Repeaters Patents (Class 375/211)
  • Publication number: 20130343437
    Abstract: An echo cancelling system and method for On Channel Repeater (OCR) used for coverage gap filling, which includes: a splitter, an echo cancellation module, a down-conversion module and a digital signal processor (DSP) module, which uses digital signal processing technologies to achieve a precise echo detection/estimation, and to cancel sufficient part of the echoes in analog domain. The invention may also remove residual echoes in digital domain as well, which is considered to be only a great supplement of the echo cancellation operation in analog domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: ANYWAVE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD (CN)
    Inventors: Wenhua Li, Jingsong Xia, Hongjun Li, Bowei Song, Yingying Fan
  • Publication number: 20130336370
    Abstract: A communication system and method for extending coverage of a base transceiver station. The communication system includes processing circuitry that receives a communication signal over a wireless channel. The received communication signal is processed through an adaptable equalizer to reduce noise, distortion, interference, and frequency errors. In another aspect of the invention, a frequency of a reference signal in the communication system is adjusted to compensate for frequency errors between the communication system and the source of the communication signal. The equalized and frequency adjusted communication signal is then retransmitted into an extended coverage area. Wireless coverage is thereby provided between a base transceiver station and a mobile device in the extended coverage area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Milun Jovanovic, Alfons Dussmann, Thomas Kummetz
  • Patent number: 8610463
    Abstract: A redriver chip is inserted between a transmitter chip and a receiver chip and re-drives differential signals from the transmitter chip to the receiver chip. The redriver chip has switched output termination that switches to a high value to detect far-end termination at the receiver chip, and to a low value for signaling. An output detector detects when the receiver chip has termination to ground and enables switched input termination to provide termination to ground on the lines back to the transmitter chip so that the far-end termination on the receiver chip is mirrored back to the transmitter chip, hiding the redriver chip. An input signal detector detects when the transmitter chip begins signaling and enables an equalizer, limiter, pre-driver, and output stage to re-drive the signals to the receiver chip. The input signal detector also causes the switched output termination to switch to the low value termination for signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Pericom Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventors: Tony Yeung, Michael Y. Zhang
  • Publication number: 20130329771
    Abstract: A signal repeater (200) includes a signal processing part (202) and a signal repeating part (204). The signal processing part includes a converter (300) configured to receive an input signal and to convert the input signal into quadrature signals, and a processor (302, 304, 306) configured to process the quadrature signals to determine one or more characteristics of the input signal, and to compare the one or more characteristics of the input signal and a plurality of predetermined characteristics to generate a comparison result. The signal repeating part (204) is configured to selectively repeat the input signal as a repeated signal in accordance with the comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: Lee M. Savage, James E. Henry, Jeffrey J. Becker, David Brent Wilson
  • Patent number: 8600293
    Abstract: A relay gain assignment method and a relay gain assignment device are provided. The method and the device are performed in a MIMO relay system comprising M spatial degrees of freedom and L relay terminals, wherein M and L are positive integers. The relay gain assignment method comprises the steps of: (a) defining a system model for the MIMO relay system, wherein the system model comprises a relay-connected noise and a destination-connected noise; (b) calculating power of the relay-connected noise and power of the destination-connected noise; (c) determining the dominating one between the power of the relay-connected noise and the power of the destination-connected noise; (d) defining a proper noise dominating model based on the determination result of the step (c); (e) calculating L relay gains for the L relay terminals; and (f) assigning each of the relay gains to the corresponding relay terminal of the MIMO relay system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Institute for Information Industry
    Inventors: Chun-Jung Wu, David W. Lin, Chun-Che Chien
  • Patent number: 8599906
    Abstract: A repeater environment is provided to operatively deploy a feedback cancellation loop that performs closed loop calculations for weights used by a feedback equalizer to improve signal integrity and amplification. In an illustrative implementation, an exemplary repeater environment comprises a transmitter, a receiver, an equalized feedback cancellation loop circuitry operative to perform one or more closed form calculations for equalizer weights. In the illustrative implementation, the feedback cancellation loop can comprise a calculation module operative to perform one or more closed form weight calculations using linear algebraic techniques as part of feedback signal cancel operations for use by the N tap feedback equalizer canceller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: James A. Proctor, Jr., Kenneth M. Gainey, James C. Otto
  • Patent number: 8595579
    Abstract: A method for HARQ process allocation for DL SPS transmission between a base station and an UE, and a system thereof are disclosed. The method and system according to the present application achieve HARQ process allocation for DL SPS transmission, while improving the DS transmission chance and reducing the ambiguity between different SPS transmissions and between SPS transmission and DS transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Tao Yang, Antonella Faniuolo
  • Patent number: 8594158
    Abstract: A base station repeater station pair, comprising: a base station (1) having an input for a broadcast signal (s(t)) and being arranged to transmit, in use, a transfer signal over a link (3) using electromagnetic (EM) radiation; and a repeater station (2) arranged to receive, in use and through EM radiation, the transfer signal from the base station (1) and from the transfer signal broadcast the broadcast signal using EM radiation, in which the link (3) between the base station (1) and the repeater station (2) over which the transfer signal is passed in use comprises a dual polarized link, whereby the base station (1) is arranged to transmit the transfer signal over the link (3) with two different polarizations, and the repeater station (2) is arranged to receive the transfer signal from the link as two differently polarized versions. Also disclosed area base station and a method of using the above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Mikael Coldrey, Martin Nils Johansson, Sven Oscar Petersson
  • Publication number: 20130308688
    Abstract: A LEX signal tracking method of continuously tracking a LEX signal is provided. The LEX signal broadcast from a Quasi-Zenith Satellite is demodulated. A weekend approach notification signal Snear is generated based on a time within a week obtained from the demodulated LEX signal. A state of a Long code, which is generated when a code correlation processing is performed, is analyzed. If the analyzed code state is in agreement with a stored 997425th code state, a pulse signal dplus is generated. If the generation of the pulse signal dplus is immediately after the detection of the weekend approach notification signal Snear, the Long code is reset to an initial state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: FURUNO ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dun Wang, Masato Kawai
  • Patent number: 8588795
    Abstract: A scheduling method in a distributed antenna system is provided. Each of a plurality of Mobile Stations (MSs), respectively corresponding to each subchannel, are classified as a Single Transmission (ST) MS or a Cooperative Transmission (CT) MS according to a CT criterion. An MS with a maximum channel capacity is selected from among the classified MSs. Resources are allocated to a corresponding subchannel when the selected MS is the ST MS, and resources are allocated using a CT scheduling technique when the selected MS is the CT MS. The classifying, selecting and allocating steps are repeated until allocation of resources is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Sogang University
    Inventors: Jae-Hoon Lee, Seong-Taek Hwang, Won-Jin Sung, Ki-Suk Sung, In-Hong Shong
  • Patent number: 8588112
    Abstract: In one aspect of the invention, a method for transmission in a wireless communication system includes selecting by a signal destination one of a source-destination direct transmission, a decode-forward relay transmission, and a compress-forward transmission, responsive to channel gains between a signal source and a relay, between the signal source and the signal destination, and between the relay and the signal destination; informing a selected transmission mode from the selecting step to the signal source and the relay; and operating in the selected transmission mode by the relay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventors: Momin Uppal, Guosen Yue, Xiaodong Wang
  • Patent number: 8588279
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for inter-PCB communication utilizing a spatial multi-link repeater are provided. In this regard, a signal may be transmitted between printed circuit boards via one or more repeaters, wherein the repeaters may frequency shift received signals to generate repeated signals. Each of the repeated signals may be generated by quadrature down-converting said received signal by mixing the received signal with a first LO signal pair, up-converting the down-converted signal by mixing it with a second LO signal pair, and adding or subtracting an in-phase portion and a quadrature-phase portion of the up-converted signal. Each repeated signal may comprise one or more signal components and a phase and/or amplitude of each of the components may be controlled to control a directivity of the repeated signals. The repeater may reside on one of the plurality of printed circuit boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Maryam Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 8588126
