Testing Patents (Class 375/224)
  • Patent number: 9793937
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for filtering wireless signals. For example, one embodiment of the invention comprises: one or more radios to receive a plurality of wireless signals within a defined spectrum; an energy detection and filtering module to filter received wireless signals based on a detected energy level of the received wireless signals and in accordance with a set of energy-based filtering parameters, the energy detection and filtering module to output energy-filtered wireless signals; and a signal characteristic analysis and filtering module to analyze and filter the energy-filtered wireless signals based on characteristics of the received wireless signals in accordance with a set of signal analysis filtering parameters to output energy-and-characteristic filtered wireless signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Afero, Inc.
    Inventors: Omar Zakaria, Joe Britt
  • Patent number: 9787414
    Abstract: A radio channel generator has a radio channel model predistorted on the basis of a predetermined chamber model. An emulator receives the weights of the radio channel model predistorted on the basis of the chamber model. A transmitter feeds a communication signal to the emulator. The emulator weights the communication signal with the radio channel model predistorted on the basis of the chamber model. The over-the-air antennas receive the weighted communication signal and transmit it to a device under test. The chamber model is based on a simulation or a measurement. The chamber model takes into account undesired interactions in the over-the-air chamber for cancelling them during the radio channel emulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Keysight Technologies Singapore (Holdings) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Pekka Kyösti, Tommi Laitinen
  • Patent number: 9787515
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for guard band utilization for synchronous and asynchronous communications in wireless networks. A user equipment (UE) or a network component transmits symbols on data bands assigned for primary communications. The data bands are separated by a guard band having smaller bandwidth than the data bands. The UE or network component further modulates symbols for secondary communications with a spectrally contained wave form, which has a smaller bandwidth than the guard band. The spectrally contained wave form is achieved with orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation or with joint OFDM and Offset Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (OQAM) modulation. The modulated symbols for the secondary communications are transmitted within the guard band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Usa Vilaipornsawai, Javad Abdoli, Jianglei Ma, Ming Jia
  • Patent number: 9775059
    Abstract: The present application discloses a method of and apparatus for interference measurement in coordinated multipoint transmission so as to enable a user equipment to report corresponding channel state information accurately with respect to different interference sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: CHIN ACADEMY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Qiubin Gao, Wenhong Chen
  • Patent number: 9768897
    Abstract: A method of searching for the presence of a useful signal of predefined spectral width ?B in a multiplexing band having a spectral width greater than ?B, includes calculating a frequency signal representative of a power spectral density in the multiplexing band, calculating a non-useful signal by filtering the frequency signal by means of a filter capable of suppressing all or part of signals having a spectral width equal to or smaller than ?B, calculating a power ratio signal representative of the ratio of the frequency signal to the non-useful signal, and comparing the power ratio signal with a predefined threshold value. The method may be employed using a computer program product, a receiver unit, and/or a station of a digital telecommunications system comprising such a receiver unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: SIGFOX
    Inventor: Cédric Artigue
  • Patent number: 9762418
    Abstract: A receiver includes a plurality of equalization modules each configurable to provide a selectable compensation value to a data bit stream received by the receiver, and a control module configured to perform a plurality of back channel adaptations on the data bitstream to achieve a target bit error rate for the receiver, each back channel adaptation being associated with a set of compensation values of the equalization modules, determine a most common set of compensation values derived from the performance of the plurality of back channel adaptations, and determine an optimized set of compensation values based on the most common set of compensation values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Dell Products, LP
    Inventors: Stuart Allen Berke, Bhyrav M. Mutnury, Minchuan Wang
  • Patent number: 9754774
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for automated analysis of spectrometry data corresponding to particles of a sample, such as large data sets obtained during single particle mode analysis of an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (SP-ICP-MS). Techniques are presented herein that provide appropriate smoothing for rapid data processing without an accompanying reduction (or with an acceptably negligible reduction) in accuracy and/or precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Samad Bazargan, Hamid Badiei
  • Patent number: 9743297
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media for testing wireless devices is disclosed. In some examples, a system for testing wireless devices in wireless environments comprises a test server and a wireless device tester implemented on the test server. The test server includes at least one processor and memory storing, for each wireless device of different types of wireless devices, a wireless emulation waveform received from the wireless device during operation of the wireless device. The wireless device tester is configured for receiving emulation requests specifying wireless devices and wireless environments for testing. The wireless device tester is configured for transmitting, for each request, a responsive wireless emulation waveform to a wireless device emulator physically located in the specified wireless environment and determining a performance metric for the wireless device within the specified wireless environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Ixia
    Inventor: Stephen Samuel Jackson
  • Patent number: 9736709
    Abstract: A receiver includes an analog receiver and a digital processor. The analog receiver has an input for receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal, and an output for providing a digital intermediate frequency signal. The digital processor has an input for receiving the digital intermediate frequency signal, and an output for providing digital symbols. The digital processor measures peak-to-peak frequency deviation of the digital intermediate frequency signal, and performs a digital signal processing function on the digital intermediate frequency signal to provide the digital symbols based on the peak-to-peak frequency deviation so measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Hendricus de Ruijter, Wentao Li
  • Patent number: 9735941
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose an interference measurement indication method, an interference measurement method, a related device, and a communication system. The interference measurement indication method includes: transmitting, by a base station, at least one piece of first-type channel state information reference signal CSI-RS configuration signaling to a user equipment UE, where the at least one piece of first-type CSI-RS configuration signaling indicates a first resource set used for CSI-RS transmission; and transmitting, by the base station, at least one piece of second-type CSI-RS configuration signaling to the UE, where a second resource set used for CSI-RS transmission, which is indicated by the at least one piece of second-type CSI-RS configuration signaling, is a subset of the first resource set. Technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the present invention help improve the flexibility of interference measurement of the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liang Xia, Yongxing Zhou, Jingyuan Sun, Mingyu Zhou, Xiaotao Ren
  • Patent number: 9722758
    Abstract: This invention provides a method for a first communication device, such as a base station, to estimate a channel-quality profile of a channel when a second communication device, e.g., a user equipment, returns only channel-quality indicators (CQIs) of selected subbands and a wideband CQI. The profile is obtained by including, for any two neighboring frequencies of the selected subbands, an estimated CQI of a middle frequency between the two neighboring frequencies. After translating the CQIs of the two neighboring frequencies into corresponding linear CQI values, a linear estimated-CQI value for the middle frequency is determined by subtracting an offset from an average of said corresponding linear CQI values. The offset is determined according to a frequency separation between the two neighboring frequencies. Preferably, the offset is linearly proportional to the frequency separation. Interpolation, preferably linear interpolation, is used to obtain linear CQI values of other frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
    Inventors: Jiewei Ding, Man Wai Kwan, Jihui Zhang, Kong Chau Tsang
  • Patent number: 9722823
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing offset calibration for low power and high performance receivers are described herein. In one embodiment, a receiver comprises a sample latch having a first input coupled to a receive data path, and a second input. The receive also comprises a first digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a second DAC, and a calibration controller. In a calibration mode, the calibration controller is configured to input a calibration voltage to the first input of the sample latch using the first DAC, to input a threshold voltage and an offset-cancelation voltage to the second input of the sample latch using the second DAC, to adjust the offset-cancelation voltage, to observe an output of the sample latch as the offset-cancelation voltage is adjusted, and to store a value of the offset-cancelation voltage at which a metastable state is observed at the output of the sample latch in a memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Minhan Chen, Kenneth Luis Arcudia
