Patents by Inventor Tamer A. Kadous

Tamer A. Kadous 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: 10911961
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes identifying one or more coexistence issues corresponding to a utilized set of communication resources of a User Equipment (UE). The method also includes communicating an indication of the coexistence issue(s) to a serving base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Pranav Dayal, Tamer A. Kadous, Ashok Mantravadi, Jibing Wang, Rajat Prakash
  • Patent number: 9282462
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes receiving signaling from a served User Equipment (UE), via a radio access technology, indicating an interfering technology associated with coexistence issues experienced by the served UE. The method also includes calculating future subframes expected to experience coexistence issues based on previous subframes estimated to have experienced coexistence issues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Pranav Dayal, Tamer A. Kadous, Ashok Mantravadi, Jibing Wang, Rajat Prakash
  • Patent number: 9185720
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes determining a frame offset between communications of a first communication resource (e.g., an LTE radio) and communications of a second communication resource (e.g., a Bluetooth or WLAN radio). The method also includes determining potential time slot configurations for the communications of the second communication resource. A time slot configuration is selected from the determined potential time slot configurations, to reduce degradation of the first communication resource due to conflicting time slots between the first communication resource and the second communication resource, based on the determined frame offset. The selection may be based on the determined frame offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ashok Mantravadi, Tamer A. Kadous, Joel Benjamin Linsky
  • Patent number: 9185718
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate a centralized structure for managing multi-radio coexistence for a mobile device and/or other suitable device(s). As described herein, a control plane coexistence manager (CxM) entity and/or a data plane CxM entity can be implemented to directly interact with a set of associated transceivers (e.g., radios, etc.) in order to manage conflicts between events corresponding to the transceivers. Further, CxM operation can be divided between the control and data planes such that the control plane handles configuration and long-term operations such as radio registration, sleep mode management, long-term event resolution, interaction with upper layers, etc., while the data plane handles short-term operations with respect to radio event management based on incoming notifications or event requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tamer A. Kadous, Ashok Mantravadi, Venugopal V. Veeravalli, Charles A. Bergan, Joel B. Linsky, Richard D. Wietfeldt, George Chrisikos
  • Patent number: 9161232
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate a decentralized structure for managing multi-radio coexistence for a mobile device and/or other suitable device(s). As described herein, a coexistence manager (CxM) and/or other suitable means can be implemented in connection with a set of radios (or other transceivers) in order to manage conflicts between events corresponding to the radios. Functionality can be divided such that the CxM operates on the control plane and handles configuration and long-term operations such as registration, sleep mode management, interaction with upper layers, etc., while the respective radios operate on the data plane and handle short-term radio event management operations based on incoming notifications or event requests. For instance, radios can identify conflicts between requested external events and internally associated events and accordingly provide responses that allow or disallow the external events on an absolute basis or a conditional basis (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Joel B. Linsky, Tamer A. Kadous, Ashok Mantravadi, Richard Wietfeldt, George Chrisikos
  • Patent number: 9161233
    Abstract: Interference between potentially conflicting radio access technologies (RATs) in a wireless device may be managed through a coexistence manager. The coexistence manager allows a first active RAT to yield conflicting resources to a second idle RAT for purposes of receiving signals to allow proper operation by the second RAT. These signals may be, for example, paging signals to a Long Term Evolution (LTE) radio or beacons to a wireless local area network (WLAN) radio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Joel Benjamin Linsky, Tamer A. Kadous, Ashok Mantravadi, Pranav Dayal
  • Patent number: 8903021
    Abstract: For channel estimation in a spectrally shaped wireless communication system, an initial frequency response estimate is obtained for a first set of P uniformly spaced subbands (1) based on pilot symbols received on a second set of subbands used for pilot transmission and (2) using extrapolation and/or interpolation, where P is a power of two. A channel impulse response estimate is obtained by performing a P-point IFFT on the initial frequency response estimate. A final frequency response estimate for N total subbands is derived by (1) setting low quality taps for the channel impulse response estimate to zero, (2) zero-padding the channel impulse response estimate to length N, and (3) performing an N-point FFT on the zero-padded channel impulse response estimate. The channel frequency/impulse response estimate may be filtered to obtain a higher quality channel estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ashok Mantravadi, Aamod Dinkar Khandekar, Edward Harrison Teague, Tamer A. Kadous
