Patents by Inventor Chi-ping Nee

Chi-ping Nee 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).

  • Publication number: 20230299998
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program for transmitting at least two payloads in a downstream traffic phase of a time-division duplex (TDD) cycle with a single preamble from a headend followed by concatenated payloads without intervening preambles, whereby the payloads are ranked by increasing modulation profiles. The preamble, and concatenated and ordered set of payloads are then transmitted to two or more predetermined customer premise equipments (CPEs).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Chi-ping Nee, Michail Tsatsanis, David Barr
  • Patent number: 11706047
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program for transmitting at least two payloads in a downstream traffic phase of a time-division duplex (TDD) cycle with a single preamble from a headend followed by concatenated payloads without intervening preambles, whereby the payloads are ranked by increasing modulation profiles. The preamble, and concatenated and ordered set of payloads are then transmitted to two or more predetermined customer premise equipments (CPEs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Entropic Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Chi-ping Nee, Michail Tsatsanis, David Barr
  • Publication number: 20220158864
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program for transmitting at least two payloads in a downstream traffic phase of a time-division duplex (TDD) cycle with a single preamble from a headend followed by concatenated payloads without intervening preambles, whereby the payloads are ranked by increasing modulation profiles. The preamble, and concatenated and ordered set of payloads are then transmitted to two or more predetermined customer premise equipments (CPEs).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Chi-ping Nee, Michail Tsatsanis, David Barr
  • Patent number: 10771278
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program for transmitting at least two payloads in a downstream traffic phase of a time-division duplex (TDD) cycle with a single preamble from a headend followed by concatenated payloads without intervening preambles, whereby the payloads are ranked by increasing modulation profiles. The preamble, and concatenated and ordered set of payloads are then transmitted to two or more predetermined customer premise equipments (CPEs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Entropic Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Chi-ping Nee, Michail Tsatsanis, David Barr
  • Publication number: 20190081815
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program for transmitting at least two payloads in a downstream traffic phase of a time-division duplex (TDD) cycle with a single preamble from a headend followed by concatenated payloads without intervening preambles, whereby the payloads are ranked by increasing modulation profiles. The preamble, and concatenated and ordered set of payloads are then transmitted to two or more predetermined customer premise equipments (CPEs).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: Chi-ping Nee, Michail Tsatsanis, David Barr
  • Patent number: 10129048
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program for transmitting at least two payloads in a downstream traffic phase of a time-division duplex (TDD) cycle with a single preamble from a headend followed by concatenated payloads without intervening preambles, whereby the payloads are ranked by increasing modulation profiles. The preamble, and concatenated and ordered set of payloads are then transmitted to two or more predetermined customer premise equipments (CPEs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: ENTROPIC COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Chi-ping Nee, Michail Tsatsanis, David Barr
  • Publication number: 20180019892
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program for transmitting at least two payloads in a downstream traffic phase of a time-division duplex (TDD) cycle with a single preamble from a headend followed by concatenated payloads without intervening preambles, whereby the payloads are ranked by increasing modulation profiles. The preamble, and concatenated and ordered set of payloads are then transmitted to two or more predetermined customer premise equipments (CPEs).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Chi-ping Nee, Michail Tsatsanis, David Barr
  • Patent number: 9813230
    Abstract: Systems and methods for provided for reducing interference caused by leakage of signals generated by a spread spectrum phase lock loop (SS PLL). Output of SS PLL may be processed to reduce interference. For example, a sinusoidal spreading signal may be used to spread the output of the SS PLL. A notch filter tracks the frequency of the output of the SS PLL to steer the notch in the filter to the instantaneous frequency output from the SS PLL, thus allowing the notch filter to be placed in the path of signals that have unwanted leakage from the SS PLL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: ENTROPIC COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Chi-ping Nee, Branislav Petrovic
  • Patent number: 9780962
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program for transmitting at least two payloads in a downstream traffic phase of a time-division duplex (TDD) cycle with a single preamble from a headend followed by concatenated payloads without intervening preambles, whereby the payloads are ranked by increasing modulation profiles. The preamble, and concatenated and ordered set of payloads are then transmitted to two or more predetermined customer premise equipments (CPEs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: ENTROPIC COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Chi-ping Nee, Michail Tsatsanis, David Barr
  • Publication number: 20170244396
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a spurious signal cancellation signal, the system comprising two direct digital synthesizers (DDS). The first DDS provides phase tracking to correct for rounding errors. The second DDS outputs a frequency that is exactly equal to N/M*CLK, where N and M are values selected to set the output frequency equal to the frequency of a spurious signal to be cancelled, and CLK is a clock frequency used to clock the first and second DDS circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Ali Ficici, Chi-ping Nee, Branislav Petrovic
  • Patent number: 9647649
