct current blocking module, configured to compare the average value and each of amplitude values of the enveloped AM signal; a correcting module connected to the comparing module and the directing current blocking module, configured to correct output values from the comparing module; and a decoder module connected to the correcting module, configured to decode the corrected output values from the correcting module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: BEKEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Weifeng Wang, Guodong Wang
  • Patent number: 9820232
    Abstract: A detector in a mobile device receives input from a modem, determines whether the mobile device is indoor or outdoor based on the modem-supplied input, and stores in memory a binary value to indicate an indoor-outdoor state. In some embodiments, the detector extracts a feature from the modem-supplied input, and uses the extracted feature with a statistical classifier, to output an indoor-outdoor state and an associated probability of correctness of the indoor-outdoor state, in other embodiments, the detector determines whether the mobile device is indoor or outdoor based at least on the feature extracted to characterize temporal distribution of the wireless signal, by using a prior value of the state being indoor or outdoor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Piero Zappi, Ashwin Swaminathan, Santiago Mazuelas, Roy Franklin Quick, Jr.
  • Patent number: 9813272
    Abstract: An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission system is provided which includes a data processing unit which generates a transmission signal using a plurality of tones including a reserved tone, a storage unit which stores Peak Reduction Kernel information according to the type of data symbol, and a compensation unit which retrieves the Peak Reduction Kernel information according to the type of data symbol from the storage unit and causes the retrieved information to be carried by the reserved tone included in the transmission signal. Therefore, a Peak-to-Average Power Ratio (PAPR) can be efficiently compensated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kyo-shin Choo, June-hee Lee
  • Patent number: 9806928
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a wireless communication system that provides lower peak to average power ratio (PAPR). In particular, the present disclosure pertains to communication systems and methods for achieving low peak to average power ratio (PAPR) for transmitted symbols of wireless devices. In an aspect, the present disclosure relates to transmitter of a communication system, wherein the transmitter can include a source encoding module that is configured to generate source coded symbols from information to be transmitted by the transmitter, a preset values based multiplication module that is configured to multiply M symbols from the generated source coded symbols with M preset values to generate a first set of multiplied samples, and an N-point IDFT module that is configured to process the first set of multiplied samples to obtain a first set of inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT) samples for onward transmission to a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Tejas Networks Ltd.
    Inventors: Vinod Kumar Madaiah, Rohith C. Aralikatti
  • Patent number: 9800302
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of controlling a communications link and apparatus configured to perform this method. This invention is particularly related to but in no way limited to MIMO (multiple inputs multiple outputs) wireless communications systems. The method comprises the steps of determining at the receiver the quality of the communications link and based on this, selecting a group of transmission parameters and an element from this group. These selections are then communicated to the transmitter. The transmission parameter may be the transmission configuration such as the modulation and coding scheme. The invention minimizes the required feedback signalling from the receiver to the transmitter by exploiting temporal correlation of the parameter being controlled, while allowing rapid selection of the parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Steven John Baines
  • Patent number: 9800445
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus that transmits a block signal that includes a plurality of data symbols, includes: a symbol generation unit that generates data symbols; a fixed-symbol arrangement unit that generates a block symbol by arranging data symbols and fixed symbols such that the fixed symbols are inserted at predetermined positions in a block signal; a time-frequency conversion unit that converts the block symbol to a frequency domain signal that includes N samples; an interpolation processing unit that performs interpolation processing on the frequency domain signal; and a CP insertion unit that generates the block signal by inserting a Cyclic Prefix into a signal that has undergone the interpolation processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Fumihiro Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 9787412
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for generating electromagnetic waves having a fundamental wave mode, and directing the electromagnetic waves to an interface of a transmission medium for guiding propagation of the electromagnetic waves. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Paul Shala Henry, Robert Bennett, Farhad Barzegar, Irwin Gerszberg, Donald J Barnickel, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 9788292
    Abstract: Systems and associated methods for reciprocity calibration of MIMO wireless communication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a base station, a first set of pilot symbols by receivers (RXes) of the base station based on a first pilot symbol transmitted from a transmitter (TX) of at least one reference antenna, transmitting, by the base station, a second pilot symbol by TXes of the base station, wherein the transmitted second pilot symbol is received by an RX of the at least one reference antenna as a second set of r0,i pilot symbols calculating non-reciprocity compensation factors based on the first set of pilot symbols and the second set of pilot symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventor: Djordje Tujkovic
  • Patent number: 9788244
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and systems for wireless communications are described. A first base station may be configured to transmit a measurement information message to a wireless device. The measurement information message may comprise at least one information element, wherein the at least one information element indicates one or more first resource blocks corresponding to first signals associated with the first base station and one or more second resource blocks corresponding to second signals associated with a second base station. The wireless device may compute a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) based at least in part on first signals received from the first base station and second signals received from the second base station. The wireless device may transmit channel state information comprising the computed PMI to the first base station. The first base station may transmit at least one data packet beamformed according to a precoding matrix associated with the computed PMI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan