Patents Examined by Sonia J King
  • Patent number: 7986724
    Abstract: A method for providing information to a plurality of wireless mobile communication devices. The method includes dedicating at least one channel of a plurality of spread spectrum data channels as a broadcast channel. The frequency and phase of a carrier signal and of a chip rate clock of the at least one channel are synchronized for each of a plurality of cell transmitters of a respective plurality of base stations. The Information is then broadcast over the at least one dedicated channel from each base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Rhomson Licensing
    Inventors: Jeffrey Allen Cooper, Kumar Ramaswamy
  • Patent number: 7826539
    Abstract: A receiver for receiving packet data from a transmitter, the transmitter and the method of controlling transmission. The receiver may comprise first detection means for detecting that its memory has enough space to store a data packet and flow control signal means for providing a flow control signal, preferably a first flow control signal, to the transmitter in response to said first detection means. The receiver may comprise second detection means for detecting when a first portion of a packet has been received from the transmitter and flow control signal means for providing a second flow control signal to the transmitter in response to said second detection means. The transmitter may comprise third detection means for detecting the second flow control signal sent by the receiver and packetwise transmission means arranged, responsive to the third detection means, to complete transmission of a partially transmitted packet and then to stop transmission of further packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Gregor Schneider, Daniel Bencak
  • Patent number: 7421004
    Abstract: Broadband, ultra wideband and ultra narrowband (UWN) reconfigurable, interoperable communication and broadcasting system architectures, combinations and hybrids of ultra wideband (UWB), ultra narrowband (UNB) and efficient broadband wireless, baseband, intermediate frequency (IF) and radio frequency (RF) implementations for Bit Rate Agile (BRA) reconfigurable and interoperable systems, Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC). Processing the data signals, of clock signals, and/or carrier cycles waveforms leads to shaped radio-frequency (RF) cycles, waveforms and wavelets. With Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) diversity and protection system configuration the performance and capacity of these systems may be further enhanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Inventor: Kamilo Feher
  • Patent number: 7408979
    Abstract: An integrated radio circuit includes a receiver section, a transmitter section, an analog to digital converter section, a digital to analog converter section, a digital baseband processing module, a first dual function input/output (I/O) module, and a second dual function I/O module. The first dual function input/output (I/O) module is operably coupled to provide inbound digital baseband signals as selected inbound digital baseband signals to the digital baseband processing module when the integrated radio circuit is in a normal mode of operation and to provide test inbound digital baseband signals as the selected inbound digital baseband signals to the digital baseband processing module when the integrated radio circuit is in a test mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Venkat Kodavati
  • Patent number: 7386064
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a PLL circuit is provided with a plurality of pull-in operation modes for pulling a voltage across a filter capacitor (C1, C2) in a lock-up voltage, and with a register (CRG) for designating one of the plurality of pull-in operation modes. The pull-in operation is performed in accordance with a setting value in the register.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignees: Renesas Technology Corp., TTPCOM Limited, Hitachi Advanced Digital, Inc., Hitachi ULSI Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Yahagi, Ryoji Furuya, Fumiaki Matsuzaki, Robert Astle Henshaw
  • Patent number: 7369621
    Abstract: In order to perform appropriate reception quality control on each mobile station in a multimedia broadcast/multicast service, a layered coding section 101 encodes input data by dividing the input data into two layers and obtains a first layer code string and a second layer code string. The first layer code string is input to a CRC code addition section 102 and a CRC code for an error inspection is added thereto at every predetermined block. On the other hand, the second layer code string is input to a CRC code addition section 103 and a CRC code for an error inspection is added thereto at every predetermined block. The first layer code string and the second layer code string with the CRC codes added are input to a layered modulation section 104 and the layered modulation section 104 modulates a plurality of code strings coded by being divided into a plurality of layers in such away that error rates differ hierarchically among the plurality of code strings and a radio section 105 sends the modulated symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isamu Yoshii, Mitsuru Uesugi, Toshiyuki Uehara, Akihiko Nishio
  • Patent number: 7366262
