Plural Usage Of Common Antenna Patents (Class 370/339)
  • Patent number: 11949619
    Abstract: A method, network node and wireless device for receiving and/or mapping a physical downlink control channel, PDCCH, to resource elements of a time-frequency grid are provided in which the PDCCH is mapped to resource elements of the time-frequency grid by configuring resource element groups, REGs, each REG spanning one orthogonal frequency division multiplex, OFDM, symbol, and the PDCCH being at least two OFDM symbols. In accordance with one embodiment, the method includes receiving the PDCCH from the network node on one of a plurality of sets of physical resource blocks, PRBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: John Camilo Solano Arenas, Niklas Andgart, Laetitia Falconetti
  • Patent number: 11943135
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for modifying a data connection. One apparatus includes a processor, a first interface supporting a first data connection with a 5G core network over a first access and a second interface that communicates with a UE over a second access. The processor receives a request to establish a second data connection with the UE and determines whether the second data connection can be mapped into one of a plurality of QoS flows established over the first data connection. The processor sends a request to establish a new QoS flow over the first data connection upon determining that the second data connection cannot be mapped into an existing QoS flow of the first data connection and relays traffic between the second data connection and the new QoS flow over the first data connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Apostolis Salkintzis
  • Patent number: 11784701
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of beamforming. For example, a responder station may process a received Beam Refinement Protocol (BRP) request including a beam tracking request from an initiator station; and select whether or not to transmit a BRP response including beam tracking feedback, in response to the BRP request, based on a comparison between a time period and a BRP tracking time limit, the time period being based on a timing of the BRP request and a timing of the BRP response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Solomon B. Trainin, Assaf Kasher, Carlos Cordeiro
  • Patent number: 11716107
    Abstract: Circuits with filters and acoustic resonators. In some embodiments, a radio-frequency circuit can include a plurality of nodes and a common node. The radio-frequency circuit can further include a signal path implemented between each of the plurality of nodes and the common node. Each corresponding signal path can include a filter having a first Q-factor value and a respective resonator having a second Q-factor value higher than the first Q-factor value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Jianxing Ni, Joshua James Caron, Srivatsan Jayaraman, Reza Kasnavi, John G. Freed
  • Patent number: 11689187
    Abstract: A multiplexer includes a first matching circuit having one end connected to a common terminal; a first filter that has one end connected to the other end of the first matching circuit and the other end connected to a first terminal; a second matching circuit having one end connected to the common terminal; a second filter that has one end connected to the other end of the second matching circuit and the other end connected to a second terminal; and a third filter that has one end connected to the common terminal and the other end connected to a third terminal. The first matching circuit includes a first inductor connected on a first signal path in the first matching circuit. The second matching circuit includes a second inductor connected between a second signal path in the second matching circuit and ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hiroshi Matsubara
  • Patent number: 11677630
    Abstract: Techniques are described for managing devices using multiple virtual personal area networks (VPANs). A border router can receive a first request to join a network from a first device. The first device may be assigned to a first virtual personal area network (VPAN), which has an associated first group temporal key (GTK). The first GTK can be distributed to the first virtual device. The border router can also receive a second request to join a network from a second device. The second device may be assigned to a second VPAN, which has an associated second GTK. The second GTK can be distributed to the second virtual device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Lele Zhang, Li Zhao, Haibo Dong, Yihua Dai
  • Patent number: 11497051
    Abstract: An example method in a wireless device operating in a wireless network comprises generating a random access preamble signal and transmitting the random access preamble signal. The generated random access preamble signal comprises a random access symbol group that comprises a plurality of consecutive symbols, where each of the plurality of consecutive symbols being modulated on a corresponding subcarrier frequency and each of the plurality of consecutive symbols corresponding to a truncated sinusoid of 3.75/N kHz, with N>1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Xingqin Lin, Olof Liberg
  • Patent number: 11451319
    Abstract: A high-frequency circuit includes a transmission circuit that transmits a high-frequency signal, a reception circuit that receives a high-frequency signal, and a multiplexer that separates a reception path and a transmission path for high-frequency signals. In the reception circuit, a filter circuit in which a first frequency response and a second frequency response different from the first frequency response can be switched in accordance with a jamming wave for a high-frequency signal to be received is provided in the reception path for a high-frequency signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Takahashi
  • Patent number: 11404787
