Patents by Inventor Andrea M. Tonello

Andrea M. Tonello 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).

  • Method for interleaving information conveyed in a wireless communication system
    Patent number: 6574202
    Abstract: A method for interleaving information to be conveyed over a TDMA wireless communication system. A certain portion of information associated with a user is transmitted during one time slot and the remaining information for that user is intermingled with other information for that user and transmitted in a subsequent time slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Nageen Himayat, James Paul Seymour, Andrea M. Tonello
  • Soft output metrics generation for symbol detectors
    Patent number: 6480552
    Abstract: A method for calculating soft outputs of a detector used in a receiver that is part of a communication system having either memory introducing modulators or memoryless modulators. The output of a soft output detector, also known as reliability information, provides a probability that a certain symbol was transmitted by a transmitter of the communication system or the probability that a bit within a transmitted symbol was transmitted by a transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2002
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Andrea M. Tonello
  • Method for formatting and conveying information in a wireless telecommunication system
    Patent number: 6411613
    Abstract: A method for conveying information in a new format structure for a wireless communication system in which users convey information on a time slot basis. The new format structure is made compatible with the system's existing format by partitioning system time slots into subslots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: James Paul Seymour, Andrea M. Tonello