Patents by Inventor Tony Tarng

Tony Tarng 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).

  • Fast bit-error-rate (BER) test
    Patent number: 7079612
    Abstract: A bit-error-rate (BER) test is a crucial test for wireless devices to pass, since a device with a high BER does not perform at its best. BER tests are both costly and difficult to perform due to a delay incurred by the device under test (DUT) 215 and the testing hardware that is variable in nature. Because the delay is variable, a hardware BER test that can compensate for the delay is difficult to build and a software BER test that can easily compensate for the delay is very slow. The present invention provides a method and apparatus that can compensate for the variable delay. By doing so, a hardware BER test, which is considerably faster than a software BER test, is easily implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventor: Tony Tarng
  • Fast bit-error-rate (BER) test
    Publication number: 20030142737
    Abstract: A bit-error-rate (BER) test is a crucial test for wireless devices to pass, since a device with a high BER does not perform at its best. BER tests are both costly and difficult to perform due to a delay incurred by the device under test (DUT) 215 and the testing hardware that is variable in nature. Because the delay is variable, a hardware BER test that can compensate for the delay is difficult to build and a software BER test that can easily compensate for the delay is very slow. The present invention provides a method and apparatus that can compensate for the variable delay. By doing so, a hardware BER test, which is considerably faster than a software BER test, is easily implemented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventor: Tony Tarng