Patents by Inventor Tommy Guess

Tommy Guess 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: 8391338
    Abstract: A receiver in a CDMA system comprises a front end processor that generates a combined signal per source. A symbol estimator processes the combined signal to produce symbol estimates. An S-Matrix Generation module refines these symbol estimates based on the sub channel symbol estimates. An interference canceller is configured for cancelling interference from at least one of the plurality of received signals for producing at least one interference-cancelled signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Gagandeep Singh Lamba, Tommy Guess, Michael McCloud, Anand P. Narayan, Prashant Jain
  • Patent number: 8300745
    Abstract: A receiver is configured for canceling intra-cell and inter-cell interference in coded, multiple-access, spread-spectrum transmissions that propagate through frequency-selective communication channels. The receiver employs iterative symbol-estimate weighting, subtractive cancellation with a stabilizing step-size, and mixed-decision symbol estimate. Receiver embodiments may be implemented explicitly in software of programmed hardware, or implicitly in standard Rake-based hardware either within the Rake (i.e., at the finger level) or outside the Rake (i.e., at the user of subchannel symbol level).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Tommy Guess, Michael L McCloud, Vijay Nagarajan, Gagandeep Singh Lamba
  • Patent number: 8218697
    Abstract: An OFDMA-MIMO receiver performs a recursive interference cancellation across several correlated subbands and several receive antenna elements to demodulate complex source symbols for several users that have been coded across several subbands and transmit antennas. The iterative parallel interference canceller (PIC) is configured to work in the presence of both spatial and frequency structure introduced by the transmitter space-frequency mapping and the actual frequency selective wireless channel. The interference canceller uses mixed decisions, confidence weights, and stabilizing step sizes in a PIC receiver, which may be used with a successive decoding architecture in a receiver that employs a combination of modulation level interference cancellation with successive decoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Tommy Guess, Michael L. McCloud, Louis L. Scharf
  • Publication number: 20120147817
    Abstract: This invention teaches to the details of an interference suppressing receiver for suppressing intra-cell and inter-cell interference in coded, multiple-access, spread spectrum transmissions that propagate through frequency selective communication channels to a multiplicity of receive antennas. The receiver is designed or adapted through the repeated use of symbol-estimate weighting, subtractive suppression with a stabilizing step-size, and mixed-decision symbol estimates. Receiver embodiments may be designed, adapted, and implemented explicitly in software or programmed hardware, or implicitly in standard RAKE-based hardware either within the RAKE (i.e., at the finger level) or outside the RAKE (i.e., at the user or subchannel symbol level). Embodiments may be employed in user equipment on the forward link or in a base station on the reverse link. It may be adapted to general signal processing applications where a signal is to be extracted from interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: RAMBUS INC
    Inventors: Tommy Guess, Michael L. McCloud, Vijay Nagarajan, Gagandeep Singh Lamba
  • Patent number: 8121176
    Abstract: This invention teaches to the details of an interference canceling receiver for canceling intra-cell and inter-cell interference in coded, multiple-access, spread spectrum transmissions that propagate through frequency selective communication channels to a multiplicity of receive antennas. The receiver is designed or adapted through the repeated use of symbol-estimate weighting, subtractive cancellation with a stabilizing step-size, and mixed-decision symbol estimates. Receiver embodiments may be designed, adapted, and implemented explicitly in software or programmed hardware, or implicitly in standard RAKE-based hardware either within the RAKE (i.e., at the finger level) or outside the RAKE (i.e., at the user or subchannel symbol level). Embodiments may be employed in user equipment on the forward link or in a base station on the reverse link. It may be adapted to general signal processing applications where a signal is to be extracted from interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Tommy Guess, Michael L. McCloud, Vijay Nagarajan, Gagandeep Singh Lamba
  • Publication number: 20110292974
    Abstract: A receiver in a CDMA system comprises a front end processor that generates a combined signal per source. A symbol estimator processes the combined signal to produce symbol estimates. An S-Matrix Generation module refines these symbol estimates based on the sub channel symbol estimates. An interference canceller is configured for cancelling interference from at least one of the plurality of received signals for producing at least one interference-cancelled signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: RAMBUS INC.
    Inventors: Gagandeep Singh Lamba, Tommy Guess, Michael McCloud, Anand P. Narayan
  • Publication number: 20110255573
    Abstract: A receiver is configured for canceling intra-cell and inter-cell interference in coded, multiple-access, spread-spectrum transmissions that propagate through frequency-selective communication channels. The receiver employs iterative symbol-estimate weighting, subtractive cancellation with a stabilizing step-size, and mixed-decision symbol estimate. Receiver embodiments may be implemented explicitly in software of programmed hardware, or implicitly in standard Rake-based hardware either within the Rake (i.e., at the finger level) or outside the Rake (i.e., at the user of subchannel symbol level).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: RAMBUS INC.
