Duplex Repeaters Patents (Class 370/279)
  • Patent number: 9875210
    Abstract: An apparatus for retimer presence detection is described herein. The apparatus includes at least one retimer, wherein an algorithm is to enable the at least one retimer to announce its presence by asserting a bit of a presence message during link initialization. The at least one retimer can declare an index and is accessible via the index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Huimin Chen, Howard L. Heck
  • Patent number: 9876531
    Abstract: A system and method for signal processing in a cable modem termination system (CMTS) is provided. A CMTS receiver in communication with a plurality of cable modems at a upstream signal or a cable modem receiver in communication with the CMTS at a downstream signal. A plurality of Advanced Time Division Multiple Access (“ATDMA”) channel processors include a filter for recovering an ATDMA signal and a Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (“OFDM”) channel processor includes a filter for processing a combined OFDM and ATDMA signal. A summation module subtracts the ATDMA signal from the combined ATDMA and OFDM signal to obtain a clean OFDM signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Casa Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Rosich, Weidong Chen, Tao Yu
  • Patent number: 9853789
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for allocating a control channel in a wireless communication system. A base station allocates an enhanced physical downlink control channel (e-PDCCH) to a localized region within a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) region, allocates the e-PDCCH to a distributed region within the PDSCH region, and transmits a scheduling assignment via the allocated e-PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jin Young Chun, Bin Chul Ihm, Ji Won Kang, Ki Tae Kim, Sung Ho Park, Su Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 9825753
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for enabling improved cancellation of self-interference in full-duplex communications, or the transmitting and receiving of communications in a single frequency band without requiring time, frequency, or code divisions. The system estimates the signal strength and phase of a self-interference signal, generates a cancellation signal based on this estimate, then uses the cancellation signal to suppress the self-interference before sampling received analog signal. After applying the cancellation signal, the system samples and digitizes the remaining analog signal. The digitized signal is then subjected to additional digital cancellation, allowing for extraction of the desired signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Rittwik Jana, Vaneet Aggarwal, Christopher W. Rice, Nemmara K. Shankaranarayanan, Melissa Duarte, Ashutosh Sabharwal
  • Patent number: 9813220
    Abstract: A femtocell telecommunication system equipment comprising: a base apparatus structured to provide a first information signal and control signals; an electrical conductor based transmission line connected to said base apparatus; a bidirectional conversion apparatus adapted to receive/transmit from/on the transmission line the first signal and the control signals; the bidirectional apparatus comprising: a processing module structured to process the first signal to generate a second information signal and vice-versa; the second signal being adapted to be transmitted/received by an antenna device connectable to the bidirectional apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Umberto Spagnolini, Jonathan Gambini, Mauro Arigossi
  • Patent number: 9801194
    Abstract: A telecommunications network, especially an LTE type network, is adapted to a change in configuration. The telecommunications network includes at least a first transmission device, of base station or transmission relay type, and a second transmission device, of base station or transmission relay type. There is no radio link in existence between the first transmission device and the second transmission device before the change in configuration. The process for change includes: detecting a change in the configuration of the telecommunications network; allocating radio resources in the communications frames of the first communications element for determination of the transmission quality with the second communications element; and establishing a radio link between the first transmission device and the second transmission device if the determined transmission quality is advantageous. The process is implemented by a telecommunications networking infrastructure and by a transmission device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Cassidian SAS
    Inventors: Christophe Gruet, Eric Georgeaux, Gerard Marque-Pucheu
  • Patent number: 9762268
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a wireless transceiver. The wireless transceiver includes a second control switch, and the second control switch may selectively connect a signal output end of a coupler or a signal output end of a low noise amplifier LNA to a signal input end of the down converter. Therefore, when the signal output end of the coupler is connected to the down converter, the coupler, the down converter, and the analog-to-digital converter ADC form an observer; when the second control switch connects the signal output end of the low noise amplifier LNA to the signal input end of the down converter, a transceiver antenna, the low noise amplifier LNA, the down converter, and the analog-to-digital converter ADC form a receiver. Therefore, the embodiments of the present disclosure can greatly save hardware costs of a system for implementing an observer circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ganghua Yang, Hongqiang Bao
