Patents Issued in December 31, 2013
  • Patent number: 8619804
    Abstract: A system and method for delivery of high speed data services over dedicated and non-dedicated private land mobile radio (PLMR) channels using cognitive radio technology. The PLMR system provides bi-directional Point-to-Multipoint (PtMP) data communication between a dispatch center and many fixed or mobile remote terminals. A plurality of base stations communicate with a base station controller at the dispatch center and a plurality of remote radios communicate with at least one of the remote terminals. PLMR channel scanners, located in each base station and remote radio, scan the PLMR channels to determine which of the PLMR channels is idle at any point of time so that data communication may take place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Full Spectrum Inc.
    Inventors: Menashe Shahar, Stewart Kantor
  • Patent number: 8619805
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for transmitting data in a listen before talk (LBT) wireless transmission regime. A digital radio receiver is configured to simultaneously receive and decode digital data transmissions from multiple radio channels. A digital radio transmitter is configured to listen to the multiple radio channels prior to transmitting digital data on a selected one of the multiple channels, based on locally determined channel occupancy. Optimal LBT efficiency is achieved within the set of multiple channels, thereby improving overall transmission efficiency between the transmitter and the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Silver Spring Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: George H. Flammer, III
  • Patent number: 8619806
    Abstract: Communication performed within a network including a plurality of communication stations is provided, in which when an access control is performed so that communication timing of a packet can not collide with that of another station by detecting a signal which is transmitted from another station, “a header area processed not to become easily an error such as a physical layer header portion of a packet” which is transmitted from a communication station is made to have at least information which is required for extracting information in a payload of the packet and a field for controlling an access reservation of transmission of a packet which is generated as a result of transmission of another packet so that processing using the field can be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuyuki Sakoda
  • Patent number: 8619807
    Abstract: A packet-switched WDMA ring network has an architecture utilizing packet stacking and unstacking for enabling nodes to access the entire link capacity by transmitting and receiving packets on available wavelengths. Packets are added and dropped from the ring by optical switches. A flexible credit-based MAC protocol along with an admission algorithm enhance the network throughput capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property II, L.P.
    Inventors: Mikhail Borditsky, Nicholas J Frigo, Aleksandra Smiljanic
  • Patent number: 8619808
    Abstract: In a 60 Hz WGA wireless network, not all frames with the duration field are received by a STA in a WGA network because of directional antennas. Therefore, a NAV Timer cannot account for the reserved duration of the channel by only updating with the longest duration field received. A STA can receive two frames each with a source and destination addresses and update the NAV Timer by comparing the received addresses to overcome such problem. Further, a STA can receive one frame with a source and destination addresses and update the NAV Timer by comparing the received addresses with the NAVSRC and NAVDST values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Liwen Chu, George A. Vlantis
  • Patent number: 8619809
    Abstract: Provided are a method, system, and program for managing data transmissions at a local network device communicating with a linked network device over a network, wherein each network device is capable of transmitting data at different speeds. An operation is initiated to change a current transmission speed at which data is transmitted between the local and linked network devices in response to a speed change event. A determination is made of a new transmission speed different from the current transmission speed. A register is set in the local network device to indicate the new transmission speed. A speed change request and the new transmission speed are transmitted to the linked network device to cause the local and linked network devices to communicate at the new transmission speed, wherein the transmission occurs without terminating a linked exchange occurring between the local and linked network devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: David L. Chalupsky, James M. Ostrowski, Thomas L. Stachura
  • Patent number: 8619810
    Abstract: A system for managing a communication device having a first function of using a first communication protocol and a second function of using a second communication protocol is provided. The communication device is connected to a network including a first device using the first communication protocol and a second device using the second communication protocol. The system is provided with an inputting system that accepts an input for changing an operation regarding the communication of the communication device from a user, and a judging system that judges whether a trouble would arise in communication, in which the communication device is involved, based on the input inputted by the user through use of the inputting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kiyotaka Ohara
  • Patent number: 8619811
    Abstract: An apparatus, system and method for forwarding user plane data. A user plane gateway (102) comprises: a receiving module (106) for receiving data which comes from a first network element (100) and uses a first transfer module; a converting module (108) for converting the transfer mode of the received data from the first transfer mode to a second transfer mode, wherein the first transfer mode is asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and the second transfer mode is Internet Protocol (IP) transfer mode, or the first transfer mode is IP transfer mode and the second transfer mode is ATM; and a sending module (110) for sending the converted data to a second network element (104) using the second transfer mode. This apparatus, system and method achieve the effects that the aggregation of ATM network to the IP network, the networking device able to be compatible forwardly, improving bandwidth utilization rate, saving costs, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Heyang Liu, Meifeng Zhang, Chenggang Li, Haishu Zheng, Yajun Zhang
  • Patent number: 8619812
    Abstract: This invention, in general, relates to the field of telecommunications. More particularly, the present invention relates to a centralized system and method for providing customized applications for mobile networks enhanced logic CAMEL roaming services to a mobile subscriber. The CAMEL HUB configured to process a request from the mobile subscriber to avail one or more mobile services from a visited network operator. The mobile subscriber device has a subscription to a home network operator and operates in a home CAMEL phase. The visited network operator operates in a visited CAMEL phase. The CAMEL HUB is also configured to allow the mobile subscriber device to avail the one or more mobile services seamlessly from the visited network operator independent of the visited CAMEL phase. The home CAMEL phase may or may not be different from the visited CAMEL phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Comviva Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Atul Madan, Pankaj Sharma, Nilay Kumar, Naveen Tandon, Ashwani Kesharwani, Deepak Kumar Garg
  • Patent number: 8619813
    Abstract: A plurality of access modules are inserted into slots of a chassis at a network facility. Each access module is provisioned with sets of Ethernet virtual circuit (EVC) attribute data in order to provide the access module with sufficient information to handle data packets carried by EVCs serviced by the access module. Rather than manually provisioning each access module with EVC attribute data, the sets of attribute data are stored at a central location. Each access module is configured to automatically request, from the central location, sets of attribute data associated with the EVCs to be serviced by the access module and to then automatically provision the access module to handle data packets carried by such EVCs. For each requested set of attribute data, the requesting access modules ensures that the attribute data is reliably transported across a backplane of the chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: ADTRAN, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Josiah Barnes, James Alexander Mabry, Dennis Clinton Cox
  • Patent number: 8619814
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of transmitting a PPDU in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes selecting a subchannel among a plurality of subchannels, wherein a PLCP preamble and a PLCP header in each PPDU are independently generated in each of the plurality of subchannels, and transmitting a PPDU in the selected subchannel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventor: Yong Ho Seok
  • Patent number: 8619815
    Abstract: A circuit simulation apparatus is disclosed by which, even if an STS-N frame of an abnormal length is detected by a reassembly buffer, the frame length can be compensated for while preventing an overflow of the reassembly buffer. When an STS-(N×M) frame formed by multiplexing M STS-N frames formed from different channels is cellularized into ATM cells or M different STS-N frames assembled from ATM cells are multiplexed into an STS-(N×M) frame, an ATM cell sync signal and ATM cell data from a buffer section are outputted as a frame pulse signal and frame data from a reassembly section to a circuit termination section, and frame length compensation of the frame pulse signal and the frame data is performed by the reassembly section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Souichi Kataoka, Ken Shiraishi
  • Patent number: 8619816
    Abstract: Method and corresponding device for improved bandwidth utilization featuring optimized transmission of information packets on a backhaul connection, by concatenating a few VoIP packets into a big packet with optional internal header compression. The concatenated packets are transmitted efficiently through the backhaul channel and rearranged at the receiving side. In an embodiment of the present invention, compression is applied to the concatenated packets featuring the most waste.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Go Net Systems Ltd.
    Inventor: Yaron Menahem Peleg
  • Patent number: 8619817
    Abstract: A communication gateway receives an Internet Protocol (IP) message sourced from a first IP address and directed to a second IP address. The gateway associates the first IP address with a code. The gateway processes the second IP address to identify a Radio Access Network (RAN) address. The gateway transfers the IP message directed to the RAN address and sourced from the second IP address. The IP message uses the code as the source port number. A base station receives the IP message, and in response to the RAN address, wirelessly transfers the IP message to a routing system. The routing system wirelessly receives the IP message and forwards the IP message based on the second IP address which is now in the source address field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: John Michael Everson, Jason R. Delker, Von Karl McConnell, James Walter Norris
  • Patent number: 8619818
    Abstract: A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. The data processing method includes receiving a broadcast signal in which main service data and mobile service data are multiplexed, demodulating the broadcast signal to acquire fast-information-channel signaling information including reference time information for a system clock, and outputting demodulation time information of a specific position of a frame of the broadcast signal, decoding the fast-information-channel signaling information, and establishing the reference time information as the system clock at a demodulation time according to on the outputted demodulation time information and decoding the mobile service data according to the system clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Chul Soo Lee, In Hwan Choi, Kook Yeon Kwak, Jin Woo Kim, Jae Hyung Song, Jin Pil Kim, Won Gyu Song, Hyoung Gon Lee, Byoung Gill Kim, Jong Yeul Suh
  • Patent number: 8619819
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for sending messages from a first network device to a second network device is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises constructing a data packet, the data packet comprising a House Code field for identifying a house code relating to the first and second network devices, the house code for identifying an address common to the first network device and the second network device. The data packet further comprises a Long/Short field for indicating whether the data packet is a long data packet or a short data packet and a Command field comprising a command, the command for instructing the second network device to perform an action. The data packet further comprises a Data field comprising information for use by the second network device to execute the action associated with the command, and an Error Check field comprising error checking information. The data packet is then modulated and transmitting over one or more communication channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Ecolink Intelligent Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: George Seelman, Michael Bailey, Jay Stone, Michael Lamb
  • Patent number: 8619820
    Abstract: A system and method for routing data packets may be used. The method may include determining network usage of a first packet network managed by a first communications carrier. The network usage may distinguish communications of data packets including real-time content and non-real-time content. Network usage of a second packet network may be determined. A network usage differential between the determined network usages of the first and second packet networks may be determined. The data packets may be routed utilizing a threshold for the network usage differential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Stephen K. Edwards, Robert J. Morrill, Michael K. Bugenhagen
  • Patent number: 8619821
    Abstract: A simplified bus arrangement using only three signal lines allows TDM data to be conveyed to or from a number of slave-only devices without the use of separate command line(s) and without any of the slave-only devices having to operate as a bus master or even support a master operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Invensense, Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Pan, Olafur M. Josefsson, Dongqin Yan, Camille L. C. J. Huin
  • Patent number: 8619822
    Abstract: A system and method of generating an output signal includes a receiving system generating a plurality of signals having a first format, an encoder 162 encoding the plurality of signals into a plurality of transport streams and a multiplexer 210. The system also includes a local area network 130 routing the plurality of transport streams to the multiplexer 210 to form a combined signal, a modulator 214 modulating the combined signal to form a modulated signal and a system 202 forming the output signal from the modulated signal. In one aspect, the output signals may be satellite uplink signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael R. Munsell, Hanno Basse, Daniel M. Miner, Mitchell B. Wasden
  • Patent number: 8619823
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical system arranged to provide an output which, in operation, comprises at least one figure of merit, Q. The system comprises an optical component having multiple working areas, said component being mounted on a support member. The system further comprises an optical beam path arranged to bring light into interaction with at least one working area of the optical component wherein the position of said working area(s) may be selected by relative movement between said path and said component while keeping Q substantially unaffected by said movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: NKT Photonics A/S
    Inventors: Morten Ostergaard Pedersen, Thomas Vestergaard Andersen
  • Patent number: 8619824
    Abstract: A low white frequency noise tunable semiconductor laser source is presented. The laser source includes a single-mode semiconductor laser assembly which generates a laser beam having a tunable frequency over a spectral range of interest. An optical filter is provided in the path of the laser beam. The optical filter has multiple spectral features distributed over the entire spectral range of interest. Each spectral feature has a narrow spectral range. A locking mechanism is further provided and is controllable for locking a spectral alignment between the frequency of the laser beam and any selected one of the spectral features of the optical filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Teraxion Inc.
    Inventors: Simon Ayotte, Michel Morin, Michel Poulin, Christine Latrasse, Yves Painchaud
  • Patent number: 8619825
    Abstract: A light-emitting device reliably supplying electric power to a light-emitting element on a supporting base and securing heat dissipation, and a method of manufacturing the light-emitting device are provided. A light-emitting device includes: a light-emitting element arranged on a first supporting base; a package covering the first supporting base and the light-emitting element therewith, and supporting the first supporting base; and a thermal conductive member having ends which are bonded to the light-emitting element and the package, respectively, so as to also have a wiring function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fukasawa, Hiroshi Nishida
  • Patent number: 8619826
    Abstract: A laser diode includes: a plurality of strip-shaped laser structures arranged in parallel with each other, and including a lower cladding layer, an active layer, and an upper cladding layer in this order; a plurality of strip-shaped upper electrodes singly formed on a top face of the respective laser structures, and being electrically connected to the upper cladding layer; a plurality of wiring layers being at least singly and electrically connected to one of the respective upper electrodes; and a plurality of pad electrodes formed in a region different from that of the plurality of laser structures, and being electrically connected to one of the respective upper electrodes with the wiring layer in between. The respective wiring layers have an end in a region different from a region where the respective wiring layers are contacted with the upper electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Makoto Nakashima, Takahiro Yokoyama, Sachio Karino, Eiji Takase, Yuta Yoshida
  • Patent number: 8619827
    Abstract: A correction circuit is provided, which may reduce dullness of a light output waveform due to wavelength detuning. The correction circuit includes an RC time constant circuit. The RC time constant circuit is used to correct a waveform of a current pulse outputted from a current source, the current source driving a surface-emitting semiconductor laser in a pulsed manner, so that a pulse waveform of light output of the semiconductor laser is approximately a rectangle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Maeda, Katsuhisa Daio, Koichi Kobe, Takehiro Taniguchi, Takahiro Arakida
  • Patent number: 8619828
    Abstract: A group III nitride substrate has a semi-polar primary surface. A first cladding layer has a first conductivity type, and comprises aluminum-containing group III nitride. The first cladding layer is provided on the substrate. An active layer is provided on the first cladding layer. A second cladding layer has a second conductivity type, and comprises aluminum-containing group III nitride. The second cladding layer is provided on the active layer. An optical guiding layer is provided between the first cladding layer and the active layer and/or between the second cladding layer and the active layer. The optical guiding layer comprises a first layer comprising Inx1Ga1-x1N (0?x1<1) and a second layer comprising Inx2Ga1-x2N (x1<x2<1). The second layer is provided between the first layer and the active layer. The total thickness of the first layer and the second layer is greater than 0.1 ?m. The wavelength of laser light is in a range of 480 nm to 550 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electronic Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsushi Akita, Yohei Enya, Takashi Kyono, Masahiro Adachi, Shinji Tokuyama, Yusuke Yoshizumi, Takamichi Sumitomo, Masaki Ueno
  • Patent number: 8619829
    Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor laser device including: a plurality of light emitting sections arranged in strip shapes in parallel; a plurality of first electrodes arranged along top faces of the light emitting sections, respectively; an insulating film covering a whole surface of the plurality of first electrodes, and including contact apertures corresponding to the first electrodes, respectively; a plurality of second electrodes arranged in positions different from those of the plurality of light emitting sections, correspondingly to the first electrodes; a plurality of wiring layers arranged on the insulating layer, and electrically connecting the second electrodes and the corresponding first electrodes through the contact apertures, respectively; and a plurality of window regions arranged for the light emitting sections in the insulating film so as to expose the first electrodes, respectively, and including at least two window regions having areas different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Yuta Yoshida, Sachio Karino, Takahiro Yokoyama, Makoto Nakashima, Eiji Takase
  • Patent number: 8619830
    Abstract: A photonic crystal surface emission laser includes an active layer, and a photonic crystal layer made of a plate-shaped slab provided with modified refractive index area having a refractive index different from that of the slab, the modified refractive index areas being arranged on each of the lattice points of a first rhombic-like lattice and a second rhombic-like lattice in which both diagonals are mutually parallel and only one diagonal is of a different length, wherein ax1, ax2, ay, and n satisfy the following inequality: ? 1 a x ? ? 1 - 1 a x ? ? 2 ? ( 1 a x ? ? 1 + 1 a x ? ? 2 ) 2 + ( 2 a y ) 2 ? 1 n .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignees: Kyoto University, Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Susumu Noda, Seita Iwahashi, Toshiyuki Nobuoka, Takui Sakaguchi, Eiji Miyai, Wataru Kunishi, Dai Ohnishi, Kazuya Nagase, Yoshikatsu Miura
  • Patent number: 8619831
    Abstract: Included are: an active layer provided between an upper multilayer film reflecting mirror and a lower multilayer film reflecting mirror formed on a GaAs substrate and formed of a periodic structure of a low-refractive-index layer formed of AlxGa1-xAs (0.8?x?1) and a high-refractive-index layer formed of AlyGa1-yAs (0?y?x), at least one of the low-refractive-index layer and the high-refractive-index layer being of n-type; and a lower electrode provided between the lower multilayer film reflecting mirror and the active layer and configured to inject an electric current into the active layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasumasa Kawakita, Takeo Kageyama, Hitoshi Shimizu, Hirotatsu Ishii
  • Patent number: 8619832
    Abstract: Terahertz quantum cascade (QC) devices are disclosed that can operate, e.g., in a range of about 1 THz to about 10 THz. In some embodiments, QC lasers are disclosed in which an optical element (e.g., a lens) is coupled to an output facet of the laser's active region to enhance coupling of the lasing radiation from the active region to an external environment. In other embodiments, terahertz amplifier and tunable terahertz QC lasers are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Qing Hu, Alan Wei Min Lee
  • Patent number: 8619833
    Abstract: A broad stripe laser (1) comprising an epitaxial layer stack (2), which contains an active, radiation-generating layer (21) and has a top side (22) and an underside (23). The layer stack (2) has trenches (3) in which at least one layer of the layer stack (2) is at least partly removed and which lead from the top side (22) in the direction of the underside (23). The layer stack (2) has on the top side ridges (4) each adjoining the trenches (3), such that the layer stack (2) is embodied in striped fashion on the top side. The ridges (4) and the trenches (3) respectively have a width (d1, d2) of at most 20 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Alfred Lell, Stefanie Rammelsberger
  • Patent number: 8619834
    Abstract: A frequency allocation method and apparatus using a mirroring-assisted frequency hopping pattern is provided for retransmission in a wireless communication system operating in a frequency hopping mode. A frequency mapping method for a wireless communication system operating in a frequency hopping mode includes determining whether or not mirroring is used in accordance with a number of packet transmissions; mapping a frequency resource for a packet transmission based on a result of the determination; and receiving a packet using the mapped frequency resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Sang Min Ro, Youn H. Heo
  • Patent number: 8619835
    Abstract: Synchronized broadcast transmits a same broadcast content using a same waveform from multiple transmitters. Transmitters each apply a same spreading code for broadcast transmissions. In a spread-spectrum communication system having a time division multiplexed forward link, a synchronized broadcast transmission is inserted into a broadcast slot. One embodiment employs an Orthogonal Frequency Divisional Multiplex (OFDM) waveform for the synchronized broadcast. An OFDM receiver is then used to process the received synchronized broadcast transmission. An alternate embodiment implements a broadcast Pseudo-random Noise (PN) code for use by multiple transmitters. An equalizer is then employed to estimate the synchronized broadcast transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew S. Grob, Peter J. Black, Srikant Jayaraman, Paul E. Jacobs
  • Patent number: 8619836
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for providing correlation in a CDMA receiver. A Generic Correlation Coprocessor comprises one or more correlation blocks. Each correlation block comprises a correlation input buffer coupled to one or more correlators. The correlators are coupled to an interpolator input buffer and to a correlator output buffer. One or more interpolators are coupled to the interpolation input buffer and to the correlation output buffer. The correlators correlate the received signal with PN codes to produce a correlated signal. The correlated signal is stored in the correlator output buffer and/or the interpolation input buffer, and provided from the interpolation input buffer to the one or more interpolators. The one or more interpolators interpolate the correlated signal to produce an interpolated signal. The interpolated signal is stored in the correlator output buffer. Signals are provided from the correlator output buffer to other receiver processing systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Filip J. Moerman, Raphael Defosseux
  • Patent number: 8619837
    Abstract: A repeater environment is provided to deploy a feedback cancellation loop that is adaptively coupled with an antenna array such that a selected metric can be derived by deploying a one or more of selected metrics (e.g., composite metrics) 5 comprising a selected filter bank operative to process the signal on a bin by bin basis and the derived metric can be applied to the antenna array and feedback cancellation loop combination to improve signal integrity and amplification, beam forming operations, and pilot control and overhead channel control operations. In an illustrative implementation, an exemplary repeater environment comprises, a 10 transmitter, a receiver, an equalized feedback cancellation loop circuitry comprising a filter bank, the cancellation loop being operatively coupled to an antenna array. In the illustrative implementation, the feedback cancellation loop can receive signals as input from a cooperating antenna array and provide output signals such as a feedback leakage signal to a cooperating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: James A. Proctor, Jr., Kenneth M. Gainey, James C. Otto
  • Patent number: 8619838
    Abstract: An electric repeater for use in transmission line based electric fences. The electric repeater comprises a forward amplifier, a backward amplifier, a quad pole quad throw signal switch, and a monostable circuit. The short forward electric pulse in the transmission line is amplified by the forward amplifier, and the amplified electric pulse trigger the monostable circuit. The monostable circuit then outputs a n electric pulse with predetermined width. This electric pulse operates the quad pole quad throw signal switch such that the wire pair of the transmission line is connected to the backward amplifier and disconnected from the forward amplifier as soon as the forward electric pulse has passed through the forward amplifier. DC electric power is supplied to the forward amplifier and backward amplifier by the transmission line metal wire pair, and two pairs of capacitors are used to block this DC electric power from entering the input and output of the forward and backward amplifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Inventors: Jin Hao, Xuekang Shan
  • Patent number: 8619839
    Abstract: An interface module (4) for a unit (1, 2) which is designed to transmit and/or amplify essential communication signals inside an antenna distribution system (29) is specified, said module comprising a first analog interface (6) for forwarding and receiving essential communication signals from mobile terminals (32), a second interface (7) for forwarding and receiving essential communication signals from the antenna distribution system (29), at least one signal path (9, 10) for forwarding the received communication signals between the two interfaces (6, 7), and a controllable digital unit (11) which incorporates the signal path (9, 10) and has means for digitizing incoming communication signals and for subjecting outgoing communication signals to analog conversion. In this case, the digital unit (11) is designed to identify essential communication signals in the digitized communication signals, to mask the remaining signals and to forward the essential communication signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Andrew Wireless Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Braz, Jorg Stefanik, Jaroslav Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 8619840
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for sampling rate conversion in a wireless transceiver. The methods and apparatus achieve agile setting of sampling rates or resampling by adaptively setting a sampling rate of a signal based on at least one performance requirement of the transceiver. In particular, the methods and apparatus perform sampling of an input signal at a first sampling rate to gain one or more input signal samples. The input signal samples are then filtered using parallel or polyphase filtering operating at a second sampling rate lower than the first sampling rate. The filtered samples are then interpolated at the second sampling rate to achieve resampling of the input signal. Polyphase filtering affords an effectively high input sampling rate for good spectrum image rejection, while allowing the second sampling rate to be effectively much lower than the first rate, thereby reducing the complexity of multiplier operations for interpolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Zhu Ji, Brian Clarke Banister, Inyup Kang
  • Patent number: 8619841
    Abstract: A transceiver configured to be implemented in a first device includes transmitter and receiver modules and first and second estimator modules. The receiver module receives a first signal transmitted on a channel from a second device to the first device. The first estimator module estimates a first parameter associated with the first signal or the channel. The second estimator module estimates a carrier frequency offset based on the first parameter. The carrier frequency offset is a difference between a first carrier frequency of the first device, and a second carrier frequency of the second device. The transmitter module adjusts a second parameter based on the carrier frequency offset, and based on the second parameter, transmits a second signal to the second device or the receiver module adjusts a third parameter based on the carrier frequency offset, and based on the third parameter, receives a third signal from the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Jungwon Lee, Hui-Ling Lou, Dimitrios-Alexandros Toumpakaris