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for conducting a relayed communication involving a source node, a plurality of intermediate nodes, and at least one destination node, involving at the source node transmitting a signal associated with the relayed communication on a first medium allocation, at each one of the plurality of intermediate nodes relaying the signal onto a next medium allocation in response to receiving the signal as transmitted on at least one medium allocation up to a current medium allocation, and at the at least one destination node receiving the signal as transmitted on at least one medium allocation up to a last medium allocation, wherein at least one node among the plurality of intermediate nodes and the at least one destination node receives signals associated with the relayed communication from multiple intermediate nodes as transmitted on at least one medium allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: TrellisWare Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam M. Blair, Thomas A. Brown, III, Mark L. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20130301688
    Abstract: A method comprising: at a first transceiver, transmitting a plurality of signals to a second transceiver and receiving corresponding receive signals from the second transceiver, wherein each transmitted signal is sent using a channel perturbation; measuring a plurality of phase values, wherein each phase value is a phase difference between one of the plurality of transmitted signals and corresponding receive signal; masking a subsequent phase modulated signal employing phase rotation at the first transceiver using the plurality of phase values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventor: Amir Keyvan Khandani
  • Publication number: 20130294484
    Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving space-time block coded data in a wireless communications system with co-operative relays. A source node transmits RF signals representing first and second sets of data symbols in respective first and second channels (in time frequency code or any combination) of a wireless communications system, the first and second sets of data symbols being for transmission from separate antennas respectively according to a space-time block code. A relay node receives the RF signals representing the first set of data symbols in the first channel and transmits RF signals representing the first set of data symbols in the second channel. A destination node received the RF signals representing the second set of data symbols from the source node and the RF signals representing the first set of data symbols from the relay node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventor: James Mark Naden
  • Patent number: 8577283
    Abstract: A repeater that facilitates communication in a wireless environment comprises a scheduling component that analyzes a schedule relating to when communications are active in the forward link direction and when communications are active in the reverse link direction, the communications are subject to time division duplexing. An amplifier that amplifies received communications as a function of the schedule. The repeater can further comprise a configuration component that configures the amplifier to amplify the received communications in one or more of a forward link direction and a reverse link direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard Finch Dean, Kenneth Robert Baker
  • Publication number: 20130272346
    Abstract: Infrastructure relays are used to relay signals to multi-antenna receivers where the received signals are then processed using MIMO processing. The transmissions can use spatial multiplexing and/or space time block coding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Shalini PERIYALWAR, Shiquan WU
  • Publication number: 20130272345
    Abstract: A packet communication system etc., is proposed, which can automatically adjusting the antenna directionality without modifying a wireless interface of a wireless packet forwarding device even if it involves fluctuation in the packet transmission timing due to CSMA/CA etc. An interference evasion unit involves fluctuation in packet transmission timing due to CSMA/CA. A radio emission device can control the emissive direction and/or emission intensity. A packet generation unit adjusts packet features other than its contents (e.g., packet length, transmission intensity) based on a switching sequence for specifying the emissive direction and/or emissive intensity, and generate a switching control packet. An emission control unit measures the switching control packet feature other than its contents, and identifies at least one bit as antenna control information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Kyushu University, National University Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Furukawa, Osamu Muta
  • Patent number: 8559484
