End-to-end Transmission System Patents (Class 375/141)
  • Patent number: 8085832
    Abstract: Data is estimated of a plurality of received spread spectrum signals by a wireless communication apparatus. The plurality of received communications are received in a shared spectrum. The received communications are sampled to produce a received vector of sequential samples. The received vector is processed to produce a plurality of segments. Each segment is processed separately to estimate data of the received communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kyle Jung-Lin Pan, Ariela Zeira
  • Publication number: 20110310932
    Abstract: A system, method and node of single-carrier layer shifting for multiple-stream transmission in a network. Per-symbol layer shifting for multiple-stream transmission is implemented using DFTS-OFDM as an access technique. Code word-to-layer mapping is fixed within a DFTS-OFDM symbol and only shifted across consecutive DFTS-OFDM symbols. The method begins by receiving a multiple-stream transmission by a mapping module for transmission. The transmission includes a plurality of subframes and information carrying symbols transmitted on a plurality of layers. A per-symbol layer shifting scheme is then implemented on the transmission where layer shifting is conducted upon each symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: Chester Park, George Jongren
  • Publication number: 20110310933
    Abstract: A method of embedding information within a burst carrier signal, the method comprising modulating meta-data using a modulator such that a meta-carrier signal results, lowering a Power Spectral Density (PSD) of the meta-carrier signal by Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) chipping the meta-carrier signal using a linear Pseudo-Random Number (PRN) sequence, embedding one or more modulated symbols of the meta-carrier signal within an unused portion of one or more quadrants of a modulation constellation of a burst carrier signal such that a composite carrier signal results, and synchronously transmitting the composite carrier signal using a transmitter such that symbols of the meta-carrier signal are synchronized with symbols of the burst carrier signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: COMTECH EF DATA CORP.
    Inventors: Richard Hollingsworth Cannon, Michael Beeler, Cris Mamaril
  • Patent number: 8081724
    Abstract: A wireless network comprising a plurality of base station capable of communicating with a plurality of mobile station in a coverage area of the wireless network. A first base station transmits an enhanced synchronization identifier parameter to a mobile station. The enhanced synchronization identifier parameter may apply to less than all of the plurality of base stations defined by the System Identifier/Network Identifier (SID/NIC) value associated with the wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Purva R. Rajkotia
  • Patent number: 8081673
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for processing at least two spread spectrum signals that at least partially overlap in time and in frequency. A main correlator bank with a trip detection component can determine a PN code phase for each of the spread spectrum signals that are associated with a PN code signal. The signals may at least partially overlap in time and in frequency. The PN code phases can be determined by comparing the signals to internally generated PN code phases. Based on the comparison, trips associated with the code phases are detected. The PN code phase for each signal can be used to extract a data signal from the signal. The data signals can be outputted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Cellnet Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Emmanuel Monnerie, Ruben E. Salazar Cardozo
  • Patent number: 8077756
    Abstract: A disclosed signal transmitting method includes the steps of a) categorizing plural digital signals, obtained by performing A/D conversion on plural analog signals consecutively arranged in a time direction, into plural signal groups in an order starting from lower bits of the plural digital signals, b) performing code spreading on the plural digital signals by using a different spread frequency for each signal group and using different spread codes for each bit, c) multiplexing the spread digital signals, and d) transmitting the multiplexed plural digital signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Hideki Yoshizawa
  • Patent number: 8078185
    Abstract: A novel soft fractional frequency reuse (FFR) technique is disclosed. The novel FFR technique includes reuse partition and power restriction, dynamic user grouping, channel quality indicator feedback based on reuse, and a user group-based interference aware scheduler. The FFR technique reduces co-channel interference for cell edge users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hongmei Sun, Hua Yang, Shilpa Talwar, Nageen Himayat, Clark Chen
  • Patent number: 8073037
