Including Pulse Regeneration Or Conversion Patents (Class 375/214)
  • Patent number: 8619837
    Abstract: A repeater environment is provided to deploy a feedback cancellation loop that is adaptively coupled with an antenna array such that a selected metric can be derived by deploying a one or more of selected metrics (e.g., composite metrics) 5 comprising a selected filter bank operative to process the signal on a bin by bin basis and the derived metric can be applied to the antenna array and feedback cancellation loop combination to improve signal integrity and amplification, beam forming operations, and pilot control and overhead channel control operations. In an illustrative implementation, an exemplary repeater environment comprises, a 10 transmitter, a receiver, an equalized feedback cancellation loop circuitry comprising a filter bank, the cancellation loop being operatively coupled to an antenna array. In the illustrative implementation, the feedback cancellation loop can receive signals as input from a cooperating antenna array and provide output signals such as a feedback leakage signal to a cooperating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: James A. Proctor, Jr., Kenneth M. Gainey, James C. Otto
  • Patent number: 8619839
    Abstract: An interface module (4) for a unit (1, 2) which is designed to transmit and/or amplify essential communication signals inside an antenna distribution system (29) is specified, said module comprising a first analog interface (6) for forwarding and receiving essential communication signals from mobile terminals (32), a second interface (7) for forwarding and receiving essential communication signals from the antenna distribution system (29), at least one signal path (9, 10) for forwarding the received communication signals between the two interfaces (6, 7), and a controllable digital unit (11) which incorporates the signal path (9, 10) and has means for digitizing incoming communication signals and for subjecting outgoing communication signals to analog conversion. In this case, the digital unit (11) is designed to identify essential communication signals in the digitized communication signals, to mask the remaining signals and to forward the essential communication signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Andrew Wireless Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Oliver Braz, Jorg Stefanik, Jaroslav Hoffmann
  • 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: 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: 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
  • 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: 8514913
    Abstract: Techniques are generally described for estimating a communication channel using wirelessly transmitted and retransmitted signals, each transmitted at a different power ratio. An example wireless communications system may include a base station, a relay station and a wireless device. The base station may include a transmitter configured to transmit a first signal, wherein the first signal includes pilot and data symbols with a first power ratio. The relay station may include a receiver configured to receive the first signal, and a transmitter configured to retransmit the first signal as a second signal, wherein the second signal includes pilot and data symbols with a second power ratio. The wireless device includes a receiver configured to receive the first and second signals, i.e. the transmitted and retransmitted pilot and data symbols having the first and second power ratios are received, and estimate a communications channel from the received signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System
    Inventors: Robert W. Heath, Jr., Ali Yazdan Panah
  • Patent number: 8509136
    Abstract: A base station BS transmits downlink data to a relay station RS. A mobile station MS transmits uplink data to the relay station RS. The relay station RS determines a first modulation scheme for transmitting the uplink data to the base station BS, and determines a second modulation scheme for transmitting the downlink data to the mobile station MS. The relay station RS multiplies a symbol sequence obtained by the first modulation scheme by a symbol sequence obtained by the second modulation scheme for each symbol, and multicasts the multiplication result to the base station BS and the mobile station MS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Jianming Wu, Yoshinori Tanaka, Kazuhisa Obuchi, Mitsuhiro Azuma, Tomohiko Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 8488653
    Abstract: A cooperative communication system and method is provided. A cooperative communication relay station includes a signal receiving unit which receives a source signal from a source node and a multiple relaying signal relayed by a neighboring relay station, a signal generation unit which generates a first relay signal and a second relay signal, the first relay signal being generated by performing a decode-and forward scheme with respect to the multiple relaying signal and the second relay signal being generated by performing an amplify-and-forward scheme with respect to the source signal, and a signal transmission unit which transmits the first relay signal and the second relay signal to a destination node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tetsuhiko Miyatani
  • Publication number: 20130114651
