Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Oberhammer

Wolfgang Oberhammer 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: 10205585
    Abstract: System and method embodiments are provided for analog cancellation for division free duplexing for radios using MIMO. In an embodiment, a system for minimizing transmitted signals from a transmitter appearing at a co-located receiver in a division free duplexing radio includes a transmitter to transmit an analog transmitted signal; an antenna; a circulator coupled to the transmitter and the antenna; a tuning algorithm component configured to receive a copy of the analog transmitted signal from the transmitter and a sampled analog received signal from a received signal path from the circulator, wherein the sampled analog received signal is sampled at a point in the received signal path before the analog received signal is provided to a receiver; and a multitap cancellation component configured to provide a cancellation signal to couple to the analog received signal such that an amount of the analog transmitted signal appearing at the receiver is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: James Gary Griffiths, Wolfgang Oberhammer, Michael Moher, Eddy Shi-Ning Hum
  • Patent number: 9351297
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a collaborative service set (CSS) includes a controller access point (AP) configured to be associated with a first plurality of stations and a first member AP, where the first member AP is associated with a second plurality of stations, where the controller AP is configured to coordinate transmissions between the first member AP and the second plurality of stations with transmissions between the controller AP and the first plurality of stations, where the controller AP and the first member AP are configured to transmit messages simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., LTD.
    Inventors: Osama Aboul-Magd, Kwok Shum Au, Jung Hoon Suh, Sheng Sun, Peiying Zhu, Wolfgang Oberhammer
  • Publication number: 20160105272
    Abstract: A system and method for leak suppression in a full duplex system is disclosed. In an embodiment, a system for wireless transmission and reception includes a circulator having a common port, an input port and an output port; a conjugate matching tuner coupled to the common port; and an antenna coupled to the conjugate matching tuner, an impedance of the antenna being conjugate matched to an impedance of the common port of the circulator by the conjugate matching tuner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: James Gary Griffiths, Wolfgang Oberhammer, Huan Wu, Eddy Shi-Ning Hum
  • Publication number: 20160094332
    Abstract: System and method embodiments are provided for analog cancellation for division free duplexing for radios using MIMO. In an embodiment, a system for minimizing transmitted signals from a transmitter appearing at a co-located receiver in a division free duplexing radio includes a transmitter to transmit an analog transmitted signal; an antenna; a circulator coupled to the transmitter and the antenna; a tuning algorithm component configured to receive a copy of the analog transmitted signal from the transmitter and a sampled analog received signal from a received signal path from the circulator, wherein the sampled analog received signal is sampled at a point in the received signal path before the analog received signal is provided to a receiver; and a multitap cancellation component configured to provide a cancellation signal to couple to the analog received signal such that an amount of the analog transmitted signal appearing at the receiver is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: James Gary Griffiths, Wolfgang Oberhammer, Michael Moher, Eddy Shi-Ning Hum
  • Patent number: 8964608
    Abstract: In full duplex operation, a first signal is transmitted from a wireless device while a second signal in the same frequency band as the first signal is received at the device. A third signal can be generated that accounts for channel characteristics on the transmitted first signal. The third signal can be applied to the received second signal to compensate for interference caused by the transmitted first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Oberhammer, Eddy Hum, Wen Tong
  • Publication number: 20140198691
    Abstract: In full duplex operation, a first signal is transmitted from a wireless device while a second signal in the same frequency band as the first signal is received at the device. A third signal can be generated that accounts for channel characteristics on the transmitted first signal. The third signal can be applied to the received second signal to compensate for interference caused by the transmitted first signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Wolfgang OBERHAMMER, Eddy HUM, Wen TONG
  • Publication number: 20140056205
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a collaborative service set (CSS) includes a controller access point (AP) configured to be associated with a first plurality of stations and a first member AP, where the first member AP is associated with a second plurality of stations, where the controller AP is configured to coordinate transmissions between the first member AP and the second plurality of stations with transmissions between the controller AP and the first plurality of stations, where the controller AP and the first member AP are configured to transmit messages simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Osama Aboul-Magd, Kwok Shum Au, Junghoon Suh, Sheng Sun, Peiying Zhu, Wolfgang Oberhammer
  • Patent number: 7155128
    Abstract: A method and system for reducing non-linear signal degradation effects of WDM optical signals exacerbated by highly correlated bit patterns of optical waveforms in neighboring optical channels. Embodiments include offsetting the transmission times of signals in neighboring channels, and applying different scrambling patterns to the respective data streams prior to transmission on neighboring optical channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Kim B. Roberts, Wolfgang Oberhammer, Maurice S. O'Sullivan, Roland A. Smith
  • Publication number: 20040208565
    Abstract: A method and system for reducing non-linear signal degradation effects of WDM optical signals exacerbated by highly correlated bit patterns of optical waveforms in neighboring optical channels. Embodiments include offsetting the transmission times of signals in neighboring channels, and applying different scrambling patterns to the respective data streams prior to transmission on neighboring optical channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2001
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Applicant: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Kim B. Roberts, Wolfgang Oberhammer, Maurice S. O'Sullivan, Roland A. Smith
  • Patent number: 6735259