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus capable of minimizing the degradation of the separation characteristic of response signals to be code-multiplexed. In the apparatus, a control part (209) controls both a ZC sequence to be used for the primary spread in a spreading part (214) and a Walsh sequence to be used for the secondary spread in a spreading part (217) according to the associations between sequences and CCEs established in accordance with the probability of using response signal physical-resources corresponding to CCE numbers. The spreading part (214) performs the primary spread of the response signal by use of the ZC sequence established by the control part (209). The spreading part (217) performs the secondary spread of the response signal, to which CP has been added, by use of the Walsh sequence established by the control part (209).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Seigo Nakao, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 8064550
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for removing quadrature imbalance errors in received data. The method accepts an unbiased training sequence in a quadrature demodulation receiver. An unbiased training sequence has a uniform accumulated power evenly distributed in a complex plane, and includes predetermined reference signals (p) at frequency +f and predetermined mirror signals (pm) at frequency ?f. The unbiased training sequence is processed, generating a sequence of processed symbols (y) at frequency +f, representing complex plane information in the unbiased training sequence. Each processed symbol (y) is multiplied by the mirror signal (pm), and an unbiased quadrature imbalance estimate Bm is obtained at frequency (?f). Using quadrature imbalance estimates, channel estimates, and processed symbols, an imbalance-corrected symbol can be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Rabih Chrabieh, Samir S. Soliman
  • Patent number: 8059695
    Abstract: A transmitter, receiver and communication technique. The transmitter is adapted to interleave a first pseudo-noise sequence with a second pseudo-noise sequence to provide a third pseudo-noise sequence. The third sequence is transmitted and then received by the inventive receiver. The first and second sequences are chosen so that an XOR of the two sequences produces a third, known-valid pseudo-noise sequence. The receiver includes an arrangement for receiving and correlating the third pseudo-noise sequence to provide a measure of a frequency of the transmitted signal. The receiver further includes an arrangement for downconverting and filtering the received signal to provide a filtered complex signal. A complex multiplier is included for effecting a complex multiplication of the filtered complex signal with a delayed version of the filtered complex signal to provide a product. A correlator is included for correlating the product to provide the measure of frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventor: David G. Manzi
  • Publication number: 20110274142
    Abstract: To suppress deterioration of retransmission efficiency and retransmit a transmission signal efficiently even when the system bandwidth is extended, provided are a base station apparatus (20) which divides, in a retransmission block dividing section (21), a transmission signal into retransmission blocks according to a retransmission block table in which the number of the retransmission blocks each of which is a retransmission unit of a transmission signal is increased corresponding to the number of transmission antennas and registered, and retransmits in downlink transmission signals associated with the divided retransmission blocks, and a mobile terminal apparatus (10) which receives the transmission signals associated with the retransmission blocks from the base station apparatus (20), and combines the retransmission blocks to restore the transmission signal prior to division.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Publication date: November 10, 2011
    Applicant: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Nobuhiko Miki, Satoshi Nagata, Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 8054865
    Abstract: A secure information transmission system includes one or more transmitters and one or more receivers. The transmission waveform employed includes highly randomized, independent stochastic processes, and is secured as a separate entity from the information it carries. The signal, using novel modulation methodology reducing impulse responses, has a paucity of spectral information and may be detected, acquired and demodulated only by communicants generating the necessary receiving algorithm coefficients. The physical area of signal reception is restricted to that of each intended communicant, reception areas following movements of mobile communicants. A unique instant in time is used as basis for communications keys to the securing algorithms dynamically generated on a one-time basis and never exchanged or stored by communicants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Inventor: Edward G. Frost
  • Patent number: 8054866