    Abstract: An apparatus for repeating signals includes a receive antenna for receiving input signals, processing circuitry for processing the input signals to form repeated signals, and a transmit antenna for transmitting the repeated signals. The processing circuitry includes an adaptive digital filter configured to generate cancellation signals that are added to the input signals to cancel unwanted feedback signals from the input signals. A frequency shifting circuit adds a frequency shift to the input signals, after the addition of the cancellation signals, to form repeated signals that are frequency shifted from the input signals. A digital signal processor is coupled to the adaptive digital filter for digitally adapting the filter. The digital signal processor utilizes the frequency shift of the transmission signals to adapt the adaptive digital filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: ANDREW LLC
    Inventor: Andrew LLC
  • Publication number: 20130070813
    Abstract: Provided is a relay node that performs network coding with respect to signals transmitted from a plurality of sources. The relay node may partition a plurality of constellation points into a plurality of subsets, generate a new constellation diagram based on respective characteristics among the plurality of subsets, and perform network coding based on the new constellation diagram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventors: Kwang Taik KIM, Vahid TAROKH
  • Publication number: 20130010841
    Abstract: Disclosed are a control method and a control device for implementing two-way communication in a wireless network. A repeater can measure a channel matrix, which indicates channel information of each of a plurality of nodes based on signals received simultaneously from the plurality of the nodes, and calculate a first basic lattice size, which initializes the lattice sizes of the received signals according to predefined rules. Then, the repeater uses the channel matrix of each of the nodes and the initialized first lattice size to calculate for each of the nodes a first normalization factor, which normalizes the sizes of the signals simultaneously received from each of the nodes, and a minimum normalized factor, which is equivalent to the minimum value of the first normalization factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicants: INHA INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTE, LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Han Byul Seo, Daeyoung Park, Byoung Hoon Kim
  • Patent number: 8331423
    Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and a method for providing a relay service in a wireless communication system. The apparatus includes a modulator, an encoder, and a transmission unit. The modulator modulates a transmission signal according to a modulation degree. The encoder encodes a modulation symbol provided from the modulator using a convolution code of a ring domain. The transmission unit transmits the signal provided from the encoder to a relay station. The relay station detects a signal where signals received from different transmission ends are added in a real domain, and relays the detected signal, thereby providing a relay service without an additional time resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Eun-Yong Kim, Ju-Mi Lee, Tak-Ki Yu, Sang-Min Lee, Sung-Soo Kim, Joo-Hwan Chun
  • Patent number: 8325785
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for communicating via a spatial multilink repeater are provided. In this regard, a received signal may be frequency shifted to generate a plurality of repeated signals, wherein each repeated signal may be shifted by a different frequency with respect to the received 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. 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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Maryam Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 8295333
    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: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Maryam Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 8284821
    Abstract: A message is efficiently relayed in a cut-through mode to a communication line of the transmission destination of a transmission rate higher than that of the communication line of the recipient while preventing the state that there is no data to be transmitted. A vehicle-mounted relay connection unit is used to relay messages received through first CAN communication lines to a second CAN communication line of a transmission rate higher than that of the first transmission lines in a cut-though mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignees: Autonetworks Technologies, Ltd., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshikazu Isoyama, Shigeo Hayashi
  • Patent number: 8270333
    Abstract: A data relaying apparatus for relaying data bidirectionally transmitted between a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus includes a first symbol string generator configured to generate, in accordance with a first modulation method, a first symbol string from first data transmitted from the second communication apparatus; a second symbol string generator configured to generate, in accordance with a second modulation method, a second symbol string from second data transmitted from the first communication apparatus; and a combining unit configured to combine a first symbol of the first symbol string and a second symbol of the second symbol string by calculating an exclusive OR on the first symbol and the second symbol to generate a third symbol string to be multicasted to the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Jianming Wu, Kazuhisa Obuchi, Tomohiko Taniguchi
  • Patent number: 8265128