    Abstract: A magnetic-field generating circuit includes a transformer antenna that includes a transformer including a primary coil and a secondary coil and a resonant capacitor connected in parallel to the secondary coil of the transformer and that generates a magnetic field. Moreover, an AC power supply circuit is provided that supplies an AC voltage serving as a driving voltage to the primary coil of the transformer antenna. The secondary coil and the resonant capacitor form a parallel resonant circuit whose resonant frequency is set to be equal to a frequency of the AC voltage supplied from the AC power supply circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takashi Kurokawa
  • Patent number: 11284513
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the disclosure disclose a device including a main printed circuit board in which a band stop filter that interrupts at least some signals corresponding to a signal received from or transmitted to an antenna module is formed in via group patterns, and an antenna module connected to the main printed circuit board, and a printed circuit board. Various embodiments are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kyungho Yoo, Namkyoung Kim, Jaeyong Ko, Youjin Kim, Tongho Chung
  • Patent number: 11048248
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for data collection in a mining environment are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Strong Force IoT Portfolio 2016, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Howard Cella, Gerald William Duffy, Jr., Jeffrey P. McGuckin, Mehul Desai
  • Patent number: 11025218
    Abstract: A frontend module includes a first filter having a passband of a first frequency band, a second filter having a passband of a second frequency band, the second frequency band being higher than the first frequency band, a third filter having a passband of a third frequency band, the third frequency band being higher than the second frequency band, and a sub-filter, connected to the second filter, configured to provide attenuation characteristics for the first frequency band, wherein the second filter comprises a plurality of parallel LC resonance circuits arranged between a ground and different nodes, from among a plurality of nodes between a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein an inductor is connected to a portion of the plurality of parallel LC resonance circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kang Ta Jo, Seong Jong Cheon
  • Patent number: 10917123
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for N-plexer filtering for coupled antennas. In example implementations, an apparatus includes a first antenna, a second antenna, a first receiver unit tuned to a first frequency band, and a second receiver unit tuned to a second frequency band. The apparatus also includes multiple antenna feed lines. A first antenna feed line is coupled between the first antenna and the first receiver unit. A second antenna feed line is coupled between the second antenna and the second receiver unit. The second antenna feed line comprises an N-plexer that includes multiple paths. A first path is coupled to the second antenna. A second path is coupled to the second receiver unit and includes a resonator configured to cause the first frequency band to be reflected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Kevin Robert Boyle
  • Patent number: 10461914
    Abstract: A triplexer having integrated switching circuitry is disclosed. In one embodiment, a triplexer is used, in a transmit mode, to combine a clock signal, a control signal, and a modulated (e.g., a radio frequency, or RF) signal into a composite signal for transmission over a transmission line. In a receive mode, the triplexer receives and separates the composite signal into the clock signal, the control signal, and the modulated signal. The triplexer further includes switching circuitry integrated therein. The switching circuitry is operable to switch the triplexer between the transmit and receive modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Saihua Lin, Sohrab Emami-Neyestanak
  • Patent number: 10334572
    Abstract: A signal interface unit for interfacing uplink downstream signals from a downstream device with an upstream device includes at least one upstream interface configured to communicate a primary uplink upstream signal and at least one emulated-diversity uplink upstream signal to an upstream device; a downstream interface configured to receive an uplink downstream signal from a downstream device; wherein the signal interface unit is configured to convert the uplink downstream signal into the primary uplink upstream signal; wherein the signal interface unit is further configured to generate the at least one emulated-diversity uplink upstream signal from at least one of the primary uplink upstream signal and the uplink downstream signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Thomas G. Hebert, Jeffrey J. Cannon, Dean Zavadsky, Philip M. Wala, Jody Forland
  • Patent number: 10321332
    Abstract: A system, in an active reflector device, adjusts a first amplification gain of each of a plurality of radio frequency (RF) signals received at a receiver front-end from a first equipment via a first radio path of an NLOS radio path. A first phase shift is performed on each of the plurality of RF signals with the adjusted first amplification gain. A combination of the plurality of first phase-shifted RF signals is split at a transmitter front-end. A second phase shift on each of the split first plurality of first phase-shifted RF signals is performed. A second amplification gain of each of the plurality of second phase-shifted RF signals is adjusted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: MOVANDI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Sam Gharavi, Kartik Sridharan, Michael Boers, Seunghwan Yoon, Donghyup Shin, Farid Shirinfar, Stephen Wu, Maryam Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 10321541
    Abstract: A lighting device having a plurality of analog LEDs mounted on a substrate, a plurality of addressable digital LEDs mounted on the substrate, a first LED circuit connected to the plurality of analog LEDs, and a second LED circuit connected to the plurality of addressable digital LEDs. The plurality of analog LEDs and the plurality of addressable digital LEDs are arranged in an array or pattern on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: ILUMI SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Swapnil Bora, Corey Egan
  • Patent number: 10085169
    Abstract: A radio station (1) includes a first part (1A) and a second part (1B). The second part (1B) can be arranged so as to be physically separated from the first part (1A) and is connected to the first part (1A) via a transmission line (40) so as to be able to communicate with the first part. The first part (1A) includes a first scheduling unit (20A) capable of performing dynamic scheduling to allocate a plurality of radio resources to a plurality of mobile stations or user data. The second part (1B) includes a second scheduling unit (20B) capable of performing, instead of the first scheduling unit (20A), at least a part of dynamic scheduling for a first mobile station connected to the second part (1B) among the plurality of mobile stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Aminaka, Kojiro Hamabe
  • Patent number: 9900120
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a clock synchronization method and a clock synchronization apparatus. Herein the method includes: a physical layer device acquires a synchronization message used for a device to be synchronized to implement clock synchronization; and the physical side device transmits the synchronization message to the device to be synchronized. By means of the abovementioned technical solution provided by the present disclosure, the problems of small user capacity of the load and high synchronization cost resulted from the clock synchronization method in existing technologies are solved, the insufficient user capacity of the load caused by the limit of the CPU architecture is avoided, and the bandwidth resource of the Ethernet is utilized to the maximum extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventors: Lilin Wang, Shengnan Yan, Yangfeng Wang
  • Patent number: 9882586
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a switchable diplexer with physical layout to provide isolation may comprise a diplexer comprising bandpass filters, the bandpass filters having a predetermined passband, and switches coupled to the passband filters and configured to select one of the plurality of bandpass filters, where the bandpass filters are arranged in groups of bandpass filters, a first with an E-band bandpass filter with a passband between 475 MHz and 675 MHz and an F-band bandpass filter having a passband between 650 MHz and 875 MHz, the E-band and F-band bandpass filters being electrically arranged in parallel relation to one another, and a second comprising a D-band bandpass filter with a passband between 1125 MHz and 1675 MHz and a D-low band bandpass filter with a passband between 1125 MHz and 1225 MHz, the D-band and D-low band bandpass filters being electrically arranged in parallel relation to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Entropic Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Yonghuang Zeng, Branislav Petrovic, Tarandeep Virk
  • Patent number: 9860167
    Abstract: A technique for determining a boundary IP address is disclosed. The technique includes processing a header to extract candidate IP address, locating a gateway IP address, and selecting the boundary IP address based on the location of the gateway IP address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: SONICWALL INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan J. Oliver, David A. Koblas
  • Patent number: 9859943
    Abstract: A first RF diplexer, which includes a first RF highpass with tunable notch filter and a first RF lowpass with tunable notch filter, is disclosed. The first RF diplexer has a first main port, a second main port, and a first common port. The first RF highpass with tunable notch filter is coupled between the first main port and the first common port. The first RF lowpass with tunable notch filter is coupled between the second main port and the first common port. The first RF highpass with tunable notch filter has a first highpass notch frequency, which is tunable. The first RF lowpass with tunable notch filter has a first lowpass notch frequency, which is tunable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
    Inventor: Nadim Khlat
  • Patent number: 9844003
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a technique for enabling mobile computing devices to share observation information using low-energy communication protocols. This observation information can include network connectivity information and GPS location information that is either known to or being sought out by a mobile computing device. When observation information (if any) maintained by a mobile computing device does not satisfy a threshold level of confidence, the mobile computing device can query neighboring mobile computing devices for corresponding observation information that satisfies the threshold level of confidence. Conversely, the mobile computing device can be configured to advertise observation information to the neighboring mobile computing devices when the observation information satisfies the threshold level of confidence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anandamoy Sen, Arvind Swaminathan
  • Patent number: 9553630