    Abstract: A MC-CDMA transmitter and an MC-CDMA receiver are provided, which use a novel orthogonal spreading code that allows an effect by a delay wave to appear in only a specific user. An MC-CDMA system includes: a transmitter which multiplies a transmitting signal by a sinusoidal signal which has an amplitude of r and is orthogonal as a result that the frequency periods are different among users, in a frequency domain to be spread and split into orthogonal sub-carriers, and multiplexes the sub-carriers; and a receiver for receiving a transmitting signal from the transmitter in a manner that a sinusoidal signal, which has an amplitude of r and is orthogonal as a result that the frequency periods are different among users, is multiplied by the transmitting signal in a frequency domain, and the resultant is inversely spread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: The Doshisha
    Inventors: Hideichi Sasaoka, Hisato Iwai, Yusuke Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 8054868
    Abstract: A UWB transmitting/receiving apparatus, a UWB transmitting/receiving terminal apparatus and a UWB transmitting/receiving system wherein a possibly reduced number of data retransmissions is achieved so as to raise the transmission efficiency. A UWB transmitting/receiving apparatus (100), which performs a UWB transmission, comprises a receiving part (400) that receives a propagation environment determination pulse transmitted from a UWB transmitting/receiving terminal apparatus (200), which also performs a UWB transmission, and a transmitting part (300) that transmits a data signal while the receiving part (400) is receiving the propagation environment determination pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Takatoshi Kageyama
  • Patent number: 8050704
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sung Duk Choi, Young Woo Yun, Ki Jun Kim, Hak Seong Kim, Suk Hyon Yoon, Joon Kui Ahn
  • Publication number: 20110261805
    Abstract: An acquisition and tracking apparatus is provided for tracking digitized spread spectrum navigation signals modulated with a spreading code according to any of a set of modulation types including Binary Phase Shift Keying (BPSK) with and without Frequency Domain Multiplexing Access (FDMA), time multiplexed BPSK, Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK), sine and cosine Binary Offset Carrier (BOC), modified, complex, and time multiplexed BOC (TMBOC), the apparatus comprising a plurality of universal tracking channels, each coupled to an interrupt module. The universal tracking channel includes a carrier demodulation module, a code generation module, a correlator module, a code frequencies generation module, and a subcarrier combining module for efficiently using the correlator resources in the correlation of the data and the pilot components of the signal within a single universal tracking channel. A corresponding method of operation is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Inventors: René Jr. Landry, Marc-Antoine Fortin, Jean-Christophe Guay
  • Patent number: 8045596
    Abstract: An apparatus for transmitting/receiving a signal in a communication system is provided. A Mobile Station (MS) spreads a transmission signal to generate a spreading signal, receives, from a Base Station (BS), information on a second spreading signal transmission region, extended from a first spreading signal transmission region, and maps the generated spreading signal to a subcarrier in the second spreading signal transmission region. A Base Station (BS) transmits information on a second spreading signal transmission region extended from a first spreading signal transmission region, for reception of a spreading signal, receives a spreading signal mapped to subcarriers over the second spreading signal transmission region, from an Mobile Station (MS), detects a spreading signal from the spread signal mapped to the subcarriers, and despreads the detected spreading signal to restore a transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-Hee Cho, Jin-Kyu Koo, Jeong-Ho Park, Kwan-Hee Roh, Tae-Young Kim, Soon-Young Yoon
  • Patent number: 8045536
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: IPR Licensing, Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Proctor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8046214
    Abstract: A multi-channel audio decoder provides a reduced complexity processing to reconstruct multi-channel audio from an encoded bitstream in which the multi-channel audio is represented as a coded subset of the channels along with a complex channel correlation matrix parameterization. The decoder translates the complex channel correlation matrix parameterization to a real transform that satisfies the magnitude of the complex channel correlation matrix. The multi-channel audio is derived from the coded subset of channels via channel extension processing using a real value effect signal and real number scaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sanjeev Mehrotra, Wei-Ge Chen
  • Publication number: 20110255571
