Patents Examined by Young T. Tse
  • Patent number: 10447375
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication and techniques to prevent frequent beam switching. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a duration of time that the UE dwells on a beam. The UE may update a data structure, stored in memory of the UE, to add or modify a stored duration value associated with the beam based at least in part on determining the duration of time that the UE dwells on the beam. The UE may determine that a condition associated with the stored duration value is satisfied. The UE may modify a priority of the beam in connection with a beam selection procedure based at least in part on determining that the condition associated with the stored duration value is satisfied. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chinmaya Padhy, Kuo-Chun Lee, Ansah Ahmed Sheik, Vishnu Namboodiri Karakkad Kesavan Namboodiri, Theeksha Athoor Perumal, Rajesh Gopala Krishnan
  • Patent number: 10444823
    Abstract: In a communications system that conducts differential data via a pair of wires, AC common mode noise is undesirably coupled to the wires in a noisy environment. A hybrid common mode choke (HCMC) attenuates the AC common mode noise while passing the differential data to a PHY. The HCMC includes a CMC (windings with the same polarity) and a differential mode choke (windings with opposite polarities). The CMC attenuates the AC common mode noise, and the DMC passes the attenuated AC common mode noise to termination circuity to eliminate it. Also disclosed is a technique for Kelvin sensing the DC voltage at the pair of wires, in a PoDL system, by detecting the voltage on wires that do not carry DC current, so as to provide a more accurate measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Linear Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Andrew J. Gardner
  • Patent number: 10444353
    Abstract: An imaging system that utilizes deterministic bit sequences modulated onto an in-phase component of a carrier frequency and continuously transmitted via a transducer and received for imaging a medium and/or environment is provided. The received signal is demodulated by an in-phase demodulator and a quadrature demodulator and the demodulated components are processed to provide a spatial mapping of a medium or environment being imaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: 8517401 Canada Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher John Leskiw
  • Patent number: 10439761
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method and a device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for performing physical layer operations in a point-to-point network is disclosed. The method involves receiving, from a link in the communications network, information in an operations, administration, and management (OAM) word, setting an interleaving level, L, in response to the information received in the OAM word, inserting an OAM word into a forward error correction (FEC) frame, the OAM word including the set interleaving level (L), and transmitting, onto the link in the communications network, the FEC frame, which includes the OAM word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Sujan Pandey
  • Patent number: 10440608
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for downlink and uplink compression of a nonstandard bandwidth of an LTE system. Abase station filters a baseband signal by using a filter whose bandwidth is a nonstandard bandwidth of LTE, and filters out a signal outside the nonstandard bandwidth of LTE; and the base station may send a signal to a terminal by using the nonstandard bandwidth of LTE that can be provided by an operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jiyu Ye
  • Patent number: 10419068
    Abstract: A method of cancelling noise present in a data signal received on an electrical bifilar line, is implemented by a sender-receiver device comprising a first transformer, termed the differential mode circuit, the primary side of the first transformer connected by two wires to the bifilar line, a second transformer, termed the common mode circuit, the primary side of the second transformer connected to the primary side of the differential mode circuit, and to ground. The method comprises during an adjustment phase: obtaining a first voltage value on the bifilar line, termed the differential mode voltage; obtaining a second voltage value at the common mode circuit, termed the image voltage, resulting from the differential mode voltage; calculating the ratio between the second and first voltage values, termed the conversion ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Orange
    Inventors: Rabah Tarafi, Fabienne Moulin, Alain Cario
  • Patent number: 10419059
    Abstract: In a receiver transparent Q-mode, i.e., a Q-mode that is only implemented by a transmitter, the receiver is unaware of the Q-mode state of the transmitter. In this type of Q-mode configuration, the transmitter could enter and exit Q-mode as desired while the receiver, could, for example, continue to function as if operating normally, such as in “showtime.” Through this approach, it is not necessary for the receiver to detect the transmitter's entry and exit of Q-mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: TQ DELTA, LLC
    Inventors: Marcos C. Tzannes, Arnon Friedmann
  • Patent number: 10411753
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an electronic apparatus for transmitting a packet with changeable spreading factor. The method comprises: utilizing a spreading circuit to select a spreading factor from a plurality of spreading factors according to a transmitting condition to adjust a spreading for the packet; and transmitting the packet. The electronic apparatus comprises: a spreading circuit and a transmitting circuit. The spreading circuit is utilized for selecting a spreading factor from a plurality of spreading factors according to a transmitting condition to adjust the spreading for the packet. The transmitting circuit is coupled to the spreading circuit, and utilized for transmitting the packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: Jianhan Liu, Chien-Fang Hsu
  • Patent number: 10404302
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a radio frequency antenna and a transceiver. The transceiver includes a receiver having a switching architecture configured to generate a plurality of output phases within a local oscillator period based on the filtered RF signal and a respective plurality of local oscillator signals. The plurality of output phases can be organized into at least K groups where K is an integer of four or greater, and each nth group of the K groups includes nth and (n+K)th output phases of the plurality of output phases. The receiver can difference the nth and (n+K)th output phases of each respective group of the K groups, resulting in gain-added output phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajasekhar Pullela, William J. Domino
  • Patent number: 10397027
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a continuous time linear equalizer comprising a first signal path comprising a high pass filter and a first controllable transconductance unit and a second signal path comprising a second controllable transconductance unit. The continuous time linear equalizer comprises a summation node configured to receive complementary current summation signals of the first transconductance unit and the second transconductance unit. The high pass filter comprises a first port configured to receive an input signal, a second port coupled to a control port of the first transconductance unit and a third port coupled to the summation node. The invention is notably also directed to a corresponding method and a corresponding design structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Pier Andrea Francese, Ilter Oezkaya, Alessandro Cevrero
