Code Division (cdma) Patents (Class 370/320)
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Patent number: 8125971Abstract: Method for transmitting a wideband code division multiplex output signal at a given chip-rate corresponding to a plurality of combined physical radio links for respective user entities, comprising the steps of performing parallel symbol and code generation, parallel modulation, parallel spreading, each enhanced multiplex rate cycle providing a first number of parallel spread chip values, thus forming a first number of spread chip value streams. The enhanced multiplex rate being a second number greater than the chip rate of the output signal, combining the physical radio links over a number of segments corresponding to the second number at the enhanced multiplex rate in multiplex fashion, extending the combination of the physical radio links during a time corresponding to a third number of chips, causing a combined plurality of physical radio links, buffering the results so as to establish a complex signal at chip rate to the air transmission antenna.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2006Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)Inventor: Fredrik Hammar
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Patent number: 8121095Abstract: A method for adjusting a time offset of GPS signals in a CDMA mobile phone includes: generating periodic waves and transmitting to the GPS simulator; generating CDMA RF signals and transmitting to the combiner; clocking a first delay time starting when the periodic waves are transmitted to a time the CDMA RF signals are transmitted; receiving the periodic waves; generating GPS RF signals and transmitting the signals to the combiner; clocking a second delay time starting when the periodic waves are received to a time the GPS RF signals are transmitted; generating combined signals and transmitting to the CDMA mobile phone; clocking a third delay time starting when the CDMA RF signals are received to a time the GPS RF signals are received; and calculating a time offset between CDMA signals and GPS signals according to the first delay time, the second delay time, and the third delay time.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2008Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Chi Mei Communication Systems, Inc.Inventor: Chun-Chieh Wang
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Patent number: 8116780Abstract: Provided are a dynamic resource allocation method based on frequency reuse partitioning for an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) system, and a frame transmission method therefor. The dynamic resource allocation method includes: a) dividing a coverage into cells based on frequency reuse partitioning; b) selecting a candidate user to receive a channel allocated thereto based on the ratio; c) acquiring distance information for the candidate user; and d) checking whether the candidate user is in an inner or outer cell area based on the distance information. If the candidate user is in the inner cell area, a subchannel group among subchannel groups having a Frequency Reuse Factor (FRF) lower than a threshold value is selected and subcarriers of the selected subchannel group is allocated. If the candidate user is in the outer cell area, a subchannel group among subchannel groups having a FRF higher than the threshold value is selected.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2006Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignees: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Inha-Industry Partnership InstituteInventors: Hee-Soo Lee, Jae-Young Ahn, Kyung-Hi Chang, Joo Heo, In-Suk Cha
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Patent number: 8112038Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system and method for downlink beamforming that takes into account imperfect channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter when determining the steering vector used in the beamforming process. The steering vector is calculated to increase the ratio of the average power of a desired signal component to the sum of the interference power of other wireless terminals, referred to as the signal-to-leakage ratio. By accounting for imperfect CSI when calculating the steering vector, the bit-error rate for a given signal-to-noise ratio is decreased. Also disclosed is a power allocation method that improves performance of the system by increasing the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio for all of the wireless terminals currently communicating with the base station. The power allocation similarly decreases the bit-error rate for a given signal-to-noise ratio, especially at high signal-to-noise ratios.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2006Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: FutureWei Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ye Li, Anthony C. K. Soong, Yinggang Du, Jianmin Lu
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Patent number: 8112261Abstract: To facilitate GPS hardware selection and evaluate performance of vehicle integrated GPS hardware, including various types of GPS antennas and receivers, within different vehicle operating environments, embodiments of the invention are used to provide a simulator which does not require physical GPS hardware to simulate GPS system performance. Preferably, the simulator randomly generates one or more GPS system link budget variables, within predetermined performance bounds, in order to predict GPS system performance in a specific vehicle operating environment for a given antenna radiation pattern and/or GPS receiver. The simulator employs a Monte Carlo technique to evaluate the GPS system performance based on generated pools of link budget variables.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2008Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, LLC.Inventors: Hyok J. Song, Hui-Pin Hsu, Eray Yasan, Richard W. Wiese
