Patents by Inventor Henry David Pfister

Henry David Pfister 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: 20220166446
    Abstract: Techniques for achieving reductions in cost of encoding and decoding operations used in DNA data storage systems to facilitate reducing errors in those encoding and decoding operations while accounting for a code structure used during the encoding and decoding by constructing and using insertion-deletion-substitution (IDS) trellises for multiple traces are disclosed. A DNA sequencing channel is used to randomly sample and sequence DNA strands to generate noisy traces. Multiple trellises are independently constructed for each respective noisy trace. A forward-backward algorithm is run on each trellis to compute posterior marginal probabilities for vertices included in each trellises. An estimate of the data message sequence is then computed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Sergey Mikhailovich YEKHANIN, Sivakanth GOPI, Henry David PFISTER, Sundara Rajan SRINIVASAVARADHAN
  • Patent number: 8670428
    Abstract: Methods and mobile stations for transmitting, receiving and processing peer-to-peer communication signals without a base station or network element. A transmitting mobile station may alternate two or more long code masks to generate one or more pseudorandom noise (PN) codes to spread data for transmission. A receiving mobile station receives the spread data and achieves synchronization with the transmitting mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Roy Franklin Quick, Jr., Henry David Pfister
  • Patent number: 8644264
    Abstract: Methods and systems for estimating and canceling pilot interference in a wireless (e.g., CDMA) communication system. In one method, a received signal comprised of a number of signal instances, each including a pilot, is initially processed to provide data samples. Each signal instance's pilot interference may be estimated by despreading the data samples with a spreading sequence for the signal instance, channelizing the despread data to provide pilot symbols, filtering the pilot symbols to estimate the channel response of the signal instance, and multiplying the estimated channel response with the spreading sequence. The pilot interference estimates due to a plurality of interfering multipaths are accumulated to derive the total pilot interference, which is subtracted from the data samples to provide pilot-canceled data samples. These samples are then processed to derive demodulated data for each of at least one (desired) signal instance in the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Alessandro Vanelli Coralli, Henry David Pfister, Jilei Hou, John Edward Smee, Roberto Padovani, Brian K. Butler, Jeffrey A. Levin, Thomas B. Wilborn, Paul E. Bender
  • Patent number: 8611311
    Abstract: Methods and systems for estimating and canceling pilot interference in a wireless (e.g., CDMA) communication system. In one method, a received signal comprised of a number of signal instances, each including a pilot, is initially processed to provide data samples. Each signal instance's pilot interference may be estimated by despreading the data samples with a spreading sequence for the signal instance, channelizing the despread data to provide pilot symbols, filtering the pilot symbols to estimate the channel response of the signal instance, and multiplying the estimated channel response with the spreading sequence. The pilot interference estimates due to a plurality of interfering multipaths are accumulated to derive the total pilot interference, which is subtracted from the data samples to provide pilot-canceled data samples. These samples are then processed to derive demodulated data for each of at least one (desired) signal instance in the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Alessandro Vanelli Coralli, Henry David Pfister, Jilei Hou, John Edward Smee, Roberto Padovani, Brian K Butler, Jeffrey A Levin, Thomas B Wilborn, Paul E Bender
  • Patent number: 8442441
    Abstract: A method and system for interference cancellation (IC). One aspect relates to traffic interference cancellation. Another aspect relates to joint IC for pilot, overhead and data. Another aspect relates to improved channel estimation. Another aspect relates to adaptation of transmit subchannel gains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Henry David Pfister, Jilei Hou, John Edward Smee, Stefano Tomasin
  • Patent number: 8422955
    Abstract: A method and system for interference cancellation (IC). One aspect relates to traffic interference cancellation. Another aspect relates to joint IC for pilot, overhead and data. Another aspect relates to improved channel estimation. Another aspect relates to adaptation of transmit subchannel gains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: John Edward Smee, Henry David Pfister, Jilei Hou, Stefano Tomasin
  • Patent number: 8406695
    Abstract: A method and system for interference cancellation (IC). One aspect relates to traffic interference cancellation. Another aspect relates to joint IC for pilot, overhead and data. Another aspect relates to improved channel estimation. Another aspect relates to adaptation of transmit subchannel gains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jilei Hou, Henry David Pfister, John Edward Smee, Stefano Tomasin
  • Patent number: 8099123
    Abstract: A method and system for interference cancellation (IC). One aspect relates to traffic interference cancellation. Another aspect relates to joint IC for pilot, overhead and data. Another aspect relates to improved channel estimation. Another aspect relates to adaptation of transmit subchannel gains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Stefano Tomasin, Henry David Pfister, Jilei Hou, John Edward Smee
  • Publication number: 20110069736
    Abstract: Methods and systems for estimating and canceling pilot interference in a wireless (e.g., CDMA) communication system. In one method, a received signal comprised of a number of signal instances, each including a pilot, is initially processed to provide data samples. Each signal instance's pilot interference may be estimated by despreading the data samples with a spreading sequence for the signal instance, channelizing the despread data to provide pilot symbols, filtering the pilot symbols to estimate the channel response of the signal instance, and multiplying the estimated channel response with the spreading sequence. The pilot interference estimates due to a plurality of interfering multipaths are accumulated to derive the total pilot interference, which is subtracted from the data samples to provide pilot-canceled data samples. These samples are then processed to derive demodulated data for each of at least one (desired) signal instance in the received signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Alessandro Vanelli Coralli, Henry David Pfister, Jilei Hou, John Edward Smee, Roberto Padovani, Brian K. Butler, Jeffrey A. Levin, Thomas B. Wilborn, Paul E. Bender
  • Patent number: 7458003
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses to encode and decode information. One apparatus may use an encoder with a relatively low complexity, capacity-achieving code. The code may allow information to be reliably transmitted and received across a noisy medium or channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2008
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Henry David Pfister