Patents by Inventor R. Michael Buehrer
R. Michael Buehrer 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).
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Patent number: 10527708Abstract: A method for estimating the location of a wireless terminal is disclosed that is based on using: the known location of one or more devices, empirical data that indicates the relative position of the wireless terminal to the devices, and empirical data that indicates the relative position of the wireless terminal (which is at an unknown location) relative to other wireless terminals that are also at unknown locations.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignees: Polaris Wireless, Inc., Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.Inventors: Scot Douglas Gordon, Sayed Reza Monir Vaghefi, R. Michael Buehrer
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Publication number: 20180259614Abstract: A method for estimating the location of a wireless terminal is disclosed that is based on using: the known location of one or more devices, empirical data that indicates the relative position of the wireless terminal to the devices, and empirical data that indicates the relative position of the wireless terminal (which is at an unknown location) relative to other wireless terminals that are also at unknown locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Applicants: Polaris Wireless, Inc., Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.Inventors: Scot Douglas Gordon, Sayed Reza Monir Vaghefi, R. Michael Buehrer
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Patent number: 9989620Abstract: A method for estimating the location of a wireless terminal is disclosed that is based on using: the known location of one or more devices, empirical data that indicates the relative position of the wireless terminal to the devices, and empirical data that indicates the relative position of the wireless terminal (which is at an unknown location) relative to other wireless terminals that are also at unknown locations.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2016Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Polaris Wireless, Inc.Inventors: Scot Douglas Gordon, Sayed Reza Monir Vaghefi, R. Michael Buehrer
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Patent number: 9596571Abstract: A method for estimating the location of a wireless terminal is disclosed that is based on using: the known location of one or more devices, empirical data that indicates the relative position of the wireless terminal to the devices, and empirical data that indicates the relative position of the wireless terminal (which is at an unknown location) relative to other wireless terminals that are also at unknown locations.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2014Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignees: Polaris Wireless, Inc., Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State UniversityInventors: Scot Douglas Gordon, Sayed Reza Monir Vaghefi, R. Michael Buehrer
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Patent number: 7400614Abstract: Downlink diversity in a CDMA system is provided by employing Walsh codes in conjunction with M transmit antennas at a common base station serving K mobiles, where M may or may not be to equal to K. The present invention provides methods and apparatus for improving downlink diversity in a CDMA system. Each transmit antenna transmits a signal representing the result of the modulation of Walsh codes by data signals for each of the K mobiles, assuming there is data pertaining to a particular mobile. The assignment of Walsh codes is accomplished in accordance with a transmission matrix T. The transmission matrix maps the user data symbols onto the Walsh codes for each antenna and is preferably designed such that its columns are representative of the transmit antennas and orthogonal.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2002Date of Patent: July 15, 2008Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: R. Michael Buehrer, Robert Atmaram Soni, Jiann-An Tsai
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Patent number: 7042955Abstract: Described herein is a method and apparatus for transmission that provides the performance of space time spreading (STS) or orthogonal transmit diversity (OTD) and the backwards compatibility of phase sweep transmit diversity (PSTD) without significantly degrading performance in additive white guassan noise (AWGN) conditions using a transmission architecture that incorporates STS/OTD and a form of phase sweep transmit diversity (PSTD) referred to herein as biased PSTD, which involves transmitting a signal and a frequency swept version of the same signal over diversity antennas at different power levels to reduce the depths of nulls normally seen in AWGN conditions when regular PSTD is utilized.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2001Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: Roger David Benning, R. Michael Buehrer, Mark H Kraml, Paul Anthony Polakos
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Patent number: 7035599Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus of transmit diversity that is backward compatible and does not significantly degrade performance in additive white guassan noise (AWGN) conditions using a transmission architecture that incorporates a form of phase sweep transmit diversity (PSTD) referred to herein as biased PSTD. Biased PSTD involves transmitting a signal and a frequency swept version of the same signal over diversity antennas at different power levels. By transmitting the two signals at different power levels, the depths of nulls normally seen in AWGN conditions when PSTD is utilized is reduced and performance degradation in AWGN conditions is mitigated.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2001Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: Roger David Benning, R. Michael Buehrer, Robert Atmaram Soni