  • Patent number: 9743405
    Abstract: The technology disclosed provides the ability for a subframe to be configured as a “flexible” subframe. As a result, at least three different types of subframes in a TDD system may be configured: a downlink (“DL”) subframe, an uplink (“UL”) subframe, and a “flexible” subframe. While the DL and UL subframes are preconfigured for each frame instance, the flexible subframes are dynamically allocated to be an uplink subframe in one instance of a frame and a downlink subframe in another instance of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Stefan Parkvall, David Astely, Erik Dahlman, Johan Nyström, Imadur Rahman, Yngve Selén, Johan Sköld
  • Patent number: 9712659
    Abstract: Duplex audio is provided for a mobile communication device and an accessory. In some embodiments, the accessory can selectably operate in a duplex audio mode, concurrently sending audio to and receiving audio from the mobile communication device, or in another audio mode. In duplex audio mode, the accessory can enable its internal audio processing operations (e.g., echo cancellation) while the mobile communication device disables its corresponding internal operations or vice versa. The mobile communication device can control when the accessory transitions into and/or out of duplex audio mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jason J. Yew, Lawrence G. Bolton
  • Patent number: 9674831
    Abstract: A communication method, a base station, a radio communication node, and a user equipment are provided. A base station determines first resource configuration information, where the first resource configuration information is used for indicating N radio resource sets that are used when N radio communication nodes separately perform communication with a user equipment UE, and the radio resource includes a time domain resource and/or a frequency domain resource. The base station sends the first resource configuration information to the UE, where the UE communicates with a corresponding transmission point by using respective radio resource sets of transmission points, and the respective radio resource sets of the transmission points do not intersect. Therefore, a base station does not need to schedule a radio resource, thereby lowering a delay requirement on a backhaul link and eliminating interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bo Lin, Hao Bi, Yongxing Zhou, Yu Wang
  • Patent number: 9667314
    Abstract: An integrated circuit includes a buffer circuit, a receiving circuit, and a programmable repeater circuit. The programmable repeater circuit includes a routing input and an enable input. The programmable repeater circuit buffers an input signal received at the routing input from the buffer circuit through a first conductor to generate an output signal that is provided to an input of the receiving circuit through a second conductor only in response to an enable signal at the enable input enabling the programmable repeater circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Shuxian Chen, Andy Lee, Jeffrey Watt, Mark Chan
  • Patent number: 9629176
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and a base station each for transmitting uplink scheduling information. The method includes the steps of: for an uplink subframe to be scheduled in accordance with the uplink scheduling information, selecting, from a downlink subframe candidate group, a downlink subframe usable for transmission of the uplink scheduling information, the downlink subframe candidate group including (1) a first downlink subframe corresponding to the uplink subframe in accordance with a predetermined scheduling timing and (2) one or more second downlink subframes each not corresponding to the uplink subframe in accordance with the predetermined scheduling timing; and transmitting the uplink scheduling information in the selected downlink subframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ziyuan Guo, Renmao Liu, Lei Huang
  • Patent number: 9571179
    Abstract: A relay node is described herein, the relay node comprising a network connectivity device configured to receive a plurality of medium access control layer (MAC) packet data units (PDUs) from a plurality of user agents; a processor configured to multiplex the plurality of MAC PDUs to form a Super-MAC PDU; and wherein the network connectivity device is further configured to transmit the Super-MAC PDU to an access node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Yi Yu, James Earl Womack, Zhijun Cai
  • Patent number: 9570796
    Abstract: An antenna having a plurality of ports coupled to at least one radiator opening or protuberance formed on a metallic surface. A plurality of modulators are coupled to the plurality of respective ports and configured to modulate phase or amplitude of a plurality of signals radiated at the plurality of respective ports. A combiner is configured to combine the modulated signals to substantially cancel power reflected from the plurality of respective ports, wherein the plurality of respective ports are functionally aggregated into a single port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Osama Nafeth Alrabadi, Alexandru Daniel Tatomirescu, Mikael Bergholz Knudsen, Gert F. Pedersen, Poul Olesen, Peter Bundgaard
  • Patent number: 9565666