  • Patent number: 8619842
    Abstract: A communication device includes: a reception unit that receives a beacon signal including an identification number of a slave unit from a master unit; a first assignment unit that performs an assignment of a first communication interval for receiving a signal from the master unit based on the number of identification numbers included in the beacon signal; and a second assignment unit that performs an assignment of a second communication interval for transmitting a signal to the master unit within a rest of time calculated by subtracting the first communication interval and a non-communication interval, which is not used for a communication with the master unit, from a signal period which is a period of the beacon signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hideo Okada, Tomohiro Aoyagi, Koichi Oikawa, Toru Kamada
  • Patent number: 8619843
    Abstract: A vectored DSL system reduces or eliminates correlated alien interference in active DSL lines in the vectored system by collecting pseudo signals from inactive lines that do not carry upstream DSL transmissions and/or from common-mode voltage signals from active lines. The collected pseudo signals contain in-domain interference, such as FEXT interference from the active DSL lines in the vectored system, and correlated alien interference. After removing the in-domain interference from the pseudo signals, the remaining alien interference data can be used to generate FEXT cancellation coefficients or the like that are used in DSL vectoring to remove the correlated alien interference from upstream DSL user signals from the active DSL lines. The generated FEXT cancellation coefficients are used in a manner analogous to in-domain FEXT data collected from the active lines during training, tracking, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Ikanos Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas P. Sands, Kevin D. Fisher
  • Patent number: 8619844
    Abstract: A method and device for reducing interference between a first signal of the carrier current type (Se) transmitted between modems (MCPL) in an electrical network (Re) and a second signal (S) transmitted between modems (M) in another network (R), the signals (Se, S) being coded by distribution of the data over allocated carrier frequencies in the same reserved frequency band (BF). The method includes: a step of measurement, by each modem (MCPL) in the electrical network, of transmission characteristics of each carrier frequency (F) that may be used for coding the first signal (Se), a step of detection, by analysis of the measured transmission characteristics, of at least one second, carrier frequency (F2,n), which is allocated or may be allocated for coding the second signal (S) and is common with at least one first carrier frequency (F1,m), which is allocated for coding the first signal (Se), and a steps of optimisation of the distribution of the data of the first signal (Se) over carrier frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Sagemcom Broadband SAS
    Inventor: Roger Samy
  • Patent number: 8619845
    Abstract: Wired and wireless communication networks can be subject to noise and interference resulting data corruption. In a communication system comprising a first network device and a second network device, the first and the second network devices can be configured for optimizing the data rate of the communication system. On receiving a multi-band signal at the first network device from the second network device during a channel adaptation mode, the multi-band signal can be split into a plurality of independent frequency band signals. A performance measurement of a first of the plurality of frequency band signals corresponding to a lowest frequency band signal can be calculated. Communication parameters can be determined for each of the plurality of frequency band signals based on the performance measurement of the first of the plurality of frequency band signals. The communication parameters can be provided from the first network device to the second network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Celestino A. Corral
  • Patent number: 8619846
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for varying symbol amplitude. In one aspect, a system includes a symbol generator that includes a waveform generator configured to output waveforms at a plurality of selectable fundamental frequencies and with a selectable duty cycle. The symbol generator can also include a bandpass filter having a pass-band that corresponds to a communications channel of a communications network. The system can also include data processing apparatus operable to interact with the symbol generator and further operable to determine that at least a threshold number of endpoints that receive symbols from the symbol generator are experiencing a same type of transmission error. In response to the determination, the data processing apparatus can cause the waveform generator to adjust at least one of the fundamental frequency or a duty cycle of the waveforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Landis+Gyr
    Inventors: Bryce Johnson, Paul Virden
  • Patent number: 8619847