  • Patent number: 9698920
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a receiver receiving wireless transmission of a real radio system from at least one base station of a radio system as a function of reception direction. The transmission comprises predetermined data. The apparatus comprises also a processing unit that forms taps of a delay profile on the basis of comparison between the data that is received and corresponding predetermined data. The processing unit estimates direction for the taps of the delay profile on the basis of a reception direction of the transmission, and forms radio channel data by associating the taps of the delay profile with the estimated direction. The radio channel data is for a radio channel model of a MIMO emulation in an OTA chamber having a plurality of antennas around a test zone where a device-under-test may be placed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Keysight Technologies Singapore (Holdings) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Pekka Kyosti
  • Patent number: 9693279
    Abstract: An electronic device, and a method and computer readable medium, for use of subsets of coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission cells. The device includes processing circuitry configured to select a plurality of transmission cells as the subset of the CoMP set of transmission cells used to support wireless communications with a user equipment (UE). The processing circuitry selects the plurality of transmission cells based on a message from the UE that includes aggregate channel quality information (CQI) for at least two communication channels between the UE and corresponding transmission cells of the plurality of transmission cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Qimei Cui, Yingni Zhang, Xiaona Li, Shiyuan Li
  • Patent number: 9690751
    Abstract: In order to enhance the speed of a processing necessary for setting the factor of a filter and further maintain the accuracy of the filter, a digital processing apparatus includes: a Fourier transform unit that Fourier transforms a time domain digital signal, thereby generating N frequency domain signals; a filter unit that uses N first factors to process the frequency domain signals in the frequency domain; an inverse Fourier transform unit that transforms the frequency domain signals as processed by the filer unit to a time domain digital signal; a low accuracy factor calculation unit that uses m second factors to calculate N first A factors; a high accuracy factor calculation unit that includes a factor division unit for calculating respective ratios of N third factors to the N first A factors and that also includes a factor variable unit for calculating N first B factors varying stepwise from one to the respective ratios; a multiplication unit that multiplies the first A factors by the first B factors, th
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hidemi Noguchi
  • Patent number: 9680525
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a signal processing method in a DSL system. The method includes: determining that there is no to-be-sent downstream signal on m subscriber lines in n subscriber lines; superimposing a signal X on the m subscriber lines, so that a signal output on the m subscriber lines after precoding processing is 0, where xm indicates a signal component loaded on the mth subscriber line in the m subscriber lines; performing precoding processing on a downstream signal on the n subscriber lines; and sending the downstream signal that has undergone the precoding processing on another line except the m subscriber lines in the n subscriber lines. The embodiments of the present invention further provide a network-side device and a DSL system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianhua Liu, Guozhu Long, Xiang Wang, Yixian Liu
  • Patent number: 9680977
    Abstract: A voice only phone and method of operation; the voice only phone having a microprocessor configured to operate an interactive voice respondent (IVR) that is used to verbally interact with a user. The IVR allows the user to interact with the voice only phone to place calls, receive calls, receive text messages, and respond to text messages using only voice commands. Furthermore, the IVR allows for the dynamic creation of a voice phone book that is progressively updated. In order to better recognize the voice of the user, the voice only phone creates a voice profile through a voice recognition setup sequence, wherein the user is prompted to dictate a plurality of audible calibration inputs. Once the voice profile is created, the user is able to place phone calls by either dictating a contact name or a plurality of digits for a phone number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Inventor: Anatoliy Babayev
  • Patent number: 9674863