    Abstract: A switching module includes a common terminal, individual terminals connected to respective corresponding signal paths, and a switch portion that selectively switches and connects the common terminal to one of the individual terminals. The switch portion includes first switches and at least one second switch, each first switch being connected to the common terminal at one end portion within the switch, the at least one second switch being connected to the common terminal at one end portion via a connection wiring electrode provided on a wiring board. This does not allow directional connection between the one end portion of the second switch and the common terminal within the switch. Thus, mutual interference between a communication signal transmitted through the first switch and a communication signal transmitted through the second switch is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takanori Uejima
  • Patent number: 9392631
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus carries out a first data transfer in a first wireless communication method to another apparatus using a physical layer and a data link layer of the first wireless communication method, carries out a second data transfer of a higher speed than the first data transfer to the other apparatus in the first wireless communication method using a physical layer and a data link layer of a second wireless communication method, and further carries out a third data transfer to the other apparatus in the second wireless communication method using the physical layer and data link layer of the second wireless communication method; and limits operations of carrying out the third data transfer by the physical layer and data link layer of the second wireless communication method when an instruction for the second data transfer is given.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: FUJITSU MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
    Inventor: Toshiya Tamura
  • Patent number: 9350061
    Abstract: A resonance device including a plurality of resonators arranged in a state of being spaced apart from each other; and a notch resonator formed above the plurality of resonators, wherein the notch resonator includes: a transverse layer having an area overlapping with at least three resonators of the plurality of resonators; and a plurality of short-ended layers connecting the transverse layer to a first ground surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: INNERTRON, INC.
    Inventors: Soo Duk Seo, Hak Rae Cho, Moon Bong Ko
  • Patent number: 9330836
    Abstract: Provided is a self-resonant apparatus in relation to electric and radio technologies, and more particularly, to a wireless power transmission system, the self-resonant apparatus including ring resonators. Here, the ring resonators may be represented by a combination having metamaterial features, the combination may include split-ring resonators (SRRs) connected in parallel to capacitors, a front surface and a rear surface of each of the SRRs may be connected to be twisted in an alternating pattern, and each SRR may be executed as a metal strip mounted on a dielectric layer and connected to a neighboring SRR by a series capacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Orest Genrihovich Vendik, Dmitry Victorovich Kholodnyak, Dmitry Sergeevich Kozlov, Evgenia Yurevna Zameshaeva, Irina Borisovna Vendik, Keum Su Song, Mikhail Nikolaevich Makurin, Pavel Anatolevich Turalchuk
  • Patent number: 9294174
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for radio reception using a plurality of antennas and a multiple-input-port and multiple-output-port amplifier. The invention also relates to a receiver for radio communication using this method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Frederic Broyde, Evelyne Clavelier
  • Patent number: 9209505
    Abstract: A resonance device including a plurality of signal input/output ports, further including: a plurality of resonators arranged in a state of being spaced apart from each other; and a notch resonator formed at a side of the plurality of resonators, wherein the notch resonator includes: a laminated part having a laminated structure formed by layering a plurality of conductive layers; a first transmitting layer connected to one of the plurality of conductive layers; and a bridge connected between the first transmitting layer and one of the plurality of resonators, wherein one of the plurality of signal input/output ports is connected to the bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: INNERTRON, INC.
    Inventors: Soo Duk Seo, Hak Rae Cho, Moon Bong Ko
  • Patent number: 9141328
    Abstract: A wireless communication device is provided that includes a cellular telephony module to access a cellular network, a wireless communication module to access a non-cellular network, an antenna configured to be in wireless communication with a plurality of compatible and currently accessible communication networks including the cellular and non-cellular networks, and a mobile network analyzer operable to periodically send a packet through each of the compatible and currently accessible networks and time each of the compatible and currently accessible networks to determine a measured data packet throughput speed and data packet integrity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventor: Christophe Max Jean Jouin
  • Patent number: 9025583
    Abstract: A system for the coexistence between a plurality of wireless communication modules sharing a single antenna is provided, including an antenna, first and second transceiving paths, and first and second wireless communications modules. The first transceiving path is coupled to the antenna. The second transceiving path is coupled to the first transceiving path. The first wireless communications module is coupled to the first transceiving path and transmits or receives a plurality of first wireless signals. The second wireless communications module is coupled to the second transceiving path and transmits or receives a plurality of second wireless signals, wherein signal strengths of the second wireless signals passing through the second transceiving path are attenuated by a certain level, and the attenuated second wireless signals are added to the first wireless signals when passing through the first transceiving path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Mediatek Inc.
