Patents by Inventor Gerald K. McAuliffe

Gerald K. McAuliffe 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: 4397039
    Abstract: A receiver for demodulating a single sideband signal which is subject to rapid phase jitter employs a Hilbert splitter for obtaining the Hilbert transform of the single sideband signal, and a local oscillator for signal demodulation. A post-oscillator feedback loop instantaneously derives the amount of phase jitter in the single sideband signal, and employs the derived phase jitter to adjust the phase of the local oscillator so that the local oscillator tracks the single sideband signal.Instantaneous derivation of the phase jitter is obtained because all post-oscillator signal manipulations are algebraic; post-oscillator Hilbert transform generation is not required. A first embodiment derives the exact amount of phase jitter. A second embodiment, more simple than the first, derives the approximate amount of phase jitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1983
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Gerald K. McAuliffe