    Inventors: Tommy Guess, Michael L. McCloud, Vijay Nagarajan, Gagandeep Singh Lamba
  • Patent number: 8005128
    Abstract: A receiver in a CDMA system comprises a front end processor that generates a combined signal per source. A symbol estimator processes the combined signal to produce symbol estimates. An S-Matrix Generation module refines these symbol estimates based on the subchannel symbol estimates. An interference canceller is configured for cancelling interference from at least one of the plurality of received signals for producing at least one interference-cancelled signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Gagandeep Singh Lamba, Tommy Guess, Michael McCloud, Anand P Narayan
  • Publication number: 20110200151
    Abstract: A receiver is configured for canceling intra-cell and inter-cell interference in coded, multiple-access, spread-spectrum transmissions that propagate through frequency-selective communication channels. The receiver employs iterative symbol-estimate weighting, subtractive cancellation with a stabilizing step-size, and mixed-decision symbol estimate. Receiver embodiments may be implemented explicitly in software of programmed hardware, or implicitly in standard Rake-based hardware either within the Rake (i.e., at the finger level) or outside the Rake (i.e., at the user of subchannel symbol level).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: RAMBUS INC.
    Inventors: Tommy Guess, Michael L. McCloud, Vijay Nagarajan, Gagan Deep Singh Lamba
  • Patent number: 7991088
    Abstract: A receiver is configured for canceling intra-cell and inter-cell interference in coded, multiple-access, spread-spectrum transmissions that propagate through frequency-selective communication channels. The receiver employs iterative symbol-estimate weighting, subtractive cancellation with a stabilizing step-size, and mixed-decision symbol estimates. Receiver embodiments may be implemented explicitly in software or programmed hardware, or implicitly in standard Rake-based hardware either within the Rake (i.e., at the finger level) or outside the Rake (i.e., at the user or subchannel symbol level).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Inventors: Tommy Guess, Michael L. McCloud, Vijay Nagarajan, Gagandeep Singh Lamba
  • Publication number: 20110064066
    Abstract: A receiver in a CDMA system comprises a front end processor that generates a combined signal per source. A symbol estimator processes the combined signal to produce symbol estimates. An S-Matrix Generation module refines these symbol estimates based on the sub channel symbol estimates. An interference canceller is configured for cancelling interference from at least one of the plurality of received signals for producing at least one interference-cancelled signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: RAMBUS INC.
    Inventors: Gagandeep Singh Lamba, Tommy Guess, Michael McCloud, Anand P. Narayan, Prashant Jain
  • Publication number: 20110044378
    Abstract: This invention teaches to the details of an interference canceling receiver for canceling intra-cell and inter-cell interference in coded, multiple-access, spread spectrum transmissions that propagate through frequency selective communication channels to a multiplicity of receive antennas. The receiver is designed or adapted through the repeated use of symbol-estimate weighting, subtractive cancellation with a stabilizing step-size, and mixed-decision symbol estimates. Receiver embodiments may be designed, adapted, and implemented explicitly in software or programmed hardware, or implicitly in standard RAKE-based hardware either within the RAKE (i.e., at the finger level) or outside the RAKE (i.e., at the user or subchannel symbol level). Embodiments may be employed in user equipment on the forward link or in a base station on the reverse link. It may be adapted to general signal processing applications where a signal is to be extracted from interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: RAMBUS INC.
    Inventors: Tommy Guess, Michael L. McCloud, Vijay Nagarajan, Gagandeep Singh Lamba
  • Patent number: 7826516
    Abstract: This invention teaches to the details of an interference canceling receiver for canceling intra-cell and inter-cell interference in coded, multiple-access, spread spectrum transmissions that propagate through frequency selective communication channels to a multiplicity of receive antennas. The receiver is designed or adapted through the repeated use of symbol-estimate weighting, subtractive cancellation with a stabilizing step-size, and mixed-decision symbol estimates. Receiver embodiments may be designed, adapted, and implemented explicitly in software or programmed hardware, or implicitly in standard RAKE-based hardware either within the RAKE (i.e., at the finger level) or outside the RAKE (i.e., at the user or subchannel symbol level). Embodiments may be employed in user equipment on the forward link or in a base station on the reverse link. It may be adapted to general signal processing applications where a signal is to be extracted from interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Rambus Inc.
