Patents by Inventor John H. Gass

John H. Gass 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: 8549376
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for error correction utilizing turbo code and signal transmission with error correction utilizing turbo code. A sequence of data is divided into a plurality of elements. Each element is encoded separately in parallel utilizing turbo encoding and decoded separately in parallel utilizing turbo decoding. The encoding and decoding of each element may be performed by an encoder and a decoder dedicated to that respective element. The control mechanism that controls each encoder and decoder may be identical, similar to a SIMD (single instruction, multiple data) architecture, allowing each element to be encoded and decoded separately in parallel utilizing turbo encoding and decoding. The encoding and decoding of each element separately in parallel utilizing turbo encoding and decoding may utilize the same interleaver permutation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: Syed Asim Ahmed, John H. Gass
  • Patent number: 7930617
    Abstract: A block-code-based structure that allows cross-packet coding of data using a sliding window. In this structure, each transmitted packet contains both information symbols and parity symbols generated by the information in previous packets. This code structure allows a receiver to recover lost packets without additional transmissions. If enough packets have been lost so that the receiver cannot recover one or more of them, new parity symbols can be generated and transmitted as additional packets. The parity symbols in these additional packets may be used by multiple receivers. Thus, the sliding window block code reduces retransmission overhead, particularly for multicast applications. Furthermore, the sliding window structure does not produce an encoding delay between the arrival of data and its transmission and reduces the decoding delay between the loss of a packet and its recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: John H. Gass, James A. Stevens
  • Patent number: 7292624
    Abstract: A Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum receiver is described in which a complex spread spectrum signal is cross correlated by four digitally matched filters. The filters and subsequent multipliers correlate the in-phase and quadrature components as well as the current and previous symbols. The result is a more robust signal acquisition at very low signal to noise ratios.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2007
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Mayor, Lester G. Matheson, Robert D. Martin, John H. Gass, Mhairi N. McCune
  • Publication number: 20040042535
    Abstract: A Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum receiver is described in which a complex spread spectrum signal is cross correlated by four digitally matched filters. The filters and subsequent multipliers correlate the in-phase and quadrature components as well as the current and previous symbols. The result is a more robust signal acquisition at very low signal to noise ratios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2002
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Michael A. Mayor, Lester G. Matheson, Robert D. Martin, John H. Gass, Mhairi N. McCune