Patents by Inventor Harris Simon

Harris Simon 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: 7340279
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for parallel demodulation and searching using an adaptive antenna array with a processor configured to control the adaptive antenna to search for a first signal with the first beam and to receive a second signal for demodulation with a second beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tao Chen, Harris Simon
  • Publication number: 20060229030
    Abstract: A mobile station with a tunable duplexer is disclosed. The mobile station includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. The mobile station includes a receive path that has a receive band reject filter in electronic communication with an antenna at a common node. The receive path also includes a receive band pass filter in electronic communication with the receive band reject filter. The mobile station includes a transmit path that has a transmit band reject filter in electronic communication with the antenna at the common node. The transmit path also includes a transmit band pass filter in electronic communication with the transmit band reject filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2005
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Harris Simon, Stanley Toncich
  • Publication number: 20060223587
    Abstract: At least one feature provides a way to perform point-to-multipoint transmissions using adaptive or directional antennas while reducing antenna pattern distortion. Generally, rather than transmitting the same waveform to two or more receivers, an information-bearing signal is transformed into different decorrelated waveforms and each decorrelated waveform is transmitted to a different receiver. In one implementation, an information-bearing signal is transformed into two decorrelated signals such that their crosscorrelation, or autocorrelation of the information-bearing signal, is zero or very small. Such decorrelation may be achieved by sending a first signal to a first receiver while sending a second signal, having a radio frequency spectrum that is the spectrally inverted version of the first signal, to a second receiver. In another implementation, a first signal is transmitted to a first receiver and is also transmitted to a second receiver with a time delay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Inventors: Ivan Fernandez-Corbaton, Ahmad Jalali, Ernest Ozaki, Harris Simon, Sherman Gregory
  • Publication number: 20060098723
    Abstract: A multi-band handheld communications device includes a transceiver including a transmitter having a transmit filter and a receiver having a receive filter, each of the transmit and receive filters having a bandpass region tunable across multiple bands, and a processor configured to select one of the multiple bands to operate the handheld communications device, and tune each of the transmit and receive filters based on the selected one of the multiple bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Publication date: May 11, 2006
    Inventors: Stanley Toncich, Harris Simon, Aracely Williams
  • Publication number: 20060020647
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for generating random numbers are disclosed. In one aspect, a method for generating random numbers for use in a wireless communication device provides for generating random numbers, gathering a sample of the generated random numbers, and computing at least one metric, such as mean value, standard deviation, and/or entropy. The method further provides for comparing the metric with a corresponding reference value and adjusting the metric based on a result of said comparison so that the generated random numbers achieve a desired distribution. In another aspect, an apparatus for generating random numbers includes an analog noise generator and hardware components for generating random numbers and feedback values to adjust the random numbers. The apparatus further includes a processor capable of executing instructions to carry out control algorithms for adjusting the random numbers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2004
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Inventors: Harris Simon, Kenneth Van Pelt, Dale Sharp
  • Publication number: 20020137538
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for parallel demodulation and searching using an adaptive antenna array with a processor configured to control the adaptive antenna to search for a first signal with the first beam and to receive a second signal for demodulation with a second beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2001
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Inventors: Tao Chen, Harris Simon
  • Patent number: 5398237
    Abstract: A desired information stream is recovered from a pair of independent bitstreams transmitted using quadrature modulation. One of the independent bitstreams is altered by an invertible alteration function prior to transmission. The quadrature modulated bitstreams are demodulated at a receiver to provide a demodulated I bitstream and a demodulated Q bitstream. One of the demodulated I and Q bitstreams is tentatively provided for decoding. The tentatively provided bitstream can be optionally inverted. One of the tentatively provided bitstream and the optionally inverted bitstream is decoded if it is desired to recover the bitstream that was not altered by the alteration function prior to transmission. One of the tentatively provided bitstream and the optionally inverted bitstream is decoded after applying the inverse of the alteration function thereto if it is desired to recover the bitstream that was altered by the alteration function prior to transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1995
    Assignee: GI Corporation
    Inventors: Mark K. Eyer, Paul Moroney, Kent Walker, Harris Simon, Stephen K. How