Patents by Inventor Fei Tong

Fei Tong 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: 20170183161
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a novel automatic roller shaft transmission device, which comprises a roller shaft seat and a plurality of roller shafts; the roller shaft seat comprises a roller shaft mounting base, front and rear tips and left and right side covers, a roller shaft mounting cavity is formed in an upper surface of the roller shaft mounting base, and the roller shafts are mounted in the roller shaft mounting cavity in a rotating manner; the front and rear tips are arranged at front and rear ends of the roller shaft mounting base respectively, at least one tip forms a split structure with the roller shaft mounting base, a stamping mounting groove is formed in its bottom surface, and the side covers are provided with stamping connecting parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventor: Fei Tong
  • Publication number: 20170099119
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses (including, but not limited to portable devices and modem chips) for generating an error-check on the header of a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) (MPDU). This error-check is then inserted, at least in part, in the MAC header and/or the PHY layer PDU (PPDU) which will contain the MPDU. A separate indicator can be used to indicate whether any particular MAC frame has an error-check for its MAC header. Upon reception, the header of the MAC frame is processed and checked against the error-check inserted on the transmission side in order to determine whether the MAC header has an error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Mark G. RISON, Fei TONG
  • Patent number: 9497778
    Abstract: Managing access to a time-slotted communications medium by masking interrogatory codes that are contained in signals demarcating time slots of the medium and comparing the masked interrogatory codes against masked response codes. Access to the medium is dependent on the outcome of these comparisons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd.
    Inventors: Fei Tong, Mark Gothorn Rison
  • Publication number: 20160330055
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for an interleaver and a tone mapper are provided. The apparatus for the interleaver includes a register, including an input, a first output, a second output, a third output, and a fourth output; a first interleaver block, including an input and an output; a second interleaver block, including an input and an output; a third interleaver block, including an input and an output; a fourth interleaver block, including an input and an output; a matrix, including a first input connected to the output of the first interleaver block, a second input connected to the output of the second interleaver block, a third input connected to the output of the third interleaver block, a fourth input connected to the output of the fourth interleaver block, and an output; and a permuter, including an input connected to the output of the matrix, and an output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventor: Fei TONG
  • Patent number: 9319182
    Abstract: This invention is related to a low-complexity MIMO detector in a wireless communication system with near optimal performance. An initial symbol estimation is performed for a received symbol vector. The soft information of the received symbol vector can be more accurately calculated using every candidate symbol vector of a combined set of candidate symbol vectors, wherein the combined set is generated based on the initial estimation. By combining aspects of both the linear detection and the ML detection, the complexity of the proposed detector becomes orders of magnitude lower than that of a ML detector, but the performance is very close to that of an ML detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Qualcomm Technologies International, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hong Wan, Fei Tong, Erik Lindskog
  • Publication number: 20150341143
    Abstract: This invention is related to a low-complexity MIMO detector in a wireless communication system with near optimal performance. An initial symbol estimation is performed for a received symbol vector. The soft information of the received symbol vector can be more accurately calculated using every candidate symbol vector of a combined set of candidate symbol vectors, wherein the combined set is generated based on the initial estimation. By combining aspects of both the linear detection and the ML detection, the complexity of the proposed detector becomes orders of magnitude lower than that of a ML detector, but the performance is very close to that of an ML detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Hong WAN, Fei TONG, Erik LINDSKOG
  • Patent number: 9160599
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for receiving packets on a channel of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system. A time shift value for a packet is estimated using a channel estimation and an FFT size. A synchronization position of the packet on a channel is adjusted using the estimated time shift value, and a filter is applied to the adjusted channel to generate a smoothed channel estimate. Alternatively, a channel with a corrected packet synchronization position is estimated, and a smoothed channel is estimated by applying a filter to the estimated channel. Packets are received on the channel, at a receiver of the OFDM receiving apparatus, in accordance with the estimated smoothed channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Chunyang Yu, Fei Tong, Paul C. McFarthing