    Abstract: At least one example embodiment discloses a method of scheduling communications in a network having a plurality of base stations covering cells, respectively. The method includes obtaining a first coordination matrix, by a first base station, based on channel state information from at least one user equipment (UE), the first coordination matrix indicating scheduling information and first weights associated with subband transmissions for the first base station, transmitting the first coordination matrix to at least another base station of the plurality of base stations, receiving, by the first base station, a second coordination matrix from the at least another base station, the second coordination matrix indicating second weights associated with subband transmissions for the second base station, and transmitting, by the first base station, in subbands where the associated first weights are greater than the associated second weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Fang-chen Cheng, Min Zhang, Matthew P J Baker
  • Patent number: 9668074
    Abstract: A method for processing a time-domain signal with transient oscillations includes: performing, by one or more computer systems, a time-frequency representation transform on the time-domain signal to obtain a plurality of coefficients for, with a coefficient corresponding to a presence of an impulse response of a filter used by the time-frequency representation transform; selecting one or more of the coefficients, with the selected one or more of the coefficients having attributes that are more indicative of the transient oscillations; and reconstructing, based on performing an inverse transform on the selected one or more coefficients, a portion of the time-domain signal that represents the transient oscillations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: LitePoint Corporation
    Inventors: Todd Drullinger, Michael Smedegaard, Rick Chao, Soren Louis Pedersen
  • Patent number: 9660739
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to systems and methods for testing adaptive antennas via a multi-probe anechoic chamber, which includes the emulation of real world conditions of a radio frequency (RF) signal reaching a device-under-test (DUT). The technology disclosed can be applied to test and evaluate a range of changed conditions. In one case, beamforming scenarios use separate spatial desired and interference signals, and the results can be compared to uniform interference. Based on performance for a segment of a test profile, the segment can be modified or expanded: shortened, repeated, or repeated with a modification—to fully evaluate the aspect being tested. Also, a dynamic profile that is utilized to evaluate a first device can be saved and repeated as a fixed profile for further testing of a first or second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Spirent Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: John Douglas Reed
  • Patent number: 9660742
    Abstract: A signal leakage in a cable network may be detected by using a test device to obtain a spectrum of an electromagnetic wave propagating in vicinity of the cable network, and automatically detecting QAM channels in the obtained spectrum by detecting characteristic spectral roll-offs at boundary frequencies between QAM channels of the cable network. A test device may be used to determine which QAM channels are currently active on the cable network, thereby facilitating automatic QAM signal leakage detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventors: Al Ruth, Rodney Harbison Weaver, Koji Okamoto
  • Patent number: 9660711
    Abstract: A communications terminal may include: a plurality of antennas; and a selection circuit configured to select at least one antenna of the plurality of antennas as a transmit antenna for a transmission to a radio communications network, wherein a selection of the transmit antenna may be based on a selection criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Thorsten Clevorn, Christian Drewes, Jan Ellenbeck, Juergen Kreuchauf
  • Patent number: 9647829
    Abstract: A transmit (TX) signal path circuit in a multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) transceiver responsive to a digital front end (DFE) for generating receive (RX) path phase alignment signals is disclosed. A digital up-conversion block uses a first numerically-controlled oscillator (NCO) for generating digital intermediate frequency (IF) signals for ordinary TX signal generation, and a different, second NCO for generating digital IF signals for RX phase alignment signal generation. An RF up-conversion block uses a TX local oscillator (LO) for generating analog RF signals for ordinary TX signal generation, and a different feedback (FB) LO for generating analog RF signals for RX phase alignment signal generation. Thus, phase alignment of the circuitry used for ordinary TX signal generation is left undisturbed by RX phase alignment signal generation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Maxlinear Asia Singapore Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark Hiebert, Jay Chen
  • Patent number: 9628154
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for a transceiver are provided. The apparatus for the transceiver includes a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna; a transceiver connected to the MIMO antenna; and a processor configured to measure channel gain Hk, based on the received signal, where k is a sample index from 1 to K, Hk is an m×n matrix of complex channel gain known to the transceiver, measure noise variance ?2 of a channel, calculate a per-sample channel quality metric q(Hk, ?2) using at least one bound of mutual information; reduce a dimension of a channel quality metric vector (q(H1, ?2), . . . , q(HK, ?2)) by applying a dimension reduction function g(.); and estimate a block error rate (BLER) as a function of a dimension reduced channel quality metric g(q(H1, ?2), . . . , q(HK, ?2)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dongwoon Bai, Jungwon Lee