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for cooperative relaying based on beamforming in a mobile communication system. In a method of cooperative relaying based on beamforming in a mobile communication system, a signal received from a transmitting terminal is decoded by a relay station to determine whether a decoding error occurs. The relay station then acquires a beamforming weight corresponding to decoding error information, if the decoding error occurs. The relay station then applies the beamforming weight to the signal received from the transmitting terminal, and transmits the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Kyung-Chun Lee
  • Patent number: 8559485
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to address multipath interference in a communication system is provided. The method comprises measuring an error signal in a signal path of the repeater, wherein the error signal contains desired communication signals, noise signals, and multipath coupling interference signals, computing a power spectrum of the measured error signal, and estimating a response of the multipath coupling interference by processing the power spectrum of the measured error signal using autoregressive estimation in the frequency domain. The method further comprises computing a plurality of FIR filter coefficients from the estimated response and applying the plurality of filter coefficients to an adjustable filter that generates a cancellation signal used to at least partially mitigate the multipath coupling interference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Andrew LLC
    Inventor: Gregory Allan Maca
  • Publication number: 20130266044
    Abstract: To lower the cost of an apparatus. A test apparatus including a first communication device and a second communication device is provided. The first communication device includes a first transmitting unit that transmits, to the second communication device, a signal including a control code of a code value corresponding to a transmission rate to be used in communication between the first communication device and the second communication device when the communication is not established therebetween, and the second communication device includes: a first receiving unit that receives a signal from the first communication device; and a specifying unit that specifies the transmission rate corresponding to the control code included in the signal transmitted from the first communication device when the communication is not established between the first communication device and the second communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventor: Kazumoto TAMURA
  • Patent number: 8553747
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for connecting a base station and a repeater for a spatial division multiple access, and a repeating method thereof. In order to provide efficient spatial division by using a repeater, data streams are repeated by using a repeating system including at least one repeater for performing wireless communication with a terminal located in a repeating region controlled by using at least one repeating antenna and a base station including a plurality of base station antennas corresponding to the repeating antenna. In this instance, the terminal detects location information on the repeating region to which the terminal belongs by using the pilot signal transmitted by the base station or repeated by the repeater. Location information detected by the terminal is fed back to the base station so that the base station may use it for the spatial division multiple access for simultaneous transmission to many terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Young Seog Song, Dong Seung Kwon
  • Publication number: 20130259095
    Abstract: Disclosed are a self-adaptive baud rate system and method. The method includes: a) receiving first data and second data; b) judging whether or not a falling edge of a start bit in a synchronization code of the first data and second data is detected; c) if the falling edge is not detected, then return to step b); and if the falling edge is detected, then a first counting is started from a rising edge after the start bit based on a reference clock, and stopped at the next falling edge, and a first count value is obtained; and a second counting is started from the falling edge where the first counting was stopped, and stopped at the next rising edge, and a second count value is obtained; and d) acquiring a baud rate according to the relationships among the first count value and the second count value and a first threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventor: Lei Chen
  • Publication number: 20130259096
    Abstract: A network repeater is configured to repeat data packets in a broadcast mode without generating a significant broadcast storm. The network repeater is configured to detect a characteristic of a received data packet. The data packet characteristic is compared with valid copies of packet characteristics previously stored in a packet registry. During a delay period, if a valid copy of the detected characteristic is found in the packet registry, then it is assumed that the packet is being received for the second time and the data packet is not repeated in the broadcast mode. If a valid copy of the detected characteristic of the data packet is not found in the packet registry, then the characteristic is stored in the packet registry and the data packet is repeated in a broadcast mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: BROADCOM NETWORKS SPAIN, S.L.