    Abstract: Wireless communication systems and methods utilize one or more remote terminals, one or more base terminals, and a communication channel between the remote terminal(s) and base terminal(s). The remote terminal applies a direct sequence spreading code to a data signal at a spreading factor to provide a direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) signal. The DSSS signal is transmitted over the communication channel to the base terminal which can be configured to despread the received DSSS signal by a spreading factor matching the spreading factor utilized to spread the data signal. The remote terminal and base terminal can dynamically vary the matching spreading factors to adjust the data rate based on an estimation of operating quality over time between the remote terminal and base terminal such that the amount of data being transmitted is substantially maximized whilst providing a specified quality of service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Inventors: Michael Paul Caffrey, Joseph McRae Palmer
  • Publication number: 20110249704
    Abstract: A communication system, including a transmitter that transmits a signal by using a two-dimensional spread code used for making a spread in time and frequency directions and a receiver that receives the signal transmitted from the transmitter, where the transmitter includes a selecting unit that selects spread codes in which at least one of the time and the frequency directions are mutually orthogonal, and a transmitting unit that spreads a signal by using the selected spread codes and transmits the signal, where each of the selected spread codes are able to be split in two or more parts, which are mutually orthogonal with the same parts of other selected spread codes in at least one of the time and the frequency directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi SHIMOMURA, Dai KIMURA, Tetsuya YANO
  • Publication number: 20110249705
    Abstract: The present invention provides for spreading a first signal using a plurality of spreading codes, multiplexing the first spread signal by code division multiplexing, transmitting the first multiplexed signal via a plurality of neighboring frequency resources of an OFDM symbol of a first antenna set, spreading a second signal using a plurality of spreading codes, multiplexing the second spread signal by code division multiplexing, transmitting the second multiplexed signal via a plurality of neighboring frequency resources of the OFDM symbol of the first antenna set, transmitting the first multiplexed signal via a plurality of neighboring frequency resources of an OFDM symbol of a second antenna set, and transmitting the second multiplexed signal via a plurality of neighboring frequency resources of the OFDM symbol of the second antenna set, wherein the first multiplexed signal is transmitted on frequency resources that neighbor frequency resources that the second multiplexed signal is transmitted on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Inventors: Jung Hoon LEE, Ki Jun KIM, Dong Wook ROH, Daewon LEE, Joon Kui AHN
  • Patent number: 8036259
    Abstract: A first communication apparatus sequentially generates a pulse sequence having pulse signals arranged based on the UWB communication system, performs a framing process to form a frame having at least a preamble and a data portion on the generated pulse sequence and inserts a preamble segment including a sequence of steady pulse signals in the data portion at a predetermined time interval, and transmits it as a radio wave. A second communication apparatus receives a pulse sequence as a radio wave transmitted from the first communication apparatus, and detects at least the preamble segment from the frame contained in the received pulse sequence through a detection window structured to have a predetermined time length, whereby a transmission timing for the pulse sequence to the first communication apparatus 2 controlled according to a state of detection of the preamble segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
    Inventors: Bin Zhen, Huan-Bang Li, Yihong Qi, Ryuji Kohno
  • Patent number: 8036287
    Abstract: A multi-carrier spread spectrum device using cyclic shift orthogonal keying includes: a modulation unit for receiving a first part of data bits and transforming the first part of data bits to a modulation symbol di by modulation; a cyclic-shift unit for receiving a base code c(0) and a second part of data bits, and performing a cyclic-shift to the base code c(0) in accordance with the second part of data bits to generate a CSOK symbol c(mi); and a multiplier for multiplying the modulation symbol di by the CSOK symbol c(mi) to generate a spread spectrum signal ci.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Yuan-Ze University
    Inventors: Jeng-Kuang Hwang, Yu-Lun Chiu
  • Publication number: 20110240792
    Abstract: A system for transmitting non-GPS information for reception by a global positioning system (GPS) receiver, the system including a processor, a memory coupled to the processor and including computer-readable instructions configured to, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive the non-GPS information, determine an available pseudo-random noise (PRN) code, spread the non-GPS information using the available PRN code to provide a spread signal, modulate a GPS carrier frequency using the spread signal to produce a GPS compatible signal, and a terrestrial transmitter configured to transmit the GPS compatible signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Applicant: MOBILEACCESS NETWORKS LTD.