  • Patent number: 9628091
    Abstract: A phase detector includes a clock delay circuit, a data delay circuit, a control circuit, a D flip-flop, and a logic circuit. The clock delay circuit delays a clock signal so as to generate a delay clock signal. The data delay circuit delays a data signal so as to generate a delay data signal. The control circuit adjusts the delay time of the clock delay circuit and the delay time of the data delay circuit according to the clock signal and the delay clock signal. The D flip-flop generates a register signal according to the data signal and the clock signal. The logic circuit generates an up control signal and a down control signal according to the data signal, the delay data signal, and the register signal so as to control a charge pump of a CDR (Clock Data Recovery) circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: VIA ALLIANCE SEMICONDUCTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yeong-Sheng Lee
  • Patent number: 9619559
    Abstract: Techniques for re-associating dynamic metadata with media data are provided. A media processing system creates, with a first media processing stage, binding information comprising dynamic metadata and a time relationship between the dynamic metadata and media data. The binding information may be derived from the media data. While the first media processing stage delivers the media data to a second media processing stage in a first data path, the first media processing stage passes the binding information to the second media processing stage in a second data path. The media processing system re-associates, with the second media processing stage, the dynamic metadata and the media data using the binding information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Wenyu Jiang, Regunthan Radhakrishnan, Claus Bauer
  • Patent number: 9603081
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a terminal's initial access method in a wireless communication system, the method including: obtaining information including a cell identification (ID) from a synchronous signal; and receiving any one of a first physical broadcast channel (PBCH) and a second PBCH channel depending on to which of a preset range the cell ID corresponds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Inkwon Seo, Hanbyul Seo, Hakseong Kim, Seungmin Lee
  • Patent number: 9602384
    Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit, operable in a normal mode and a test mode, includes a demodulator, a demodulated signal processing section, a header analysis section, a payload processing section, and a control section. The demodulator demodulates a modulated wireless signal including a synchronization pattern, header, and payload, to generate a demodulated signal. The demodulated signal processing section detects the synchronization pattern from the demodulated signal, generates a synchronization detection signal synchronized to the synchronization pattern, and converts the demodulated signal into a received bit sequence. The header analysis section extracts and analyzes the header to obtain the number of bits of the payload. The payload processing section processes the payload.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Fumitoshi Hatori
  • Patent number: 9594100
    Abstract: A monitoring circuit for monitoring the performance of a phase locked loop having a divider therein, the divider comprising at least a first counter, the monitoring circuit comprising at least one memory element for capturing a value of the first counter after a predetermined time from a system event in the operation of the phase locked loop, a variability calculator for comparing a value of the counter with a preceding value of the counter to calculate a variation, and a circuit responsive to the estimate of variation for outputting a status signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Analog Devices Global
    Inventors: Muhammad Kalimuddin Khan, Kenneth J. Mulvaney, Michael Deeney, Niall Kevin Kearney
  • Patent number: 9584251
    Abstract: A method for pre-processing a signal prior to classification, where the signal includes non-contiguous segments; the method includes applying a coarse carrier frequency offset correction, applying a phase correction, applying a residual course frequency offset correction, and outputting a simulated continuous signal consisting of recorded continuous signal segments and modeled non-contiguous segments. A system for implementing the method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Allen-Vanguard Corporation
    Inventors: Oktay Ureten, Trevor Noel Yensen
  • Patent number: 9581675
    Abstract: System and methods may allow an operator of a signal measurement instrument to characterize and calibrate a network with unsupported connector types, e.g., not traceable to known standards. Adapters having supported and unsupported interfaces can be used to measure the system responses of networks in a system under test. These measurements can be mathematically cascaded to deduce virtual models that produce an accurate and fully calibrated total system response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: TEKTRONIX, Inc.