  • Patent number: 10396872
    Abstract: A relay apparatus includes: an estimation unit selects a code book number corresponding to a reception SNR range based on an estimated reception SNR value; a soft demodulation unit that performs soft demodulation on a received first signal to detect a likelihood of the received first signal; a first memory unit that stores a first quantization code book showing, for each code book number, a relationship between a quantization parameter and a likelihood quantization bit value; a quantization unit that refers the first quantization code book to obtain a relationship between a quantization parameter and a likelihood quantization bit value that corresponds to the selected code book number, and adaptively quantizes the detected likelihood by using the obtained relationship to obtain a likelihood quantization bit value; and a transmission unit that transmits, to the receiving apparatus, a second signal including the obtained likelihood quantization bit value and the selected code book number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenji Miyamoto, Shigeru Kuwano, Jun Terada
  • Patent number: 10389482
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a radio frequency (RF) receiver, which includes a differentiator to differentiate a phase signal to generate a differentiated signal. The RF receiver further includes a correlator coupled to receive and correlate the differentiated signal, and a memory to receive and store the differentiated signal. Samples of the differentiated signal are provided to the correlator and to the memory synchronously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Hendricus de Ruijter, Ping Xiong, Wentao Li
  • Patent number: 10389314
    Abstract: A digital power amplifier comprises: an integrated circuit (IC2); an adaption circuit of discrete components connected to first and second transmission output pins of an integrated circuit to adapt the output signal and feed a substantial sinusoidal output current with a transmission resonance frequency to an RFID antenna. IC2 comprises a digital control section with N wave-forming contacts to output a digital wave-forming bit combination of N bits with a clock frequency M-times the transmission resonance frequency; N driver blocks each connected with a first contact to one of the wave-forming contacts and N/2 of them connected with a second contact to the first transmission output pin and the other N/2 of them connected with their second contact to the second transmission output pin. The driver blocks provide increments of the substantial sinusoidal output current to the first and second transmission output pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: PANTHRONICS AG
    Inventors: Jan Crols, Steven Gabriels, Jakob Jongsma
  • Patent number: 10389404
    Abstract: Aspects of methods and systems for PAPR reduction in a microwave backhaul outdoor unit are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: MAXLINEAR, INC.
    Inventors: Stephane Laurent-Michel, Raghuraman Mariappan
  • Patent number: 10383122
    Abstract: The techniques described herein relate to methods, apparatus, and computer readable media configured to decode modulated data. A modulated signal is received. A format of the modulated signal is determined, wherein the format can include a first format comprising a first type of modulated signal, or a second format comprising the first type of modulated signal and a second type of modulated signal that is different than the first type. The modulated signal is decoded by determining a frequency shift amount based on the format of the modulated signal, shifting a frequency band of the first type of modulated signal from an original position to a shifted position, thereby shifting a center frequency of the first type of modulated signal by the frequency shift amount, and filtering, based on the format of the modulated signal, signals outside of the frequency band of the shifted first type of modulated signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Casa Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Tao Yu, Douglas Keith Rosich, Weidong Chen
  • Patent number: 10380220
    Abstract: An embedded system is described. The embedded system includes a processing circuit comprising at least one processor configured to support an implementation of a non-power-of-2 fast Fourier transform of length N using a multiplication of at least two smaller FFTs of a respective first length N1 and second length N2, where N1 and N2 are whole numbers; and a memory, operably coupled to the processing circuit and comprising at least input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Naveen Jacob
  • Patent number: 10361670
    Abstract: An automatic gain control loop disposed in a receiver is adapted to compensate for varying levels of out of band interference sources by adaptively controlling the gain distribution throughout the receive signal path. One or more intermediate received signal strength indicator (RSSI) detectors are used to determine a corresponding intermediate signal level. The output of each RSSI detector is coupled to an associated comparator that compares the intermediate RSSI value against a corresponding threshold. The take over point (TOP) for gain stages is adjusted based in part on the comparator output values. The TOP for each of a plurality of gain stages may be adjusted in discrete steps or continuously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Maxlinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Curtis Ling, Madhukar Reddy, John Wetherell
  • Patent number: 10361892
    Abstract: A transmitter comprising a power amplifier, a phase modulator, a switched DC-DC converter, all operating in dual mode, and a controller is disclosed. The power amplifier is arranged to selectively operate either in a first mode or in a second mode, wherein the first mode is a linear mode and the second mode is a non-linear mode in order to save power with least increasing cost in hardware. The transmitter is adapted to operate at different allocated bandwidths, for different radio standards while keeping minimum power consumption governed by the controller. A transceiver, a communication device, a method and a computer program are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Fenghao Mu, Bengt Lindoff
  • Patent number: 10361888
    Abstract: In performing SVD-MIMO transmission, a set-up procedure is simplified while assuring a satisfactory decoding capability with a reduced number of antennas. A transmitter estimates channel information based on reference signals sent from a receiver, determines a transmit antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the channel information, calculates a weight to be assigned to each of components of a multiplexed signal, and sends, to the receiver, training signals for respective signal components, the training signals being weighted by the calculated weights. On the other hand, the receiver determines a receive antenna weighting coefficient matrix based on the received training signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichi Kuroda, Hiroaki Takano
  • Patent number: 10356781
    Abstract: Method and device for communicating within an operating bandwidth in a wireless local area network is provided. A PPDU is received over an operating bandwidth. The PPDU has a first part having a first Fourier transform (FFT) size and a second part having a second FFT size, the second FFT size four times greater than the first FFT size. The PPDU is received via multiple sub-channels and in various portions of the first and the second part. Further, various portions of the first part and the second part of the PPDU have identical or different phases with respect to other portions of the PPDU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Inventor: Yong H Seok