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a spurious signal cancellation signal, the system comprising two direct digital synthesizers (DDS). The first DDS provides phase tracking to correct for rounding errors. The second DDS outputs a frequency that is exactly equal to N/M*CLK, where N and M are values selected to set the output frequency equal to the frequency of a spurious signal to be cancelled, and CLK is a clock frequency used to clock the first and second DDS circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Entropic Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Murat Ficici, Chi-ping Nee, Branislav Petrovic
  • Publication number: 20170012768
    Abstract: Systems and methods for provided for reducing interference caused by leakage of signals generated by a spread spectrum phase lock loop (SS PLL). Output of SS PLL may be processed to reduce interference. For example, a sinusoidal spreading signal may be used to spread the output of the SS PLL. A notch filter tracks the frequency of the output of the SS PLL to steer the notch in the filter to the instantaneous frequency output from the SS PLL, thus allowing the notch filter to be placed in the path of signals that have unwanted leakage from the SS PLL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Chi-ping Nee, Branislav Petrovic
  • Publication number: 20160315603
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a spurious signal cancellation signal, the system comprising two direct digital synthesizers (DDS). The first DDS provides phase tracking to correct for rounding errors. The second DDS outputs a frequency that is exactly equal to N/M*CLK, where N and M are values selected to set the output frequency equal to the frequency of a spurious signal to be cancelled, and CLK is a clock frequency used to clock the first and second DDS circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Ali Murat Ficici, Chi-ping Nee, Branislav Petrovic
  • Patent number: 9391658
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing interference caused by leakage of signals generated by a spread spectrum phase lock loop (SS PLL). The system and method uses a sinusoidal spreading signal to spread the output of a SS PLL. A notch filter tracks the frequency of the output of the SS PLL to steer the notch in the filter to the instantaneous frequency output from the SS PLL, thus allowing the notch filter to be placed in the path of signals that have unwanted leakage from the SS PLL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: ENTROPIC COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Chi-ping Nee, Branislav Petrovic
  • Patent number: 9385697
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a spurious signal cancellation signal, the system comprising two direct digital synthesizers (DDS). The first DDS provides phase tracking to correct for rounding errors. The second DDS outputs a frequency that is exactly equal to N/M*CLK, where N and M are values selected to set the output frequency equal to the frequency of a spurious signal to be cancelled, and CLK is a clock frequency used to clock the first and second DDS circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Maxlinear, Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Murat Ficici, Chi-ping Nee, Branislav Petrovic
  • Publication number: 20150304125
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program for transmitting at least two payloads in a downstream traffic phase of a time-division duplex (TDD) cycle with a single preamble from a headend followed by concatenated payloads without intervening preambles, whereby the payloads are ranked by increasing modulation profiles. The preamble, and concatenated and ordered set of payloads are then transmitted to two or more predetermined customer premise equipments (CPEs).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Chi-ping NEE, Michail TSATSANIS, David BARR
  • Publication number: 20150304100
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing interference caused by leakage of signals generated by a spread spectrum phase lock loop (SS PLL). The system and method uses a sinusoidal spreading signal to spread the output of a SS PLL. A notch filter tracks the frequency of the output of the SS PLL to steer the notch in the filter to the instantaneous frequency output from the SS PLL, thus allowing the notch filter to be placed in the path of signals that have unwanted leakage from the SS PLL.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Chi-ping Nee, Branislav Petrovic
  • Publication number: 20150295566
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a spurious signal cancellation signal, the system comprising two direct digital synthesizers (DDS). The first DDS provides phase tracking to correct for rounding errors. The second DDS outputs a frequency that is exactly equal to N/M*CLK, where N and M are values selected to set the output frequency equal to the frequency of a spurious signal to be cancelled, and CLK is a clock frequency used to clock the first and second DDS circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: Entropic Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Murat Ficici, Chi-ping Nee, Branislav Petrovic
  • Patent number: 8554203
    Abstract: A satellite signal demodulator is configured to use frequency-based channel scanning to sense the presence of a channel and to obtain the frequency profile of the channel. Once the channel is identified and the profile is obtained, channel extraction is used to identify the frequency parameters for a given channel. A coarse parameter estimation is performed to obtain a coarse estimate of the symbol rate (SR) and the center frequency (fc) of the channel. The coarse estimation can then be followed by a fine estimation of the symbol rate and center frequency (fc), using a bit tracking loop (BTL) lock indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Conexant Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Prasad Shamain, Chi-ping Nee, Gadi Kalit
  • Patent number: 8542721
    Abstract: A modem for use with a computer having a demodulator and a decoder, the modem comprises a hardware interface; a demodulator front-end having a first input and a first output, the first output of the demodulator front-end being configured to interface with the demodulator of the computer and to provide a demodulated front-end signal to the demodulator over the hardware interface; and a forward error correction (FEC) unit having a second input and a second output, the second input of the FEC unit being configured to interface with the demodulator of the computer and to receive a demodulated signal from the demodulator over the hardware interface, the demodulated signal being a demodulation of the demodulated front-end signal, and the second output of the FEC unit being configured to interface with the decoder of the computer and to provide an FEC signal to the decoder over the hardware interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Conexant Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Chi-Ping Nee