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Patent number: 8107411Abstract: A mobile station for wirelessly transmitting to a base station by DS-CDMA a signal which is spread by multiplying a spreading code includes a high-precision transmission timing control unit configured to control transmitting timings of transmitting signals so that a time difference at the base station among timings of receiving from a plurality of mobile stations approaches zero.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2008Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Hiroyuki Atarashi, Mamoru Sawahashi, Teruo Kawamura
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Patent number: 8107355Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting and mitigating temporary high-level impairments, in a communications channel, and subsequently, mitigating the deleterious effects of the dynamic impairments. The system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter is adapted to transmit at least one set of modulated signals. The receiver is adapted to receive the at least one set of modulated signals and mitigate temporary high-level impairment in the at least one set of modulated signals using at least one error vector received during the temporary high-level impairment.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2009Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventor: Thomas J. Kolze
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Patent number: 8108438Abstract: A dictionary at least partially spans a set of discrete q-length signals. The atoms of the dictionary are eigenvectors of a representation of a commutative subgroup of a finite symplectic group. The dictionary may be used for interpreting a radar signal, denoising a signal, compressing data, finding a sparse representation, deblurring at a signal finding a sparse representation of a signal, encoding a signal for communication, encoding a symbol for CDMF communication, classifying a data set and generating a random number.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2008Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Inventor: Ron Hadani
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Patent number: 8103277Abstract: A handover method from a WCDMA network to a CDMA network in a system comprising a mobile communication terminal, a RNC of the WCDMA network and a BSC of the CDMA network comprises: transmitting a measurement control message for commanding cell power measurement on a WCDMA cell and a beacon cell in the RNC into the mobile communication terminal; transmitting a measurement report message into the RNC in the mobile communication terminal after measurement of the cell power on the WCDMA cell and the beacon cell; and determining a handover into a CDMA cell in the RNC depending on the measurement report message when there is no more receivable WCDMA cell.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2006Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Pantech & Curitel Communications, Inc.Inventor: Seong Ho Wee
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Patent number: 8098767Abstract: A receiver may train its equalizer using consecutive pilot bursts, divide the traffic between the consecutive pilot bursts into multiple sub-segments, and interpolate the trained equalizer coefficients to obtain the coefficients for equalizing one or more of the sub-segments. The receiver may also determine signal to interference and noise ratio (SINR) values based on each of the consecutive pilot bursts, and interpolate the SINR for decoding one or more of the sub-segments. The receiver may be an access terminal receiver operating in a code division multiple access (CDMA) cellular system.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2007Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Arash Mirbagheri, Jun Ma, Mingxi Fan
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Patent number: 8099132Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate employing downlink precoding based on uplink sounding channel measurement and channel reciprocity in time division duplex or time division multiplex systems. In particular, mechanism are provided that enable downlink precoding in situations where user equipment antenna configuration includes an unequal number of transmit chains and receive chains. A mobile device transmits modulated sounding reference signals on each antenna during a calibration stage. The mobile device then transmits non-modulated sounding reference signals during a normal mode. A base station utilizes the modulated and non-modulated sounding reference signals to restore a downlink channel estimate employed in downlink precoding.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2008Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: Byoung-Hoon Kim, Durga Prasad Malladi, Juan Montojo, Sandip Sarkar
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Patent number: 8098625Abstract: A wireless terminal involving small redundancy that can be reconfigured to a configuration compatible with a plurality of systems using the hardware resources compatible with one system is provided. A wireless terminal 100A is compatible with an OFCDM system and has a signal processing section 151, a synchronous detection section 162, etc. The signal processing section 151 performs Fourier transform when the wireless terminal is compatible with the OFCDM system; the signal processing section 151 performs Fourier transform and inverse Fourier transform compatible with an OFDM system when the wireless terminal is compatible with the OFDM system and a CDMA system. When the wireless terminal is compatible with the OFCDM system, the synchronous detection section 162 uses taps used in the systems when the wireless terminal is compatible with the OFDM system and the CDMA system.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2005Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Panasonic CorporationInventors: Kentaro Miyano, Katsuaki Abe, Akihiko Matsuoka
