Transmission Interface Between Two Stations Or Terminals Patents (Class 375/220)
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Publication number: 20150139286Abstract: Systems and methods for transceiver communication are discussed herein. An exemplary system comprises a first transceiver unit comprising a first attenuator, a filter module, a gain module, and an antenna. The first attenuator may be configured to attenuate a transmission signal from a second transceiver module over a coaxial cable. The transmission signal may comprise a primary component and a triple transit component. The first attenuator may further be configured to attenuate and provide a reflection signal over the coaxial cable to the second transceiver module. The reflection signal may be based on a reflection of at least a portion of the transmission signal. The filter module configured to filter the transmission signal. The gain module may be configured to increase the gain of the transmission signal. The antenna may be configured to transmit the transmission signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2015Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: Aviat U.S., Inc.Inventors: Youming Qin, Frank Matsumoto, Emerick Vann
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Patent number: 9036718Abstract: Embodiments provide access to a memory over a high speed serial link at slower speeds than the high speed serial links regular operation. An embodiment may comprise a memory apparatus with a differential receiver coupled to a protocol recognition circuit, a low speed receiving circuit that has a first receiver coupled with a first input of the differential receiver and a second receiver coupled with a second input of the differential receiver, wherein the low speed receiving circuit is coupled with the protocol recognition circuit, allowing the first and second receivers to access the protocol recognition block at a different frequency than the differential receiver.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: David J. Zimmerman, Michael W. Williams
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Publication number: 20150124634Abstract: A system and method for compensating phase differences between multiple local oscillators and group delay differences between multiple transceivers. The system may include; an antenna array; a plurality of transceivers connected to said antennas and operatively associated each with a local oscillator (LO), wherein at least some of the transceivers do not share a common LO, and wherein at least some of the LOs are using a common reference oscillator; a common digital beamformer circuit connected to the transceivers; a baseband processor configured to operate the system at a specified communication scheme; and a calibration circuit and software modules configured to eliminate or reduce mismatches and phase deviations between the different transceivers, wherein the calibration circuit and software modules are incorporated in system such that the elimination or reduction of mismatches and phase deviations is non-interrupting with a continuous operation of the system at the specified communication scheme.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2014Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventors: Haim Harel, Phil F. Chen, Kenneth Kludt, Thorp Rivingston
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Patent number: 9026169Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed comprising a combined open loop/closed loop uplink power control scheme for E-UTRA. The combined open and closed loop method for UL intra-cell PC controls the wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) transmit power spectral density (PSD), PSDTx, (e.g. power per RB).Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2014Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: InterDigital Technology CorporationInventors: Sung-Hyuk Shin, Robert L. Olesen, Zinan Lin, Donald M. Grieco
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Patent number: 9025639Abstract: Provided are a modulation method and a demodulation method for satellite communication using a widespread signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), the method including: adding a dummy frame to a broadcasting/communication signal frame for signal transmission of a digital video broadcasting-satellite second generation (DVB-S2) modulator; verifying a spreading factor; adding the same physical layer header to the broadcasting/communication signal frame to which the dummy frame is added, repeatedly the number of times corresponding to the verified spreading factor; and repeating the same data, for example, PL frame data as the physical layer header.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2013Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research InstituteInventors: Pan Soo Kim, Deock Gil Oh
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Patent number: 9014243Abstract: A system and method that demodulates the phase characteristic of a carrier signal are described. The scrambling of the phase characteristic of each carrier signal includes associating a value with each carrier signal and computing a phase shift for each carrier signal based on the value associated with that carrier signal. The value is determined independently of any input bit value carried by that carrier signal. The phase shift computed for each carrier signal is combined with the phase characteristic of that carrier signal so as to substantially scramble the phase characteristic of the carrier signals. Bits of an input signal are modulated onto the carrier signals having the substantially scrambled phase characteristic to produce a transmission signal with a reduced PAR.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: TQ Delta, LLCInventor: Marcos C. Tzannes
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Patent number: 9008157Abstract: A transceiver and a method of controlling aberrant transceiver operation. In one embodiment, the transceiver includes: (1) a processor, (2) an interrupt system coupled to the processor and having a flag register associated therewith, (3) detection circuits associated with corresponding functional units of the transceiver and configured to detect conditions regarding the corresponding functional units and set corresponding flags in the flag register, the interrupt system configured to assert interrupts in response thereto and (4) an interrupt-handing routine executable in the processor and configured to respond to the interrupts by carrying out at least one of loading parameters and generating warnings based on identities of the flags.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2008Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventor: Khurram Muhammad
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Patent number: 9008196Abstract: A computer system includes a processor, and the processor includes at least one interface for communicating with an electronic component. Each of the at least one interface has a set of interface settings. The computer system further includes a memory containing machine executable instructions. Execution of the instructions causes the processor to: monitor communications traffic on the at least one interface; store, eye distribution data acquired during the monitoring of the communications traffic in a database; compare the eye distribution data to a set of predetermined criteria; and generate a set of updated interface settings if the eye distribution does not satisfy the set of predetermined criteria.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Frank W. Angelotti, Michael D. Campbell, Kenneth L. Christian, Martin Eckert, Hubert Harrer, Rohan Jones, Neil A. Malek, Gary A. Peterson, Andrew A. Turner, Dermot Weldon
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Patent number: 9008162Abstract: An exemplary system comprises at least one antenna, first and second signal paths, and an N-plexer. The antenna may be configured to receive first and second diversity receive signals. The antenna is further configured to transmit first and second diversity transmit signals. The first signal path may have a frequency converter configured to downconvert the first diversity receive signal to an intermediate frequency and to upconvert the first diversity transmit signal to a radio frequency. The second signal path may have a frequency converter configured to downconvert the second diversity receive signal to an intermediate frequency and to upconvert the second diversity transmit signal to the radio frequency. The N-plexer may be configured to provide the first and second diversity receive signals to a cable and to provide from the cable the first and second diversity transmit signals to the first signal path and the second signal path, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2012Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Aviat U.S., Inc.Inventor: Paul A. Kennard
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Patent number: 9008159Abstract: In some embodiments, a method includes receiving, at a receiver of a first device via a channel of a communication medium, multiple data transmissions. Each data transmission of the multiple data transmissions has a guard interval of multiple guard intervals, wherein the multiple guard intervals have different lengths. The method includes determining, based on signal characteristics of the multiple data transmissions, the data transmission from among the multiple data transmissions having a preferred physical data rate. The method includes setting a length of an adjusted guard interval for the channel for data communication from a transmitter of a second device to the receiver of the first device via the communication medium, to a length of the guard interval for the data transmission having the preferred physical data rate.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Hassan Afkhami, Purva R. Rajkotia, Manjunath Anandarama Krishnam
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Patent number: 9008124Abstract: Systems and methods for designing, using, and/or implementing media access control (MAC) protocols with subbanding are described. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving a beacon packet during one of a plurality of beacon slots of a superframe, each beacon slot corresponding to one of a plurality of different downlink subbands. The method may also include identifying, based on the received beacon packet, contention access periods following the beacon slots, each of the contention access periods corresponding to one of a plurality of different uplink subbands. The method may further include transmitting an information packet over each of the plurality of uplink subbands during the contention access periods. Then, the method may include receiving, during a guaranteed time slot following the contention access periods, an indication of a selected one of the plurality of uplink subbands to be used in a subsequent communications.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Kumaran Vijayasankar, Shu Du, Anand G. Dabak, Badri N. Varadarajan, Il Han Kim, Xiaolin Lu
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Patent number: 9008156Abstract: An apparatus relates generally to a repeater. In such an apparatus, the repeater has a signal analysis and classification block. The signal analysis and classification block includes a signal analysis block and a classification block. The signal analysis block is coupled to receive a digital signal which is a digital version of an input signal received by the repeater. The signal analysis block is coupled to provide signal information regarding the digital signal to the classification block. The classification block is configured to provide classification information to classify the digital signal using the signal information provided as being a waveform type of a group of waveform types.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2014Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Xilinx, Inc.Inventor: Christopher H. Dick
