Patents by Inventor Paul Nicholas Fletcher

Paul Nicholas Fletcher 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: 20250119832
    Abstract: A first electronic device includes: a first transceiver; a first memory storing at least one instruction; and a first processor operatively connected to the first transceiver and the first memory, the first processor being configured to execute the at least one instruction to: transmit, to at least one second electronic device, a non-high-efficiency (non-HE) announcement frame, and transmit, to the at least one second electronic device, a downlink (DL) multi-user (MU) extension (Ext) physical layer protocol (PPDU), wherein the DL MU Ext PPDU includes: a non-HE PPDU and a HE PPDU.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mark RISON, Fei TONG, Michail KOUNDOURAKIS, Paul Nicholas FLETCHER
  • Publication number: 20250023592
    Abstract: A method of digital memoryless pre-distortion includes receiving an input digital signal from a signal source, calculating a look-up table (LUT) address from the input signal and a power scale, updating an LUT value associated with the LUT address based on the input signal and an output signal that is output from a power amplifier to a wireless communications channel, linearizing the output signal with the updated LUT value, and outputting the output signal to the wireless communications channel. The steps of updating an LUT value associated with the LUT address and linearizing the output signal with the updated LUT value are repeated until a level of linearization is achieved that meets a pre-defined standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Fei Tong, Paul Nicholas Fletcher
  • Publication number: 20240380466
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method performed by a first electronic device for reducing a feedback overhead of beamforming in a wireless communication system, includes: transmitting a first data to a second electronic device; transmitting a data packet to the second electronic device; receiving a second data from the second electronic device; extracting a compressed steering matrix from the second data; obtain uncompressed steering matrix by using a decoder part of an autoencoder, based on the extracted compressed steering matrix; and transmitting, to the second electronic device, a third data via a radio signal beamformed based on the obtained uncompressed steering matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ziming HE, Fei TONG, Paul Nicholas FLETCHER
  • Publication number: 20240348273
    Abstract: A distortion apparatus for a power amplifier comprises: pre-distortion circuitry that comprises a memory polynomial look-up-table (LUT) circuit; and post-distortion circuitry that updates the pre-distortion circuitry based on an output of the power amplifier. The pre-distortion circuitry comprises a plurality of LUTs. Each LUT corresponds to a different memory depth of a memory polynomial of a Volterra series. Each LUT indexed by an instantaneous power of an input sample delayed by an amount corresponds to a respective memory depth of each LUT. An output of the memory polynomial LUT circuit corresponds to a summation of an output of each LUT multiplied by the input sample delayed by the amount corresponding to the respective memory depth of each LUT, and an output of the pre-distortion circuitry is provided to the power amplifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Paul Nicholas Fletcher, Donghan Kim, Fei Tong, Ziming He
  • Patent number: 10634763
    Abstract: A method of determining a location of a requesting station includes: transmitting a configuration message to a plurality of responding stations to configure the responding stations to transmit, in response to a first spread spectrum signal, a plurality of second spread spectrum signals; wirelessly transmitting the first spread-spectrum signal; wirelessly receiving the second spread spectrum signals; determining time of flight (TOF)s based on the second spread spectrum signals; and determining, the location using the determined TOFs, wherein the second spread spectrum signals are orthogonal to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Donald G. Guy, Paul Nicholas Fletcher
  • Patent number: 10615912
    Abstract: A wireless communication device configured to select a spatial stream among a plurality of spatial streams, the plurality of spatial streams being included in a received signal vector, the received signal vector being associated with a symbol constellation, calculate a plurality of distance values, each distance value representing a distance between the selected spatial stream and a different hypothesis symbol among a plurality of hypothesis symbols, the plurality of hypothesis symbols corresponding to the symbol constellation, repeat the selection and the calculation for all spatial streams among the plurality of spatial streams not previously selected, and determine a detected symbol of each spatial stream among the plurality of spatial streams based on the plurality of distance values calculated for the plurality of spatial streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fei Tong, Paul Nicholas Fletcher
  • Publication number: 20200067635
    Abstract: A wireless communication device configured to select a spatial stream among a plurality of spatial streams, the plurality of spatial streams being included in a received signal vector, the received signal vector being associated with a symbol constellation, calculate a plurality of distance values, each distance value representing a distance between the selected spatial stream and a different hypothesis symbol among a plurality of hypothesis symbols, the plurality of hypothesis symbols corresponding to the symbol constellation, repeat the selection and the calculation for all spatial streams among the plurality of spatial streams not previously selected, and determine a detected symbol of each spatial stream among the plurality of spatial streams based on the plurality of distance values calculated for the plurality of spatial streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fei TONG, Paul Nicholas FLETCHER
  • Publication number: 20180143289
    Abstract: A method of determining a location of a requesting station includes: transmitting a configuration message to a plurality of responding stations to configure the responding stations to transmit, in response to a first spread spectrum signal, a plurality of second spread spectrum signals; wirelessly transmitting the first spread-spectrum signal; wirelessly receiving the second spread spectrum signals; determining time of flight (TOF)s based on the second spread spectrum signals; and determining, the location using the determined TOFs, wherein the second spread spectrum signals are orthogonal to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: DONALD G. GUY, PAUL NICHOLAS FLETCHER
  • Patent number: 7782981
    Abstract: A signal processing apparatus (200) comprises a plurality of receive antennas (216a-m) arranged to receive a composite signal containing a plurality of transmitted symbols. A joint detector-decoder (218) iteratively enumerates most probable symbols received at the receive antennas (216am) using an enumeration constraint. A processor (220) determines a bit stream corresponding to each most probable received symbol. A method of signal processing for MIMO systems is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Inventors: Michael Dean, Paul Nicholas Fletcher, Andrew Robert Nix, Mohamad Kamree Abdul Aziz
  • Publication number: 20090207078
    Abstract: Method, apparatus, associated computer programs, and signals for channel identification in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communications systems, and in particular wireless communications systems. The channel derivation method uses steering of mutually orthogonal beamformers at the transmitter end to allow direct identification, whether by selection or mathematical computation, of the channel matrix and hence the preferred transmit beam orientations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 4, 2005
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Paul Nicholas Fletcher, Michael Dean, Paul Anthony Hickling
  • Publication number: 20080049862
    Abstract: A signal processing apparatus (200) comprises a plurality of receive antennas (216a-m) arranged to receive a composite signal containing a plurality of transmitted symbols. A joint detector-decoder (218) iteratively enumerates most probable symbols received at the receive antennas (216am) using an enumeration constraint. A processor (220) determines a bit stream corresponding to each most probable received symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Publication date: February 28, 2008
    Applicant: QINETIQ LIMITED
    Inventors: Michael Dean, Paul Nicholas Fletcher, Andrew Robert Nix, Mohamad KAmree Abdul Aziz
  • Patent number: 7012556
    Abstract: An adaptive signal processing system (800) comprises a plurality of receiving elements (802a–n), a plurality of analogue to digital converters (ADC's) (806a–n) and a digital signal processor (808). Each of the receiving elements (802a–n) is arranged to receive an incoming signal and has an ADC (806a–n) connected thereto. Each ADC *(806a–n) is arranged to convert a first portion of respective incoming signal into a digital form at a sampling rate less than the temporal Nyquist rate of the incoming signal. The signal processing (808) means is arranged to calculate complex weighting coefficients to be applied to a second portion of the incoming signal using the digitized first portion of the incoming signals. A method of calculating complex weighting coefficients is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Qinetiq Limited
    Inventors: Michael Dean, Paul Nicholas Fletcher