    Inventors: Laudie J. Doubrava, Josiah A. Bartlett
  • Patent number: 9582928
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for restoring a hole generated in multi-view rendering are provided. A hole in an output view may be restored using temporally neighboring images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yang Ho Cho, Du Sik Park, Ho Young Lee, Kyu Young Hwang, Young Ju Jeong
  • Patent number: 9571247
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling a Channel State Information (CSI) report. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for controlling a CSI report of a User Equipment (UE) in a base station of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile communication network is provided. The method includes a step of determining a CSI report set for a UE, where the CSI report set includes multiple CSI feedback modes, and each CSI feedback mode is defined to include a Non-Zero Power Reference Signal (NZP RS) resource part for channel measurement and an Interference Measurement Resource (IMR) part for interference measurement. In addition, the method further includes a step of sending to the UE Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling indicating the CSI report set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Zhilan Xiong, Min Zhang, Yun Deng, Hongwei Yang, Fang-Chen Cheng
  • Patent number: 9565044
    Abstract: A transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus and methods of controlling these apparatuses are provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: an input processor configured to process a plurality of input streams to generate a plurality of base band frames; a bit interleaved and coded modulation (BICM) processor configured to perform forward error correction (FEC) coding, constellation mapping, and interleaving on the plurality of baseband frames; a symbol generator configured to add signaling data to the plurality of baseband frames output from the BICM processor to generate an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol; and a transmitter configured to select at least one of a plurality of pilot patterns based on a fast Fourier transform (FFT) size and a guard interval fraction, insert a pilot in the OFDM symbol according to the selected pilot pattern, and transmit a stream including the pilot-inserted OFDM symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hak-ju Lee, Soon-chan Kwon, Se-ho Myung, Jung-hyun Park, Joo-sung Park, Hyun-koo Yang, Jung-pil Yu, Sung-ryul Yun, Hong-sil Jeong, Jung-Il Han
  • Patent number: 9553682
    Abstract: Testing radio equipment is described wherein an interfering signal is swept in frequency with a step size that is chosen proportional to the bandwidth of the receive channel of the radio equipment. For example, a respective frequency bandwidth (BCh) is determined of a plurality of receive channels of the radio equipment. A proportionality constant is selected for a frequency step size. For each respective receive channel, interfering radio signals are generated and the interfering radio signals are controlled to stepwise sweep in frequency outside of each respective receive channel. The stepwise sweeping of the interfering frequency is performed with a frequency step size that is a product of the respective bandwidth and the selected proportionality constant. Any spurious response is detected in the respective receive channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (publ)
    Inventors: Christian Bergljung, Jan Curt Gustaf Celander, Peter Jakobsson, Henrik Jeppsson
  • Patent number: 9547072
    Abstract: Weather radar for measuring radar signals in the GHz range with a receiver containing at least one signal path, the receiver comprising a receiving facility for an incoming radar signal, on which a test signal generated by a test signal generator is superimposed in a coupler, and a processing device to amplify, filter and convert both signals to lower frequencies, wherein for filtering a matched filter is provided, and with an evaluation device in which calibration parameters of the signal path are derived from the test signal for the frequency of the test signal in order to determine the signal strength of the received radar signal, wherein the test signal is superimposed with at least one frequency differing from the frequency of the radar signal, so that the radar signal and the test signal are processed separately from one another by the evaluation device, and the calibration parameters of the signal path for the frequency of the radar signal are determinable from the test signal through a modeling of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Selex ES GMBH
    Inventor: Stefan Beyer
  • Patent number: 9548799
    Abstract: Dynamic, untethered array nodes are frequency, phase, and time aligned, and used to focus their transmissions of the same data coherently on a target, using time reversal. Alignment may be achieved separately for the radio frequency (RF) carriers and the data envelopes. Carrier alignment may be by phase conjugation. The data is distributed across the nodes. Data distribution and/or alignment may be performed by a Master node of the array. The nodes capture a sounding signal from the target, in the same time window. Each node converts the captured sounding signal to baseband, for example, using in-phase/quadrature downconversion. Each node stores the baseband samples of the sounding pulse. Each node convolves time-reversed samples of the sounding signal with the data, and upconverts the convolved data to radio frequency. The nodes emit their respective convolved and upconverted data so that the emissions focus coherently at the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: ZIV A CORP.