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Patent number: 9008163Abstract: A vectored-DSL method and system and a board relate to the field of digital subscriber line DSL data processing, so as to increase user capacity of a vectored-DSL system. The vectored-DSL method includes: receiving, by at least one board, and pre-processing user data of the board; transmitting, by the board, the user data of the board to an auxiliary vector processor on the board to perform internal vectorization processing, so as to obtain internally processed data; transmitting, by the board, the user data thereof to a centralized vector processor to perform external vectorization processing, so as to obtain externally processed data; and receiving, by the board, the externally processed data of the board, and post-processing the externally processed data and the internally processed data.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Ruijie Xiao, Huishen Dong, Cheng Li, Jinxiong Lv, Jianwei Ke
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Patent number: 9001872Abstract: Methods and apparatus for transferring data along a link with a 10GBASE-T transceiver at a variable data rate are disclosed. One exemplary method includes detecting a link quality metric; and selecting a symbol transmission rate and a data modulation scheme based on the detected link quality metric. In many implementations, for a selected symbol transmission rate, if the detected link quality metric is less than a link quality threshold, then the selecting of the data modulation scheme is performed such that a data bit per symbol value represented by the selected data modulation scheme is decreased by at least ½ data bit per symbol. The selected symbol transmission rate and the selected modulation together represent a selectable data rate from a selection of data rates.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Aquantia Corp.Inventors: Ramin Farjadrad, Paul Langner, Hossein Sedarat, Ramin Shirani
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Patent number: 9001869Abstract: A device for high-speed clock generation may include an injection locking-ring oscillator (ILRO) configured to receive one or more input clock signals and to generate multiple clock signals with different equally spaced phase angles. A phase-interpolator (PI) circuit may be configured to receive the multiple coarse spaced clock signals and to generate an output clock signal having a correct phase angle. The PI circuit may include a smoothing block that may be configured to smooth the multiple clock signals with different phase angles and to generate multiple smooth clock signals. A pulling block may be configured to pull edges of the multiple smooth clock signals closer to one another.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2013Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Mahmoud Reza Ahmadi, Siavash Fallahi, Tamer Ali, Ali Nazemi, Hassan Maarefi, Burak Catli, Afshin Momtaz
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Patent number: 9001874Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to generate precoding weights reliably, even in downlink MIMO transmission using a plurality of transmitting antennas. The present invention includes: a first feedback information selection section (109) that, in a mode to include a PTI in a PUCCH and feed back the PTI to a radio base station apparatus for downlink MIMO transmission using a plurality of transmitting antennas, selects the same RI as the last RI that was fed back, when the value of the PTI is changed from 0 to 1; a multiplexer (115) that multiplexes the RI and the PTI after the change on a subframe; and a transmission section that transmits the multiplex signal to the radio base station apparatus by the PUCCH.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2011Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Yuichi Kakishima, Hidekazu Taoka, Katsutoshi Kusume
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Patent number: 8995594Abstract: Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a platform may comprise a receiver to receive a signal that includes an error in the received signal due to a noise signal generated in the platform, and a processor configured to calculate a noise vector from a source of the noise signal and to send the noise vector to the receiver, The receiver may include a digital signal processor configured to estimate an error vector based at least in part on the noise vector and to subtract the estimated error vector from the received signal to cancel the noise signal from the received signal. The noise cancelled from the received signal may include platform noise generated by a bus, a memory circuit, a clock, a power supply, a circuit ground or integrated circuit substrate, or input/output circuit of the platform.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Dawson W. Kesling, Andrew W. Martwick
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Transceiver self-diagnostics for electromagnetic interference (EMI) degradation in balanced channels
Patent number: 8995507Abstract: Transceiver self-diagnostics for electromagnetic interference (EMI) degradation in balanced channels. Selective operation of transmitting a common mode signal from a communication link implemented for supporting differential signaling, and appropriate processing of any detected signal energy, such as that corresponding to differential signal energy, provides a measure of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) corresponding to the communication link. Comparison of detected differential signal energy to one or more thresholds may provide indication of whether or not the communication link is balanced or unbalanced, a degree or margin with which the communication link is compliant in accordance with EMC in accordance with one or more protocols, standards, or recommended practices. Multiple successive measurements of detected differential signal energy may be used to determine a trend of performance, such as whether or not the communication link is trending toward imbalance, failure, or noncompliance.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventors: Scott R. Powell, Mehmet V. Tazebay -