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Patent number: 6980778Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus of transmit diversity that is backward compatible and does not degrade performance using a transmission architecture that incorporates a form of phase sweep transmit diversity (PSTD) referred to herein as split shift PSTD. Split shift PSTD involves transmitting at least two phase swept versions of a signal over diversity antennas, wherein the two phase swept versions of the signal have a different phase. The phase sweep frequency signals may have a fixed or varying phase shifting rate, may have an identical or different phase shifting rate, may be offset from each other and/or may be phase shifting in the same or opposite direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2001Date of Patent: December 27, 2005Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: Roger David Benning, R. Michael Buehrer, Paul Anthony Polakos, Robert Atmaram Soni
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Patent number: 6920314Abstract: Described herein is a method and apparatus for transmission that provides the performance of space time spreading (STS) or orthogonal transmit diversity (OTD) and the backwards compatibility of phase sweep transmit diversity (PSTD) without degrading performance of either STS or PSTD using a symmetric sweep PSTD transmission architecture. In one embodiment, a pair of signals s1 and s2 are split into signals s1(a) and s1(b) and signals s2(a) and s2(b), respectively. Signal s1 comprises a first STS/OTD signal belonging to an STS/OTD pair, and signal s2 comprises a second STS/OTD signal belonging to the STS/OTD pair. Signals s1(b) and s2(b) are phase swept using a pair of phase sweep frequency signals that would cancel out any self induced interference. For example, the pair of phase sweep frequency signals utilize a same phase sweep frequency with one of the phase sweep frequency signals rotating in the opposite direction plus an offset of ? relative to the other phase sweep frequency signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2001Date of Patent: July 19, 2005Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: Roger David Benning, R. Michael Buehrer, Paul Anthony Polakos, Robert Atmaram Soni
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Patent number: 6801791Abstract: A cellular communications system includes a base station and at least one mobile station communicating therewith. The base station may include a plurality of antennas and a modulator for providing a transmit signal for each antenna. The modulator may estimate a weighting factor for each transmit signal based upon considering each transmit signal as having an unknown and arbitrary fading factor associated therewith and based upon considering the unknown and arbitrary fading factors to have a predetermined cross-correlation function.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2001Date of Patent: October 5, 2004Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: R. Michael Buehrer, Steven Peter Nicoloso, Robert Atmaram Soni, Dirck Uptegrove
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Patent number: 6614857Abstract: The method of channel estimation generates an initial channel estimate from a pilot signal in a received signal, and estimates the data in the received signal using the channel estimate. An updated channel estimate is then obtained from the estimated data. This process of estimating the data and re-estimating the channel estimate is reiterated a desired number of times to refine the accuracy of the channel estimate.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1999Date of Patent: September 2, 2003Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: R. Michael Buehrer, Shang-Chieh Liu, Steven P. Nicoloso
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Patent number: 6594226Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for enhancing diversity gain without reducing data rate by increasing the number of antenna elements and configuring the antenna elements for improving signal-to-noise ratio at a receiver. The antenna array comprise a first antenna group with at least two antenna elements and a second antenna group with at least one antenna element. The first and second antenna groups are spaced approximately ten carrier wavelengths or more apart from each other, and the antenna elements belonging to the first antenna group are spaced approximately a half carrier wavelength or less apart from each other. A plurality of data streams is generated from a signal and used to produce a first and second plurality of representative data streams. Each of the first plurality of representative data streams is phase-shifted and encoded using different orthogonal codes.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 1999Date of Patent: July 15, 2003Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: Roger David Benning, R. Michael Buehrer, Robert Atmaram Soni
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Publication number: 20030081656Abstract: Downlink diversity in a CDMA system is provided by employing Walsh codes in conjunction with M transmit antennas at a common base station serving K mobiles, where M may or may not be to equal to K. The present invention provides methods and apparatus for improving downlink diversity in a CDMA system. Each transmit antenna transmits a signal representing the result of the modulation of Walsh codes by data signals for each of the K mobiles, assuming there is data pertaining to a particular mobile. The assignment of Walsh codes is accomplished in accordance with a transmission matrix T. The transmission matrix maps the user data symbols onto the Walsh codes for each antenna and is preferably designed such that its columns are representative of the transmit antennas and orthogonal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2002Publication date: May 1, 2003Applicant: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: R. Michael Buehrer, Robert Atmaram Soni, Jiann-An Tsai
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Patent number: 6549565Abstract: A Code Division Multiple Access system and method of operation provides reduced interference for received signals and improved signal acquisition and processing with reduced computational complexity. The system includes a base station coupled to an antenna array of at least two or more antennas and serving a plurality of users. A receiver in the base station includes a universal inverse cross-correlation matrix coupled to the antenna array, a signal acquisition and a signal processing circuit serving each user. Each signal acquisition circuit comprises a series of delay stages in which the incoming antenna signals in each stage are correlated with a spreading code and combined in a multiplier coupled to the universal inverse cross-correlation matrix which facilitates improved time delay estimation for signal acquisition.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 1999Date of Patent: April 15, 2003Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: R. Michael Buehrer, Shang-Chieh Liu