    Inventors: Yair Oren, Stanley B. Alterman
  • Patent number: 8031809
    Abstract: A template pulse generating circuit that generates a template pulse used for detection of a received pulse in pulse communication includes an output mode switching circuit for switching an output mode in accordance with a supplied control signal between a continuous output mode that continuously outputs the template pulses and an intermittent output mode that intermittently outputs the template pulses so that the template pulse is generated in either one of the continuous output mode and the intermittent output mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Izumi Iida
  • Publication number: 20110235686
    Abstract: The present invention provides a position estimation apparatus, mounted at mobile object, including: an acquisition section that acquires transmission source information transmitted from each plural information transmission sources including, information relating to a position of information transmission source, information relating to a distance between information transmission source and mobile object, and information relating to a relative velocity of mobile object with respect to information transmission sources; a trajectory calculation section that calculates, over predetermined duration, a trajectory of mobile object by integrating velocity vectors of mobile object obtained based on transmission source information; and an estimation section that estimates, as a position of mobile object, a position for which trajectory is translated such that a difference between, distances between a plurality of points at different times on trajectory and respective information transmission sources, and acquired dista
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA CHUO KENKYUSHO
    Inventors: Yoshiko KOJIMA, Junichi MEGURO, Noriyoshi SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 8027372
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Aamod Khandekar, Avneesh Agrawal
  • Publication number: 20110228817
    Abstract: A method of combining a GPS carrier signal and a communication carrier signal over a common coaxial connection, the method comprising receiving a GPS carrier signal into a signal system using an antenna, which system is configured to receive a non-GPS communication carrier signal from a communication system, processing the GPS carrier signal with the signal communication system to produce a modified GPS carrier signal, the processing comprising at least: filtering the modified GPS carrier signal using a filter, and amplifying the GPS carrier signal using an amplifier; filtering, using a filter, and power combining using a power combiner, the GPS carrier signal and the non-GPS communication carrier signal, and transmitting, using a single coaxial cable, the combined GPS carrier and non-GPS communication carrier signals to a communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: Comtech EF Data Corp.
    Inventors: Michael Beeler, Cris Mamaril, Jeffery Harig
  • Patent number: 8014436
    Abstract: A transmitter and a method are described herein that can generate a radio signal with a reduced ratio of peak amplitude to root-mean-square amplitude which helps to improve the transmit efficiency of the transmitter's power amplifier. In addition, a receiver is also described herein that can decode the radio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventor: Paul Dent
  • Patent number: 8014437
    Abstract: A system for implementing an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing scheme and providing an improved range extension. The system includes a transmitter for transmitting data to a receiver. The transmitter includes a symbol mapper for generating a symbol for each of a plurality of subcarriers and a spreading module for spreading out the symbol on each of the plurality of subcarriers by using a direct sequence spread spectrum. The symbol on each of the plurality of subcarriers is spread by multiplying the symbol by predefined length sequences. The receiver includes a de-spreader module for de-spreading the symbols on each of the plurality of subcarriers. The de-spreader module includes a simply correlator receiver for obtaining maximum detection. The correlator produces an output sequence of a same length as an input sequence and the de-spreader module uses a point of maximum correlation on the output sequence to obtain a recovered symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Jason Alexander Trachewsky
  • Patent number: 8014439
    Abstract: A communication device selects an optimal modulation method even when a propagation path condition is changed. In the communication device, a second communication device has a transmission path condition estimation unit for estimating the propagation path condition change speed and a communication quality estimation unit for modifying the communication quality estimation method according to the speed of the change of the propagation path condition and for estimating the communication quality according to the modified estimation method. The information on the estimated propagation path condition and the information on the communication quality are transmitted from a transmission processing unit, and an adaptive modulation control unit of the first communication device sets a condition for selecting the modulation method and decides the modulation method according to the set condition and the information on the communication quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Takenori Sakamoto, Katsuaki Abe, Akihiko Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 8009637