Patent number: 8995591Abstract: A wireless communication device configured for receiving multiple signals is described. The wireless communication device includes a single-chip carrier aggregation receiver architecture. The single-chip carrier aggregation receiver architecture includes a first antenna, a second antenna, a third antenna, a fourth antenna and a transceiver chip. The transceiver chip includes multiple carrier aggregation receivers. The single-chip carrier aggregation receiver architecture reuses at least one of the carrier aggregation receivers for secondary diversity.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM, IncorporatedInventors: Prasad Srinivasa Siva Gudem, Liang Zhao, Jin-Su Ko, Hong Sun Kim
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Patent number: 8995517Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for the location of passive intermodulation faults in a coaxial cable network. The test apparatus (100) according to one embodiment of the present invention utilizes a pair of high-power, frequency-synthesized, unmodulated RF carriers v1(t) (101) and v2(t) (102) are generated inside the HPA module of the apparatus. The power and frequency of v1(t) (101) and v2(t) (102) can be independently set to a range of values, v1(t), v2(t) are combined inside the instrument and then applied to the input of the device under test (DUT). The PIM signals (107,108,109) generated in the DUT are combined to produce the primary PIM signal vIM(t) (103). The apparatus also includes two receivers (110,111, 112,113,114,115) for the detection of vIM(t) 103 and vREF(t) (104). These signals are downconverted to 455 kHz.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2011Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Kaelus Pty LtdInventors: Greg Delforce, Brendan Horsfield
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Patent number: 8995541Abstract: A method, mobile terminal, and system for reporting BCI are provided, the method comprises the steps of: obtaining a PMI W1 set and a PMI W2 to be used for a mobile terminal based on a double codebook; computing a BCI W1 set to be used for another mobile terminal based on the PMI W1 set; selecting a BCI W2 from the BCI W1 set based on the PMI W2; and reporting the BCI W1 set and the BCI W2 to a base station, wherein W1 indicates a long-term or wideband component of the PMI and BCI, and W2 indicates a short-term or narrowband component of the PMI and BCI. With the present disclosure, the probability that the optimal BCI W2 is included in the shifted BCI W1 set is increased, and the overhead for feeding-back the BCI is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2010Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Hui Tong, Ming Xu, Masayuki Hoshino, Daichi Imamura
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Patent number: 8989285Abstract: Methods and apparatus for efficiently feeding back preceding information in a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system. A codebook including a plurality of codebook entries is constructed. A plurality of subsets of codebook entries are defined for the codebook. Each subset includes a plurality of codebook entries. A subset of codebook entries is selected for precoding data in dependence upon a channel condition, and a codebook entry is selected from the subset. Then, a subset index corresponding to the selected subset, and a codebook entry index corresponding to the selected codebook entry within the selected subset, is transmitted as feedback information.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2008Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Farooq Khan, Zhouyue Pi, Cornelius Van Rensburg, Jianzhong Zhang
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Patent number: 8989243Abstract: A power line carrier modem is configured for coupling to AC power lines. The power line carrier modem includes a processor, an output from the processor, a plurality of inputs to the processor, and a directional coupler operatively connected to the output, the plurality of inputs, and the AC power lines. The power line carrier modem may further include a digital-to-analog-converter operatively connected to the output from the processor. The output from the processor may be an output bus. The power line carrier modem further includes an analog-to-digital-converter operatively connected to the plurality of inputs to the processor. The power line carrier modem may be configured to perform Vector Network Analysis functions. The power line carrier modem may be configured to indicate PLC modem transmit frequencies being reflected from the AC power lines or the line coupler. The transmitter functions may be implemented in software by the processor to provide a transmit output on the output line.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2011Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Northern Microdesign, Inc.Inventor: William C. Black
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Patent number: 8989239Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for performing retransmission with on-line reconfiguration. A data stream is encoded into first frames according to a framing configuration. A request is obtained for an on-line reconfiguration of the framing configuration from a receiver. The encoding of the data stream into the first frames is suspended in response to the request. One or more first frames are retransmitted to the receiver during a retransmission time period that commences relative to the suspending of the encoding of the data stream into the first frames. The encoding of the data stream into second frames is resumed according to a modified framing configuration consistent with the on-line reconfiguration. The second frames are transmitted to the receiver upon expiration of the retransmission time period.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2011Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Ikanos Communications, Inc.Inventors: Sigurd Schelstraete, Massimo Sorbara