    Abstract: A method for providing multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) feedback information and configuration information. The method includes transporting the MIMO feedback information, configuration information, or both over an uplink relay link using higher layer signaling. Also included is a method for providing uplink data transmission over an access link. The method includes transporting the uplink data over an uplink access link using orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing access (OFDMA). Also included is a relay node comprising a processor configured to promote transmitting MIMO feedback information, configuration information, or both over an uplink relay link using higher layer signaling. Also included is a user agent (UA) comprising a processor configured to promote transmitting uplink data over an uplink access link using OFDMA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventors: Yi Yu, James Earl Womack, Zhijun Cai
  • Publication number: 20120224606
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for managing signal routing on board a satellite, and use of “agile” digital transparent processors. The device decorrelates the spreading band of the uplink to said satellite from the instantaneous useful band of each signal, used for routing on board the satellite and on the downlink. For a given protection dictating the spreading width of the uplink signals, the device makes it possible to optimize connectivity, i.e. the number of routes through said satellite, as well as the total capacity of the satellite by means of individualized control of the gain of each route. The routing band is limited to the instantaneous useful communication band and is not extended to the spreading band of the uplink. The band used in the downlink by each signal can also be limited to the instantaneous useful band or possibly widened by a new frequency spread.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2010
    Publication date: September 6, 2012
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventors: Didier Le Boulc'H, Philippe Voisin, Helene Gachon
  • Publication number: 20120170620
    Abstract: An apparatus for repeating signals includes a receive antenna for receiving input signals, processing circuitry for processing the input signals to form repeated signals, and a transmit antenna for transmitting the repeated signals. The processing circuitry includes an adaptive digital filter configured to generate cancellation signals that are added to the input signals to cancel unwanted feedback signals from the input signals. A frequency shifting circuit adds a frequency shift to the input signals, after the addition of the cancellation signals, to form repeated signals that are frequency shifted from the input signals. A digital signal processor is coupled to the adaptive digital filter for digitally adapting the filter. The digital signal processor utilizes the frequency shift of the transmission signals to adapt the adaptive digital filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Chris Ranson, Van Hanson, Thomas Kummetz
  • Patent number: 8208856
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for a programmable interference suppression module may include receiving a communication signal comprising one or more desired signal, and one or more undesired signals. The communication signal may be utilized to generate estimated channel state information. The estimated channel state information may be formatted for use in interference suppression. A reduced interference signal may be generated from a delayed version of said communications signal and the estimated channel state information, wherein the one or more undesired signals may be attenuated. The reduced interference signal may be formatted for post-processing. The desired signals may comprise WCDMA and/or HSDPA signals, and the undesired signals may be inter-cell and/or intra-cell interference. Further processing may comprise HSDPA processing and/or RAKE finger processing. The communication signal may be a Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) compliant signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Hahm, Wei Luo, Thirunathan Sutharsan, Andrew du Preez, Bin Liu, Jun Wu, Severine Catreux-Erceg, Shuangquan Wang
  • Publication number: 20120147931
    Abstract: According to a wireless repeating system of the invention, a first analog signal is digitally converted at a first sampling frequency, a converted original digital signal is oversampled at a second sampling frequency higher than the first sampling frequency, an image digital signal occupying a specific frequency band out of plural image digital signals generated by zero-interpolation is extracted via a digital filter, and the image digital signal is input to a delta-sigma demodulator to convert to a second analog signal and output the second analog signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventor: Ken TAKEI
  • Publication number: 20120114022
    Abstract: In a satellite communication system, comprising a hub and a plurality of heterogeneous terminals, the hub may split a bandwidth segment designated for a forward channel into at least two carriers, wherein some of the terminals may listen on a first carrier and some other terminals may listen on the at least second carrier. In this system, the hub may re-arrange the split of the bandwidth segment between the various carriers populating it in real-time or substantially in real-time, while the carriers are actively transmitted, and without causing loss of service and/or loss of data to terminals listening on those carriers. The terminals may be configured to track the carriers as they are re-arranged and to maintain seamless service to the end user throughout the re-arrangement process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: GILAT SATELLITE NETWORKS, LTD.
    Inventors: Dubi Lever, Avraham Avitzour, Amiram Levinberg
  • Publication number: 20120069872
    Abstract: A channel estimation method for an OFDM relaying system, which is based on an EM algorithm and applied to an AF OFDM relaying system, wherein channels from a source node to a relaying system and from the relaying system to the destination node in a wireless communication system are respectively estimated at the destination node. The channel estimation method of the present invention comprises steps of: constructing a system model; setting an expectation function; performing maximization processing; and performing iteration. The method of the present invention respectively estimates the channels from the source node to the relaying system and from the relaying system to the destination node, whereby are optimally combined the signals of the direct path (source-to-destination) and the signals of the relay path (source-to-relay and relay-to-destination) at the destination node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Inventor: Jeng-Shin SHEU
  • Publication number: 20120051406
    Abstract: A circuit and method for computing the circular convolution of an input signal with a finite impulse response operates to store initial input samples of the input signal, perform convolution of the remaining input samples in the block of input samples and then supplying the stored initial input samples for convolution, thereby generating circular convolution output samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: TADEUSZ JAROSINSKI
  • Patent number: 8126033
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for supporting relaying in a wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus and method include a transmitting apparatus which acquires channel information between the transmitting apparatus and an RS, pre-encodes a transmission signal to be transmitted to the RS with the channel information, transmits the pre-coded signal to the RS, and acquires, upon receipt of a signal from the RS, a signal transmitted by a receiving apparatus by eliminating the transmission signal transmitted to the RS from the received signal. Accordingly, the apparatus and method improve system capacity gain without adding time resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
    Inventors: Young-Ho Jung, Yu-Seok Kim, Hyun-Jong Yang, Kyung-Chun Lee, Joo-Hwan Chun
  • Patent number: 8116420
    Abstract: A repeater circuit, such as a clock regeneration and multiplication circuit, is described. In this repeater circuit, a clock multiplier unit (CMU) generates an internal clock signal based on a forwarded clock signal, which is received on a link. Furthermore, a phase interpolator (PI) in the repeater circuit provides the output clock signal based on the forwarded clock signal and the internal clock signal. Note that the CMU and the PI filter reduce the cycle-to-cycle jitter in the forwarded clock signal and the internal clock signal, and that the output clock signal has a phase that is a weighted average of the phases of the forwarded clock signal and the internal clock signal. In addition, the relative weights of the forwarded clock signal and the internal clock signal (i.e., the amount of phase averaging and jitter filtering) may be adjusted based on a position or location on the link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Oracle America, Inc.
    Inventors: Tamer M. Ali, Robert J. Drost, Chih-Kong Ken Yang
  • Patent number: 8111737
    Abstract: A bidirectional digital communication circuit and a bidirectional digital communication method for combining multi-channel signals to a duplex digital communication system apply time division multiplexing. The signals can be unidirectional and bidirectional; signals relationship is not necessary. The direction detector circuit determines signal directional automatically to avoid the signal loop. It's suitable for applying to fiber, cable or wireless communication system which is needed to minimize the communication channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Wavesplitter Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Chia-Hung Chiu
  • Publication number: 20120008664
    Abstract: Device for controlling a frequency F of a TTC satellite link transmitter and/or receiver on the basis of a frequency command whose value is taken in a predetermined frequency plan composed of several frequency notches distributed in a discontinuous manner in a given frequency band, said device including a quartz oscillator delivering a reference frequency FOCXO, a synthesized local oscillator delivering said frequency F on the basis of said reference frequency FOCXO according to a relation F = F OCXO ? N R where N and R are programmable divider coefficients, and a digital integrated circuit which implements a conversion table mapping each frequency notch of said predetermined frequency plan to a set of binary addresses distributed in a contiguous manner addressing the values of said coefficients N and R in the form of binary words allowing the synthesized local oscillator to generate said frequency F whose value is equal to that of said frequency command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventors: Rodolphe Nasta, Thierry Populus
  • Publication number: 20110299572
    Abstract: A method and apparatus at a local terminal are described for demodulating a remote-terminal signal located at a subband offset frequency in a frequency subband of relayed interference from a transponder satellite link. The demodulation of the remote-terminal signal is accomplished by transferring the digital data that produced the local-terminal transmit signal to the local-terminal receiver. The digital data is time-delayed and converted to a narrowband offset-constellation signal that cancels the relayed interference in an adaptive equalizer. Providing cancellation in the subband of the relayed interference produces larger interference cancellation factors than those obtained in conventional broadband cancellation systems. A phase-noise error signal is also generated and used to increase cancellation levels limited by phase noise generated in the satellite link frequency converters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventors: Peter Monsen, David Bagby