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Patent number: 8085704Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses as well as a measurement report signal for reporting measurements on ranging signals (RS1-RS4) received by a mobile station from satellites (SV1-SV4) or calculating a position based on such measurements, wherein each of said ranging signal comprises a stream (201) of data bits (202) spread by a spreading code (203). After synchronizing (501) to data bit edges in the stream of data bits on a ranging signal, a position in time modulo the data bit length for said stream of data bits with respect to a selected point in time is measured (502). The measured position in time could be used by the apparatus performing the measurements on the received ranging signals for calculating (504) the position of the mobile station. Alternatively the apparatus could transmit (503) a wireless signal including data representing said measured position in time, allowing the mobile station position to be determined in another apparatus (101).Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2004Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)Inventors: Ari Kangas, Karl Torbjorn Wigren
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Patent number: 8085705Abstract: A mobile device generated video and camera signal is processed into cross-correlated Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Gaussian Minimum Shift Keying (GMSK) signal used in Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) systems such as the Global Mobile System (GSM), and into Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) signal for modulation and transmission. The mobile device receives and processes a position finder signal from satellite and from land based transmitters and provides processed position finder signal. The wireless unit generates a processed touch screen control signal and processes the touch screen control signal with processed position finder signal. The processed touch screen signal of the mobile device is used for web browsing and of said mobile device and to control transmission of one or more of said GMSK, CDMA, OFDM or position finder modulated signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2011Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Inventor: Kamilo Feher
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Patent number: 8078213Abstract: A slave station and a method of regulating the transmission power a master station are described, which permit an estimate of the signal/interference ratio in a transmission system without sending a pilot sequence, the transmission power being regulated as a function of an estimate of the signal/interference ratio. In a transmission system, in particular a CDMA transmission system, useful signals assigned to different communicating subscribers are separated by orthogonal codes. A useful signal assigned to one communicating subscriber is derived by using one of the codes from a signal received at least in the slave station from the master station and is compared as a reference signal with the received signal to estimate the signal/interference ratio.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2008Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: IPCOM GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Martin Hans, Frank Kowalewski, Josef Laumen, Gunnar Schmidt, Siegfried Baer, Mark Beckmann
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Patent number: 8073393Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for channel estimation without resorting to the channel second-order statistics. Methods and systems are proposed for improving the performance of an un-constrained least squares channel interpolator by using available side information of the channel, such as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), Doppler frequency and/or delay spread.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2009Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yuanning Yu, James Y. Hurt, Jong Hyeon Park, Je Woo Kim
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Patent number: 8072919Abstract: Methods and systems for implementing trunking techniques in CDMA systems for handling group calls and push-to-talk services.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2008Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventors: James Jiang, Yonggang Fang, Mary Chion, Rajesh Bhalla
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Patent number: 8073076Abstract: An access terminal for processing a communication signal includes a receiver. The receiver is configured to determine a bias point for the communication signal based on a quality measurement of the communication signal, the quality measurement having a carrier-to-interference (C/I) estimate associated therewith. The receiver is further configured to determine a C/I cap for the communication signal using the C/I estimate, the C/I cap being configured to cap a signal to interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) of the communication signal. In addition, the receiver is configured to process the communication signal using the determined bias point and the determined C/I cap. A method is also provided for processing a communication signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2007Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: James Young Hurt, Preethi Chandrasekhar, Roland Reinhard Rick