    Inventors: Veronica Romero, David Ruiz Lopez
  • Patent number: 8548030
    Abstract: A relay apparatus, comprises a reception section that receives real-time data, a monitoring section that periodically detects quality of a transmission path to be used for transmitting the real-time data toward a destination thereof, a determination section that determines a length of an interleaving cycle according to the quality of the transmission path, an interleaving section that interleaves the real-time data in the interleaving cycle having the determined length, and a transmission section that transmits the interleaved real-time data to the transmission path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Atsushi Shinozaki
  • Patent number: 8542719
    Abstract: A communication system and method includes a main bus that operates in accordance with a standard limited to a linear topology, a bus controller coupled to the main bus and configured to send and receive messages on the main bus, and a first remote terminal coupled to the main bus and configured to send and receive messages on the main bus including the messages sent by the bus controller. The system and method also includes a repeater coupled to the main bus and configured to send and receive messages on the main bus including the messages sent by the bus controller and by the first remote terminal, and second and third remote terminals coupled to the repeater, wherein the second and third remote terminals send and receive messages on the main bus via the repeater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Stefano A. Lassini, Patrick G. Waite, Michael S. Habenschuss, Mary Voogt
  • Patent number: 8537880
    Abstract: Provided is a frame synchronization apparatus capable of reducing the amount of total computation and computation delays when a receiver of a satellite communication system calculates correlation between an input signal for frame synchronization and a signal sequence of the receiver, since the receiver uses no multiplier. The frame synchronization apparatus includes a correlator to obtain a correlation value of a unique word of a receiver with respect to a symbol data stream of a frame received from a transmitter of the satellite communication system, a comparator to compare the correlation value to a predetermined threshold value, and a determiner to determine whether the frame has been synchronized, based on the result of the comparison by the comparator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Vikas Agarwal, Pan-Soo Kim, Deock-Gil Oh
  • Publication number: 20130235910
    Abstract: Provided is a communication apparatus including a port that connects a power line, along which power is transmitted at a given frequency, to an external apparatus, a transmitter that transmits, via the power line, a carrier signal obtained by modulating a transmit signal that has been obtained by encoding a processing command for executing a given process, at a carrier frequency higher than the frequency of the power, and a communication filter, connected between the power line and the transmitter, that at least blocks signals at the frequency of the power, while not blocking signals at the carrier frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Takanori Washiro
  • Patent number: 8532164
    Abstract: To improve throughput by reducing the resource used for transmitting a parameter relating to retransmission control and decreasing the overhead of retransmission control signaling. In a case where a retransmission control method is employed in consideration of adaptive MCS control in which the encoding rate can be changed, the scheduling section sets the MCS in accordance with CQI notified from the communication counterpart apparatus. When transmission data is encoded, the RV parameter bit-number setting section sets the number of bits used for signaling the RV parameter to decrease as the encoding rate of the first transmission is decreased and sets the RV parameter based on the number of bits. For example, in a case where the encoding rate R is R>2/3, two bits are set. In a case where the encoding rate 1/3<R?2/3, one bit is set. On the other hand, in a case where R?1/3, zero bits is set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masayuki Hoshino, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Yasuaki Yuda
  • Patent number: 8526484
    Abstract: There is provided a content reproduction apparatus including a reproduction request receiving unit that receives from a first external device conforming to a first communication standard a request to reproduce content data selected by the first external device, a content data obtaining unit that obtains from a second external device conforming to the first communication standard, which stores the content data selected by the first external device, the content data in response to the received request, a content reproduction unit that reproduces the obtained content data, and a data converting unit that converts data which can be transmitted according to the first communication standard into data which can be transmitted according to a second communication standard different than the first communication standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventor: Katsuyuki Sato
  • Patent number: 8525550
    Abstract: A circuit implementing multiplexer, storage, and repeater functions is disclosed. The circuit includes first and second input stages having first and second data inputs, respectively. An output stage is configured to drive an output signal. The first input stage is configured to activate the output stage responsive to a first condition, while the second input stage is configured to activate the output stage responsive to a second condition. An intermediate stage is configured to deactivate the output stage at a first delay time subsequent to one of the first or second input stages activating the output stage. The repeater circuit also includes a storage element configured to store a state of the output signal, and further configured to cause the output node to be held at the state of the output signal subsequent to deactivation of the output stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Inventors: Robert P. Masleid, Anand Dixit
  • Patent number: 8509289
    Abstract: A relay device for relaying wireless communication between a transmission device and a reception device includes a buffer configured to temporarily store first data that is a relay object so that the first data is retransmitted to the reception device, a buffer control unit configured to restrict the first data from being stored in the buffer when, based on information acquired using a signal fed back from the reception device, it is determined that a chance of retransmitting the first data is low, and a retransmission request unit configured to request the transmission device to retransmit the first data when the first data is not stored in the buffer and the first data is to be retransmitted to the reception device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Kotaro Shiizaki