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Patent number: 6542560Abstract: The method of channel estimation determines linear regression coefficients for N blocks of a first signal component in a received signal on a block-by-block basis, and determines a channel estimate based on the linear regression coefficients for the N blocks. Using the channel estimate, channel distortion in a second signal component of the received signal can be significantly eliminated.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 1999Date of Patent: April 1, 2003Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: R. Michael Buehrer, Shang-Chieh Liu, Steven P. Nicoloso, Dirck Uptegrove
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Patent number: 6515978Abstract: Downlink diversity in a CDMA system is provided by employing Walsh codes in conjunction with M transmit antennas at a common base station serving K mobiles, where M may or may not be to equal to K. The present invention provides methods and apparatus for improving downlink diversity in a CDMA system. Each transmit antenna transmits a signal representing the result of the modulation of Walsh codes by data signals for each of the K mobiles, assuming there is data pertaining to a particular mobile. The assignment of Walsh codes is accomplished in accordance with a transmission matrix T. The transmission matrix maps the user data symbols onto the Walsh codes for each antenna and is preferably designed such that its columns are representative of the transmit antennas and orthogonal.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 1999Date of Patent: February 4, 2003Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.Inventors: R. Michael Buehrer, Robert Atmaram Soni, Jiann-An Tsai
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Publication number: 20030022635Abstract: Described herein is a method and apparatus for transmission that provides the performance of space time spreading (STS) or orthogonal transmit diversity (OTD) and the backwards compatibility of phase sweep transmit diversity (PSTD) without degrading performance of either STS or PSTD using a symmetric sweep PSTD transmission architecture. In one embodiment, a pair of signals s1, and s2 are split into signals s1(a) and s1(b) and signals s2(a) and s2(b), respectively. Signal s1 comprises a first STS/OTD signal belonging to an STS/OTD pair, and signal s2 comprises a second STS/OTD signal belonging to the STS/OTD pair. Signals s1(b) and s2(b) are phase swept using a pair of phase sweep frequency signals that would cancel out any self induced interference. For example, the pair of phase sweep frequency signals utilize a same phase sweep frequency with one of the phase sweep frequency signals rotating in the opposite direction plus an offset of &pgr; relative to the other phase sweep frequency signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2001Publication date: January 30, 2003Inventors: Roger David Benning, R. Michael Buehrer, Paul Anthony Polakos, Robert Atmaram Soni
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Publication number: 20030022634Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus of transmit diversity that is backward compatible and does not degrade performance using a transmission architecture that incorporates a form of phase sweep transmit diversity (PSTD) referred to herein as split shift PSTD. Split shift PSTD involves transmitting at least two phase swept versions of a signal over diversity antennas, wherein the two phase swept versions of the signal have a different phase. The phase sweep frequency signals may have a fixed or varying phase shifting rate, may have an identical or different phase shifting rate, may be offset from each other and/or may be phase shifting in the same or opposite direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2001Publication date: January 30, 2003Inventors: Roger David Benning, R. Michael Buehrer, Paul Anthony Polakos, Robert Atmaram Soni
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Publication number: 20030022641Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus of transmit diversity that is backward compatible and does not significantly degrade performance in additive white guassan noise (AWGN) conditions using a transmission architecture that incorporates a form of phase sweep transmit diversity (PSTD) referred to herein as biased PSTD. Biased PSTD involves transmitting a signal and a frequency swept version of the same signal over diversity antennas at different power levels. By transmitting the two signals at different power levels, the depths of nulls normally seen in AWGN conditions when PSTD is utilized is reduced and performance degradation in AWGN conditions is mitigated.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2001Publication date: January 30, 2003Inventors: Roger David Benning, R. Michael Buehrer, Robert Atmaram Soni
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Publication number: 20030021352Abstract: Described herein is a method and apparatus for transmission that provides the performance of space time spreading (STS) or orthogonal transmit diversity (OTD) and the backwards compatibility of phase sweep transmit diversity (PSTD) without significantly degrading performance in additive white guassan noise (AWGN) conditions using a transmission architecture that incorporates STS/OTD and a form of phase sweep transmit diversity (PSTD) referred to herein as biased PSTD, which involves transmitting a signal and a frequency swept version of the same signal over diversity antennas at different power levels to reduce the depths of nulls normally seen in AWGN conditions when regular PSTD is utilized.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2001Publication date: January 30, 2003Inventors: Roger David Benning, R. Michael Buehrer, Mark H. Kraml, Paul Anthony Polakos