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Patent number: 8068513Abstract: The specification and drawings present a new method, system, apparatus and software product for determining (e.g., calculating) a load measure by a network element (e.g., Node B or any other network element) for optimizing information traffic in communication networks (e.g., wireless communication systems). This load measure may represent the amount of available/excess traffic that a given network element may carry and is a relative measure, which would take into account the total amount of resources available in the system and the amount of resources that are free for carrying only “important” or “essential” traffic, using a weighed method described herein.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2008Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Frank Frederiksen, Klaus Pedersen, Woonhee Hwang, Troels Kolding, Preben Mogensen
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Patent number: 8068473Abstract: A method for operating an RLC entity and a MAC entity in a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), the European IMT-2000 system. A format of a MAC-has PDU is optimized in a MAC-hs entity, so that a large number of users can be supported with using less resources when a VoIP service is provided in one cell.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2007Date of Patent: November 29, 2011Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sung-Duck Chun, Young-Dae Lee, Sung-Jun Park
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Patent number: 8064424Abstract: Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate increasing system capacity in a code-limited WCDMA (e.g., TDD, FDD, . . . ) wireless communication environment. According to one aspect, a larger code space can be defined by introducing multiple code clusters within a sector, wherein each cluster has a unique scrambling code. Codes within a cluster can have orthogonal Walsh sequences that can be assigned to user devices to facilitate communicating over a wireless network and can overlap with codes in another cluster. The unique scrambling code assigned to each cluster can ensure that duplicate Walsh sequences in another cluster in the same sector appear as a pseudo-noise codes.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2005Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sharad Deepak Sambhwani, Dhananjay Ashok Gore, Avneesh Agrawal, Arak Sutivong, Alexei Gorokhov
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Patent number: 8059765Abstract: A method (and operation of a computer program and an apparatus) includes receiving a signal over a wireless channel; correlating the received signal with a reference sequence and providing a correlation output; processing the correlation output to detect a presence of a first predetermined preamble sequence using a main correlation peak and two first order frequency shift peaks and nulling second and higher order frequency shift peaks from the correlation output prior to further processing the correlation output to detect a presence of a second predetermined preamble sequence.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2008Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Nokia Siemens Networks OyInventor: Jukka Törmälehto
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Patent number: 8059612Abstract: A method and a digital broadcast receiving terminal are provided. The terminal includes a receiving unit, a decoder, a memory, and a controller. The receiving unit receives a digital multimedia broadcast transport stream and the decoder decodes data included in the transport stream. The memory stores system information obtained from a previously received transport stream. The controller provides a signal for controlling an initial broadcast receiving operation of the terminal using information stored in the memory to reduce an initial operating time required for the terminal to receive a broadcast.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2006Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Nam Shin Cho
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Patent number: 8059728Abstract: Provided is a method and an apparatus for transmitting/receiving a Broadcast Channel (BCH), by which a User Equipment (UE) can successfully receive system information of neighboring cells in a system supporting the scalability of a UE reception bandwidth and a system bandwidth. The method includes identifying a system bandwidth of a cell by comparing the system bandwidth with reception bandwidths of UEs within the cell, mapping two BCH information blocks including system information to a central band having a bandwidth equal to a transmission bandwidth of the BCH, additionally mapping at least one of the information blocks into each of one-half bands of the system bands, when the system bandwidth is two times an amount of the reception bandwidth, and transmitting a frequency domain signal, to which the information blocks are mapped, to the UEs located within the cell.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2007Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Joon-Young Cho, Ju-Ho Lee, Kyeong-In Jeong
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Patent number: 8060097Abstract: Methods and an apparatus are provided for providing handoff information to a candidate mobile node initially served on a first carrier. The candidate mobile node may inform a wireless-communication network that hard-handoff criteria are met for the first carrier. The network may identify a plurality of neighboring mobile nodes served on a second carrier and within a threshold distance of the candidate. The network may receive a measurement of forward-link signal quality of the second carrier from each neighboring mobile node. Using the received forward-link-signal-quality measurements, the network may estimate the forward-link signal quality of the second carrier at the location of the candidate mobile node. If that estimated forward-link signal quality exceeds a signal-quality threshold, the network may provide hard-handoff information about the second carrier to the candidate mobile node.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2008Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Sprint Spectrum L.P.Inventors: Deveshkumar Rai, Manoj Shetty, Sachin R Vargantwar, Siddharth S Oroskar, Debasish Sarkar