    Inventors: Tommy Guess, Michael L McCloud, Vijay Nagarajan, Gagandeep Singh Lamba
  • Publication number: 20100220824
    Abstract: A receiver is configured for canceling intra-cell and inter-cell interference in coded, multiple-access, spread-spectrum transmissions that propagate through frequency-selective communication channels. The receiver employs iterative symbol-estimate weighting, subtractive cancellation with a stabilizing step-size, and mixed-decision symbol estimate. Receiver embodiments may be implemented explicitly in software of programmed hardware, or implicitly in standard Rake-based hardware either within the Rake (i.e., at the finger level) or outside the Rake (i.e., at the user of subchannel symbol level).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Inventors: Tommy Guess, Michael L. McCloud, Vijay Nagarajan, GaganDeep Singh Lamba
  • Publication number: 20100220826
    Abstract: An interference-canceling receiver is configured for cancelling inter-symbol interference due to both inter- and intra-channel interference in coded, multiple-access, spread spectrum transmissions that propagate through frequency-selective communication channels. The receiver mitigates the effects of post-cursor inter-symbol interference using feedback of previously estimated symbols, and mitigates pre-cursor inter-symbol interference using an interference canceller, such as an iterative interference canceller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Inventors: Michael L. McCloud, Tommy Guess
  • Publication number: 20100215082
    Abstract: An interference-canceling receiver processes coded, multiple-access, spread-spectrum transmissions that propagate through frequency-selective communication channels from multiple transmit antennas to multiple receive antennas in a closed-loop transmit-diversity channel. The receiver provides for repeated use of symbol-estimate weighting, subtractive cancellation with a stabilizing step-size, and mixed-decision symbol estimation. Receivers may be designed, adapted, and implemented explicitly in software or programmed hardware, or implicitly in standard Rake-based hardware, either within a Rake receiver at the finger level or outside the Rake at the user or subchannel symbol level. The receiver may be employed in user equipment on the forward link or in a base station on the reverse link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2009
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: TENSORCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: TOMMY GUESS, MICHAEL L. McCLOUD
  • Publication number: 20100208854
    Abstract: An OFDMA-MIMO receiver performs a recursive interference cancellation across several correlated subbands and several receive antenna elements to demodulate complex source symbols for several users that have been coded across several subbands and transmit antennas. The iterative parallel interference canceller (PIC) is configured to work in the presence of both spatial and frequency structure introduced by the transmitter space-frequency mapping and the actual frequency selective wireless channel. The interference canceller uses mixed decisions, confidence weights, and stabilizing step sizes in a PIC receiver, which may be used with a successive decoding architecture in a receiver that employs a combination of modulation level interference cancellation with successive decoding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventors: Tommy Guess, Michael L. McCloud, Louis L. Scharf
  • Publication number: 20100208774
    Abstract: A receiver is configured for canceling intra-cell and inter-cell interference in coded, multiple-access, spread-spectrum transmissions that propagate through frequency-selective communication channels. The receiver employs iterative symbol-estimate weighting, subtractive cancellation with a stabilizing step-size, and mixed-decision symbol estimates. Receiver embodiments may be implemented explicitly in software or programmed hardware, or implicitly in standard Rake-based hardware either within the Rake (i.e., at the finger level) or outside the Rake (i.e., at the user or sub channel symbol level).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: RAMBUS INC.
    Inventors: Tommy Guess, Michael L. McCloud, Vijay Nagarajan, Gagandeep Singh Lamba
  • Publication number: 20100177856
    Abstract: A receiver is configured for canceling intra-cell and inter-cell interference in coded, multiple-access, spread-spectrum transmissions that propagate through frequencyselective communication channels. The receiver employs iterative symbol-estimate weighting, subtractive cancellation with a stabilizing step-size, and mixed-decision symbol estimates. Receiver embodiments may be implemented explicitly in software or programmed hardware, or implicitly in standard Rake-based hardware either within the Rake (i.e., at the finger level) or outside the Rake (i.e., at the user or subchannel symbol level).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2010
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Inventors: Tommy Guess, Michael L. McCloud, Vijay Nagarajan, Gagandeep Singh Lamba
  • Patent number: 7733941
    Abstract: An interference-canceling receiver is configured for cancelling inter-symbol interference due to both inter- and intra-channel interference in coded, multiple-access, spread spectrum transmissions that propagate through frequency-selective communication channels. The receiver mitigates the effects of post-cursor inter-symbol interference using feedback of previously estimated symbols, and mitigates pre-cursor inter-symbol interference using an interference canceller, such as an iterative interference canceller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Rambus, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L McCloud, Tommy Guess