    Inventors: Hsien-Chyi Chiou, Shu-Ping Shiu, Hong-Kai Hsu, Yuan-Hung Chung, Wei Wang, Ren-Yuh Liang
  • Patent number: 9025471
    Abstract: The embodiments of the invention describe a method for antenna selection in a wireless communication network. The network includes a transceiver having a set of antennas. The transceiver is configured to transmit a frequency-hopped sounding reference signal (SRS) over a subband from a subset of antennas at a time. The transceiver transmits the frequency-hopped SRS from subsets of antennas in the set of antennas alternately. In response to the transmitting, the transceiver receives information indicative of an optimal subset of antennas and transmits data from the optimal subset of antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Neelesh B. Mehta, Koon Hoo Teo, Jinyun Zhang
  • Patent number: 9019843
    Abstract: In a mobile data network with a breakout system, when data is broken out, the RLC function is split into two different flows, between the UE and the breakout system and between the breakout system and the RNC. These two flows are processed by different RLC functions that may drift apart and become out of synchronization resulting in errors that diminish the user's quality of experience. Other errors may also occur in communication on these two different flows. The breakout system attempts to correct these errors using data stored locally in communication data structures for the two data flows. If the errors cannot be corrected, the breakout system can initiate an RLC reset into both of these flows to resynchronize the data communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald L. Billau, Canio Cillis, Vincenzo V. Di Luoffo
  • Patent number: 9019873
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for communicating between a first node and a plurality of second nodes in a network, including a first uplink mode in which a first message is transmitted from multiple second nodes in sequence, and a second uplink mode in which a second message is sent from only a subset of nodes. A first receiving node evaluates communication path information based on messages received in the first uplink mode and returns this information via an acknowledgement to allow the subset to be selected. The first message from multiple nodes includes sequence information to allow the first node to acknowledge at an appropriate point in time. This is particularly applicable where multiple spatially separated antennas offer a receiver several observations of the same signal in an antenna diversity scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Alain Caillerie, Yacine El Kolli
  • Patent number: 9014127
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically, to a method and an apparatus for transmitting an RS (Reference Signal) from a transmission end. The present invention relates to an RS transmission method and an apparatus therefore, comprising the steps of: confirming RS resources which are defined according to each layer; and transmitting the precoded RS for the layers to a receiving end through a multiple antenna, wherein the RS resource includes a 1st index for indicating an RS resource pattern group in which the precoded RS is mapped within a resource block and a 2nd index for indicating a code resource for multiplexing the precoded RSs within the RS resource pattern group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Jae Hoon Chung, Hyun Soo Ko, Moon Il Lee, Yeong Hyeon Kwon
  • Patent number: 9014635
    Abstract: A multi-protocol, multi-band array antenna system may be used in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system reader and sensory networks. The antenna array may include array elements with an integrated low noise amplifier. The system may employ digital beam forming techniques for transmission and steering of a beam to a specific sensor tag or group of tags in a cell. The receive beam forming network is optimized for detecting signals from each sensor tag. Narrow and wideband interferences may be excised by an interference nulling algorithm. Space division multiplexing may be used by the antenna system to enhance system processing capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Mojix, Inc.
    Inventor: Ramin Sadr
  • Patent number: 9001729
    Abstract: A transceiver including, a codec, microcontroller, and radio. The codec including an analog to digital converter for receiving a first audio program and converting it to a first digital signal; a digital to analog converter for receiving a second digital audio signal and converting it to a second audio program; and, a control function for managing characteristics of the codec. The microcontroller is in electrical communication with the codec: for receiving the first digital audio signal from the codec and packetizing it into a first packet for transmission over a TCP/IP network; for receiving a second packet from network and converting it into the second digital audio signal and sending it to the codec; and for receiving control signals from the network. The radio is in electrical communication with the microcontroller for connection to the network to transmit the first packet to the network and receive the second packet from the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: LP Partners, Inc.
