Patents by Inventor Michael McCloud

Michael McCloud 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: 10263669
    Abstract: In order to balance the power requirements of a MIMO receiver with the gains that may be achieved through its use, an apparatus determines whether a current configuration of the UE supports iterative MIMO reception. When it is determined that the current configuration of the UE supports iterative MIMO reception, the apparatus determines whether at least one parameter of the received signal is within a corresponding target condition, respectively, for each of the at least one parameters, e.g., including determining whether a scheduling percentage meets a scheduling threshold and whether an error rate is within an error rate range. When both the configuration supports iterative MIMO reception and the signal parameter(s) meet the corresponding target condition(s), the apparatus uses the iterative MIMO receiver. If not, the apparatus uses a serial receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Chinmay Vaze, Prashant Udupa Sripathi, Supratik Bhattacharjee, Michael McCloud
  • Patent number: 10171195
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a user equipment that receives a configuration with carrier aggregation. The apparatus may determine a first starting symbol for a PDSCH. In one aspect, the first starting symbol for the PDSCH may be determined based at least in part on a blind detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Hao Xu, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Tao Luo, Alexei Gorokhov, Michael McCloud, Tingfang Ji
  • Publication number: 20180062709
    Abstract: In order to balance the power requirements of a MIMO receiver with the gains that may be achieved through its use, an apparatus determines whether a current configuration of the UE supports iterative MIMO reception. When it is determined that the current configuration of the UE supports iterative MIMO reception, the apparatus determines whether at least one parameter of the received signal is within a corresponding target condition, respectively, for each of the at least one parameters, e.g., including determining whether a scheduling percentage meets a scheduling threshold and whether an error rate is within an error rate range. When both the configuration supports iterative MIMO reception and the signal parameter(s) meet the corresponding target condition(s), the apparatus uses the iterative MIMO receiver. If not, the apparatus uses a serial receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Chinmay VAZE, Prashant Udupa SRIPATHI, Supratik BHATTACHARJEE, Michael MCCLOUD
  • Publication number: 20180034576
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a user equipment that receives a configuration with carrier aggregation. The apparatus may determine a first starting symbol for a PDSCH. In one aspect, the first starting symbol for the PDSCH may be determined based at least in part on a blind detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Hao XU, Peter GAAL, Wanshi CHEN, Tao LUO, Alexei GOROKHOV, Michael MCCLOUD, Tingfang JI
  • Patent number: 9800363
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a user equipment that receives interference cancellation information from a base station. Various aspects are described for employing interference cancellation information perform interference suppression in the presence of interference associated with different component carriers when employing carrier aggregation, small cell discovery signals, variations in data channel transmissions associated with certain transmission modes, and higher order QAM rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Inventors: Hao Xu, Peter Gaal, Wanshi Chen, Tao Luo, Alexei Gorokhov, Michael McCloud, Tingfang Ji
  • Patent number: 9602158
    Abstract: A receiver in a CDMA system comprises a front end processor that generates a combined signal per source. A symbol estimator processes the combined signal to produce symbol estimates. An S-Matrix Generation module refines these symbol estimates based on the sub channel symbol estimates. An interference canceller is configured for cancelling interference from at least one of the plurality of received signals for producing at least one interference-cancelled signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: III HOLDINGS 1, LLC
    Inventors: Gagandeep Singh Lamba, Tommy Guess, Michael McCloud, Anand P. Narayan
  • Publication number: 20150372778
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus may be a user equipment that receives interference cancelation information from a base station. Various aspects are described for employing interference cancelation information perform interference suppression in the presence of interference associated with different component carriers when employing carrier aggregation, small cell discovery signals, variations in data channel transmissions associated with certain transmission modes, and higher order QAM rates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Hao XU, Peter GAAL, Wanshi CHEN, Tao LUO, Alexei GOROKHOV, Michael MCCLOUD, Tingfang JI
  • Publication number: 20150016297
    Abstract: A receiver in a CDMA system comprises a front end processor that generates a combined signal per source. A symbol estimator processes the combined signal to produce symbol estimates. An S-Matrix Generation module refines these symbol estimates based on the sub channel symbol estimates. An interference canceller is configured for cancelling interference from at least one of the plurality of received signals for producing at least one interference-cancelled signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Gagandeep Singh Lamba, Tommy Guess, Michael McCloud, Anand P. Narayan
  • Patent number: 8848765
    Abstract: A receiver in a CDMA system comprises a front end processor that generates a combined signal per source. A symbol estimator processes the combined signal to produce symbol estimates. An S-Matrix Generation module refines these symbol estimates based on the sub channel symbol estimates. An interference canceller is configured for cancelling interference from at least one of the plurality of received signals for producing at least one interference-cancelled signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: III Holdings 1, LLC
    Inventors: Gagandeep Singh Lamba, Tommy Guess, Michael McCloud, Anand P. Narayan
  • Publication number: 20140003471
    Abstract: A receiver in a CDMA system comprises a front end processor that generates a combined signal per source. A symbol estimator processes the combined signal to produce symbol estimates. An S-Matrix Generation module refines these symbol estimates based on the sub channel symbol estimates. An interference canceller is configured for cancelling interference from at least one of the plurality of received signals for producing at least one interference-cancelled signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: GAGANDEEP SINGH LAMBA, TOMMY GUESS, MICHAEL MCCLOUD, ANAND P. NARAYAN
  • Patent number: 8615030