    Abstract: A frequency estimation method of multiband (MB)-orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) ultra wide band (UWB) system using an Alt-PHY time frequency (TF) hopping strategy based on IEEE 802. 15. 3a. includes the steps of: a) selecting a predetermined number of frequencies among a plurality of center frequencies based on a predetermined number of OFDM symbols and estimating relative frequency offsets for selected frequencies; b) obtaining an average relative frequency offset by averaging the estimated relative frequency offsets when two or more frequencies are selected at the step a); and c) obtaining real frequency offsets for each of the center frequencies by transforming the obtained average relative frequency offset to the real frequency offsets and compensating a frequency offset caused by a transmitting/receiving local oscillators based on the obtained real frequency offsets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Cheol HO Shin, Sang sung Choi, Kwang Roh Park
  • Patent number: 7359449
    Abstract: Data communication for wired and or for wireless communication and broadcasting systems for broadband, ultra wideband and ultra Narrowband (UWN) reconfigurable, interoperable communication and broadcasting system architectures. Combinations and hybrids of ultra wideband (UWB), ultra narrowband (UNB) and efficient broadband wireless, baseband, intermediate frequency (IF) and radio frequency (RF) implementations for Bit Rate Agile (BRA) reconfigurable and interoperable systems. Processing the data signals, of clock signals, and/or carrier cycles waveforms leads to shaped radio-frequency (RF) cycles, waveforms and wavelets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Inventor: Kamilo Feher
  • Patent number: 7342944
    Abstract: With audio data reduction on the basis of ISO/IEC standard 11172-3, a frame length varying by 8 bits is used at a sampling frequency of 44.1 kHz in order to arrive, on average, at a particular fixed data rate. The lengthening of a data frame is signalled by a padding bit in the header of the frames. The invention dispenses with evaluation of the padding bit. Instead, the mean frame length L is calculated, L is rounded down to the next integer, for the subsequent frame it is first established whether the expected sync word for this frame appears, and, if this is so, this frame is decoded without taking into account the padding bit, but if the expected sync word for this frame does not appear, the decoding of the frame is started one 8-bit later without taking into account the padding bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Ernst F Schröder, Johannes Böhm
  • Patent number: 7340004
    Abstract: A method for limiting a signal in a radio transmitter comprises giving a signal a limiting threshold, taking at least two samples from the signal for obtaining sample values, adding one or more sample values between the obtained first and at least one subsequent sample values, searching for sample values exceeding the limiting threshold, and if at least one sample value exceeding the limiting threshold is found determining limiting coefficients for a predetermined number of sample values by means of the at least one sample value exceeding the limiting threshold, and limiting the signal by one or more determined coefficients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Tapio Vuopala, Olli Piirainen
  • Patent number: 7336703
    Abstract: A device and method for measuring power of a received broadband signal including narrowband interference in a mobile communication system is provided. An interference eliminator removes the narrowband interference from the received broadband signal through a filter. A power compensator calculates a compensation value for compensating for at least one portion of the received signal removed when the narrowband interference was removed. A received power measurement unit measures power of the received signal received from the interference eliminator, and compensates for a measurement error in the measured power due to the removed at least one portion using the compensation value, and then outputs the received broadband signal having the compensated power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jeong-Tae Oh, Jae-Hyok Lee
  • Patent number: 7333565
    Abstract: An orthogonal modulating circuit for modulating signals of two oscillation frequencies differing in phase by 90° with transmission data (I and Q) is used in common for a plurality of bands, an LC resonance circuit comprising inductances L and a capacitor C is used as the output load on the orthogonal modulating circuit instead of resistors commonly used according to the prior art, and the values of L or C constituting the resonance circuit are switched over between each other according to the transmission band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Masachika Oono, Hiroaki Matsui, Koichi Yahagi
  • Patent number: 7330496
    Abstract: A spreading code generating apparatus carries out M-sequence multiplication and zero value addition of generated orthogonal codes to obtain channel identification codes, and then carries out inverse Fourier transform of the channel identification codes to generate spreading codes and inverse spreading codes. A transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus store the spreading codes and the inverse spreading codes generated by the spreading code generating apparatus, respectively, and use a single code respectively selected from the stored codes to carry out spread spectrum communication. With the use of the spreading codes for spreading, the input signal is spread over a wide frequency band with uniform power on the frequency axis. Thus, transmission characteristics are improved, and multiplexing capacity is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Ohmi, Yasuo Harada, Kazuhiro Ando
  • Patent number: 7327813