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Patent number: 8982932Abstract: A system and a method for communicating configuration data between a source device and a sink are described. An active buffer receives data from an auxiliary communication channel which communicates data between the source device and the sink device. The active buffer modifies data received from the auxiliary communication channel. For example, the active buffer amplifies the received data or electrically reshapes the received data. The modified data is then transmitted from the active buffer to a destination device. In one embodiment, the auxiliary communication channel is bi-directional and upon receiving data from a first device, the active buffer is modified to permit uni-directional transmission of data from the first device to a second device.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Parade Technologies, Ltd.Inventors: Ming Qu, Zhengyu Yuan, Kochung Lee
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Patent number: 8976847Abstract: A communications system provides a first communications device, which is connected via a bidirectional transmission channel to a second communications device, wherein the communications devices each comprise a data reconstruction unit. Each communications device comprises a control unit, which is provided for a configuration of various transmission parameters such as modulation type and/or code rate and/or transmitter power and/or size of data packets dependent upon a reliability value evaluated within the control unit. The reliability value indicates a probability for a reliability or a quality of a data reconstruction, which reconstructs transmitted data from received signals within the data reconstruction unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2008Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Henrik Schober, Torsten Langguth
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Patent number: 8976848Abstract: A method and device for reducing interference between a first signal of the carrier current type (Se) transmitted between modems (MCPL) in an electrical network (Re) and a second signal (S) transmitted between modems (M) in another network (R), the signals (Se, S) being coded by distribution of the data over allocated carrier frequencies in the same reserved frequency band (BF). The method includes: a step of measurement, by each modem (MCPL) in the electrical network, of transmission characteristics of each carrier frequency (F) that may be used for coding the first signal (Se), a step of detection, by analysis of the measured transmission characteristics, of at least one second carrier frequency (F2,n), which is allocated or may be allocated for coding the second signal (S) and is common with at least one first carrier frequency (F1,m), which is allocated for coding the first signal (Se), and a step of optimization of the distribution of the data of the first signal (Se) over carrier frequencies.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2013Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: SAGEMCOM Broadband SASInventor: Roger Samy
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Patent number: 8976846Abstract: A wireless transmission system includes a wireless HDMI transmitter and a wireless HDMI receiver. The wireless HDMI transmitter includes a carrier oscillator provided for each channel of an HDMI transmission path to output a carrier signal in a millimeter band, an OOK modulator provided for each carrier oscillator to perform on-off keying modulation on a carrier signal outputted by its corresponding carrier oscillator, and an input circuit provided for each channel of the HDMI transmission path to input a digital signal outputted by a source device to the OOK modulator. Radio signals have different planes of polarization from their adjacent channels.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2011Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignees: Silicon Library Inc., Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd., Hiroshima UniversityInventors: Junzoh Shimizu, Minoru Fujishima, Masahiko Ohta, Toshio Takada
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Patent number: 8976874Abstract: In a modular signal mirroring system each point-to-point RF transceiver end has a controller module coupled to one or more I/O modules. The I/O modules have various input and output circuits. A signal received at the near end is reconstructed at the far end after being transmitted in an RF packet. The reconstructed signal may be the same as the input signal, inverted from the input signal or level-shifted from the input signal. It is representative of the input signal following the input signal's state after a time-quantization latency. Transmission between the two ends is via a periodic transmission controlled in a master slave protocol. If a transmission is not received in a timely manner or, in some systems, if intentional interference with transmissions is detected, the reconstructed signal is forced to a safe state determined by local switch settings. The settings include the last known good state.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2014Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: OleumTech CorporationInventor: Matthew A. Tanner
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Patent number: 8971469Abstract: A master device and slave devices are connected with each other through an SDA and an SCL, and at least one of a serial communication data signal communicated through the SDA and a serial communication clock signal communicated through the SCL is latched with use of a noise removal clock signal whose frequency is higher than that of the serial communication clock signal, and is taken in.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masahiro Imai, Nobuaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 8971827Abstract: A module for an active antenna system for receiving and transmitting radio signals sealed in a housing. It comprises a power connector placed at the outside of the housing for supplying the module with supply power; at least one micro radio for receiving/sending digital radio signals having a digital down-converter/a digital up-converter and a control signal converter. The micro radio converts the digital radio signals to analog RF (radio frequency) signals and vice versa and is connected to the internal bus. At least one antenna element is connected to the micro radio and an internal data bus for the exchange of digital radio data and control data is connected to micro radio and hub. By placing two or more modules next to each other on a frame these modules form an active antenna system.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Kathrein-Werke KGInventor: Peter Kenington