  • Publication number: 20110255574
    Abstract: A converter apparatus is provided that enables conversion of data (traffic) between different form factor pluggable standards. The converter apparatus comprises a first connector configured to connect to a first device according to a first form factor pluggable standard, and a second connector configured to connect to a second device according to a second form factor pluggable standard. The converter apparatus further comprises a signal processor configured to be coupled between the first connector and the second connector. The signal processor is configured to convert at least one of transmit signals in the first form factor pluggable standard received at the first connector to transmit signals in the second form factor pluggable standard and receive signals in the second form factor pluggable standard received at the second connector to receive signals in the first form factor pluggable standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2010
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Adam J. Carter, Karthik Ramaswamy, Marco Mazzini, Norman Tang
  • Patent number: 8037338
    Abstract: A data interface method includes differentially amplifying differential data signals based on a mode control signal indicating a first mode, transmitting the amplified differential data signals to a receiving semiconductor device via first and second transmission lines, and driving one of the differential data signals and a strobe signal to the first and second transmission lines, respectively, based on the mode control signal indicating a second mode, for transmitting the one of the differential data signals and the strobe signal to the receiving semiconductor device. The receiving semiconductor device samples the received differential data signals according to differential signaling, in response to a controlled sampling clock signal based on the mode control signal indicating a first mode; and samples the one of the differential data signals in response to a strobe signal, received from the transmitting semiconductor device, based on the mode control signal indicating a second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kyong Su Lee
  • Patent number: 8027642
    Abstract: A frequency translating repeater (200) for use in a wireless local area network includes a cancellation unit. Canceller (402) is controlled by control (401) to provide an injection signal for canceling leakage in a receive signal path. Reference coupler (403) provides a reference signal from the transmit signal, injection coupler (404) injects a correction signal, and sample coupler (405) provides a sample for feedback. A processor (510) receives the sample signal through a detector (415). Although the present invention is intended for a frequency translating repeater, it has broad applications in radio transceivers in general. One specific application is with frequency division duplex (FDD) handsets or base stations utilizing CDMA technologies such as W-CDMA and IS-2000 or 1XEV-DV/DO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: James A. Proctor, Jr., Kenneth M. Gainey
  • Publication number: 20110188550
    Abstract: A method for communication includes modulating data to produce a series of symbols defined in a signal space. The symbols are pulse-shaped using a given pulse shape. A signal, which includes a sequence of the pulse-shaped symbols (104A . . . 104C) transmitted at a symbol rate that is higher than a Nyquist rate defined for the given pulse shape, is transmitted to a receiver (40). Prior to pulse-shaping the symbols, Inter-Symbol Interference (ISI) in the signal is pre-compensated for by applying a lattice precoding operation to the symbols. The lattice precoding operation confines the symbols to a predefined volume (110) in the signal space and is computed independently of any feedback from the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: NOVELSAT LTD.
    Inventors: Daniel Wajcer, Uri Beitler
  • Publication number: 20110170560
    Abstract: A serializer and deserializer utilize upsampling and downsampling to operate over a broad range of frequencies. The serializer includes a bit repeater and a high-speed serializer. The bit repeater receives data to be serialized, upsamples the received data, and supplies the upsampled data to the high-speed serializer. The deserializer includes a high-speed deserializer and a downsampler. The high-speed deserializer supplies parallelized data to the downsampler. The downsampler decimates the parallelized data and supplies the decimated data to an output of the deserializer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Ian Kyles, Xiaoshu Zhao
  • Patent number: 7952948
    Abstract: A semiconductor memory apparatus includes non-inversion repeaters that non-invert data and output the inverted data; and inversion repeaters that invert data and output the inverted data. The non-inversion repeaters or the inversion repeaters are arranged on a first data line and a second data line at a predetermined distance, respectively, which are parallel with each other and the most adjacent to each other and the non-inversion repeater or the inversion repeater is arranged at first positions corresponding to the first data line and the second data line, respectively. The non-inversion repeaters are arranged on one of the first data line and the second data line while the inversion repeaters are arranged on the other first data line and the second data line, at second positions except for the first arrangement positions of positions corresponding to the first data line and the second data line, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Hynix Semiconductor Inc.