    Abstract: Systems and methods for multi-user detection are provided. In one aspect of the disclosure, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a processing unit configured to process a plurality of received chips into a plurality of received symbols for a plurality of users. The apparatus further comprises a computation unit configured to compute a multi-user matrix relating a plurality of user symbols for the plurality of users to the plurality of received symbols and a detection unit configured to detect the plurality of user symbols for the plurality of users using the computed multi-user matrix and the plurality of received symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Farrokh Abrishamkar, Yingqun Yu, Michael McCloud, Divaydeep Sikri
  • Patent number: 8503591
    Abstract: A method for suppressing interference in a wireless communication is provided. The method comprises receiving a burst of symbols, generating a plurality of timing hypotheses for the burst of symbols, and calculating, for each timing hypothesis, a plurality of weights for an interference suppression filter based upon a subset of the burst of symbols. The method further comprises, for each timing hypothesis, filtering the subset of the burst of symbols using the interference suppression filter with the corresponding plurality of weights, and selecting one of the plurality of timing hypotheses corresponding to a selection criteria. The method further comprises equalizing and decoding the filtered burst of symbols based upon the selected one of the plurality of timing hypotheses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Divaydeep Sikri, Farrokh Abrishamkar, Michael McCloud
  • Patent number: 8457263
    Abstract: A receiver in a CDMA system comprises a front end processor that generates a combined signal per source. A symbol estimator processes the combined signal to produce symbol estimates. An S-Matrix Generation module refines these symbol estimates based on the sub channel symbol estimates. An interference canceller is configured for cancelling interference from at least one of the plurality of received signals for producing at least one interference-cancelled signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Gagandeep Singh Lamba, Tommy Guess, Michael McCloud, Anand P. Narayan
  • Patent number: 8391338
    Abstract: A receiver in a CDMA system comprises a front end processor that generates a combined signal per source. A symbol estimator processes the combined signal to produce symbol estimates. An S-Matrix Generation module refines these symbol estimates based on the sub channel symbol estimates. An interference canceller is configured for cancelling interference from at least one of the plurality of received signals for producing at least one interference-cancelled signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Gagandeep Singh Lamba, Tommy Guess, Michael McCloud, Anand P. Narayan, Prashant Jain
  • Patent number: 8331504
    Abstract: Systems and methods for multi-user interference cancellation are provided. In one aspect of the disclosure, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a processing unit configured to process received chips into received symbols for a plurality of users and a detection unit configured to detect user symbols from the received symbols. The apparatus also comprises an interference cancellation unit configured to compute multi-user interference using the detected user symbols and to remove the computed multi-user interference from the received symbols. The apparatus further comprises a redetection unit configured to redetect user symbols from the received symbols with the computed multi-user interference removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Yingqun Yu, Farrokh Abrishamkar, Divaydeep Sikri, Michael McCloud
  • Patent number: 8155254
    Abstract: Techniques for the adjustment of a position of Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) window are provided. The adjustment may be based on the condition that the length of channel impulse response is larger than the length of cyclic prefix. The technique may determine a position of the FFT window that attempts to maximize carrier-to-noise (C/N) ratio value measured at the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Junqiang Li, Je Woo Kim, Matthias Brehler, Michael McCloud
  • Publication number: 20110292974
    Abstract: A receiver in a CDMA system comprises a front end processor that generates a combined signal per source. A symbol estimator processes the combined signal to produce symbol estimates. An S-Matrix Generation module refines these symbol estimates based on the sub channel symbol estimates. An interference canceller is configured for cancelling interference from at least one of the plurality of received signals for producing at least one interference-cancelled signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: RAMBUS INC.
    Inventors: Gagandeep Singh Lamba, Tommy Guess, Michael McCloud, Anand P. Narayan
  • Patent number: 8005128
    Abstract: A receiver in a CDMA system comprises a front end processor that generates a combined signal per source. A symbol estimator processes the combined signal to produce symbol estimates. An S-Matrix Generation module refines these symbol estimates based on the subchannel symbol estimates. An interference canceller is configured for cancelling interference from at least one of the plurality of received signals for producing at least one interference-cancelled signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Gagandeep Singh Lamba, Tommy Guess, Michael McCloud, Anand P Narayan
  • Publication number: 20110064066
    Abstract: A receiver in a CDMA system comprises a front end processor that generates a combined signal per source. A symbol estimator processes the combined signal to produce symbol estimates. An S-Matrix Generation module refines these symbol estimates based on the sub channel symbol estimates. An interference canceller is configured for cancelling interference from at least one of the plurality of received signals for producing at least one interference-cancelled signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: RAMBUS INC.
    Inventors: Gagandeep Singh Lamba, Tommy Guess, Michael McCloud, Anand P. Narayan, Prashant Jain
  • Publication number: 20100278218
    Abstract: Systems and methods for multi-user interference cancellation are provided. In one aspect of the disclosure, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a processing unit configured to process received chips into received symbols for a plurality of users and a detection unit configured to detect user symbols from the received symbols. The apparatus also comprises an interference cancellation unit configured to compute multi-user interference using the detected user symbols and to remove the computed multi-user interference from the received symbols. The apparatus further comprises a redetection unit configured to redetect user symbols from the received symbols with the computed multi-user interference removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2009
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yingqun Yu, Farrokh Abrishamkar, Divaydeep Sikri, Michael McCloud