    Inventors: Mark Hsu, David Smith, Jeremy Rode, Anis Husain
  • Patent number: 9544103
    Abstract: A method of determining link failure in a receiver for receiving a differential voltage signal via a first signal line and a second signal line, the method including: obtaining a first quantity depending on the larger one of a maximum value over time of a voltage level that is attained in the first signal line and a maximum value over time of a voltage level that is attained in the second signal line; obtaining a second quantity depending on a maximum value over time of an average of an instantaneous voltage level in the first signal line and an instantaneous voltage level in the second signal line; and determining that the link failure has occurred on the basis of the first quantity and the second quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
    Inventors: Richard Jansen, Jorgen Ilstad
  • Patent number: 9516616
    Abstract: A frequency error embodied in a series of values is determined by processing each of two or more selected values with another value in the series, each other value being spaced from its respective selected value by a first spacing, to generate processed values that all comprise substantially the same phase component; combining the processed values to generate a combined value that comprises substantially the same phase component as the processed values; repeating the processing and combining with the same selected values but a second spacing, different from the first spacing, to generate a combined value comprising a different phase component from the combined value generated using the first spacing, reflecting the frequency error; and determining the frequency error in dependence on the combined values generated using the first and second spacings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Neul Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert Young, Brian Gaffney
  • Patent number: 9515809
    Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein can offer an electronic device that includes a transmit circuit to form part of a transmit interface, and a receive circuit to form part of a receive interface. The transmit circuit and the receive circuit are to test at least one functional aspect of the electronic device on which the transmit circuit and the receive circuit reside. The transmit circuit and the receive circuit are coupled together by an analog near end loop back connection established through a resistor segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sriram Venkatesan, Shridhar G. Bendi
  • Patent number: 9515708
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a server provide context aware multiple-input-multiple-output MIMO antenna systems and methods. Specifically, the systems and methods provide, in a multiple MIMO antenna or node system, techniques of antenna/beam selection, calibration, and periodic refresh, based on environmental and mission context. The systems and methods can define a context vector as built by cooperative use of the nodes on the backhaul to direct antennas for the best user experience as well as mechanisms using the context vector in a 3D employment to point the antennas in a cooperative basis therebetween. The systems and methods utilize sensors in the nodes to provide tailored context sensing versus motion sensing, in conjunction with BER (Bit Error Rate) measurements on test signals to position an antenna beam from a selection of several “independent” antenna subsystems operating within a single node, as well as, that of its optically connected neighbor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Symbol Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Charles B Swope, Antonio Faraone, Durgesh Tiwari
  • Patent number: 9510310
    Abstract: Data characterizing a first signal and a second signal can be received. A first stream of bits for the first signal and a second stream of bits for the second signal can be calculated based on the received data. Each bit in the first stream of bits can characterize a slope of a power of the first signal and each bit in the second stream of bits can characterize a slope of a power of the second signal. The first stream of bits and the second stream of bits can be compared bitwise at a plurality of time-alignment differences for matching bits. Based on the comparing a final time-alignment difference between the first signal and the second signal can be determined. At least one of the receiving, the calculating, the comparing, and the determining can be performed by at least one processor of at least one computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: AltioStar Networks, Inc.
