Patents by Inventor Pete Castagna

Pete Castagna 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).

  • System and method for interference mitigation using adaptive forward error correction in a wireless RF data transmission system
    Patent number: 7383486
    Abstract: An adaptive forward error correction system for mitigating interference and fading in RF data transmissions has a hub and subscriber stations transmitting and receiving forward error correction encoded data packets. The hub and subscriber stations count codewords and/or packets received with errors. The hub calculates a type of quality measure using the counts and compares this measure to quality thresholds. If an upper threshold is exceeded, the hub increases a size of transmitted active data fields and decreases a size of blank data fields. If a lower threshold is not met, the hub decreases a size of transmitted active data fields and increases a size of blank data fields. Similar changes by subscriber stations are directed by the hub. These changes are coordinated in headers associated with the packets or codewords, via a separate control channel or multi cast via a data stream used for transmitting the data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Adaptix, Inc.
    Inventors: Pete Castagna, Dave Randall
  • System and method for interference mitigation using adaptive forward error correction in a wireless RF data transmission system
    Patent number: 6928603
    Abstract: An adaptive forward error correction system for mitigating interference and fading in RF data transmissions has a hub and subscriber stations transmitting and receiving forward error correction encoded data packets. The hub and subscriber stations count codewords and/or packets received with errors. The hub calculates a type of quality measure using the counts and compares this measure to quality thresholds. If an upper threshold is exceeded, the hub increases a size of transmitted active data fields and decreases a size of blank data fields. If a lower threshold is not met, the hub decreases a size of transmitted active data fields and increases a size of blank data fields. Similar changes by subscriber stations are directed by the hub. These changes are coordinated in headers associated with the packets or codewords, via a separate control channel or multi cast via a data stream used for transmitting the data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: Adaptix, Inc.
    Inventors: Pete Castagna, Dave Randall