Patents by Inventor Alexandre Da Rocha

Alexandre Da Rocha has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7099418
    Abstract: A receiver of a mobile radio terminal in a telecommunication system includes a radio frequency signal generator, a frequency transposer, a high-pass filter which filters a static component and a dynamic component of interference induced by the operation of the radio frequency generator and the frequency transposer, and a digitizer. The high-pass filter has a predetermined cut-off frequency to eliminate the static component and a portion of the dynamic component before the signal enters the digitizer. A residual dynamic component is eliminated by a digital filter placed after the digitizer and a corrector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: TCL Communications Technology Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Alexandre Da Rocha, Jean-Hugues Perrin, Paul Anandanarayanane
  • Patent number: 6959201
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of switching from a first mobile radio mode to a second mobile radio mode in a multimode mobile radio terminal having a first part and a second part respectively operating in compliance with first and second radio access technologies and respectively provided with first and second clocks, the method including the following steps: locking the first part of the mobile terminal to a first mobile radio mode associated with an first clock; the mobile terminal calculating the time shift between the clocks of the two mobile radio modes; correcting the time of a second part of the terminal using the calculated time shift; and switching a second part of the mobile terminal to a second mobile radio mode associated with the second clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Philippe Leprieur, Alexandre Da Rocha, Laurent Rouvellou
  • Patent number: 6956915
    Abstract: A method of correcting frequency errors for use in CDMA mobile radio terminals which is adaptive, depending on the value of the frequency error. There are thus three different frequency error correction processing modes: a processing mode with no correction, an open-loop processing mode for coarse correction, and finally a closed-loop processing mode for very accurate correction. The frequency error processing modes are selected by a central control unit as a function both of the value of the frequency error and of quality factor determined by a quality control unit of a channel coefficient filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2005
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Javier Sanchez, Alexandre Da Rocha, Jean-Hugues Perrin
  • Patent number: 6928274
    Abstract: A receiver device for a mobile radiocommunication unit communicating with a base station via a propagation channel includes a pathfinder for determining the time-delays associated with a multipath signal, a channel estimator supplying an estimate of the propagation channel to a filter unit, which can be made up of a bank of Wiener filters, which optimizes the estimates of the propagation channel, and to a speed estimator that supplies the estimated speed of the mobile radio communication unit to the filter unit so as to select the appropriate filter corresponding to the speed estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Alexandre Da Rocha, Michael Guilbaud
  • Publication number: 20030003951
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of switching from a first mobile radio mode to a second mobile radio mode in a multimode mobile radio terminal having a first part and a second part respectively operating in compliance with first and second radio access technologies and respectively provided with first and second clocks, the method including the following steps:
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Publication date: January 2, 2003
    Applicant: ALCATEL
    Inventors: Philippe Leprieur, Alexandre Da Rocha, Laurent Rouvellou
  • Patent number: 6496494
    Abstract: Receiver for enhanced performance for CDMA radio transmission comprising roke receiver with a path searcher (3), a channel estimator (4) and a combiner (5) for selecting optimal paths where the path searcher selects a set of path delays (7) with an instantaneous profile analyzer (8), an averaging filter (9) and a path selector (10) where at least two instantaneous profile analyzers (8) are connected to the averaging filter (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Jean-Hugues Perrin, Elie Bejjani, Alexandre Da Rocha
  • Publication number: 20020141521
    Abstract: A receiver of a mobile radio terminal in a telecommunication system includes a radio frequency signal generator, a frequency transposer, a high-pass filter which filters a static component and a dynamic component of interference induced by the operation of the radio frequency generator and the frequency transposer, and a digitizer. The high-pass filter has a predetermined cut-off frequency to eliminate the static component and a portion of the dynamic component before the signal enters the digitizer. A residual dynamic component is eliminated by a digital filter placed after the digitizer and a corrector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2002
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Applicant: ALCATEL
    Inventors: Alexandre Da Rocha, Jean-Hugues Perrin, Paul Anandanarayanane
  • Patent number: 6430166
    Abstract: Receiver for enhanced performance for CDMA radio transmission comprising a Rake receiver (1) with a path searcher (3), a channel estimator (4) and a combiner (5) for selecting optimal channels paths where the path searcher (3) selects a set of path delays (7) where at least two path searchers (3a,3b) are connected in way that the output of the first path searcher (3a) is linked to one input of the second path searcher (3b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Elie Bejjani, Alexandre Da Rocha, Jean-Hugues Perrin
  • Publication number: 20020057753
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of correcting frequency errors for use in CDMA mobile radio terminals which is adaptive, depending on the value of the frequency error. Thus the invention provides three different frequency error correction processing modes: a processing mode with no correction, an open-loop processing mode for coarse correction, and finally a closed-loop processing mode for very accurate correction. Said frequency error processing modes are selected by a central control unit as a function both of the value of the frequency error and of a quality factor determined by a quality control unit of a channel coefficient filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Applicant: ALCATEL
    Inventors: Javier Sanchez, Alexandre Da Rocha, Jean-Hugues Perrin