    Abstract: A terminal device includes means of determining resource elements to which a physical downlink shared channel is mapped for transmission on the physical downlink shared channel in a non-MBSFN subframe that is scheduled by using a downlink control information format 1A based on positions of cell-specific reference signals that are provided by using a physical layer cell identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsushi Aiba, Kazuyuki Shimezawa, Shoichi Suzuki, Kimihiko Imamura
  • Patent number: 9544107
    Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for allocating a control channel in a wireless communication system. A base station allocates an enhanced physical downlink control channel (e-PDCCH) to a localized region within a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) region, allocates the e-PDCCH to a distributed region within the PDSCH region, and transmits a scheduling assignment via the allocated e-PDCCH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Jin Young Chun, Bin Chul Ihm, Ji Won Kang, Ki Tae Kim, Sung Ho Park, Su Nam Kim
  • Patent number: 9515808
    Abstract: Techniques for sending control information to support operation on multiple component carriers (CCs) are disclosed. A user equipment (UE) may be configured with multiple CCs for carrier aggregation. The multiple CCs may be associated with different uplink-downlink configurations and may have different downlink subframes and uplink subframes. In one aspect, uplink control information (UCI) for a secondary CC (SCC) may be sent on a primary CC (PCC) based on a UCI transmission timeline for the PCC (and not based on a UCI transmission timeline for the SCC). For example, a downlink grant for the SCC may be sent based on a downlink grant transmission timeline for the PCC. In another aspect, uplink grants for an SCC may be sent on the PCC based on an uplink grant transmission timeline for the PCC (and not based on an uplink grant transmission timeline for the SCC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jelena M. Damnjanovic, Wanshi Chen, Juan Montojo, Yongbin Wei
  • Patent number: 9516671
    Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed, which may include transmitting a transmission schedule for a data burst to a plurality of relay stations in a wireless relay network. The transmission schedule may identify a data channel for transmission of the data burst and a corresponding shared negative acknowledgment feedback channel for transmission of a negative acknowledgment. The negative acknowledgment feedback channel may be shared by the plurality of relay stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OY
    Inventors: Adrian Boariu, Shashikant Maheshwari, Haihong Zheng
  • Patent number: 9380636
    Abstract: A first network node of a cellular system is configured for communication with a second network node over a twisted pair wire. The first network node includes a receiver for receiving, over the twisted pair wire, an intermediate frequency signal from the second network node, which intermediate frequency signal has been converted from a high frequency signal having a frequency higher than the frequency of the intermediate frequency signal by the second network node, and a down-converter for converting the intermediate frequency signal to a low frequency signal having a frequency lower than the frequency of the intermediate frequency signal. The first network node also includes an up-converter for converting a received low frequency signal to an intermediate frequency signal having a frequency higher than the frequency of the low frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Chenguang Lu, Elmar Trojer, Jacob Osterling, Miguel Berg, Per-Erik Eriksson, Ralf Bergqvist
  • Patent number: 9338780
    Abstract: An ultra low energy (ULE) digital enhanced cordless telecommunication (DECT) base station that includes a scheduler that is arranged to dynamically determine a schedule of transmissions of broadcast messages and of paging messages to be received by DECT ULE devices; a dummy bearer generator arranged to generate dummy bearers in response to the schedule; wherein each dummy bearer comprises a multiple usage field and a usage indicative field; wherein the usage indicative field is indicative of a selected usage of the multiple usage field; wherein the selected usage purpose is selected out of at least a conveyance of a broadcast message and a conveyance of a paging message; a configuration module that is arranged to generate location information indicative of a location of at least one bit allocated within at least one dummy bearer for indicating, when flagged, of a presence of a paging message or a broadcast message aimed to at least one of the DECT ULE devices; and a transmitter that is arranged to transmit to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: DSP GROUP LTD.
    Inventors: Haim Kupershmidt, Arie Gur, Jochen Kilian
  • Patent number: 9337913
    Abstract: System and method for enhancing performance of a wireless communication system, including communicating between an access point and at least one close client over a first RF channel, and communicating between an access point and at least one remote client via a repeater. The communication between the access point and the at least one remote client via the repeater includes communicating between an access point and the repeater over the first RF channel and communicating between the repeater and the at least one remote client over a second RF channel. The communication between the access point and the at least one close client over the first RF channel is substantially contemporaneous with the communication between the repeater and the at least one remote client over the second RF channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Celeno Communications Ltd.