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Patent number: 8055280Abstract: A method for a dual-mode terminal in a HRPD network to respond to 1x paging, the method comprising steps of: after a MS/AT turns to the HRPD network and informs a MSC of the related information via PCF, the MSC sends a 1x service arrive notification message to the MS/AT via PCF including a calling party number if some 1x paging information arrives; after receiving the 1x paging, the MS/AT displays the calling party number to a user and waits for the choice of the user; the MS/AT terminates service in the HRPD network and switches into a 1x network to send a “Page Response” message to the 1x BS if the user chooses to accept the 1x call; if the user rejects to accept the 1x call, the MS/AT sends a user response rejection message to an AN, the AN forwards it to the PCF to indicate that the user can not accept this 1x call; after receiving the user response rejection message, the PCF constructs a “Paging Response” message and sends it to the MSC to inform the MSC to terminate this call; and after receiving the reType: GrantFiled: September 15, 2006Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Weimin Liu
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Patent number: 8054861Abstract: A method of processing data comprises the receiving a frame of data having a predetermined number of time slots (502,504,506). Each time slot comprises a respective plurality of data symbols (520). The method further comprises a primary (508), a secondary (510) and a tertiary (512) synchronization code in each said predetermined number of time slots.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2010Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventor: Sundararajan Sriram
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Patent number: 8055267Abstract: A system for allocating resources, including at least one user terminal operable to determine at least one resource needed by the user terminal and further operable to request a first allocation of the resource. A relaying apparatus is provided which is operable to determine the resource to be allocated and further operable to transmit the determined resource to the user terminal. The user terminal is operable to calculate a cost of the resource allocated by the relaying apparatus, compare the cost with a predetermined reference value based on a changed need for the resource, and further operable to request a second allocation of the resource to the relaying apparatus based on the changed need for the resource.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2006Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Sung-woo Cho
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Patent number: 8055300Abstract: Devices and methods to use base stations to communicate with user equipment (UE) terminals in an indoor setting are disclosed. For example, user equipments such as mobile telephone devices may be used in a building with multiple floors. The building may be supplied with antenna elements organized into antenna groups with each group serving an area of the building—a floor for example. The base station, utilizing the antenna groups, communicates with the UE terminals via one or more radio resources. The base station manages radio resources to communicate with multiple UE terminals. The base station selectively activates and deactivates the antenna groups to reduce multiple access interference and to efficiently utilize the radio resources.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2007Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Sören Andersson, Jiuhui Du
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Patent number: 8050704Abstract: A method for effectively allocating a transmission power and a method for transmitting SCH are disclosed. In this case, the transmission power of the SCH, which is important for initial cell search of the user equipment, is increased but is not allocated to a predetermined frequency region within one OFDM symbol to obtain the increased transmission power, thereby minimizing an influence on transmission of other channels within one OFDM symbol.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2007Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Sung Duk Choi, Young Woo Yun, Ki Jun Kim, Hak Seong Kim, Suk Hyon Yoon, Joon Kui Ahn
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Patent number: 8046018Abstract: Method and apparatus for determining a transmission configuration for a dedicated channel in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, an optimum configuration is determined based on minimizing Peak-to-Average Ratio (PAR) of the channel. The configuration is defined as a transmission pair of transmission branch and spreading code. The transmission branch may be the In-Phase (I) branch or the Quadrature (Q) branch. PAR analysis may be performed off-line to determine the optimum configuration. In operation, if the spreading code of the optimum configuration is used by another channel, the next best optimum code is used.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2010Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Serge Willenegger
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Patent number: 8045536Abstract: A transmitter/receiver system for high data transfer in a wireless communication system includes a physical layer processor that comprises an FEC coder, a demultiplexer and a plurality of modem processors. The FEC coder applies error correction codes to the high data rate signal. Thereafter, the demultiplexer distributes portions of the coded high data rate signal to the modem processors. Each modem processor processes its respective portion of the coded signal for transmission in an independent channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2008Date of Patent: October 25, 2011Assignee: IPR Licensing, Inc.Inventor: James A. Proctor, Jr.