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Patent number: 8971391Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems for incorporating bonding processors while avoiding bonding processor buffer overflow by initiating retransmission requests on all data lines whenever corrupted data is encountered on one data line. Initiating these “extra” retransmission requests equalizes retransmissions delays over all transmission lines, preventing the bonding processor from receiving excess data that cannot be reassembled until the retransmission request is processed.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Broadcom CorporationInventor: Mike Locke
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System and method for adjusting DIDO interference cancellation based on signal strength measurements
Patent number: 8971380Abstract: A machine-implemented system and method are described for removing interference between adjacent distributed-input-distributed-output (DIDO) clusters comprising. For example, a method according to one embodiment comprises: detecting signal strength at a first client from a main DIDO cluster; detecting interference signal strength at the first client from an interfering DIDO cluster; if the signal strength from the main DIDO cluster reaches a specified value relative to the value of the interference signal strength from the interfering DIDO cluster, then generating channel state information (CSI) defining channel state between one or more antennas of the first client and one or more antennas of the interfering DIDO cluster; transmitting the CSI from the first client to a base transceiver station (BTS) in the interfering DIDO cluster; and implementing DIDO precoding with inter-DIDO-cluster interference (IDCI) cancellation at the BTS in the interfering DIDO cluster to avoid RF interference at the first client.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Rearden, LLCInventors: Antonio Forenza, Stephen G. Perlman -
Patent number: 8971390Abstract: A communication device includes an application data interface, a first communication layer and a physical media interface. The first communication layer includes a first entity configured to process application data and a second entity configured to process operations, administrations and maintenance data. The communication device further includes a switching device. In a first power mode, the switching device couples the application data interface to the first entity of the first communication layer. In a second power mode, the switching device couples the application data interface to the second entity of the first communication layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2010Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Infineon Technologies AGInventor: Dietmar Schoppmeier
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Publication number: 20150049793Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are related to interfacing a digital module and a radio-frequency (RF) module of a wireless communication device. A device may include a digital module configured to output at least one constant-envelope phase modulated signal. The device may further include an RF module configured to receive the at least one constant-envelope phase modulated signal and generate one or more digital bits in response to receipt of the at least one constant-envelope phase modulated signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Applicant: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Faramarz Sabouri, Sunil Kumar Kandukuri Narayan, Vinod V. Panikkath, Seyed Aidin Bassam
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Patent number: 8953662Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method. The method includes capturing values of a timer in response to a first transition edge and a second transition edge of a received signal transmitted from an external device to determine a counted number by the timer corresponding to a pre-known number of symbols between the first and second transition edges in the received signal, and determining a baud rate configuration based on a ratio of the counted number and the pre-known number of symbols.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Jianhua Zhu, Wei (George) Zhang, Enqin Zhang
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Patent number: 8954014Abstract: A testing system comprises a noise source coupled to at least two antenna elements. The noise source forms a total noise power on the basis of a total signal power received by the emulator, a gain of at least one antenna-specific channel between the emulator and the antenna elements, and a desired signal-to-noise ratio. The noise source transmits noise at the total noise power from the at least two antenna elements to the device under test wirelessly.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2009Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Anite Telecoms OyInventors: Pekka Kyösti, Jukka-Pekka Nuutinen, Tommi Jämsä