    Abstract: Various embodiments are described which may serve to improve spreading channel code selection in wireless technologies that employ two-stage ranging. For example, some of the embodiments enable a number of spreading codes to be reused at each network node (111, 112), potentially increasing the number of codes available to each remote unit and thereby reducing the collision rate. Rather than simply selecting a spreading channel code randomly, remote units (101-103), in some embodiments, select a spreading channel code based on one or more considerations such as pilot signal strength, remote unit location, a remote unit mobility level, and a priority class associated with the remote unit. Depending on the embodiment, network nodes can partition the spreading codes into groups and then assign link bandwidth to remote units based on the group associated with the code selected by that remote unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Harris, Vijay G. Subramanian
  • Publication number: 20110206089
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided to enable User Equipments (UEs) to apply Orthogonal Covering Codes (OCC) to the transmission of Reference Signals (RS) generated from Constant Amplitude Zero Auto-Correlation (CAZAC) sequences, to enable hopping of these sequences in a communication system in conjunction with enabling the application of OCC, and to differentiate the application of sequence hopping between transmissions in data channels and transmissions in control channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Joon Young CHO, Aris PAPASAKELLARIOU
  • Patent number: 8005127
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a detection processor (203) for detecting retransmission feedback messages in response to a detection threshold. A threshold processor (207) determines the detection threshold in response to a noise estimate generated by a noise processor (209). The noise processor comprises a sub-symbol generator (211) which divides a retransmission feedback symbol into a plurality of sub-symbols. Each of the sub-symbols is despread by a spreading code with a lower spreading factor than a spreading factor of the retransmission feedback symbol. A difference generator (213) then generates difference symbol values between the plurality of sub-symbols and a noise estimator (215) generates the noise estimate in response to the difference symbol values, for example by determining the variance of the difference symbol values. An improved noise estimate may be determined resulting in improved detection performance and thus improved retransmission performance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility, Inc.
    Inventor: Nick W. Whinnett
  • Patent number: 8005168
    Abstract: A communication apparatus using a chaotic signal and a method thereof are provided. The communication apparatus includes a correlator which multiplies source data by one of an optical orthogonal code (OOC) and a prime sequence code (PSC), and outputs transmission data, a transmission signal generating unit which generates a chaotic transmission signal by masking the transmission data with respect to a chaotic signal, and an antenna which transmits the chaotic transmission signal. As a result, multiple accesses are enabled, and a wireless communication system for short-distance operation, which is economic and low power-consuming, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae-hyon Kim, Sang-min Han, Young-hwan Kim, Mi-hyun Son, Hyuncheol Park, Kwonhyung Lee
  • Patent number: 8000377
    Abstract: A communication system and receiver is provided that facilitates increased message size in a communication system that supports a large number of transmitters sharing a common frequency band. The communication system facilitates increased message size by incorporating a plurality of transmit bit sets in each burst of data. The additional transmit bit sets are incorporated into a plurality of transmit codes that are generated using at least one additional spreading code that is orthogonal to the base spreading code. The plurality of transmit codes are then combined into one composite message and the composite message is spread again using another scrambling sequence. The final composite spread message is transmitted to the receiver in the appropriate message time slot, resulting in CDM/TDMA burst signal that facilitates increased message size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott D. Blanchard
  • Publication number: 20110194587
    Abstract: This invention presents methods for transmitting and receiving data via a satellite and satellite communication systems thereof. A transmitted signal may include a stream of transmission blocks, whereas each transmission block may differ from a previous transmission block by any of a spreading characteristic, an error correction code-rate characteristic and a modulation characteristic. In addition, any of the spreading, error correction code-rate and modulation characteristics may be changed in accordance with momentary reception conditions at a receiving station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: GILAT SATELLITE NETWORKS LTD
    Inventor: Uzi Ram
  • Patent number: 7995644