    Inventors: Nir Shapira, Oren Hencinski
  • Patent number: 9326271
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method and device for data transmission based on carrier aggregation (CA) technology. The method and device are used for ensuring that user equipments can work normally, when the multiple cells aggregated from the user equipments supporting CA technology have different time division duplex (TDD) uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configurations. The method includes: a base station configures at least two time division duplex uplink/downlink carrier TDD UL/DL configuration collections for the user equipments, wherein each TDD UL/DL configuration collection includes at least one cell; the base station respectively configures one cell in each TDD UL/DL configuration collection to be an especial cell (Ecell).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yali Zhao, Fangli Xu, Jing Liang
  • Patent number: 9319130
    Abstract: The technology disclosed provides the ability for a subframe to be configured as a “flexible” subframe. As a result, at least three different types of subframes in a TDD system may be configured: a downlink (“DL”) subframe, an uplink (“UL”) subframe, and a “flexible” subframe. While the DL and UL subframes are preconfigured for each frame instance, the flexible subframes are dynamically allocated to be an uplink subframe in one instance of a frame and a downlink subframe in another instance of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Stefan Parkvall, David Astely, Erik Dahlman, Johan Nystrom, Imadur Rahman, Yngve Selén, Johan Sköld
  • Patent number: 9215671
    Abstract: A routing device and a signal transmitting method for a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) are provided. The device includes: a radio frequency transmitting module, adapted to: generate radio network signals of the WLAN, and adjust the transmit power of the radio network signals according to power indication information; and an antenna module, adapted to transmit the radio network signals according to the adjusted transmit power. The method includes: generating radio network signals of the WLAN, and adjusting the transmit power of the radio network signals according to power indication information; and transmitting the radio network signals according to the adjusted transmit power. Through the routing device and the signal transmitting method, the radio network signals may be transmitted according to different transmit powers. Therefore, the routing device can meet the requirement for portability, fixed installation, and wide coverage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang Zhao, Xiwei Dong
  • Patent number: 9198108
    Abstract: The second data transfer unit (RN S/P-GW 8) terminates a relay-station data bearer provided between a relay station (RN 2) and the second data transfer unit, and transfers user data between a first data transfer unit (UE S/P-GW 6) and the relay station (RN 2) by associating a mobile-station data bearer provided between the mobile station (RN-UE 3) and the first data transfer unit (UE S/P-GW 6) with the relay-station data bearer. When a belonging destination of the relay station (RN 2) is changed from the first base station (DeNB 1-1) to the second base station (DeNB 1-2), a relay-station mobility management unit (RN MME 7) changes a path of the relay-station data bearer, which is terminated by the relay station (RN 2) and the second data transfer unit (RN S/P-GW 8), so as to pass through the second base station (DeNB 1-2). It is thereby possible, for example, to change base stations without interrupting communication of a mobile station (RN-UE 3) during operation of a relay node cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hiroaki Aminaka
  • Patent number: 9179413
    Abstract: There is described a method of controlling a basestation in a cellular wireless communications network, the method comprising, within the basestation, autonomously and dynamically adapting a maximum value for a total transmit power of the basestation, such that interference between the basestation and other access points in the vicinity is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ubiquisys Limited
    Inventors: Alan Carter, Stephen Whittaker, Aminu Wada Maida
  • Patent number: 9088883
    Abstract: A method is provided for managing an emergency call in a mesh network. The method comprises a mesh station receiving an emergency indicator indicating that a call is an emergency call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Rene Waraputra Purnadi, Stephen McCann
  • Patent number: 9036511
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of a User Equipment (UE) to simultaneously transmit information of a first type and information of a second type over a number of transmission symbols, the information of the first type and the information of the second type being respectively associated with a first Orthogonal Cover Code (OCC) and a second OCC, wherein a length of each OCC is equal to the number of transmission symbols. The method includes multiplying, at each transmission symbol, the information of the first type with a respective element of the first OCC to obtain a first output; multiplying, at each transmission symbol, the information of the second type with a respective element of the second OCC to obtain a second output; summing the first output and the second output to obtain a combined output; and transmitting the combined output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Aris Papasakellariou, Joon-Young Cho
  • Patent number: 9014080
