Patents by Inventor Morena Ferrario

Morena Ferrario 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: 7130605
    Abstract: A method is provided for realizing, in a radio transmission system, a carrier synchronization and for cancelling one or more co-channel interfering signals from a received main signal, in which a synchronous down-conversion of the received main signal and of each of the interfering signal is performed to obtain respective intermediate frequency signals; and then a synchronous demodulation of the intermediate frequency signals so obtained is carried out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Roberto Valtolina, Roberto Pellizzoni, Morena Ferrario, Arnaldo Spalvieri
  • Patent number: 7035362
    Abstract: Described is a method for the clock-pulse selection in a baseband combiner of a space-diversity receiver. The method provides for driving the clock recovery circuit by means of the main signal, filtered and sampled, or by the diversity signal, filtered and sampled as well, and it is characterized by calculating the average power of the equalized main signal and the average power of the equalized diversity signal; and by driving the clock recovery circuit by means of the signal chosen according to a comparison between the average powers of the signals at the output of the equalizers. Advantageously, the invention provides for a hysteresis on the power comparison and guarantees a soft change with respect to the selection performed at the preceding time of processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Morena Ferrario, Roberto Pellizzoni, Roberto Valtolina, Arnaldo Spalvieri
  • Patent number: 6983143
    Abstract: A method is described for managing and monitoring the performances in digital radio systems. The idea of the invention provides for identifying the type of distorting phenomenon that possibly affects the monitored radio channel; in this way it is also possible to univocally connect, apart from the cause of degrade, the system performances with one of the performance monitoring methods commonly usable. In practice, the invention utilizes two distinct thresholds, each specific to the related corrupting source, and above all it provides an effective technique for discriminating which of the two thresholds is to be compared with the measure of the quality chosen. In a first preferred embodiment of the invention, the type of distortion present in the channel is identified on the basis of the error autocorrelation test at the threshold decision circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Alcatel
    Inventors: Morena Ferrario, Giovanni Mendola, Roberto Pellizzoni, Roberto Valtolina, Arnaldo Spalvieri
  • Publication number: 20030162522
    Abstract: It is described a method for realizing, in a radio transmission system, a carrier synchronization and for cancelling one or more co-channel interfering signals from a recived main signal, in which a synchronous down-conversion of the received main signal and of each of the interfering signal is performed to obtain respective intermediate frequency signals; and then a synchronous demodulation of the intermediate frequency signals so obtained is carried out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2003
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Applicant: ALCATEL
    Inventors: Roberto Valtolina, Roberto Pellizzoni, Morena Ferrario, Arnaldo Spalvieri
  • Publication number: 20020163982
    Abstract: Described is a method for the clock-pulse selection in a baseband combiner of a space-diversity receiver. The method provides for driving the clock recovery circuit by means of the main signal, filtered and sampled, or by the diversity signal, filtered and sampled as well, and it is characterized by calculating the average power of the equalized main signal and the average power of the equalized diversity signal; and by driving the clock recovery circuit by means of the signal chosen according to a comparison between the average powers of the signals at the output of the equalizers. Advantageously, the invention provides for a hysteresis on the power comparison and guarantees a soft change with respect to the selection performed at the preceding time of processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Applicant: ALCATEL
    Inventors: Morena Ferrario, Roberto Pellizzoni, Roberto Valtolina, Arnaldo Spalvieri
  • Publication number: 20020098837
    Abstract: A method is described for managing and monitoring the performances in digital radio systems. The idea of the invention provides for identifying the type of distorting phenomenon that possibly affects the monitored radio channel; in this way it is also possible to univocally connect, apart from the cause of degrade, the system performances with one of the performance monitoring methods commonly usable. In practice, the invention utilizes two distinct thresholds, each specific to the related corrupting source, and above all it provides an effective technique for discriminating which of the two thresholds is to be compared with the measure of the quality chosen. In a first preferred embodiment of the invention, the type of distortion present in the channel is identified on the basis of the error autocorrelation test at the threshold decision circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Applicant: ALCATEL
    Inventors: Morena Ferrario, Giovanni Mendola, Roberto Pellizzoni, Roberto Valtolina, Arnaldo Spalvieri