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Patent number: 8953660Abstract: Devices and methods for providing a pilot structure for a virtual diversity receiver (VDR) scheme are disclosed. In order to improve the performance of a communication network, a VDR scheme is implemented to facilitate the exchange of information between user devices via an intermediary device, such as a base station. The pilot structure supports estimation of channel parameters at the receivers, including true channel taps, as well as estimations of the virtual channels created by the VDR scheme in order to enable the use of receive-diversity signal processing techniques.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2012Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (PUBL)Inventors: Ali S. Khayrallah, Yi-Pin Eric Wang
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Patent number: 8948236Abstract: Disclosed are a radio terminal device and the like, which achieve an improvement in the accuracy of ranging between a UWB reader and a UWB tag regardless of whether an active method or a semi-passive method. In a terminal (300), a timing control unit (340) outputs, to a transmission amplifier (350), a control signal for performing on-off control such that on the basis of the reception timing of a pulse signal transmitted from a base station (200) and a representative value of a circuit delay time required from when a reception pulse signal is received until a transmission pulse signal generated in response to a detection signal of the reception pulse signal is transmitted, the transmission amplifier (350) amplifies a reradiation pulse generated in response to a detection signal of the pulse signal transmitted from the base station (200); and a re-reradiation pulse generated in response to a detection signal of the reradiation pulse.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2010Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hirohito Mukai, Takashi Fukagawa, Yoichi Nakagawa
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Patent number: 8942277Abstract: To improve throughput by reducing the resource used for transmitting a parameter relating to retransmission control and decreasing overhead of retransmission control signaling. Where a retransmission control method is employed with 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>?, two bits are set. In a case where the encoding rate ?<R??, one bit is set. On the other hand, in a case where R??, zero bits is set.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2013Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of AmericaInventors: Masayuki Hoshino, Katsuhiko Hiramatsu, Yasuaki Yuda
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Patent number: 8942309Abstract: An intermediate voltage is maintained between a first voltage and a second voltage by conditionally or selectively performing data bus inversion (DBI) and/or data swap operations on a first and second transmit channel. The operations are performed to, in some instances, create a current imbalance between the first and second channel where the intermediate voltage drifts toward a target range or target value between the first voltage and second voltage in response to the created imbalance.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2013Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Rambus Inc.Inventors: Frederick A. Ware, John Wilson
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Patent number: 8935022Abstract: A communication system for a vehicle consist may include a control module that interfaces with router transceiver units coupled to a cable bus, and can communicate network data between vehicles having a transceiver unit over a cable bus.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2014Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Jared Klineman Cooper, Todd William Goodermuth, Eugene A. Smith
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Patent number: 8934851Abstract: A PDMA terminal (1000) establishes communication by forming a plurality of spatial paths to another single radio apparatus. A plurality of antennas constituting an array antenna are divided into a plurality of subarrays corresponding to the plurality of spatial paths respectively. An adaptive array processing unit (USP) can perform an adaptive array processing for each of the plurality of subarrays. A memory (MMU) stores in advance information on the number of antennas associated with the number of spatial paths that can be formed by the array antenna. A control unit (CNP) controls a processing to transmit possible multiplicity information to another radio apparatus at a prescribed timing.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2013Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Hera Wireless S.A.Inventor: Yoshiharu Doi
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Patent number: 8929470Abstract: A system and method that scrambles the phase characteristic of a carrier signal are described. The scrambling of the phase characteristic of each carrier signal includes associating a value with each carrier signal and computing a phase shift for each carrier signal based on the value associated with that carrier signal. The value is determined independently of any input bit value carried by that carrier signal. The phase shift computed for each carrier signal is combined with the phase characteristic of that carrier signal so as to substantially scramble the phase characteristic of the carrier signals. Bits of an input signal are modulated onto the carrier signals having the substantially scrambled phase characteristic to produce a transmission signal with a reduced PAR.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2014Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: TQ Delta, LLCInventor: Marcos C. Tzannes
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Patent number: 8929285Abstract: A system and method for providing the ability to discover the capabilities of a user's computer to determine whether it is capable of supporting more than one wireless protocol simultaneously is provided. A computing device's capabilities (including, for example, hardware and/or software capabilities) is checked to determine if it supports at least two specific wireless protocols and checking a computing device's capabilities (including, for example, hardware and/or software capabilities) is checked to determine if it supports both wireless protocols simultaneously. The techniques for determining the computing device's compatibility may include comparing lists of protocol requirements to lists of system capabilities and/or generating test signals by the system according to the protocol.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2011Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Amer A. Hassan, Deyun Wu, Hui Shen, Christian Huitema, Thomas W. Kuehnel