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for designing a relay backhaul channel in a wireless communication system are provided. At least one relay node utilized for communication with respective user devices and at least one relay backhaul channel for conducting in-band half-duplex communication with the at least one relay node are identified. The relay backhaul channel may be an FDM channel, a TDM/FDM channel, or a joint R-PDCCH/R-PDSCH channel. The relay channel is used for communicating with the at least one relay node. The supportable ranks of the R-PDSCH channel may depend on the number of resources reserved for demodulation reference signals in the R-PDCCH region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aamod Dinkar Khandekar, Amir Farajidana, Juan Montojo, Wanshi Chen, Alexei Yurievich Gorokhov, Tingfang Ji, Ravi Palanki
  • Publication number: 20150103700
    Abstract: A portable or vehicle radio of a two-way radio system for use by a group is generally in direct call mode as a generic radio. Once a communication range is needed to be expanded under a condition of no available repeater, a group commander is able to designate a two-way radio most suitable for functioning as a signal repeater according to GPS location through over-the-air programming or manual control to expand the communication range. The signal repeater retransmits signals being received through time division multiple access (TDMA) over a same channel at different time slots that provides a function of expanding a communication range as a conventional dual-band repeater transmitting signals over uplink and downlink bands does. Therefore, the present invention functions as a generic radio, so as to become a mobile disposal system for providing temporary, emergent and expanded communication range when an emergency is occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: UNICATION GROUP/Unication Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: SHIH-TSENG YEH
  • Publication number: 20150103701
    Abstract: A method of relaying data performed by a relay station in a wireless communication system based on time division duplex (TDD) is provided. The relay station receives downlink data from a base station and relays the downlink data to at least one mobile station in an uplink subframe which belongs to an unlinked subframe. Accordingly, uplink acknowledgement (ACK) collision can be avoided, and efficiency of resource allocation can be increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Han Byul SEO, Byoung Hoon KIM
  • Patent number: 9001705
    Abstract: A mobile communication system according to the present invention is configured such that a relay node RN is configured to time-share a subframe for transmission and reception in a Un interface and a subframe for transmission and reception in a Uu interface, and a radio base station DeNB is configured to transmit SI, which is to be transmitted in a subordinate cell, to the relay node RN via individual signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Mikio Iwamura, Hideaki Takahashi
  • Patent number: 9001636
    Abstract: Methods and systems for communicating in a wireless network may distinguish different types of packet structures by modifying the phase of a modulation constellation, such as a binary phase shift keying (BPSK) constellation, in a signal field. Receiving devices may identify the type of packet structure associated with a transmission or whether the signal field is present by the phase of the modulation constellation used for mapping for the signal field. In one embodiment, the phase of the modulation constellation may be determined by examining the energy of the I and Q components after Fast Fourier Transform. Various specific embodiments and variations are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Adrian P. Stephens, John S. Sadowsky
  • Patent number: 8989077
    Abstract: A base station including a communication unit for communicating with a mobile terminal via a relay link between the base station and a relay device and an access link between the relay device and the mobile terminal, and a selection unit for selecting an allocation pattern of an uplink of the relay link, a downlink of the relay link, an uplink of the access link, and a downlink of the access link to frequency-time blocks from a plurality of allocation patterns that are different in delay occurring between the base station and the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroaki Takano
  • Publication number: 20150078193
    Abstract: A communication method of a source device according to an embodiment includes detecting a status of a first link directly connected from the source device to a destination device or a status of a second link connected from the source device to the destination device via a relay device, selecting any one of the first link and the second link based on a result of the detection, and transmitting data using the selected link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Hyoung Jin KWON, Yong Sun KIM, Sung Geun JIN, Kap Seok CHANG, Seung Eun HONG, Woo Yong LEE, Hyun Kyu CHUNG
  • Patent number: 8976724
    Abstract: The present disclosure may include a method for repackaging data in a communications system. The method may include receiving low-power RF data at a wireless relay device from one or more low power wireless devices and translating the low-power RF data at the wireless relay device into one or more translated packets. The method may further include synchronizing the translated low-power RF data with one or more wireless links and transmitting the synchronized low-power RF data to a host device. The method may further include receiving wireless communications from a host device, translating the parsing the wireless packets, synchronizing the translated packets with one or more low-power RF connections, and transmitting the synchronized packets to one ore more low-power RF devices. The method may further include managing the network topology of the communications system via commands to the wireless relay device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Zomm, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Edmund Heinrich Hauser, Jason Edward Robert Hillyard
