Patents by Inventor Nicholas A. Zervos

Nicholas A. Zervos 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: 5963562
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining the spectral arrangement of a composite signal that includes a plurality of individual signals, so that one or more individual signals may be separated from the composite signal. According to one embodiment, a first set of samples are taken from the composite signal during a first time duration, and a second set of samples are taken from the composite signal during a second time duration. The first and second time durations are selected such that at least a portion of the second time duration does not temporally overlap the first time duration. A weighing function is applied to the first and second sets of samples to generate weighted sample sets. The autocorrelation between the first and second weighted sample sets is measured, thereby providing information about the bandwidth occupancies of each of a plurality of individual signals within the bandwidth of the composite signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Nicholas A. Zervos
  • Patent number: 5162812
    Abstract: In a telephone local loop transmission arrangement, data is communicated from the customer premises to the central office utilizing a multidimensional, passband signal illustratively at 480 kb/s. Specifically, the transmitted signal is encoded in a trellis code and precoded using a generalized partial response filter. The received signal is processed by a circuitry that implements a trellis decoding in combination with nonlinear filtering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1992
    Assignee: AT&T Bell Laboratories
    Inventors: Ahmad K. Aman, Robert L. Cupo, Nicholas A. Zervos
  • Patent number: 5095497
    Abstract: In a telephone local loop transmission arrangement, data is communicated from the customer premises to the central office utilizing a multi-dimensional, passband signal illustratively at 480 kb/s. Specifically, the transmitted signal is encoded in a trellis code and precoded using a generalized partial response filter. The received signal is processed by a circuitry that implements a trellis decoding in combination with nonlinear filtering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1992
    Assignee: AT & T Bell Laboratories
    Inventors: Ahmad K. Aman, Robert L. Cupo, Nicholas A. Zervos
  • Patent number: 5056117
    Abstract: In a telephone local loop transmission arrangement, data is communicated from the customer premises to the central office utilizing a multidimensional, passband signal illustratively at 480 kb/s. Specifically, the transmitted signal is encoded in a trellis code and the received signal is processed by a circuitry that implements decision feedback equalization in combination with trellis decoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1991
    Assignee: AT&T Bell Laboratories
    Inventors: Richard D. Gitlin, Nicholas A. Zervos