    Inventors: Fred H. Holmes, Kevin C. Baxter
  • Patent number: 9002955
    Abstract: A computing network, including: a plurality of peer computing devices including code, which when executed by a peer computing device causes the executing peer computing device to cooperate with at least one other of the peer computing devices; at least one server including code, which when executed by the at least one server locates at least one of the peer computing devices; and at least one mediator including code, which when executed by the at least on mediator collects charging information from at least some of the peer computing devices; wherein, the peer computing devices, at least one sever and at least one mediator are communicatively coupled via an at least carrier-grade telecommunications network being suitable for enhancing cooperation among the cooperating ones of the peer computing devices relative to best-efforts communications among the cooperating ones of the peer computing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignees: ZTE Corporation, ZTE USA Inc.
    Inventors: Larry Shaoyan Ma, Weiyong Zhu, Li Mo
  • Patent number: 9002299
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus in a first wireless station of a network transmitting to a second wireless station. The network uses multi-tone OFDM signals. The first station includes multiple antennas and a receive and a transmit signal path per antenna. Each receive signal path includes a discrete Fourier transformer determining the tones in a received signal, and each transmit signal path includes an inverse discrete Fourier transformer converting tones to a signal. The method includes determining channel estimates for each tone and each receive path while receiving from the second station, determining transmit weights to transmit to the second station, tone-by-tone weighting a signal for transmission to the second station to produce weighted tone sets for each transmit signal path, and transmitting the weighted tone sets. The first station is configured so that the weighting produces additive beamforming without the second station needing multiple antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Eldad Perahia, Bretton Lee Douglas, Brian Hart, Daniel Joseph Lyons
  • Patent number: 8989655
    Abstract: A method in which user equipment transmits a signal in a distributed antenna system in which a plurality of antennas is distributed in a cell, comprises the following steps: receiving uplink antenna information from a base station; controlling uplink power on the basis of the uplink antenna information; and transmitting an uplink signal on the basis of the uplink power control, wherein the uplink antenna information indicates a receiving antenna of the base station that receives the uplink signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Ji Won Kang, Jin Young Chun, Su Nam Kim, Bin Chul Ihm, Sung Ho Park
  • Patent number: 8971932
    Abstract: An apparatus, system or method for use of encrypted or confidential location or position, time, and unique identifier information (LPTI Information) comprising mobile device encoded unique identifiers (UIs), to register the presence of one or more persons in a retail or service store or outlet, vehicle, financial, educational, governmental, transportation, shipping, cargo, residential, vacation, travel, power generation or distribution, water or food supply or storage, or data storage location or position, for use in identifying potential suspects, conspirators, participants or witnesses for criminal, regulated, tort, or prohibited activity for use by law enforcement or a court, and which information is kept encrypted until authorized access is granted to law enforcement or a court by issuance or a warrant or other appropriate legal authorization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Secure Sigint, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Mapes
  • Patent number: 8964715
    Abstract: A system for providing a wireless device with access to a computer network includes an access point that sets up a radio link with the wireless device and couples the wireless device to the network. The system also includes a server that receives data packets from the access point through the computer network. The data packets include at least one data packet that has a first identifier that uniquely identifies the wireless device and a second identifier that corresponds to the wireless device. The system further includes a database that is coupled to the server and stores data for associating a service plan with the first and second identifiers and basing the service plan, at least in part, on the second identifier. Other features and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Hanson, Paulo S. T. Chow
  • Patent number: 8958407
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for allocating frequency subchannels on an air interface of a wireless communication system to users for a predefined time period, a plurality of frequency subchannels being available for communicating between a base station belonging to a cell and users under the coverage of said cell requiring a frequency subchannel allocation. According to the present invention, the method comprises the steps of: determining an angular position of the users under the coverage of a cell relative to a base station in said cell; selecting at least one frequency subchannel to be assigned to a user depending on its angular position and the angular position of at least one other user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Hardy Halbauer, Stephan Saur
  • Patent number: 8953474