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Patent number: 8041392Abstract: A radio equipment control for communicating plural radio equipment units including an identifier inserting unit for inserting into a frame an identifier for recognizing a connection relation of plural cascade-connected radio equipment units and a transmitting unit for transmitting the frame having the identifier inserted therein by the identifier inserting unit to the plural cascade-connected radio equipment units. The wireless communication apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving the frame having the identifier inserted therein from the plural cascade-connected radio equipment units and a connection relation recognizing unit for recognizing the connection relation of the plural cascade-connected radio equipment units on the basis of the identifier of the frame received by the receiving unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2009Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignee: Fujitsu LimitedInventor: Masaki Yamamoto
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Patent number: 8028910Abstract: The present invention relates to a tag anti-collision Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system and a method for tag identification.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2005Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: SK Telecom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kyung-Ho Seo, Se-Hyun Oh, Jin-Hee Yoon, Joo-Mun Lee, Won-Jun Lee, Ji-Hoon Myung
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Patent number: 8031650Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to systems and device for monitoring remote device with a wireless, dual-mode communication protocol. As such, a representative embodiment is a system for monitoring and controlling remote devices. The system includes a first- and a second remote device; and a first and a second wireless transceiver integrated with the respective remote devices. The wireless transceivers are configured to communicate with at least one of a spread-spectrum communication protocol and a fixed-frequency communication protocol.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2004Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Sipco, LLCInventors: Thomas D. Petite, Richard Huff, David P. Aldoretta, Candida Stevens
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Patent number: 8032369Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for achieving an arbitrary average data rate for a variable rate coder. One method includes selecting a set (e.g., a pair) of initial composite rates surrounding the arbitrary average data rate. A reallocation fraction is then calculated based on the initial composite rates. The reallocation fraction is used to reassign a number of frames from one component rate of an initial composite rate to another in order to achieve the arbitrary average data rate. Such a method may be configured such that selecting an initial composite rate on one side of (e.g., less than) the arbitrary average data rate implicitly selects the initial composite rate on the other side of the arbitrary average data rate.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2007Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Sharath Manjunath, Ananthapadmanabhan A. Kandhadai
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Patent number: 8031816Abstract: A method for determining boundaries of information elements for a PRN code modulated signal is provided. The method of the present invention measures a symbol phase of the received signal and correlation values of different durations to determine the information element boundary. By the method of the present invention, the determination of the information element boundary can be more effective especially in the common dump receiver architecture, wherein a reference wave used in the correlation measurement of the receiver cannot match the received waveform exactly.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2006Date of Patent: October 4, 2011Assignee: Mediatek Inc.Inventor: Kun-tso Chen
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Patent number: 8027372Abstract: Each base station transmits a TDM pilot 1 having multiple instances of a pilot-1 sequence generated with a PN1 sequence and a TDM pilot 2 having at least one instance of a pilot-2 sequence generated with a PN2 sequence. Each base station is assigned a specific PN2 sequence that uniquely identifies that base station. A terminal uses TDM pilot 1 to detect for the presence of a signal and uses TDM pilot 2 to identify base stations and obtain accurate timing. For signal detection, the terminal performs delayed correlation on received samples and determines whether a signal is present. If a signal is detected, the terminal performs direct correlation on the received samples with PN1 sequences for K1 different time offsets and identifies K2 strongest TDM pilot 1 instances. For time synchronization, the terminal performs direct correlation on the received samples with PN2 sequences to detect for TDM pilot 2.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2004Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Aamod Khandekar, Avneesh Agrawal
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Patent number: 8023955Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention exploit the reciprocity of radio channels in TDD, and longer-term correlation between average uplink and downlink path losses in FDD wireless communication systems to enable distributed schedulers in an enhanced uplink system to allocate uplink transmission resources while preemptively managing intercell interference levels. Each cell's base station transmits a downlink reference signal at a known transmission power level. A mobile station monitors the received signal strength of the downlink reference signals from multiple base stations. The transmitted and received signal strength levels can be used by the mobile station to estimate the amount of intercell interference that the mobile station's uplink transmissions cause, and the mobile station's uplink transmission parameters are adjusted accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2005Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Nicholas William Anderson