  • Patent number: 8886126
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate resolution between respective radios associated with a multi-radio wireless device. As described herein, various techniques can be utilized with a multi-radio coexistence manager and/or other suitable mechanisms associated with a wireless device to perform joint resolution for multiple associated radios, thereby providing performance enhancements over conventional piecewise radio resolution schemes. Various exhaustive, decoupled, and progressive radio resolution algorithms are provided herein, by which respective sets of parameters (e.g., transmit powers, interference targets, frequency sub-bands, radio frequency knob settings, etc.) can be selected for respective potentially conflicting radios to enable such radios to operate in coexistence. Further, techniques are provided herein for utilizing a graph theoretic algorithm for progressive radio resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ashok Mantravadi, Tamer A. Kadous
  • Patent number: 8848607
    Abstract: Interference between potentially conflicting radio access technologies (RATs) in a wireless device may be managed through a coexistence manager which allows communication using a first active RAT (e.g., Long Term Evolution (LTE)) and communication with a second active RAT (e.g., wireless local area network (WLAN)) when the first RAT is not scheduled for communicating during an uplink timeslot. Communications by a WLAN radio may be controlled using a power save mode. WLAN communications may be timed so that downlink signals (such as data or acknowledgement messages) to the WLAN radio are received during an inactive uplink subframe for an LTE radio. WLAN communications may also be timed so that downlink signals to the WLAN radio are received during downlink times scheduled for an LTE radio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Joel Benjamin Linsky, Tamer A. Kadous, Ashok Mantravadi, Pranav Dayal
  • Patent number: 8825860
    Abstract: A system and method to facilitate voice activity detection and coexistence manager decisions is provided and include identifying a connection utilizing a first resource and a content stream corresponding to the connection, where the first resource conflicts with a second resource. The content of the content stream is classified into multiple levels based on a value of the content and then a priority is assigned to the first and second resources based on the level of the content of the first resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Joel Benjamin Linsky, Jibing Wang, Tamer A. Kadous, Ashok Mantravadi, Pranav Dayal
  • Patent number: 8634435
    Abstract: A method of wireless communication includes partitioning coexistence tasks between short term policy setting tasks and policy implementing tasks, processing the short term policy setting tasks using a first set of computing resources, and processing the policy implementing tasks using a second set of computing resources. The first set may be software resources configured for slower execution of tasks and the second set may be hardware resources configured for just-in-time execution of tasks. The policy may determine a time after which a first radio event is not to be interrupted and granting or denying later events based on whether they would begin before or after the do-not-interrupt time. The do-not-interrupt time may be based on a weighted priority of the first radio event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporation
    Inventors: Tamer A. Kadous, Jibing Wang, Joel Benjamin Linsky, Ashok Mantravadi
  • Patent number: 8605729
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate improved multi-radio coexistence between a Forward Link Only (FLO) radio and at least one non-FLO radio associated with a wireless device. As described herein, Overhead Information Symbol (OIS) transmissions scheduled by a FLO radio (such as transmissions on a dedicated OIS control channel or data transmissions containing embedded OIS information) can be given higher priority than other transmissions that collide with the OIS transmissions. In addition, transmissions scheduled by a non-FLO radio can be prioritized above respective non-OIS transmissions scheduled by a FLO radio, or alternatively non-OIS FLO transmissions can additionally be prioritized above transmissions scheduled by a non-FLO radio according to a measured amount of degradation present at the non-FLO radio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Pranav Dayal, Tamer A. Kadous, Ashok Mantravadi
  • Patent number: 8576760
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for control of an idle mode in a wireless device. In particular, the idle mode duty cycle of a preamble transmission by an access point (AP), as an example, is variably or adaptively set in response to determined conditions of the wireless neighborhood. The conditions determined include the whether or not other wireless devices are present in the vicinity of sensing wireless device, as well as the state of those devices present, such as whether they are in an idle mode or an active mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexei Y. Gorokhov, Ravi Palanki, Tamer A. Kadous, Fatih Ulupinar
  • Patent number: 8451740