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for improving user equipment performance in up-link transmission by implementing antenna selection based on channel measurements in the down-link. In various embodiments, first and second antennas are used to receive signals on a downlink and to transmit signals on an uplink. A plurality of signals received on the downlink are used to generate a plurality of antenna parameter measurements derived from multiple correlations of a known reference sequence of data signals transmitted on the downlink. The plurality of antenna parameter measurements is then used to select either the first antenna or the second antenna or a combination of both through splitting of the signal for transmitting data signals by said user equipment device on the uplink.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Shirook M. Ali, Eoin Buckley, Eswar Vutukuri, Werner Kreuzer
  • Patent number: 8942187
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to improve the quality of control signaling based on signaling messages controlling speech or data transmission over an air interface between at least two Multi-User-Reusing-One-Slot/Voice Services Over Adaptive Multiuser Channels On One Slot (MUROS/VAMOS) capable wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs). The WTRUs communicate with each other at the physical layer via signaling messages transmitted in control channels such as Slow Associated Control Channel (SACCH) and Fast Associated Control Channel (FACCH). Speech services are provided simultaneously over the same physical channel, and the Timing Advance (TA) and Power Command (PC) parameters of a WTRU are multiplexed in several occurrences of the SACCH or FACCH to increase the number of channel bits available for channel coding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen G. Dick, Marian Rudolf, Behrouz Aghili
  • Patent number: 8929208
    Abstract: A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: intercepting a communiqué that is determined to be affiliated with a source entity and that is addressed to an end user to prevent, at least temporarily, the communiqué from being received by a communication device associated with the end user; and releasing the communiqué to the communication device in response to at least detecting occurrence of one or more environmental aspects associated with the communication device, the releasing of the communiqué being in accordance with one or more conditional directives of the end user to conditionally obfuscate the communiqué determined to be affiliated with the source entity. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander J. Cohen, Edward K. Y. Jung, Royce A. Levien, Robert W. Lord, Mark A. Malamud, William H. Mangione-Smith, John D. Rinaldo, Jr., Clarence T. Tegreene
  • Patent number: 8923239
    Abstract: A basestation used in a wireless communications system is disclosed. The basestation includes a plurality of flow management schedulers, wherein the base station receives an indication of function selection from an entity, and wherein the base station chooses for the entity one of the plurality of flow management schedulers according to the indication of function selection. Other methods, apparatuses, and systems also are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Ravindranath Kokku, Rajesh Mahindra, Honghai Zhang, Sampath Rangarajan
  • Patent number: 8908667
    Abstract: Circuits, architectures, systems, methods, algorithms, and software and/or firmware for selecting antenna paths between an antenna and multiple wireless communication protocol components (e.g., components configured to process radio frequency (RF) input and/or RF output signals according to one or more of wireless communication protocols). Exemplary circuits for selecting antenna paths include a plurality of media access grant inputs, a plurality of antenna path selection outputs for enabling one or more of the antenna paths, and a selector circuit configured to produce the antenna path selection outputs based on the media access grant inputs. Embodiments of the present invention advantageously provide for a flexible interface for selecting antenna signal paths between one or more shared antennas and multiple wireless communication protocol components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Gladys Yuen Yan Wong, George Lee
  • Patent number: 8902815
    Abstract: A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes creating a service flow with an endpoint over a wireless link coupled to a backhaul; notifying a mobility anchor of a location associated with the endpoint; relaying control packets between the endpoint and an access gateway; and relaying bearer packets between the endpoint and the mobility anchor, where the bearer packets are exchanged with the endpoint over a locally terminated bearer tunnel and the bearer packets are exchanged with the mobility anchor using Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin D. Shatzkamer, Eric Hamel, Rajesh S. Pazhyannur, David E. Dukinfield, Mark Grayson
  • Patent number: 8891417
    Abstract: To secure a constant level or more of radio communication quality for each user equipment performing radio communication with a base station apparatus, and to increase the number of user equipment which the base station apparatus can accommodate under a condition of assuring the radio communication quality. In a radio communication system where there exist a base station apparatus having multiple antennas and user equipment for performing radio communication with a first antenna group including one or more of the antennas, the first antenna group is made configurable for each user equipment individually, and addition/deletion of the antenna to/from the first antenna group is performed based on the communication quality of each user equipment so that the number of antennas within the first antenna group may be minimized within a range satisfying a required value of the communication quality between the base station apparatus ad the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenzaburo Fujishima, Tsuyoshi Tamaki, Yunjian Jia, Hitoshi Ishida