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for using sacrificial bits in a data stream to adjust sampling parameters for the data stream is described. The sacrificial bits are a predetermined sequence of a predetermined length. The sampling parameters are perturbed during transmission or reception of the sacrificial bits in order to provide information useful in adjusting the sampling parameters of the apparatus. Adjustment is accomplished by computing a bit error rate during the perturbing of sampling parameters in order to probe edges of an eye closure of the detected signal. The advantage is faster homing on optimal sampling parameters with little sacrifice of transmission capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Kim B. Roberts, Wolfgang Oberhammer
  • Patent number: 6360078
    Abstract: An RF receiver, which is one of a network of receivers, is described which allows for a simple method of compensating for the group time delay asymmetry of an IF filter in the receiver. Compensation of the group time delay is important for time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements for mobile location tracking applications, such as E-911 applications. The TDOA measurements are performed by the receiver network. The RF receiver includes a switch which alternately switches between two RF LO frequencies for consecutive pulse signals received from a mobile transmitter. One of the two RF LO frequencies is offset by the IF frequency on the positive side of the center frequency of the mobile transmitter signal received by the receiver. The other RF LO frequency is offset by the IF frequency on the negative side of the center frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2002
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Mark Elwood Driedger, Wolfgang Oberhammer, Song Zhang
  • Patent number: 6333707
    Abstract: A digitizer with increased dynamic range is provided by applying varying gains/attenuations to an input signal and feeding the resulting scaled signals to several conventional analog-to-digital converters to be digitized. The digitized version of the largest scaled signal which does not result in its respective analog-to-digital converter from saturating is selected by a multiplexer to be fed through as the digitizer output. Each of the gains(attenuations) differ by multiples of approximately 6 dB, since one bit in an ADC represents this value. The multiplexer outputs a digital sample size which is larger than that of the analog-to-digital converters and with the selected digitized version being output as the appropriate subset of the larger sample size to account for the gain(attenuation) of the selected signal. Preferably, this is used in a wideband receiver to increase the dynamic range of the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Wolfgang Oberhammer, Bixia Li
  • Patent number: 6157682
    Abstract: A wideband receiver capable of handling the new extended A and B cellular spectrum is provided. Portions of the band are converted using analog conversion into a frequent between Fs/4 and Fs/2 where Fs is a sampling frequency of an analog-to-digital converter. Other portions of the band are converted such that when they are sampled by the analog-to-digital converter aliasing causes them to lie in the baseband frequencies between zero and Fs/2, and more particularly in baseband frequencies which do not interfere with the other converted bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Corporation
    Inventor: Wolfgang Oberhammer
  • Patent number: 6115363
    Abstract: A radio transceiver system uses a single variable local oscillator frequency source which is used in mixing both before and after a band-pass filter. This causes a reduction in band-pass filter bandwidths. In an all-band transceiver for PCS for example the effect of this reduced bandwidth requirement is to increase the spacing between the transmit bands and the receive bands and thereby enable a reduction in transmission noise interfering with the reception bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Corporation
    Inventors: Wolfgang Oberhammer, Andy Rowland
  • Patent number: 6037846
    Abstract: A planar filter connector is disclosed for the transmission of signals to be passed in and out of an EMI shielded enclosure. The EMI enclosure has walls the free ends of which are provided with an electrically conductive, resilient gasket. The filter connector is located on a conductive pad on a printed circuit board and is positioned under a portion of one of the walls, the gasket being depressed to accommodate the filter connector. The connector consists of a planar conductor surrounded by high dielectric material and further surrounded by two planar metallization layers. One metallization layer is in electrical contact with the gasket and the other metallization layer is in contact with the conductive pad. Shielding through the connector is maintained by the capacitance created between the conductor and each of the metallization layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Corporation
    Inventor: Wolfgang Oberhammer
  • Patent number: 6031478
    Abstract: A digitizer with increased dynamic range is provided by applying varying gains/attenuations to an input signal and feeding the resulting scaled signals to several conventional analog-to-digital converters to be digitized. The digitized version of the largest scaled signal which does not result in its respective analog-to-digital converter from saturating is selected by a multiplexer to be fed through as the digitizer output. Each of the gains(attenuations) differ by multiples of approximately 6 dB, since one bit in an ADC represents this value. The multiplexer outputs a digital sample size which is larger than that of the analog-to-digital converters and with the selected digitized version being output as the appropriate subset of the larger sample size to account for the gain(attenuation) of the selected signal. Preferably, this is used in a wideband receiver to increase the dynamic range of the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 29, 2000
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Corporation
    Inventors: Wolfgang Oberhammer, Bixia Li
  • Patent number: 5914634
    Abstract: An amplifier circuit has an amplifying transistor which is switched on and off by a switching transistor under control of a control signal selectively applied to the switching transistor. In this way a selection is made whether or not to amplify an input signal on an antenna. The switching transistor forms part of the biasing circuit for the amplifying transistor such that when the switching transistor is on the amplifying transistor is biased off. A PIN diode and series resistor are together connected in shunt across the switching transistor such that the bias voltage which causes the amplifying transistor to be off causes the PIN diode to be forward biased thereby causing the antenna to be terminated with the resistor the value of which may be chosen to be 50 ohms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 22, 1999
    Assignee: Northern Telecom Limited
    Inventor: Wolfgang Oberhammer