    Abstract: A technique for a reconditioning equalizer filter for non-constant envelope signals is described. The input to a transmitter chain is modified by a reconditioning equalizer filter, prior to being applied to the transmitter. The reconditioning equalizer filter modifies and smoothens the amplitude of the signal. The modified and smoothened signal has its peaks reduced which results in lower Crest Factor. The input to the reconditioning equalizer filter could be a baseband, intermediate frequency (IF) or radio frequency (RF) signal. When the signal is an IF or RF signal, it needs to be down-converted to baseband before being applied to the reconditioning equalizer filter. The reconditioning equalizer filter could be performed in a digital or analog domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventor: Kiomars Anvari
  • Patent number: 8619848
    Abstract: Described herein are a method, an apparatus, and a system to compensate inter-symbol interference (ISI) for a signal at a receiver. The apparatus comprises a first logic unit to generate decision feedback equalizer (DFE) coefficients for data samples of a data signal; a second logic unit to generate DFE coefficients for edge samples of the data signal, wherein the DFE coefficients for the edge samples of the data signal are based at least in part on the DFE coefficients for the data samples of the data signal; and a third logic unit to compensate the data and edge samples of the data signal for inter-symbol interference at the data and edge samples of the data signal, wherein the third logic unit to compensate for inter-symbol interference by using the DFE coefficients for the data and edge samples generated by the first and the second logic units respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Yueming Jiang
  • Patent number: 8619849
    Abstract: The invention provides a multi-phase digital pulse width modulator (MP-DPWM) to implement a distribution scheme which applies the duty cycle in the fastest possible manner with restriction on the number of switching actions per phase and cycle, and additionally takes the number of available phases into account. It modulates switching signals according to a duty cycle input command, their previous switching states, and the current switching cycle. The controller is adapted to additionally take the residue of the previous subcycle into account. In the control scheme: each phase is allowed switch up to twice per cycle; only the next phase in the cycle is additionally turned on, at the start of a subcycle, and if a phase is still on at the end of a subcycle it can be kept on for longer, if required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: University of Limerick
    Inventors: Simon Effler, Mark Keith Halton
  • Patent number: 8619850
    Abstract: An integrated real-time display is provided that includes video images and a graphical representation of the transmission path, where each video image is associated with a point along the graphical representation of the transmission path. A number of monitoring points, which correspond to critical points along the transmission path are identified. The points may be selected for technical reasons or economic reasons. The graphical representation of the transmission path can be a logical representation showing the logic blocks along the transmission path or a physical representation showing the devices along the transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: The Weather Channel, LLC
    Inventors: Michael W. Smereski, Robert D. Butler
  • Patent number: 8619851
    Abstract: An information distribution apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine the configuration of a stream including video data and audio data, a creating unit configured to create combination information indicating combinations of video data and audio data making up the stream, based on the results of the determination, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the combination information to a reception apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hiroyasu Ito
  • Patent number: 8619852
    Abstract: Multi-layered frame-compatible video delivery is described. Multi-layered encoding and decoding methods, comprising a base layer and at least one enhancement layer with reference processing, are provided. In addition, multi-layered encoding and decoding methods with inter-layer dependencies are described. Encoding and decoding methods that are capable of frame-compatible 3D video delivery are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Athanasios Leontaris, Alexandros Tourapis, Peshala V. Pahalawatta, Kevin Stec, Walter Husak
  • Patent number: 8619853
    Abstract: This disclosure describes techniques for transforming residual blocks of video data. In particular, a plurality of different transforms selectively applied to the residual blocks based on the prediction mode of the video blocks. At least a portion of the plurality of transforms are separable directional transform specifically trained for a corresponding prediction mode to provide better energy compaction for the residual blocks of the given prediction mode. Using separable directional transforms offers the benefits of lower computation complexity and storage requirement than use of non-separable directional transforms. Additionally, a scan order used to scan the coefficients of the residual block may be adjusted when applying separable directional transforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Yan Ye, Marta Karczewicz