Patents by Inventor David G. Messerschmitt

David G. Messerschmitt 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: 5398258
    Abstract: In the present invention a wireless communication system is disclosed. A base unit communicates with a remote unit. The system comprises means for transmitting, using CDMA, between the base unit and the remote unit, in one of a plurality of frequencies channels selected. In one period of time, the base unit transmits and in another period of time, different from the one period, the remote unit transmits. Further, the system comprises means for changing the one frequency channel selected to another frequency channel, different from the one frequency channel, in response to interference in the one frequency channel. Thus, communication between the base unit and the remote unit is then affected over the another frequency channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1995
    Assignee: Teknekron Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Chun-Meng Su, Saman Behtash, Keith Jarett, Huihung Lu, Christopher Flores, David G. Messerschmitt, Edward Chien
  • Patent number: 5267244
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system between a base unit and a remote unit, the base unit transmits periodically a sync signal in a first selected time period in a selected frequency channel. The remote unit scans the frequency channels to detect the sync signal. The remote unit transmits a response signal in the selected frequency channel. The response signal is transmitted in a second selected time period different from the first selected time period. In addition, the remote unit transmits a first control signal encoded by a first code in the selected frequency channel in a third selected time period, different from the first and second selected time periods, containing a set of functional capabilities of the remote unit. The base unit receives and decodes the first control signal to derive the set of functional capabilities of the remote unit and compares it to its own set of functional capabilities to determine a common set of functional capabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Assignee: Teknekron Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: David G. Messerschmitt, Christopher Flores, Hulhung Lu
  • Patent number: 5258995
    Abstract: In the present invention a wireless communication system is disclosed. A base unit communicates with a remote unit. The system comprises means for transmitting, using CDMA, between the base unit and the remote unit, in one of a plurality of frequencies channels selected. In one period of time, the base unit transmits and in another period of time, different from the one period, the remote unit transmits. Further, the system comprises means for changing the one frequency channel selected to another frequency channel, different from the one frequency channel, in response to interference in the one frequency channel. Thus, communication between the base unit and the remote unit is then affected over the another frequency channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Assignee: Teknekron Communications Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Chun-Meng Su, Saman Behtash, Keith Jarett, Huihung Lu, Christopher Flores, David G. Messerschmitt
  • Patent number: 4669115
    Abstract: An adaptive hybrid circuit for use in a digital telephone switching system is disclosed. The hybrid circuit is adaptive in that it provides cancellation of a far end talker power component in an output signal having both far end talker and near end talker power components. The circuit includes first and second transfer filters for matching loaded and non-loaded subscriber loops, respectively, in the telephone system. The circuit generates a filtered signal representing the difference between loaded and non-loaded subscriber impedances in the telephone system and generates an adaptive control signal responsive to the filtered signal and the output signal such that the far end talker power component is cancelled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1987
    Assignee: Regents of the University of California
    Inventor: David G. Messerschmitt
  • Patent number: 4669116
    Abstract: An echo cancellation circuit is disclosed for use with full-duplex data transmission systems. The echo canceller can operate in spite of time invariant non-linearities in the echo channel or in the implementation of the echo canceller itself (such as in D/A converters). The echo canceller receives an echo signal having linear and non-linear components and includes N linear tap weights for cancelling the non-linear components of that echo signal where M is greater than N but less than 2.sup.N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1987
    Assignee: Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Oscar E. Agazzi, David G. Messerschmitt
  • Patent number: 4308505
    Abstract: A frequency detector and method for use in timing and carrier recovery applications. In a timing recovery application, the circuit includes means for generating a variable frequency periodic clock signal corresponding to an input data signal, means for determining whether successive data transitions of the data signal occur during first and second predetermined portions of successive cycles of the clock signal and means for changing the frequency of the clock signal when successive data transitions occur during different ones of the predetermined portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1981
    Assignee: TRW, Inc.
    Inventor: David G. Messerschmitt
  • Patent number: 4145667
    Abstract: A reference source of digital pulses of a first frequency f.sub.1 is coupled to the input of a frequency synthesizer which is capable of providing a second frequency f.sub.2 output signal. The second frequency is related to the first frequency by a predetermined, rational fraction (e.g., as f.sub.2 = (M/N)f.sub.1). The synthesizer includes a phase control unit comprising an adder by way of which a first number N is added each sample period to a remainder, the sum output of the adder being operated upon modulo a second number M, e.g., by dividing by M and discarding a resultant quotient to obtain a remainder. The remainder, having a value between zero and M-1, is compared to a prefixed signal, illustratively the largest integer in M/2. If the remainder is less than the prefixed signal, a first logic state control signal is provided to a control system; else a second logic state signal is so provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 20, 1979
    Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated
    Inventor: David G. Messerschmitt