Patents by Inventor Felix Michael Krefft

Felix Michael Krefft 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: 20230350072
    Abstract: Disclosed is incorporating an IQ stream into a test signal for a receiver in motion, configuring a path for the motion of the receiver during simulation, a period of the simulation, a transmitter constellation to emulate, and a path of at least one IQ stream transmitter. Also generating signals emulating the transmitter constellation and conditioning the stream to be merged with the signals, using distance and relative motion between receiver and transmitter to determine delay and Doppler shift between transmitter and receiver in motion, scheduling sampling of the signal, including interpolation among samples of the stream, based on delay and Doppler shift, and synthesizing a conditioned stream from the interpolation between the samples, taking into account signal level of the stream, in addition to delay and shift, and merging the conditioned signal with the signals emulating the transmitter constellation and supplying the merged signals to the receiver during the test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Spirent Communications, PLC
    Inventors: Felix Michael KREFFT, Stephen Nigel BEALES, Mark Geoffrey HOLBROW
  • Publication number: 20230350076
    Abstract: The disclosed technology for preparing digital samples for synthesis of RF to simulate channels and GNSS satellites using GPUs includes receiving simulated position and velocity of an antenna, dividing the cycle into points to be converted into the synthesized signal, and computing the points. A first LUT includes pseudo random sequences combinable to produce a code that varies over time for encoding the channel, and a second LUT specifies linear combinations of the pseudo random sequences in the first LUT that produce channel codes to produce the digital sample points. Also included is using GPUs to generate the channel code for a point by mapping the channel code and time position, combining the code with data to be encoded, repeatedly applying the using and combining to produce points, using multiple GPU cores to encode sample points concurrently in the cycle, and sending an ordered sequence of points to a converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Spirent Communications PLC
    Inventors: Felix Michael Krefft, Andrew Charles Baker, Rafal Waclaw Zbikowski, Mark Geoffrey Holbrow
  • Patent number: 11536851
    Abstract: The disclosed technology for preparing digital samples for synthesis of RF to simulate channels and GNSS satellites using GPUs includes receiving simulated position and velocity of an antenna, dividing the cycle into points to be converted into the synthesized signal, and computing the points. A first LUT includes pseudo random sequences combinable to produce a code that varies over time for encoding the channel, and a second LUT specifies linear combinations of the pseudo random sequences in the first LUT that produce channel codes to produce the digital sample points. Also included is using GPUs to generate the channel code for a point by mapping the channel code and time position, combining the code with data to be encoded, repeatedly applying the using and combining to produce points, using multiple GPU cores to encode sample points concurrently in the cycle, and sending an ordered sequence of points to a converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Spirent Communications PLC
    Inventors: Felix Michael Krefft, Andrew Charles Baker, Rafal Waclaw Zbikowski, Mark Geoffrey Holbrow
  • Publication number: 20220066049
    Abstract: The disclosed technology for preparing digital samples for synthesis of RF to simulate channels and GNSS satellites using GPUs includes receiving simulated position and velocity of an antenna, dividing the cycle into points to be converted into the synthesized signal, and computing the points. A first LUT includes pseudo random sequences combinable to produce a code that varies over time for encoding the channel, and a second LUT specifies linear combinations of the pseudo random sequences in the first LUT that produce channel codes to produce the digital sample points. Also included is using GPUs to generate the channel code for a point by mapping the channel code and time position, combining the code with data to be encoded, repeatedly applying the using and combining to produce points, using multiple GPU cores to encode sample points concurrently in the cycle, and sending an ordered sequence of points to a converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Spirent Communications PLC
    Inventors: Felix Michael Krefft, Andrew Charles Baker, Rafal Waclaw Zbikowski, Mark Geoffrey Holbrow