    Inventor: John N. Ibison
  • Patent number: 9510275
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to multi-RAT band scanning. According to one embodiment, a wireless user equipment (UE) device may perform a power scan of a frequency band. It may be determined whether or not to attempt system acquisition according to each of multiple possible radio access technologies (RATs) at east of multiple frequencies of the frequency band based on the power scan, and system acquisition may be attempted at selected RAT and frequency combinations. Results of the system acquisition attempts may be provided to a system selection module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Johnson O. Sebeni, Navid Damji
  • Patent number: 9461697
    Abstract: A transceiver coupled to an antenna includes: (a) a multi-port filter having a bidirectional port coupled to the antenna, at least one input port and at least one output port; (b) a transmit datapath receiving a transmission signal and providing the transmission signal for transmission by the antenna through the multi-port filter, the transmit datapath being coupled to the input port of the multi-port filter; (c) a receive datapath receiving a reception signal from the antenna, the receive datapath being coupled to the output port of the multi-port filter; (d) a band-pass filter coupled to the antenna for receiving a sampled signal that includes intermodulation components between two or more of an external signal, the transmission signal and the reception signal; and (e) a monitoring and cancellation circuit receiving the transmission signal, the reception signal and the sampled signal to cancel the intermodulation components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Scintera Networks LLC
    Inventors: Qian Yu, Yan Wang, Olivier Charlon, Rajeev Krishnamoorthy
  • Patent number: 9454162
    Abstract: A calibration circuit includes a pad suitable for receiving calibration data that toggles, a calibration reference voltage generation unit suitable for generating a calibration reference voltage from a median value of the calibration data, a comparison unit suitable for outputting a comparison signal by comparing the calibration reference voltage and a reference voltage with each other, and a reference voltage generation unit suitable for generating the reference voltage which is calibrated based on the comparison signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: SKY Hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Sang-Ah Hyun, Hyun-Woo Lee
  • Patent number: 9445312
    Abstract: The enhanced configuration and handoff scheme leverages the configuration of the Femto system, the Femto access network conditions and the mobile device conditions to facilitate an attractive user-experience. In an embodiment, the invention is based on the use of the access network conditions, IP (Internet Protocol) multimedia service QoS constraints, and the user profile for an enhanced configuration and handoff scheme, in a multimode Femto system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: United States Cellular Corporation
    Inventors: Sebastian Thalanany, Michael Irizarry, Narothum Saxena
  • Patent number: 9425946
    Abstract: A method for receiving a PDCH is provided. The method comprises: receiving, by a UE, information identifying a plurality of resource elements that are transmitted with zero power in a resource block containing the PDCH; receiving, by the UE, a first DMRS on a first DMRS port transmitted from a first cell; and receiving, by the UE, the PDCH that is transmitted on the first DMRS port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Vahid Pourahmadi, Hua Xu, Siva Dharshan Muruganathan, Yongkang Jia, Shiwei Gao, Yi Song, Robert Mark Harrsion
  • Patent number: 9424853
    Abstract: For synchronizing multichannel extension data with an audio signal, wherein the audio signal includes block division information and the multichannel extension data include reference audio signal fingerprint information, the block division information in the audio signal is detected by means of a block detector. Thereupon, block division of the audio signal is performed by a fingerprint calculator according to the block division information in order to obtain a sequence of test audio signal fingerprints. In addition to that, a sequence of reference audio signal fingerprints is extracted from the reference audio signal fingerprint information of the multichannel extension data. Both sequences of fingerprints are correlated in order to obtain a correlation result, by which a compensator is controlled in order to reduce or eliminate a time offset between the multichannel extension data and the audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Sebastian Scharrer, Wolfgang Fiesel, Joerg Pickel, Matthias Neusinger
  • Patent number: 9413299
    Abstract: A communication system utilizing adaptive envelope tracking includes a transmit path, a feedback receiver, a parameter component and an envelope tracking component. The transmit path is configured to generate a transmit signal. The feedback receiver is configured to generate a feedback signal from the transmit signal. The parameter component is configured to generate linearity parameters from the feedback signal and the baseband signal. The envelope tracking component is configured to generate a supply control signal having time delay adjustments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Andrea Camuffo, Alexander Belitzer, Bernhard Sogl
  • Patent number: 9414324
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of mobile terminal production, and discloses a sensitivity testing method, a sensitivity testing device and an inspection apparatus for a GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) communication terminal. The sensitivity testing method comprises: acquiring an RX Quality; determining whether the RX Quality is less than a step threshold that is set in a system; and if the RX Quality is less than the step threshold that is set in the system, then reducing a TCH (Traffic Channel) Level of the GSM communication terminal by one step. By using the RX Quality indicator in testing of a GSM communication terminal, the present disclosure determines whether the RX Quality is less than the step threshold that is set in the system, and adjusts the TCH Level of the GSM communication terminal according to the determination result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: HUIZHOU TCL MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Lingliang Meng