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Patent number: 8023888Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for acquiring and demodulating a data stream transmitted in a communication system. A method in accordance with the present invention comprises finding a boundary of a physical layer frame (PLFrame) in the data stream, finding a first 26 bits of a Unique Word (UW) associated with the data stream, finding a scrambling code utilizing the UW, and using a decoding procedure to determine a modulation type and code rate used for desired signals within the data stream.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2010Date of Patent: September 20, 2011Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Santoru, Guangcai Zhou, Ernest C. Chen, Dennis Lai, Shamik Maitra
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Patent number: 8018891Abstract: In general, techniques are described in which a plurality of network switches automatically configure themselves to operate as a single virtual network switch. A virtual switch is a collection of individual switch devices that operate like as single network switch. As described herein, network switches in a network that are capable of participating in a virtual switch may automatically discover one another. The participating network switches may then elect one of the participating switches as a master switch. The master switch may generate forwarding information and store the forwarding information in the participating switches, including the master switch. The forwarding information causes the participating switches to act like a single network switch.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2010Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.Inventors: Rajashekar Reddy, Ankur Singla, Harshad Nakil, Pedro R. Marques, Ashish Ranjan
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Patent number: 8014362Abstract: A method for assigning scrambling codes in a code division multiple access cellular radio communications network includes a plurality of network cells covering a geographic area, including: determining, for each of the cells, a respective set of adjacent cells by: taking a first set of cells that are neighbors of the given cell; taking a second set of cells that are neighbors of neighbors of the given cell; taking a third set of cells that are neighbors of neighbors of neighbors of the given cell, wherein two cells are considered neighbors in case the respective coverage areas at least partially overlap; taking a fourth set of cells which, in at least one point of the best server are of the given cell, have an adjacent coefficient with the given cell higher than a predetermined threshold; combining the first, second, third and fourth set of cells; and assigning to each cell of the set of adjacent cells a scrambling code different from a scrambling code assigned to the given cell.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2005Date of Patent: September 6, 2011Assignee: Telecom Italia S.p.A.Inventors: Massimiliano Panico, Indro Francalanci, Graziano Bini, Michele Ludovico
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Patent number: 8009639Abstract: Active control feedback between a base station and user equipment in a wireless communications network is achieved by allocating a first time slot within a frame for a UE to transmit a beacon signal to the base station, where the beacon signal is separate from data signals in the frame, allocating a second time slot within the frame for the base station to transmit a control signal in response to the beacon signal, and allocating other timeslots for the base station to operate in full duplex FDD mode. The control signal provides a basis upon which the UE adjusts a transmission parameter, such as power.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2006Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Wireless Technology Solutions LLCInventor: Paul Howard
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Patent number: 8009607Abstract: A radio network provides centralized load control in order to control uplink interference in a cell while at the same time permitting adaptation to fast channel variations. The radio network sends to a mobile terminal a percentage of time that the mobile terminal may transmit over a radio channel in the uplink direction to the radio network. The mobile determines a current or future condition of the radio channel and restricts uplink transmissions based on the received percentage and the radio channel condition. Transmissions are restricted to times when the current or future condition is favorable up to the percentage amount. Channel condition favorability may be determined by the mobile station, in one example embodiment, by comparing the radio channel condition to an average condition of the channel, such as a local or moving average channel condition.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2002Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Fredrik Gunnarsson, Niclas Wiberg, Gunnar Bark, Eva Englund
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Patent number: 8005499Abstract: A set of power control step size increments are determined such that at least two step size increments differ from one another. The set is sent to a Mobile Station MS. A first power command to the MS informs of a first power for a uplink data transmission on a radio resource (E-DPDCH). To change power on the same radio resource, an offset is computed, the set of step size increments is accessed to determine which one, or combination of them, yield the offset, and the MS is informed of the second power by a second message that identifies those elements of the set that alone or in combination yield the offset. The MS determines the second power as a function of the first power and the step size increment(s) from the second message.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2006Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Jeroen Wigard, Karri Ranta-aho, Benoist Sebire
