Patents by Inventor Vinayak Chowdiah

Vinayak Chowdiah 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).

  • Publication number: 20180287830
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatuses for pre- and post-packet detection interference nulling. In some implementations, a method includes detecting at least a first part of an unscheduled Wi-Fi packet and performing a channel estimation. The method also may include estimating an interference on the Wi-Fi channel based on a known non-zero portion of the preamble of the Wi-Fi packet and nulling interference from the Wi-Fi channel during reception of at least a second part of the Wi-Fi packet. In some implementations, the method can determine an interference estimate based on at least one of a previously received packet or channel sampling for a Wi-Fi channel and computer a filter based at least in part on the interference estimate. The method also includes applying the filter to a received signal to null interference on the Wi-Fi channel at least before detection of a Wi-Fi packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Simone Merlin, Dung Ngoc Doan, Jialing Li Chen, Vinayak Chowdiah, Hemanth Sampath
  • Publication number: 20180083747
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described including determining one or more unfiltered CFOs, filtering the one or more unfiltered CFOs to identify a refined CFO based at least in part on the one or more unfiltered CFOs and a predetermined number of packets, modifying a transmission parameter based at least in part on the refined CFO, and transmitting a signal in a MU-MIMO environment based at least in part on the modified transmission parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Dung Doan, Vinayak Chowdiah, Ronald Gibson, Balakumar Jayaraman, Maksim Krasnyanskiy, Bin Tian, Rahul Tandra, Luiza Timariu, Harshit Joshi
  • Patent number: 8369356
    Abstract: Techniques for dynamically managing receiver resources to achieve good latency and throughput performance are described. A receiver may have various types of receiver resources such as demod resources for demodulating packets, decode resources for decoding packets, packet processing resources, etc. These various types of receiver resources may be dynamically assigned to packets. In one design, receiver resource usage by each packet to be processed by the receiver may be estimated. The available receiver resources may be assigned to packets based on the estimated receiver resource usage by each packet and one or more assignment criteria such as priority, latency requirements, etc. The latency of each packet may be determined based on the receiver resource assignment. If the latency requirements of any packet are not met, then receiver processing may be skipped or deferred for one or more packets such that the latency requirements of each packet to be processed can be met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ming-Chang Tsai, James J. Wu, Pillappakkam Srinivas, Ric Senior, Vinayak Chowdiah
  • Patent number: 8265056
    Abstract: Techniques for efficiently decoding packets sent with H-ARQ are described. Packet decoding for H-ARQ may be performed based on local search around a start of packet (SOP) decision for a packet. The SOP decision for the packet may be made based on traffic detection results for received transmissions. At least one SOP hypothesis may be determined for the packet based on the SOP decision, and the received transmissions may be decoded based on the at least one SOP hypothesis. A sliding SOP window may be used to keep track of SOP hypotheses for the packet. The sliding window may be initialized at an earliest received transmission, moved forward for each subsequent received transmission with no detected packet data, and maintained at the first received transmission with detected traffic. Rotating buffers may be used to store received transmissions for packets for decoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ming-Chang Tsai, Vinayak Chowdiah, Weihong Jing
  • Publication number: 20090207818
    Abstract: Techniques for efficiently decoding packets sent with H-ARQ are described. Packet decoding for H-ARQ may be performed based on local search around a start of packet (SOP) decision for a packet. The SOP decision for the packet may be made based on traffic detection results for received transmissions. At least one SOP hypothesis may be determined for the packet based on the SOP decision, and the received transmissions may be decoded based on the at least one SOP hypothesis. A sliding SOP window may be used to keep track of SOP hypotheses for the packet. The sliding window may be initialized at an earliest received transmission, moved forward for each subsequent received transmission with no detected packet data, and maintained at the first received transmission with detected traffic. Rotating buffers may be used to store received transmissions for packets for decoding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2008
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ming-Chang Tsai, Vinayak Chowdiah, Weihong Jing
  • Publication number: 20080232400
    Abstract: Techniques for dynamically managing receiver resources to achieve good latency and throughput performance are described. A receiver may have various types of receiver resources such as demod resources for demodulating packets, decode resources for decoding packets, packet processing resources, etc. These various types of receiver resources may be dynamically assigned to packets. In one design, receiver resource usage by each packet to be processed by the receiver may be estimated. The available receiver resources may be assigned to packets based on the estimated receiver resource usage by each packet and one or more assignment criteria such as priority, latency requirements, etc. The latency of each packet may be determined based on the receiver resource assignment. If the latency requirements of any packet are not met, then receiver processing may be skipped or deferred for one or more packets such that the latency requirements of each packet to be processed can be met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ming-Chang Tsai, James J. Wu, Phillappakkam Srinivas, Ric Senior, Vinayak Chowdiah
  • Publication number: 20020194571
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for masking messages intended for a particular one of a plurality of receivers receiving messages on the same frequency in a satellite communication system. Each message contains a data portion and a parity portion. Before transmitting the message, the parity portion is masked by performing an exclusive-OR operation on the parity portion using a mask identified with the intended receiver. At the receiver, the parity portion of received messages are first unmasked by performing an exclusive-OR operation on the masked parity portion. The message is accepted by the receive only if the parity check is valid after the unmasking operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2001
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: Michael Parr, Sharath Ananth, Vinayak Chowdiah