Patents by Inventor Walid Hamdy

Walid Hamdy 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: 7440426
    Abstract: A detector is used to sample of set of power measurements of a receive signal. The receive signal may comprise one or more signals from remote users as well as interference. A variance of the set of power measurements is also determined. The variance is compared to an overload threshold value. If the variance exceeds the overload threshold value, for some period of time, the system is declared to be operating at a potentially unstable point. In this state, future connection originations are denied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2008
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Franklin P. Antonio, Walid Hamdy
  • Publication number: 20060194605
    Abstract: A mobile station for wireless communication includes a control processor configured to generate a message for transmission on a reverse signaling channel, the message including a Station Class Mark field having a plurality of bits, a portion of the Station Class Mark field indicating that the mobile station is uniquely identified by a Mobile Station Equipment Identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2006
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Inventors: Ragulan Sinnarajah, Ravindra Patwardhan, Leslie Chan, Edward Tiedemann, Walid Hamdy, Baaziz Achour, Phillip Price, Bharat Shah, John Nasielski
  • Publication number: 20030198203
    Abstract: A detector is used to sample of set of power measurements of a receive signal. The receive signal may comprise one or more signals from remote users as well as interference. A variance of the set of power measurements is also determined. The variance is compared to an overload threshold value. If the variance exceeds the overload threshold value, for some period of time, the system is declared to be operating at a potentially unstable point. In this state, future connection originations are denied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2003
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Inventors: Franklin P. Antonio, Walid Hamdy
  • Patent number: 6603745
    Abstract: A detector is used to sample of set of power measurements of a receive signal. The receive signal may comprise one or more signals from remote users as well as interference. A variance of the set of power measurements is also determined. The variance is compared to an overload threshold value. If the variance exceeds the overload threshold value, for some period of time, the system is declaraed to be operating at a potentially unstable point. In this state, future connection originations are denied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2003
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Franklin P. Antonio, Walid Hamdy
  • Patent number: 6600792
    Abstract: A predistortion technique for high power amplifiers includes an adaptive predistortion algorithm that operates independently of data samples to write a set of complex gain values, or predistortion parameters, to a lookup table. The algorithm may be processor-driven. The gain values are taken from the lookup table and multiplied by a complex digital baseband waveform. The gain values may first be subjected to interpolation. The downconverted output of the amplifier is measured to gauge the efficacy of the predistortion. Based on the effect of the predistortion upon the ratio of in-band power to out-of-band power, decisions are made on the set of predistortion parameters for the next iteration of the algorithm. The algorithm runs continuously, perturbing parameters and adapting the predistortion functions accordingly in an effort to continually reflect instantaneous amplitude-modulation and phase-modulation relationships that may change over time with temperature variation or component aging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Franklin P. Antonio, Walid Hamdy, Nitin Kasturi, Christopher C. Riddle, David P. Oses
  • Patent number: 6519456
    Abstract: A base station architecture splits modem functionality into modulator and demodulator entities, each configured to handle multiple telephone calls. A high-speed digital bus with associated routing elements connects multiple-channel (i.e., multiuser) modulator and demodulator elements. The modulator and demodulator elements may be physically separated, residing on different cards, and even different shelves, within the base station. During softer handoff between forward channels of the base station, multiple modulator elements use the address of a demodulator element in communication with a mobile subscriber unit. A base station controller broadcasts forward-link frames to all modulator elements. The multiple modulator elements simultaneously receive forward-link frames from the base station controller. The multiple modulator elements filter these forward-link frames and accept only those to be transmitted to the particular mobile subscriber unit in communication with the demodulator element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Franklin P. Antonio, Houtan Dehesh, Walid Hamdy, Kuo-Chun Lee, Jan K. Wegrzyn
  • Publication number: 20020101937
    Abstract: A predistortion technique for high power amplifiers includes an adaptive predistortion algorithm that operates independently of data samples to write a set of complex gain values, or predistortion parameters, to a lookup table. The algorithm may be processor-driven. The gain values are taken from the lookup table and multiplied by a complex digital baseband waveform. The gain values may first be subjected to interpolation. The downconverted output of the amplifier is measured to gauge the efficacy of the predistortion. Based on the effect of the predistortion upon the ratio of in-band power to out-of-band power, decisions are made on the set of predistortion parameters for the next iteration of the algorithm. The algorithm runs continuously, perturbing parameters and adapting the predistortion functions accordingly in an effort to continually reflect instantaneous amplitude-modulation and phase-modulation relationships that may change over time with temperature variation or component aging.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 1998
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Inventors: FRANKLIN P. ANTONIO, WALID HAMDY, NITIN KASTURI, CHRISTOPHER RIDDLE, DAVID PUIG OSES
  • Publication number: 20020098842
    Abstract: A base station architecture splits modem functionality into modulator and demodulator entities, each configured to handle multiple telephone calls. A high-speed digital bus with associated routing elements connects multiple-channel (i.e., multiuser) modulator and demodulator elements. The modulator and demodulator elements may be physically separated, residing on different cards, and even different shelves, within the base station. During softer handoff between forward channels of the base station, multiple modulator elements use the address of a demodulator element in communication with a mobile subscriber unit. A base station controller broadcasts forward-link frames to all modulator elements. The multiple modulator elements simultaneously receive forward-link frames from the base station controller. The multiple modulator elements filter these forward-link frames and accept only those to be transmitted to the particular mobile subscriber unit in communication with the demodulator element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 1998
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: FRANKLIN ANTONIO, HOUTAN DEHESH, WALID HAMDY, KUO-CHUN LEE, JAN K. WEGRZYN
  • Publication number: 20020064142
    Abstract: A base station architecture splits modem functionality into modulator and demodulator entities, each configured to handle multiple telephone calls. A high-speed digital bus with associated routing elements connects multiple-channel (i.e., multiuser) modulator and demodulator elements. The modulator and demodulator elements may be physically separated, residing on different cards, and even different shelves, within the base station. Reverse-link power-control information is routed from a demodulator element in communication with a particular subscriber unit to one or more modulator elements in communication with the subscriber unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 1998
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Inventors: FRANKLIN P. ANTONIO, JOSEPH P. BURKE, HOUTAN DEHESH, WALID HAMDY, PETER D. HEIDMANN, JEFFREY A. LEVIN, TODD SUTTON
  • Patent number: 6229998
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for use in a wireless communication base station which provides real-time, continuous detection of in-band jammers with negligible impact on base station cost. In addition to providing jammer detection, the use of the invention to provide improved hardware and system diagnostic capabilities is presented. The jammer detection apparatus utilizes automatic gain control techniques, digital sampling, and digital signal processing to identify anomalous frequency components in the received power spectral density curve. Also described are the use of complex sampling, the complex fast Fourier transform (FFT), and Hanning windows to improve jammer detection capabilities. A method of estimating the location of in-band jammers is described using the computed received power spectral density curves of multiple base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Qualcomm Inc.
    Inventors: Walid Hamdy, Lennart Mathe, Todd Sutton