  • Publication number: 20150256309
    Abstract: A method for wirelessly communicating Physical Protocol Data Units (PPDUs) in a network is provided. The method includes assigning a group IDentifier (ID) in at least one first subfield of an existing field of a Multiple User-Multiple-In-Multiple-Out (MU-MIMO) PPDU supporting multiplexing over a spatial domain, the group ID indicating a group of Stations (STAs) of which each STA includes a set of PDUs in the MU-MIMO PPDU; differentiating the MU-MIMO PPDU as one of a Frequency Multiplexed (FM)-MU PPDU and a Spatial Multiplexed (SM)-MU PPDU; and defining at least one second subfield of the existing field of the MU-MIMO PPDU as user Bandwidth (BW) subfield indicating a number of sub-channels allocated for each STA in the group of STAs. The number of sub-channels allocated to each STA indicates a position in a multiplexing order for each STA in the group of STAs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Fei TONG, Mark G. Rison
  • Publication number: 20150230270
    Abstract: Managing access to a time-slotted communications medium by masking interrogatory codes that are contained in signals demarcating time slots of the medium and comparing the masked interrogatory codes against masked response codes. Access to the medium is dependent on the outcome of these comparisons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Inventors: Fei Tong, Mark Gorthorn Rison
  • Patent number: 9083499
    Abstract: This invention is related to a low-complexity MIMO detector in a wireless communication system with near optimal performance. Initial symbol estimation is performed for a transmitted symbol vector. The soft information of the transmitted symbol vector can be more accurately calculated by deemphasizing the LLRs associated with symbols belonging to weak channels that may suffer from poor initial estimation. By combining aspects of both the linear detection and the ML detection, the complexity of the proposed detector becomes orders of magnitude lower than that of a ML detector, but the performance is very close to that of an ML detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: CAMBRIDGE SILICON RADIO LIMITED
    Inventors: Fei Tong, Hong Wan, Erik Lindskog
  • Publication number: 20150188667
    Abstract: This invention is related to a low-complexity MIMO detector in a wireless communication system with near optimal performance. Initial symbol estimation is performed for a transmitted symbol vector. The soft information of the transmitted symbol vector can be more accurately calculated by deemphasizing the LLRs associated with symbols belonging to weak channels that may suffer from poor initial estimation. By combining aspects of both the linear detection and the ML detection, the complexity of the proposed detector becomes orders of magnitude lower than that of a ML detector, but the performance is very close to that of an ML detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Fei TONG, Hong WAN, Erik LINDSKOG
  • Patent number: 9042354
    Abstract: Managing access to a time-slotted communications medium by masking interrogatory codes that are contained in signals demarcating time slots of the medium and comparing the masked interrogatory codes against masked response codes. Access to the medium is dependent on the outcome of these comparisons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited
    Inventors: Fei Tong, Mark Gorthorn Rison
  • Publication number: 20150117559
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are provided for generating a candidate search set for ML detection of 2n-QAM signals transmitted on two or more MIMO spatial streams. A method includes estimating an initial solution yq for a received 2n-QAM symbol value b0b1 . . . bn-1, wherein all possible 2n-QAM symbol values are Gray-mapped constellation points; and performing an iteration for each hypothetical value of each bit position i of the initial solution yq, wherein each iteration comprises: determining a search center as: if ith bit of the initial solution equals the hypothetical value assumed for the current iteration, the initial solution yq; or if ith bit of the initial solution does not equal the hypothetical value assumed for the current iteration, a mirror constellation point yqc to the initial solution yq; and searching outward from the determined search center for candidate constellation points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: Fei TONG
  • Patent number: 9008241