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are presented for compensating drifts in access terminals occurring during a sleep time. The method includes determining whether a sleep time exceeds a threshold, buffering time domain samples containing acquisition pilots and a paging channel, powering down RF circuitry in the access terminal after buffering samples, processing the samples to compensate for drift, and determining whether the access terminal was paged based upon the processed samples. The apparatus includes a digital front end, an FFT engine coupled to the digital front end, a symbol buffer coupled to the FFT engine, a processor coupled to the digital front end, FFT engine, and symbol buffer, and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory further comprising instructions for executing the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Hemanth Sampath, Ravi Palanki, Jeremy H. Lin, Tamer A. Kadous
  • Patent number: 8385465
    Abstract: In a communications system, transmitter power gain can be changed between symbols. A power gain change of a first part of a transmit chain is initiated a first time, whereas a power gain change of a second part of the transmit chain is initiated at a second time, such that the resulting power gain changes of the first and second parts both occur substantially within an inter-symbol time in a desired relationship to one another. In one example, the power gain change of the first part is initiated before the beginning of the inter-symbol time to account for expected serial bus latency between initiation and execution of the power gain change of the first part. The power gain change of the second part is initiated during the inter-symbol time such that overall power does not exceed an amount (for example, a maximum permitted under a communication standard).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Tamer A. Kadous, Brian M. George, Jibing Wang
  • Patent number: 8351456
    Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate filtering or clustering of radios and/or other transceivers associated with a communication environment. As described herein, potentially conflicting transceivers supported by a communications device can be managed in an expedited fashion by filtering the transceivers into respective groups or clusters of transceivers that exhibit potential collisions. For example, clusters can be generated such that respective transceivers are associated with a single cluster and respective transceivers associated with a given cluster do not exhibit potential collisions with transceivers not associated with the given cluster. Clustering can be performed graphically as further described herein by generating and analyzing a graph that includes nodes corresponding to respective transceivers and edges representing potential conflicts therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tamer A. Kadous, Ashok Mantravadi
  • Patent number: 8331892
    Abstract: A technique for performing AGC and DC compensation in a receiver. The receiver comprises an energy estimator for generating an estimate of the level of a received signal; an RF device to apply gain to the received signal; an AGC for controlling the RF device gain based on the energy estimation; a first DC compensation loop for finely adjusting the DC component of the received signal in fast or slow tracking mode (FTM or STM); and a second DC compensation loop for coarsely adjusting the DC component of the received signal. Three modes of AGC operations: In Acquisition, iterations of FTM fine DC adjustment, short energy estimation, and RF device gain adjustment are performed during signal timing detection. In Connected, long energy estimation, RF device gain adjustment, and STM fine and coarse DC adjustments are performed during superframe preamble. In Sleep, FTM fine DC adjustment, short energy estimation, and RF device gain adjustment are performed during superframe preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Tamer A. Kadous, Iwen Yao, Jibing Wang, Weihong Jing, Yong Li
  • Publication number: 20120113906
    Abstract: A connection engine and coexistence manager are employed to manage radio resources in a user equipment. The connection engine defines desired performance metrics for sets of radio resources. The coexistence manager allocates potentially interfering radio resources to achieve desired performance metrics while accounting for resource capacity, potential collision rates, and other metrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tamer A. Kadous, Ashok Mantravadi, Ahmed K. Sadek
  • Publication number: 20120093009
    Abstract: Interference between potentially conflicting radio access technologies (RATs) in a wireless device may be managed through a coexistence manager which allows communication using a first active RAT (e.g., Long Term Evolution (LTE)) and communication with a second active RAT (e.g., wireless local area network (WLAN)) when the first RAT is not scheduled for communicating during an uplink timeslot. Communications by a WLAN radio may be controlled using a power save mode. WLAN communications may be timed so that downlink signals (such as data or acknowledgement messages) to the WLAN radio are received during an inactive uplink subframe for an LTE radio. WLAN communications may also be timed so that downlink signals to the WLAN radio are received during downlink times scheduled for an LTE radio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jibing Wang, Joel Benjamin Linsky, Tamer A. Kadous, Ashok Mantravadi, Pranav Dayal
  • Publication number: 20120077532
    Abstract: A coexistence manager may manage potential resource conflicts between radios, in particular between a Long Term Evolution (LTE) radio and between a Bluetooth radio. Coexistence manager decision units may be designed synchronously to occur at preset times, or asynchronously as needed by the respective radios. The decision units may be structured to reduce latency. The decision units may be configured specifically for the Long Term Evolution radio and Bluetooth radios.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Tamer A. Kadous