  • Patent number: 8509288
    Abstract: Multiple cooperative relays operate in a highly mobile environment and form a virtual antenna array. Multiple independent streams of data can be simultaneously, transmitted in parallel to the destination receiver. Thus a higher spatial multiplexing gain can be obtained. Each relay device that receives the information without errors splits it into multiple streams. For example, if the relay devices receive B symbols and the number of streams is K, each stream contains B/K symbols. Each relay device then generates a random linear combination of all the streams and transmits this output simultaneously with the other relay devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Polytechnic Institute of New York University
    Inventors: Elza Erkip, Thanasis Korakis, Pei Liu, Shivendra S. Panwar
  • Publication number: 20130195150
    Abstract: A signal repeater includes a port, an amplifier, and an adaptive device. The port is configured to connect to an electrical line of an electrical grid between devices. Communication over the electrical line and between the devices includes transmission of a first signal. The port is configured to receive the first signal from the electrical line. An amplifier is configured to receive a second signal based on the first signal, and amplify the second signal. The port is configured to receive the amplified second signal, and provide the amplified second signal to the electrical line. An adaptive device is configured to, based on the first signal, adjust an output impedance of the signal repeater to match a first impedance of a load on the signal repeater. The first impedance is seen by the signal repeater at the port, and wherein the first impedance includes an impedance of the electrical line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: Marvell Hispania, S.L.U.
    Inventor: Marvell Hispania, S.L.U.
  • Patent number: 8498570
    Abstract: A system for repeating radio signals to the outside of a structure, from transmitters operating within a structure that normally prevents radio transmissions from propagating out of the structure. A system for repeating radio signals to the inside of a structure, from transmitters operating outside a structure that normally prevents radio transmissions from propagating into the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Interoperability Technologies Group LLC
    Inventors: Robert S. Block, Alexander A. Wenger, Rene A. Stiegler, III
  • Publication number: 20130188670
    Abstract: An electronic communication device comprises a first transceiver capable of a bi-directional communication session on a first communication medium; a second transceiver capable of a bi-directional communication session on a second communication medium; and a control logic coupled to the first transceiver and the second transceiver, wherein the control logic is configured to receive, from the first transceiver, a first signal, and cause, in response to the first signal, data transmitted by the first transceiver on the first communication medium as part of a communication session to be transmitted instead by the second transceiver on the second communication medium while the first transceiver continues to receive data as part of the communication session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Yanjun SUN, Gang Xu, Soon-Hyeok Choi, Bhadra Sandeep, Xiaolin Lu, Ariton E. Xhafa, Minghua Fu, Robert Liang, Susan Yim
  • Patent number: 8488517
    Abstract: There is provided a digital repeater module and method for relaying digital data. The digital repeater module comprises a data reception unit configured to receive digital data from several broadcast devices concurrently, a data transmission unit configured to transmit digital data using a multiple transmission protocols concurrently, and a routing application. The routing application can receive digital data through the data reception unit, identify available data paths for relaying the digital data to desired destinations, and determine transmission metrics for each of the available data paths for relaying the digital data to the desired destinations. The routing application can also select data paths for transmission based on the determined transmission metrics, and transmit the digital data using the selected data paths through the data transmission unit. There is also provided a method for resolving assignment of limited broadcast frequencies using the digital repeater module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary J. Nadler, Peter Doherty, Steve Schwartz
  • Publication number: 20130177048
    Abstract: A method includes: demodulating a signal transmitted by a first source end that is received to obtain a first log-likelihood ratio; demodulating a signal transmitted by a second source end that is received to obtain a second log-likelihood ratio; demodulating a signal transmitted by a relay node that is received to obtain a third log-likelihood ratio; based on an exclusive OR feature of network coding, processing the first log-likelihood ratio, the second log-likelihood ratio, and the third log-likelihood ratio to obtain a posterior log-likelihood ratio of the first source end; and decoding the signal transmitted by the first source end that is received by using the posterior log-likelihood ratio of the first source end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
  • Publication number: 20130177047
    Abstract: A repeater using a digital filter is disclosed. The repeater comprises a MUX filter for filtering an RF signal received through an antenna or a signal to be transmitted through the antenna; a low noise amplifier for lowering noise of the signal filtered by the MUX filter; a down converter for converting the signal outputted from the low noise amplifier into an IF band signal to digitalize the signal; a digital filter for filtering the digital signal outputted form the down converter based on parameters inputted by a user; a filtering controller for controlling the digital filter by using al filtering coefficient calculated based on the parameters; an up converter for converting the signal filtered by the digital filter into an RF band signal; and a high power amplifier for amplifying the signal outputted from the up converter to a high power signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Applicant: R-TRON INC.