    Abstract: A digital receiving device includes a detecting means for detecting a specific code under a signal receiving state capable of successively receiving a desired signal, a setting means for setting a period for detecting the specific code as a non-communication state period, an adaptive filter having an adaptive mode and a non-adaptive mode, the adaptive mode by which a filter coefficient is sequentially updated so as to remove an ambient noise during the non-communication state period, and the non-adaptive mode by which the filter coefficient is stopped from being updated during a period except for the non-communication state period under the signal receiving state and a filter controlling means for controlling an operation for switching the adaptive mode and the non-adaptive mode of the adaptive filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignees: Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yuichi Murakami, Tomohiro Yamamoto, Akira Furuhashi, Kazunori Ono, Hiroki Okada
  • Patent number: 7315594
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a clock data recovery system for resampling a clock signal to an incoming data signal. The clock data recovery system comprises a clock generator for generating the clock signal and a phase adjustment unit for generating sampling phases dependant on a phase adjustment control signal. It also comprises a data sampling unit operable to generate a stream of input samples and an edge detector for generating therefrom an internal early signal and an internal late signal. A phase adjustment control unit is disposed for generating under use of the early signal and the late signal the phase adjustment control signal. The phase adjustment control unit is feedable with an external early/late signal and/or comprises an output for delivering an export early/late signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Schmatz, Hayden C. Cranford, Vernon R. Norman
  • Patent number: 7308058
    Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for high-speed, multi-mode PAM symbol transmission. A multi-mode PAM output driver drives one or more symbols, the number of levels used in the PAM modulation of the one or more symbols depending on the state of a PAM mode signal. Additionally, the one or more symbols are driven at a symbol rate, the symbol rate selected in accordance with the PAM mode signal so that a data rate of the driven symbols is constant with respect to changes in the state of the PAM mode signal. Further provided are methods for determining the optimal number of PAM levels for symbol transmission and reception in a given physical environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Jared L. Zerbe, Carl W. Werner, William F. Stonecypher, Fred F. Chen
  • Patent number: 7305053
    Abstract: A method of detecting frequency errors in a receiver during frame synchronization. A fast synchronization and reliable reception of the data requires a fast determination of frequency errors in the received signal. In CPFSK and OFDM, the frequency offset is even more important because of potential subcarrier interference. The method operates in the time domain and removes the 2p limitation in the phase representation by an unwrap function allowing a precise frequency determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2007
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Wilhelmus Johannes Van Houtum
  • Patent number: 7298787
    Abstract: A method for facilitating broadband multi-carrier wireless transmission, whereby a plurality of transmit antennas are divided into two or more transmit antenna groups of transmit antennas so that the correlation between antennas in each group is minimized, and each group of antennas transmits on a predetermined frequency with a different time periodicity, and each transmit antenna in each group transmits training sequences which are reciprocally time-orthogonal. Each of a plurality of receive antennas receives signals from each transmit antenna group. The signals from each group are separated via a band-pass filter, and a maximum estimation range of a frequency offset estimation algorithm is determined by the group having the shortest time period, and the accuracy of the frequency offset estimation algorithm is determined by the group having the longest time period. The received signal is corrected with the frequency offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2007
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventor: Paolo Priotti
  • Patent number: 7286616
    Abstract: A data transmission system in which normal transmission can be performed irrespectively of the inserting orientation of a connector is provided. A transmitting device transmits to a receiving device a differential transmission signal including polarity decision data for deciding the polarity of the connector. Based on the polarity decision data included in the differential transmission signal transmitted from the transmitting device, the receiving device decides whether the polarity of the connector has been reversed or not. When it is decided that the polarity has not been reversed, the receiving device reads data from the differential transmission signal. When it is decided that the polarity has been reversed, the polarity of the differential transmission signal is reversed for data reading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Takahira, Yuji Mizuguchi, Noboru Katta, Nobuhiko Yasui, Takahisa Sakai, Hirotsugu Kawada, Toshitomo Umei
  • Patent number: 7283595
    Abstract: An ultra wide band (UWB) pulse train generator, which includes a trigger signal controller for sequentially outputting n trigger signals for triggering generation of UWB pulse train in accordance with n bit data to be transmitted at a predetermined time period, a latch unit for loading in parallel the n bit data to be transmitted and sequentially toggling the loaded n bit data by one bit whenever the trigger signal is input from the trigger signal controller, and a pulse train generator for generating polarity pulses corresponding to a direction of an edge transition in accordance with toggling on each output signal of the latch unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Si-Bum Jun