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Patent number: 8929467Abstract: A one-wire communication bus for transferring a sequence of digital data from a transmitter to a receiver includes (a) an ECDD signal modulation circuit to create an electrical pulse train wherein each pulse's edge is used as clock signal and each pulse's duty cycle is used to represent digital value of zero and one; (b) an ECDD signal demodulation circuit to receive the ECDD pulse train using a group of sampling cells and to decode the sampled results using a majority voting circuit; (c) an electrical connection between a transmitter wherein the ECDD signal modulation circuit resides and a receiver wherein the ECDD signal demodulation circuit resides. Said ECDD signal is sent from the transmitter to the receiver through the electrical connection. Methods of creating the ECDD pulse train in the transmitter and decoding the ECDD pulse train in the receiver are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2014Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Inventor: Liming Xiu
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Patent number: 8923370Abstract: A digital radio module comprises a modular architecture for use in a multi-band multi-standard radio communication apparatus. The digital radio module comprises one or more digital transmitter sub modules, each digital transmitter sub module comprising a plurality of digital transmitter chains, and one or more digital receiver sub modules, each digital receiver sub module comprising a plurality of digital receiver chains. Each of the digital transmitter sub modules and digital receiver sub modules comprises a respective control unit for individually configuring each digital transmitter sub module and digital receiver sub module such that the digital radio module is operable to transmit and/or receive multiple different carrier frequency signals in one or more different modes of operation.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2012Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)Inventors: Bernt Johansson, Bo Berglund
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Patent number: 8914170Abstract: A system includes a router transceiver unit that is configured to be disposed on-board a vehicle system. The vehicle system may have at least a source vehicle and a separate linked vehicle that are mechanically linked with each other to travel together along a route and that are communicatively linked with each other through a system network of the vehicle system. The router transceiver unit is configured to be communicatively coupled to a requesting operational component of the source vehicle and the system network. The router transceiver unit is also configured to receive a local data packet from the requesting operational component that is directed toward a target operational component of the linked vehicle. The router transceiver unit includes an encapsulation module that is configured to transform the local data packet into an in-tunnel data packet, where the local and in-tunnel data packets have different packet formats.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Jared Klineman Cooper, Todd William Goodermuth, Christopher Michael Wiesner, Andrew Allan Clark McKay, Bradley Dale Brown
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Patent number: 8913675Abstract: The transmission and decoding of resource blocks (RBs) transmitted via a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna having a plurality of transmit antennas is disclosed. Each RB includes a plurality of resource elements (REs). Each RE is reserved for one of a common reference signal (CRS) associated with one of the transmit antennas, a dedicated reference signal (DRS) including a single beamformed or precoded pilot, a DRS including a composite beamformed or precoded pilot, and a data symbol. Each RB may include a “control type” data symbol that indicates a DRS mode associated with the RB. In one DRS mode, each DRS includes a single beamformed or precoded pilot. In another DRS mode, each DRS includes a composite beamformed or precoded pilot. In yet another DRS mode, single beamformed or precoded pilots, and composite beamformed or precoded pilots, may coexist and be transmitted simultaneously within the same RBs or in different RBs.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2013Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: InterDigital Technology CorporationInventors: Kyle Jung-Lin Pan, Donald M. Grieco
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Patent number: 8913649Abstract: System and methods for a multicarrier communication system, which includes a first and second transceivers, to transmit, from the first transceiver to the second transceiver, a first initialization message indicating an impulse noise protection value. The system also transmits, from the second transceiver to the first transceiver, a second initialization message comprising information that indicates a number of repeated DMT symbols, the number of repeated DMT symbols being greater than the impulse noise protection value. The system further transmits, from the first transceiver to the second transceiver, a third initialization message, wherein the first transceiver modulates at least one message bit onto repeated DMT symbols, wherein the number of repeated DMT symbols is indicated in the second initialization message transmitted from the second transceiver to first transceiver.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2010Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: TQ Delta, LLCInventor: Marcos C. Tzannes