  • Publication number: 20150063176
    Abstract: A relay including a first transmitter that converts a first digital transmit signal to a first analog transmit signal, a first receiver that converts a first analog receive signal to a first digital receive signal, a second transmitter that converts a second digital transmit signal to a second analog transmit signal, a second receiver that converts a second analog receive signal to a second digital receive signal, and a self-interference canceller that generates a first self-interference cancellation signal based on at least one of the first digital transmit signal and the first analog transmit signal, and combines the first self-interference cancellation signal with at least one of the first digital receive signal and the first analog receive signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Steven Hong, Jeffrey Mehlman, Joel Brand, Jung-Il Choi, Mayank Jain
  • Publication number: 20150063157
    Abstract: An ultrawideband radio transceiver/repeater provides a low cost infrastructure solution that merges wireless and wired network devices while providing connection to the plant, flexible repeater capabilities, network security, traffic monitoring and provisioning, and traffic flow control for wired and wireless connectivity of devices or networks. The ultrawidebande radio transceiver/repeater can be implemented in discrete, integrated, distributed or embedded forms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventor: Theodore S. Rappaport
  • Patent number: 8953504
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a repeater for time division duplexed signals. The repeater comprises, for each channel of the time division duplexed signal, a pair of access points. The first access point of the pair being configured in a first mode, and the second access point of the pair being configured in a second mode. The pair of access points being linked by a broadband serial wired data connection. The invention further relates to a multi-band regenerator and a network comprising such a repeater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Universite de Quebec en Abitibi Temiscamingue
    Inventor: Mohamed Ailas
  • Patent number: 8953502
    Abstract: A receiver for receiving RF-signals in a plurality of different communication bands, each communication band including a receive frequency range and a transmit frequency range includes a plurality of receiving ports, a plurality of input circuits, a first inductor and a second inductor. Each receiving port is configured to receive RF-signals in a receive frequency range of a communication band. Each input circuit is connected to an associated receiving port for processing RF-signals applied to the receiving port. The first inductor is connected to a first group of input circuits and the second inductor is connected to a second group of input circuits, wherein the first group of input circuits and the second group of input circuits are disjunct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Schelmbauer
  • Patent number: 8953503
    Abstract: A method for determining isolation status of the RF repeater is provided. A modem in the repeater registers with a base transceiver station (BTS). Uplink output levels of a donor RF transceiver are calibrated and stored in the modem. The modem is synchronized to a BTS transmission received at the donor RF transceiver and the synchronization information is provided to a server RF transceiver of the repeater. Isolation detection and measurement can then be performed between donor transmit antenna and receive server antenna of the RF repeater and the automatic gain control parameter of donor RF transceiver and server RF transceiver are adjusted based upon the isolation detection and measurement value. The isolation and detection can be implemented in a co-processor coupled to the donor and server transceivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: Redline Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Bojan Subasic, Florin Franovici
  • Patent number: 8948687
    Abstract: An apparatus for repeating signals includes a receive antenna for capturing a receive signal, processing circuitry for processing the receive signal to form a repeated signal, and a transmit antenna for transmitting the repeated signal. The processing circuitry includes gain circuitry for gain in the repeated signal and decorrelation circuitry configured for modifying the repeated signal with respect to the receive signal to thereby decorrelate the repeated signal from the receive signal. The processing circuitry further comprises circuitry configured for calculating a gain margin for the apparatus utilizing the decorrelated receive and repeated signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Andrew LLC
    Inventors: Van Hanson, Christopher Ranson
  • Publication number: 20150029909
    Abstract: A signal booster may include first and second uplink gain units each configured to apply an uplink gain to an uplink signal. The signal booster may further include first and second downlink gain units each configured to apply a downlink gain to a downlink signal. The signal booster may also include a passive signal directing unit configured to communicatively couple the first uplink gain unit to the second uplink gain unit and to communicatively couple the first downlink gain unit to the second downlink gain unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2013
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Christopher K. Ashworth, James Colin Clark
  • Publication number: 20150023226