    Inventor: Jun Woo Lee
  • Publication number: 20110122928
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a system for high frequency signal transmission in power line networks and also concerns signal hubs and repeaters to be used in such systems. The primary aim of the invention is to provide a communication system of a general type wherein the isolation between high frequency input and output signals is maintained. The hubs and repeaters are designed to be easily installed in the network. Radio and wireless links at subscriber nodes are also parts of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventor: GEIR MONSEN VAVIK
  • Patent number: 7945000
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a wireless communication apparatus which can correct error flexibly without wasting consumed resources while maintaining the improvement of reliability resulted from error correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kenichi Miyoshi, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Publication number: 20110103434
    Abstract: Improved gain control for a digital signal processing (DSP) repeater, such as a bi-directional repeater, is disclosed. A repeater includes a back-end subsystem which comprises, for each channel in a set of wanted frequency channels that are amplified by the repeater, a coupler (314) arranged to provide a monitor signal corresponding with an output channel power level. A feedback loop (306) receives the monitoring signal, and incorporates a power control circuit (308) that compares the monitored output channel power level with a predetermined maximum output signal level (310). A corresponding control signal is generated, and provided to a variable attenuator (304) in order to maintain the individual output channel power level at or below the maximum output signal level (310). Advantageously, a DSP output level control function (404) is also provided, which maintains the output signal level of each digital channel below a maximum rated value for a digital-to-analogue converter (402).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: RF INDUSTRIES PTY LTD
    Inventors: Lambertus Anthony M. Voskulen, Zheng Li, Mykola Kyrylenko, Michael Leigh Beard, Jack Zaprianov Grozev
  • Patent number: 7912112
    Abstract: A spectrum spreading circuit, includes a control portion that repeats a sequence in which the control portion generates a designation signal for designating all of plural frequencies in prescribed order by selecting a next frequency from the frequencies which have not been selected, and a signal generating portion that sequentially generates output signals having the designated frequencies respectively on the basis of the designation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotaka Kawai, Nobuaki Tsuji, Yasuomi Tanaka
  • Patent number: 7907684
    Abstract: Described herein is a method for signal regeneration, particularly, of the signal type transmitted by cellular base stations used in cellular telephone network systems. It is sometimes necessary to regenerate an accurate replica of a transmitted signal, by removing any errors that are present and/or compensate for any degradation that occur during transmission. The signal structure of signals transmitted within the cellular network systems is of a known form with predefined characteristics such as synchronization signals, error correction bursts or training sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: BAE Systems PLC
    Inventor: Michael Richard Richardson
  • Publication number: 20110033190
    Abstract: A digital data harness, uses a signal specific conditioning circuit to interface with analog sensors. The signal specific conditioning circuits convert data signals from analog to digital and thereby allow the signals to be transmitted over a digital data harness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Inventors: Leo J. Veilleux, JR., Peter J. Padykula
  • Patent number: 7881671
    Abstract: A system supporting data retrieval from a plurality of wireless sensor nodes is defined. The system includes the plurality of wireless sensor nodes and a data retrieval device. The plurality of wireless sensor nodes include a transceiver receiving a first signal and transmitting a second signal. The second signal includes a sensed datum or an encoded statistic based on the sensed datum identified at the plurality of wireless sensor nodes. The data retrieval device includes a plurality of antennas transmitting the first signal toward the plurality of wireless sensor nodes and receiving the second signal from the plurality of wireless sensor nodes, and a processor coupled to receive the received second signal from the plurality of antennas, the processor defining a virtual receive signal from the received second signal for the plurality of antennas and processing the defined virtual receive signal to determine the identified sensed datum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Akbar M. Sayeed, Thiagarajan Sivanadyan
  • Publication number: 20110002368