    Inventors: Min Kon KWAK, Sang Jun KIM, You Sik CHOI, Pil Kyu JIN, Se Woong PARK
  • Patent number: 8483106
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for compensating for a phase error in a wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a reception modem, a transmission modem, a Common Phase Error (CPE) compensator, a first channel estimator, a phase compensator, and a second channel estimator. The reception modem demodulates and decodes a signal received. The transmission modem encodes and modulates a signal for transmission. The CPE compensator compensates for phase errors of at least two symbols constituting a signal. The first channel estimator estimates channels for respective bursts. The phase compensator compares phases for the channels for the respective bursts with each other and compensates for a phase difference between at least two bursts. The second channel estimator estimates an interference channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sung-Soo Hwang, Seung-Hee Han, Sang-Boh Yun, Joo-Hyun Lee, Sung-Yoon Jung
  • Publication number: 20130170524
    Abstract: A transmission apparatus included in a communication system together with a reception apparatus and configured to multiplex data from M (M is a natural number equal to or larger than 2) channels and transmit the data to the reception apparatus. The transmission apparatus includes M timing offset units configured to respectively receive inputs of the data from the different channels and insert designated timing offset values in the input data, a multiplexing unit configured to multiplex the M data subjected to the timing offset and output a multiplexed signal, and a timing-offset calculating unit configured to calculate different timing offset values for the respective M timing offset units and output the calculated timing offset values to the respective timing offset units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Fumihiro Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 8478526
    Abstract: A method is described that allows a first mobile device to persistently lock onto a second mobile device, thereby allowing the first mobile device to not only constantly monitor the dynamic location of the second mobile device but also to adaptively navigate in real-time to the dynamic location associated with the second mobile device. The dynamic location may include a current location of the second mobile device or a final destination for travel of the second mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Cellco Partnership
    Inventors: Monica Chitre, Deepa Sukumaran
  • Patent number: 8472868
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments taught herein, a multi-band MIMO repeater is configured to translate normal wireless mobile bands into other frequency bands in the physical layer. An advantageous, multi-hop repeater chain includes two or more such repeaters, for propagating downlink signals from a base station, and for propagating uplink signals to the base station. Each such repeater may use paralleled homodyne structure transceivers for better SNR, spectrum combiners for uplink signal aggregation, spectrum separators for downlink signal de-aggregation, water mark signal inserters for optimization, and, among other things, spectrum analyzers for frequency band selection. In at least one such embodiment, a multi-hop repeater chain is configured for MIMO operation in an LTE Advanced or other MIMO network, to deliver high data rate over larger distances—e.g., further away from cell base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Fenghao Mu, Stefan Andersson
  • Patent number: 8468412
    Abstract: A method for transmitting data to a user agent. The method includes a relay node receiving information from an access node, the information containing the data that is to be transmitted to the user agent and control information that the access node will use to transmit the data to the user agent. The method further includes the relay node transmitting the data to the user agent at the time the access node transmits the data to the user agent, the relay node using the control information that the access node uses to transmit the data to the user agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Zhijun Cai, Chandra S. Bontu, Yi Yu, Mo-Han Fong, Sophie Vrzic, James Earl Womack, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Yi Song
  • Publication number: 20130148700
    Abstract: A system for amplifying signals generated by a unit for generating signals of a satellite, the system including: a first pathway including a first bandpass digital filter with finite impulse response and a first digital/analog converter; frequency transposition means; an amplifying device; a second pathway including a second bandpass digital filter with finite impulse response; gain means disposed at the output of said second digital filter, a phase-slaved numerically-controlled oscillator, and a second digital/analog converter; and a recombiner device for summing the signals of said first and second pathways.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventors: Eric SENANT, Christian PEYROTTE, Charles FERNET