    Abstract: A method for enabling full duplex individual calls in repeater mode between two subscriber units (SUs) in a N:1 slotting ratio time division multiple access (TDMA) radio system includes receiving a request for a full duplex individual call from a first SU identifying a second SU as a target of the call. Determining to grant the request and subsequently assigning a first time slot of the N time slots on a first single frequency for one of inbound and outbound transmissions for the call between an assigned second repeater and the first SU and a second time slot on the first single frequency for the other of inbound and outbound transmissions for the call between the assigned second repeater and the first SU. Further, a grant message is transmitted to the first SU indicating the assigned first single frequency and assigned first and second time slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Hun Weng Khoo, Thomas B. Bohn, Yueh Ching Chung, David G. Watrowski
  • Publication number: 20150003300
    Abstract: A radio relay apparatus including: a base-station-side control unit 24 for operating at the inversion timings and, from signals from a plurality of radio base stations received by a base-station-side communication unit 22, extracts reception power of the base-station-side communication unit 22 for a reception signal from a radio base station using a frequency of a terminal-side communication unit 32 uses; and a terminal-side control unit 34 for setting transmission power of the terminal-side communication unit 32, wherein the terminal-side control unit 34, when the terminal-side control unit 34 or the base-station-side control unit 24 detects a predetermined event, obtains the reception power from the base-station-side control unit 24 and sets the transmission power of the terminal-side communication unit 32 based on the reception power, thereby prevents deterioration of a signal due to interference of transmission radio waves during operation at inversion timings are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2012
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Applicant: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kunihiko Bandoh
  • Patent number: 8923754
    Abstract: An ultrawideband radio transceiver/repeater provides a low cost infrastructure solution that merges wireless and wired network devices while providing connection to the plant, flexible repeater capabilities, network security, traffic monitoring and provisioning, and traffic flow control for wired and wireless connectivity of devices or networks. The ultrawideband radio transceiver/repeater can be implemented in discrete, integrated, distributed or embedded forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Inventor: Theodore S. Rappaport
  • Patent number: 8923168
    Abstract: A radio front end includes an antenna tuning unit, a duplexer, a balancing network, and a processing module. The antenna tuning unit is operably coupled to an antenna and operable to tune an operational characteristic of the antenna based on an antenna tuning signal. The duplexer is operably coupled to the antenna tuning unit and operable to provide electrical isolation between an outbound wireless signal and an inbound wireless signal. The balancing network is operably coupled to the duplexer and operable to establish an impedance that substantially matches an impedance of the antenna. The processing module is operable to estimate the impedance of the antenna to produce an estimated antenna impedance and to generate the antenna tuning signal based on the estimated antenna impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Mohyee Mikhemar, Hooman Darabi
  • Patent number: 8918049
    Abstract: An ultrawideband radio transceiver/repeater provides a low cost infrastructure solution that merges wireless and wired network devices while providing connection to the plant, flexible repeater capabilities, network security, traffic monitoring and provisioning, and traffic flow control for wired and wireless connectivity of devices or networks. The ultrawideband radio transceiver/repeater can be implemented in discrete, integrated, distributed or embedded forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Inventor: Theodore S. Rappaport
  • Publication number: 20140362743
    Abstract: A resource allocation method of a relay station in a wireless communication system employing the relay station is provided. The method includes: receiving information on a resource allocation pattern for an access link and a backhaul link of a first frequency band; and determining a resource allocation pattern for an access link and a backhaul link of a second frequency band on the basis of the resource allocation pattern of the first frequency band, wherein the first frequency band is any one of an uplink frequency band and a downlink frequency band, and the second frequency band is a remaining one of the uplink frequency band and the downlink frequency band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Kyujin PARK, Jaehoon CHUNG, Hankyu CHO, Eunjong LEE, Doohyun SUNG
  • Patent number: 8897698
    Abstract: The invention relates to a data transfer method in a multi-hop relay system. The data transfer method comprises: a step for allowing a base station to receive from a first terminal the channel information (Hd,1) between the base station and the first mobile station, a step for making the base station generate an interference cancellation precoding matrix using Hd,1, a step for forcing the base station to transfer first data to a relay station, and a step for making the relay station transfer the first data to the first mobile station and forcing the base station to transfer second data to a second mobile station, wherein the second data is converted using the interference cancellation precoding matrix. According to the disclosed data transfer method in the multi-hope relay system, the base station transfers data to another mobile station efficiently when the relay station transfers data to a mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Young Hyun Jeon, Tak Ki Yu, Jong Hyung Kwun, Chan Ho Min, Min Suk Kang, Hyu Dae Kim, Bang Chul Jung, Dong Won Lee