Patents by Inventor Harris Smith Simon

Harris Smith 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: 8559895
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ivan Jesus Fernandez-Corbaton, Ahmad Jalali, Ernest T. Ozaki, Harris Smith Simon, Sherman A. Gregory
  • Patent number: 8229366
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Harris Smith Simon, Stanley S. Toncich
  • Patent number: 8145141
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Stanley Slavko Toncich, Harris Smith Simon, Aracely Williams
  • Publication number: 20100008453
    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: September 25, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ivan Jesus Fernandez-Corbaton, Ahmad Jalali, Ernest T. Ozaki, Harris Smith Simon, Sherman A. Gregory
  • Patent number: 7610025
    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: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Ivan Jesus Fernandez-Corbaton, Ahmad Jalali, Ernest T. Ozaki, Harris Smith Simon, Sherman A. Gregory