Patents by Inventor Charles R. Giardina

Charles R. Giardina 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: 7489719
    Abstract: Training sequences, for transmittal with an individual data packet via a wireless communication channel, enable estimation of the channel impulse response (CIR) to provide values usable for correction of multipath and other transmission disturbances with enhanced security and avoidance of complex processing. Training sequences employing several groupings of pseudonoise sequences enable a receiver to derive several observations of the CIR for each data packet received. Averaging of values of the several CIR estimations provides a CIR estimation of increased accuracy usable in determining coefficients to adjust taps of an adaptive equalizer for signal correction for the data of the packet. Training sequences with use of distinct pseudonoise sequences in several individual groupings enhance security, while simplifying processing by avoidance of necessity for multiplication or division of complex functions. Training sequences, systems and methods are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventor: Charles R. Giardina
  • Patent number: 7406120
    Abstract: Channel impulse response estimation employs a training sequence to enable correction for multipath and other disturbances affecting a signal during transmission via a digital wireless communication channel. High-speed packet transmission rates, with a training sequence for each packet, are made possible by training sequence construction enabling fast algorithm processing of received signals for impulse response estimation. Upon reception, a Toeplitz-type mathematical representation is constructed based on transmitted and received versions of a training sequence. The Toeplitz-type representation may then be processed by application of fast algorithms, such as Levinson-type algorithms, to determine coefficients representative of the communication channel impulse response. These coefficients, applied to an adaptive equalizer type of filter, enable correction for signal disturbances incurred in transmission. Channel impulse response estimation methods and systems are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Barnet M. Schmidt, Gary Lomp, Charles R. Giardina
  • Patent number: 6269089
    Abstract: In accord with the transmission system, encoded signals may be processed in intermediate stations and at receiving stations in an order different from the order of the original encoding process for transmission. In particular, the recovery of CDMA encoded signals does not require application of spreading/despreading codes in the original scheme or sequence of application of spreading codes. In one embodiment, code applications may be permuted without losing the original signal which has been encoded. In such applications, not all of the encoding spreading functions results in an increased spreading rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: AT&T Corp.
    Inventors: Charles R. Giardina, Ashok N. Rudrapatna
  • Patent number: 6088325
    Abstract: In accord with the transmission system, encoded signals may be processed in intermediate stations and at receiving stations in an order different from the order of the original encoding process for transmission. In particular, the recovery of CDMA encoded signals does not require application of spreading/despreading codes in the original scheme or sequence of application of spreading codes. In one embodiment, code applications may be permuted without losing the original signal which has been encoded. In such applications, not all of the encoding spreading functions results in an increased spreading rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: AT&T Corp.
    Inventors: Charles R. Giardina, Ashok N. Rudrapatna