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Patent number: 8005050Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for localization of a mobile device in a distributed antenna communications system. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a distributed antenna system includes a plurality of distributed antennas that are communicatively coupled to a hub. A mobile communications device to be located is communicatively coupled to the hub via one or more of the antennas. The method for locating the mobile device comprises: receiving a message at the hub that identifies the mobile device to be located; discriminating among communications signals received from each of the distributed antennas using a channel and a spreading code to identify a signal from the mobile device; identifying messages from the mobile device to be located; and determining which of the antennas is closest to the mobile device to be located by monitoring received signal strength of the identified signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2007Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: LGC Wireless, Inc.Inventors: Stefan Scheinert, Peter Walther
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Patent number: 8005110Abstract: The present invention provides a single carrier/DS-CDMA packet transmission method wherein a predetermined time slot is assigned to reservation demand packet transmission in regard to a spreading code, and the reservation demand packet and data packets are time-multiplexed for transmission. An uplink packet transmission method in a multi-carrier/DS-CDMA mobile communication system is also provided, wherein frames are set up in each communication channel of a subcarrier, time slots which are time-segments of the frames are set up further, and a mobile station spreads a packet to be transmitted by a spreading code and the information signal is transmitted to a base station in a predetermined time slot.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2007Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Koichi Okawa, Hiroyuki Atarashi, Sadayuki Abeta, Mamoru Sawahashi
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Patent number: 8005036Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for scheduling for collaborative spatial multiplexing in a broadband wireless communication system. An apparatus for a base station for supporting collaborative spatial multiplexing in a broadband wireless communication system includes a controller, an estimator, and a determiner. The controller selects a second mobile station with the best channel quality among non-scheduled mobile stations. The estimator estimates a load and transmitting (TX) power of the second mobile station. The determiner is used to adjust a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) level of the second mobile station so that a total load of first and second mobile stations when coupled does not exceed a first threshold value and also the power of the second mobile station does not exceed a second threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2008Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Yong-Seok Kim, June Moon, Si-Hyun Park
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Patent number: 8005120Abstract: A base station including a transmitting and receiving amplifier for amplifying CDMA signals exchanged with a mobile station; a radio stage connected to the transmitting and receiving amplifier for carrying out D/A conversion of a transmitted signal that undergoes baseband spreading, followed by quadrature modulation, and for carrying out quasi-coherent detection of a received signal, followed by A/D conversion; a baseband signal processor connected with the radio stage for carrying out baseband signal processing of the transmitted signal and the received signal; a transmission interface connected with the baseband signal processor for implementing interface with external channels; and a base station controller for carrying out control such as management of radio channels and establishment and release of the radio channels. The base station communicates with the external channels by mapping logical channels into physical channels. The CDMA signals are spread using a short code and a long code.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2003Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.Inventors: Takehiro Nakamura, Junichiro Hagiwara, Etsuhiro Nakano, Koji Ohno, Seizo Onoe, Akihiro Higashi, Motoshi Tamura, Masatomo Nakano, Hiroshi Kawakami, Hiroki Morikawa
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Patent number: RE42919Abstract: A circuit is designed with a measurement circuit (432). The measurement circuit is coupled to receive a first input signal (903) from a first antenna (128) of a transmitter and coupled to receive a second input signal (913) from a second antenna (130) of the transmitter. Each of the first and second signals is transmitted at a first time. The measurement circuit produces an output signal corresponding to a magnitude of the first and second signals. A control circuit (430) is coupled to receive the output signal and a reference signal. The control circuit is arranged to produce a control signal at a second time in response to a comparison of the output signal and the reference signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2006Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Srinath Hosur, Anand G. Dabak