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, method and computer program product for secure ranging between at least two devices in radio communications with each other. In particular, an apparatus, system, method and computer program product for secure ranging between at least two devices communicating via ultra wideband (UWB) protocols. Either ternary-IR or time-hope-IR sequences are used for ranging and security. A first device transmits a range packet. A second device responds to the range packet after a delay time known only to the first and second devices. The delay time can be selected randomly by either to the first device or the second device and made known to the other device in an encrypted notification packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Zafer Sahinoglu, Philip V. Orlik, Andreas F. Molisch
  • Publication number: 20110188545
    Abstract: Provided is a Direct-Sequence Ultra-Wideband (DS-UWB) terminal device. A mobile communication terminal device using a DS-UWB scheme may simultaneously or sequentially transmit and receive a signal in a low-frequency band and a signal in a high-frequency band, and may simultaneously process the signals. Therefore, the DS-UWB scheme may be applied to a function division technique.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: PANTECH CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Eun Yeong AN
  • Patent number: 7983330
    Abstract: A portable device, such as a mobile terminal or user equipment, for encoding uplink acknowledgments to downlink transmissions. The portable device includes a receiver configured to receive a plurality of data blocks, such that each of the data blocks include an associated cyclic redundancy check (CRC), and a processor configured to determine received status for each of the data blocks by checking the CRC of each of the data blocks. The portable device further includes a transmitter for transmitting a response sequence which indicates the received status of all of the data blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Bong Hoe Kim, Young Woo Yun, Ki Jun Kim, Eun Sun Kim, Joon Kui Ahn, Suk Hyon Yoon, Dong Youn Seo, Hak Seong Kim, Jung Hoon Lee, In Jae Jung
  • Patent number: 7975008
    Abstract: A system for managing data traffic in a multi-user multiple-simultaneous-access (MUMSA) environment, for example in a code reuse multiple access (CRMA) environment or other physical environment having true random access with more than one transmission present at the same time, the system including a channel load estimator for multiple users, a congestion threshold calculator using the estimate of channel load to calculate threshold on an ongoing basis, a tester at each terminal performing an experiment using that congestion threshold value and a random number generator to determine if a packet is eligible to be transmitted, a traffic controller for transferring downstream virtual channel traffic and a redistributing mechanism for redistributing user terminals to affiliate with the proper downstream virtual channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: ViaSat, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven R. Hart, Mark J. Miller, Charles N. Pateros
  • Patent number: 7974331
    Abstract: Rake receivers in code division multiple access (CDMA) telecommunication comprise fingers (1,2,3) with each finger processing signal components for a particular transmission path to be able to better synchronize with a RF signal received via different paths, and a combiner (4) for combining the results originating from said fingers, and a compensator in the form of a controlled oscillator in a feedback loop. By locating a finger compensator (20-25) in a finger, said finger can handle complex situations, like Doppler shifts under high-speed conditions. Preferably, most or all fingers each comprise such a finger compensator, in which case said feedback loop can be avoided. Such a finger compensator can be hardware, software or a mixture of both when comprising a filter (21) plus an amplitude normalizer (22) between two arithmetical modules (20,25) for multiplying an input symbol signal with a conjugated previous input symbol signal and an output symbol signal with a previous output symbol signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: ST-Ericsson SA
    Inventors: Luzhou Xu, Dong Wang
  • Patent number: 7974330
    Abstract: The multi-carrier code dividing multiplex transfer system of the present invention includes a direct demodulator that discriminates transmitted signals according to a receiving signal point composed of a combination of receiving values in a spread state of sub-carriers in a range where one modulated symbol is spread, and according to reference signal composing values that can be taken by the combination of the receiving values in the spread state of the sub-carriers. As a result, it is possible to prevent from affects of inter-code interference, and improve receiving characteristics as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: KDDI Corporation
    Inventors: Toshinori Suzuki, Noriaki Miyazaki
  • Publication number: 20110142097