    Abstract: High speed serial link techniques are provided. A system applying the high speed serial link technique comprises a relay unit and an amplifier. The relay unit receives a first pair of differential signals provided by a high speed transmitter of a first device, and provides the amplifier with at least one signal that is generated based on the first pair of differential signals. The amplifier amplifies and converts the signal provided by the relay unit to a second pair of differential signals to be received by a high speed receiver of a second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2009
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Shun-Cheng Yang
  • Publication number: 20100284448
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a wireless communication apparatus which can correct error flexibly without wasting consumed resources while maintaining the improvement of reliability resulted from error correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenichi Miyoshi, Ayako Horiuchi
  • Patent number: 7826541
    Abstract: A wireless relay system for relaying a radio signal transmitted from a first wireless station to a second wireless station via a wireless relay apparatus is disclosed. The wireless relay system includes a relay control part for receiving transmission symbols transmitted from the first wireless station and refraining from relaying a portion of the symbols, a pilot signal transmission part for transmitting a pilot signal that is inserted into a section of the portion of the transmission symbols, a coupling loop interference wave estimation part for receiving the pilot signal and estimating a coupling loop interference wave based on the pilot signal, and a coupling loop interference wave cancellation part for subtracting the estimated coupling loop interference wave from a reception signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Fujii, Hirohito Suda, Tetsu Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20100265997
    Abstract: A repeater converts a frequency of a received signal based on a local oscillating frequency and transmits a transmitting signal of a frequency that is different from the frequency of the received signal. Here, the local oscillating frequency includes a local oscillating error that may be different in a plurality of repeaters. Accordingly, the repeater cancels the local oscillating frequency error itself in a frequency conversion so that transmitting frequencies between the plurality of repeaters may be identical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Inventors: Ho Min Eum, Hyoung Soo Lim, Yong Tae Lee, Heung Mook Kim, Jong Soo Lim
  • Publication number: 20100260240
    Abstract: Relay nodes relay data from a source node (110) to a destination node (130) in an asynchronous cooperative wireless communication system. Each relay node (120) includes a serial-to-parallel partitioner (212), a row selector (214), a cyclic shifter (216) and an SCBT modulator (218). The serial-to-parallel partitioner partitions symbols corresponding to received information into parallel blocks. The row selector selects one row of a coding matrix for each of the parallel blocks and constructs symbol blocks corresponding to the parallel blocks based on the selected row. The cyclic shifter shifts a cyclic delay of each of the symbol blocks and generates shifted symbol blocks corresponding to the symbol blocks. The SCBT modulator pads a guard interval to each shifted symbol block to remove the effects of asynchronous relay transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2008
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventor: Dong Wang
  • Publication number: 20100254441
    Abstract: The present invention provides a radio system and a method for relaying radio signals. The radio system comprises at least one transmit path, a digital predistortion unit, a calibration unit and a feedback path. The feedback path is commonly used by the digital predistortion unit and the calibration unit with the present invention. The calibration signal is adapted to update at least one of phase and amplitude changes and the digital predistortion. The present invention further relates to a method for relaying radio signals. The method comprises updating the digital predistortion as well as an updating of the phase and amplitude changes. The updating of the digital predistortion and the updating of the phase and amplitude changes is implemented using a feedback signal. The present invention further relates to a computer program product for the manufacture of the radio system according to the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2009
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventor: Peter Kenington
  • Patent number: 7809275
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns transceivers that include CDR bypass functionality. In one example, a 10 G XFP transceiver module includes integrated CDR functionality for reducing jitter. The 10 G XFP transceiver module also implements CDR bypass functionality so that the CDR can be bypassed at rate less than about 10 Gb/s, such as the Fibre Channel 8.5 Gb/s rate for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Finisar Corporation
    Inventors: Lewis B. Aronson, Thomas Gordon Beck Mason, Yuxin Zhou, Huy Anh Vu, Giorgio Giaretta, Jiashu Chen