  • Patent number: 8462830
    Abstract: A system for distributing a radio frequency (RF) signal using a data cable system includes a method and apparatus with components that receive the RF signal, determine the passband of the data cable system, spread the RF signal within the passband as a spread signal, insert the spread signal into the cable system, extract the spread signal from the data cable system as an extracted signal, convert the extracted signal to a transmission frequency as a converted signal, and transmit the converted signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Vodafone Group PLC
    Inventors: Allan Bartlett, Alan Law
  • Publication number: 20130142222
    Abstract: A wireless repeater incorporates a gain management block to implement a multi-parameter gain management algorithm. The gain management algorithm receives gain settings from at least a gain control metric for stability and output signal quality and signal headroom values associated with circuitry of the repeater. The gain management block provides secure and robust boot-up of the repeater as well as oscillation detection and prevention. Furthermore, the gain management block implements repeater stability control, output signal-to-noise level control, uplink and downlink gain balance control and compensation for device constraints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Mao Wang, Gwendolyn Denise Barriac, Dhananjay Ashok Gore, Tao Tian
  • Publication number: 20130136156
    Abstract: A method of communicating electronic map data is disclosed, wherein map data is compiled as at least one cell comprising a plurality of vector data records and a plurality of feature data records to, for instance, the IHO S-57 standard. During the compilation, the respective bit lengths of a plurality of vector data values are reduced and both the bit-reduced vector data values and feature data values are entropy encoded. The compiled cell data, which may be an Electronic Navigational Chart, is then compressed, encrypted and digitally signed according to, for instance, the IHO S-63 standard. The encrypted and digitally signed cell data is eventually transmitted to a remote navigational system, which may be an Electronic Chart Display and Information System, over a network, for instance in a satellite telecommunication. A system embodying the method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: CHERSOFT LIMITED
    Inventor: CHERSOFT LIMITED
  • Patent number: 8451768
    Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus are provided for a source to choose a partner/relay from at least one candidate to transmit at least part of a message from the source to destination. The choice depends on the channel conditions of the source and when the source is experiencing poor channel quality to the destination, the source selects the candidate and the modulation modes of the source and partner/relay such that the frame error rate (FER) of the source is lowered. Otherwise, a modulation mode is selected for each of the source and the partner/relay that most improves the gain in throughput of the source. The present invention applies to modes consisting of binary phase shift keying (BPSK), quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK), and 16-state quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
    Inventors: Zinan Lin, Monisha Ghosh, Elza Erkip
  • Patent number: 8446936
    Abstract: Disclosed is a co-channel feedback signal cancelling regenerative repeater of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) that extracts a predetermined reference value of feedback signal to be able to cancel the feedback signal among received signals, including: a signal receiving unit; a signal demodulating unit that converts frequency of a received signal and demodulates it into a baseband signal; an interference equalizing unit that corrects characteristics of the demodulated signal and cancels feedback signal; a channel equalizing unit that compensates for channel distortion of an original signal from which the feedback signal is cancelled; a modulating unit that modulates the channel distortion-compensated original signal and converts it into an analog signal; and a signal transmitting unit that converts the frequency of the modulated signal, controls and amplifies its gain, and transmits a regenerative transmission signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignees: Darbs Co., Ltd., Korean Broadcasting System
    Inventors: Yong-Soek Kim, Sang-Gee Kang, Young-Woo Suh