    Abstract: For data transmission with spatial spreading, a transmitting entity (1) encodes and modulates each data packet to obtain a corresponding data symbol block, (2) multiplexes data symbol blocks onto NS data symbol streams for transmission on NS transmission channels of a MIMO channel, (3) spatially spreads the NS data symbol streams with steering matrices, and (4) spatially processes NS spread symbol streams for full-CSI transmission on NS eigenmodes or partial-CSI transmission on NS spatial channels of the MIMO channel. A receiving entity (1) obtains NR received symbol streams via NR receive antennas, (2) performs receiver spatial processing for full-CSI or partial-CSI transmission to obtain NS detected symbol streams, (3) spatially despreads the NS detected symbol streams with the same steering matrices used by the transmitting entity to obtain NS recovered symbol streams, and (4) demodulates and decodes each recovered symbol block to obtain a corresponding decoded data packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jay Rodney Walton, John W. Ketchum, Mark S. Wallace, Steven J. Howard
  • Publication number: 20110134901
    Abstract: It is possible to obtain the diversity effect in a plurality of slots while preventing complication of a scheduler or inefficient use of resources, to eliminate the phenomenon in which SINR significantly decreases in a specific slot, and to avoid deterioration of demodulation performance. In a radio communication system which performs transmission in a sub-frame unit having two slots temporally continuously arranged, when pre-coding is performed by multiplying a signal to be output to a plurality of antennas by a pre-coding weight, CDD is used to shift a phase such that the phase in the pre-coding weight is cyclically changed on the frequency axis. The phase shift amount to be applied by the CDD is set to change by 2? in an allocated resource block (1RB) of the local device, and PVS is applied such that the phase shift amount differs by ? between the weight W0 of the first half slot and the weight W1 of the second half slot in the sub-frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayuki Hoshino, Seigo Nakao, Akihiko Nishio
  • Patent number: 7949032
    Abstract: A secure information transmission system includes one or more transmitters and one or more receivers. The transmission waveform employed includes highly randomized, independent stochastic processes, and is secured as a separate entity from the information it carries. The signal, using novel modulation methodology reducing impulse responses, has a paucity of spectral information and may be detected, acquired and demodulated only by communicants generating the necessary receiving algorithm coefficients. The physical area of signal reception is restricted to that of each intended communicant, reception areas following movements of mobile communicants. A unique instant in time is used as basis for communications keys to the securing algorithms dynamically generated on a one-time basis and never exchanged or stored by communicants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Inventor: Edward G. Frost
  • Patent number: 7940831
    Abstract: A method for a direct sequence spread spectrum communication system comprises encoding a first signal of data in a communication channel, embedding a second signal of data as notches in the communication channel, transmitting the first signal of data and the second signal of data concurrently and at a substantially same rate across the communication channel, receiving the communication channel, decoding the first signal of data in the communication channel to interpret the first signal of data, and bit decoding the second signal of data in the communication channel to interpret the second signal of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Rockwell Collins, Inc.
    Inventors: John Thommána, Roy C. Moore, Lizy Paul, Steven J. Zaugg
  • Patent number: 7936729
    Abstract: The invention discloses a distribution method of channelization code in code division multiple access system, which including: A. the spread spectrum codes distributed to every sector and the correlated coefficients between the spread spectrum codes distributed to every neighboring sector are calculated according to the cellular codes and the channelization codes distributed to every sector, when the network is programmed; B. every sector is divided into different regions and the edge region of every sector is formed; C. the priority of which every channelization code is at the edge region of every sector is decided according to the correlated coefficients between the spread spectrum codes distributed to every neighboring sector; D. the position information of user is real-time calculated during the operation of system, and which region the user positioned in sector is determined according to the position information; E.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: China Academy of Telecommunications Technology
    Inventors: Changguo Sun, Yingmin Wang, Guiliang Yang
  • Patent number: RE42681
    Abstract: A wireless communication system (40). The system comprises transmitter circuitry (42) comprising encoder circuitry (44) for receiving a plurality of symbols (Si). The system further comprises a plurality of antennas (AT1-AT4) coupled to the transmitter circuitry and for transmitting signals from the transmitter circuitry to a receiver (UST), wherein the signals are responsive to the plurality of symbols. Further, the encoder circuitry is for applying open loop diversity and closed loop diversity to the plurality of symbols to form the signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Anand G. Dabak, Srinath Hosur