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems are provided for generating a candidate search set for ML detection of 2n-QAM signals transmitted on two or more MIMO spatial streams. A method includes estimating an initial solution yq for a received 2n-QAM symbol value b0b1 . . . bn-1, wherein all possible 2n-QAM symbol values are Gray-mapped constellation points; and performing an iteration for each hypothetical value of each bit position i of the initial solution yq, wherein each iteration comprises: determining a search center as: if ith bit of the initial solution equals the hypothetical value assumed for the current iteration, the initial solution yq; or if ith bit of the initial solution does not equal the hypothetical value assumed for the current iteration, a mirror constellation point yqc to the initial solution yq; and searching outward from the determined search center for candidate constellation points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Fei Tong
  • Patent number: 9008240
    Abstract: This invention is related to a low-complexity MIMO detector in a wireless communication system with near optimal performance. An initial symbol estimation is performed for a received symbol vector. The soft information of the received symbol vector can be more accurately calculated using every candidate symbol vector of a combined set of candidate symbol vectors, wherein the combined set is generated based on the initial estimation. By combining aspects of both the linear detection and the ML detection, the complexity of the proposed detector becomes orders of magnitude lower than that of a ML detector, but the performance is very close to that of an ML detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited
    Inventors: Hong Wan, Fei Tong, Erik Lindskog
  • Patent number: 8964557
    Abstract: A communication device capable of receiving data from a transmitting device via a communications link, the communication device comprising a buffer and being capable of generating, in dependence on the capacity of the buffer to accommodate data received over the communications link, information for inducing the transmitting device to change its data transmission rate, wherein the information imitates a change in a capability of the communication device to receive data via the communications link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited
    Inventors: Fei Tong, Andrei Popescu
  • Publication number: 20150043665
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for receiving packets on a channel of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system. A time shift value for a packet is estimated using a channel estimation and an FFT size. A synchronization position of the packet on a channel is adjusted using the estimated time shift value, and a filter is applied to the adjusted channel to generate a smoothed channel estimate. Alternatively, a channel with a corrected packet synchronization position is estimated, and a smoothed channel is estimated by applying a filter to the estimated channel. Packets are received on the channel, at a receiver of the OFDM receiving apparatus, in accordance with the estimated smoothed channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chunyang YU, Fei Tong, Paul C. McFarthing
  • Publication number: 20150043555
    Abstract: A unified device for adjacent and non-adjacent channels/carriers for processing Physical layer Protocol Data Units (PPDUs) includes a dual-use configuration capable of processing either 80+80 Megahertz (MHz) PPDUs with a single spatial stream (160/80+80 MHz 1×1) or 80 MHz PPDUs with two spatial streams (80 MHz 2×2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrei POPESCU, Fei TONG
  • Patent number: 8948116
    Abstract: In a 3rd Generation Partnership Project, 3GPP, communication system a base station comprises a scheduler allocating communication resource of at least one of a Physical Uplink Shared CHannel, PUSCH, and a Physical Downlink Shared CHannel, PDSCH to a User Equipment (UE). The scheduling may either be a dynamic scheduling wherein a resource allocation for a single frame is provided to the UE or a persistent scheduling wherein a resource allocation for a plurality of frames is provided to the UE. A resource allocator assigns resource of a Physical Uplink Control CHannel, PUCCH, to the UE dependent on whether dynamic scheduling or persistent scheduling is performed by the scheduler for the UE. The UE transmits uplink control data on a physical uplink channel which is selected as the PUCCH or the PUSCH in response to whether persistent scheduling is used for the UE. The invention allows e.g. reduced PUCCH loading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Nick W. Whinnett, Fei Tong, Weimin Xiao, Robert T. Love
  • Patent number: 8934568
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of puncturing an encoded data bit stream, and an equivalent apparatus. The method applies one or more puncturing patterns to puncture the encoded data bit stream to reduce the number of transmitted bits. In one aspect there is provided a method of puncturing an encoded data bit-stream in a wireless transmitter, the encoded data bit-stream including one or more information bits, the method including receiving the encoded data bit-stream, puncturing a first group of encoded data bits and a second remaining group of encoded data bits in the encoded data bit stream using a first puncturing code rate and a second puncturing code rate respectively, wherein the first puncturing code rate is predefined, and the second puncturing code rate is determined based on the number of data bits in the second remaining group of encoded data bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Cambridge Silicon Radio Limited
    Inventor: Fei Tong