Directive Antenna Patents (Class 455/25)
  • Patent number: 11862017
    Abstract: A communication system (1) includes multiple transmission apparatuses (200) that transmit beacon signals to a moving body (10), and a terminal apparatus (100) that is mounted in the moving body (10) and, upon receiving a beacon signal of a predetermined intensity or more from a transmission apparatus (200), presents information to a user based on the beacon signal of the predetermined intensity or more and a past reception record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hisatoshi Kasahara, Norihiro Fujimoto, Hitoshi Mizuno, Seiya Sato
  • Patent number: 11804515
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a circuit includes: a transformer defining an inductive footprint within a first layer; a grounded shield bounded by the inductive footprint within a second layer separate from the first layer; and a circuit component bounded by the inductive footprint within a third layer separate from the second layer, wherein: the circuit component is coupled with the transformer through the second layer, and the third layer is separated from the first layer by the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Feng Wei Kuo, Chewn-Pu Jou, Huan-Neng Chen, Lan-Chou Cho, Robert Bogdan Staszewski
  • Patent number: 11799601
    Abstract: A device that comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, a central processor and a network management engine may be configured to function as relay device, relaying an input data stream from a source device to at least one other device. The relaying may include configuring one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers to particular mode of relay operation and receiving the input data stream from the source device via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers. The relaying may also include transmitting at least one relay data stream corresponding to the input data stream to the at least one other device, via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GOLBA LLC
    Inventor: Mehran Moshfeghi
  • Patent number: 11757582
    Abstract: A device that comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, a central processor and a network management engine may be configured to function as relay device, relaying an input data stream from a source device to at least one other device. The relaying may include configuring one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers to particular mode of relay operation and receiving the input data stream from the source device via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers. The relaying may also include transmitting at least one relay data stream corresponding to the input data stream to the at least one other device, via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: GOLBA LLC
    Inventor: Mehran Moshfeghi
  • Patent number: 11758536
    Abstract: A first UE may determine that a BPL with a second UE has degraded below a threshold and generate, based on the determination, a beam training frame for an on-demand beam training procedure. The beam training frame may include a first AGC symbol, SCI indicating that the beam training frame is for beam training, and one or more sets of an AGC symbol and beam sweeping reference signals. The first UE may transmit the beam training frame multiplexed with one or more data frames to the second UE. The second UE may receive the beam training frame for the on-demand beam training procedure based on a determination that the BPL with the first UE has degraded below the threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sourjya Dutta, Kapil Gulati, Junyi Li, Gabi Sarkis
  • Patent number: 11606762
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for a synchronization signal block (SSB)-level sleep mode. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes determining, from a synchronization signal burst set, a first set of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) to forgo performing measurements on using one or more receive beams based, at least in part, on one or more previous measurements associated with the determined first set of SSBs and performing measurements on only one or more remaining SSBs in the synchronization signal burst set using the one or more receive beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Zhu, Mihir Vijay Laghate, Raghu Narayan Challa, Yong Li
  • Patent number: 11601149
    Abstract: A system that incorporates aspects of the subject disclosure may perform operations including, for example, obtaining uplink information associated with a downlink path, wherein the uplink information includes operational parameters used by a plurality of communication devices for transmitting wireless signals on a plurality of uplink paths; performing, based on the uplink information, a plurality of measurements of the plurality of uplink paths; identifying a measurement from the plurality of measurements that is below a threshold, thereby indicating an affected uplink path of the plurality of uplink paths; initiating a first filtering of the affected uplink path, wherein the initiating is based on the identifying and wherein the first filtering is based upon one or more first filtering parameters; and receiving instructions comprising one or more updated filtering parameters, wherein the instructions are received by the system at a port of the system. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: ISCO International, LLC
    Inventors: Igor Goodman, Amr Abdelmonem
  • Patent number: 11582699
    Abstract: A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) includes a first MANET node having a first radio frequency (RF) transceiver and a first controller coupled thereto to generate RF transmissions. A second MANET node has a second RF transceiver configured to communicate with the first RF transceiver, and a second controller coupled to the second RF transceiver. The second controller is configured to cooperate with the second RF transceiver to receive the RF transmissions from the first MANET node, generate a normalized reception value based upon the received RF transmissions and send the normalized reception value to the first MANET node. The first controller is configured to control a transmit power level for a subsequent RF transmission based upon the normalized reception value from the second MANET node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: HARRIS GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Woodruff, Rebecca Ann Honecker, Nick A. Van Stralen
  • Patent number: 11569881
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication system are provided. A signal is received over a channel. The channel is decomposed into a plurality of virtual channels. Symbol detection is performed on each of the plurality of virtual channels. Values are obtained for the channel. Decoding is performed using the values to output a decoded symbol value of the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Inventors: Hyukjoon Kwon, Xiaoqiang Ma, Kee-Bong Song
  • Patent number: 11515973
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to an interference-aware beamforming environment in which an AP controller can determine one or more beams of one or more APs to serve various STAs. For example, an AP can request that STA(s) provide one or more uplink pilot signals during different time slots. The AP can receive the uplink pilot signal(s) and determine, for each STA, the uplink beam quality of each transmit beam-receive beam pair over which an uplink pilot signal was received from the respective STA. The AP can use reciprocity to determine, for each STA, the downlink beam quality for various transmit beam-receive beam pairs. The AP can use the determined downlink beam quality to identify the best beam with which to serve various STAs. An AP controller can determine which downlink beam(s) an AP should use to serve a STA based on the downlink beams originally selected by the APs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: XCOM Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Siddhartha Mallik, Tamer Adel Kadous, Ali A. Elghariani
  • Patent number: 11293724
    Abstract: Enclosed structures, such as guard towers, are provided which are designed to be easily transportable, constructed easily onsite and erected in a manner which produces an exceptionally blast resistant structure that is also advantageously designed for positioning within a perimeter wall. In particular, in some embodiments, the guard towers have a pentagon shape and are comprised of a plurality of composite panels. Each panel is able to be constructed onsite. The panels typically have a rectangular shape with at least one half of the panel constructed as a solid composite of concrete and metal. Once the panels are constructed, the panels are erected and arranged in a pentagon shape. The panels are bolted together with the use of vertical face connections. These connections provide better structural integrity, retained over time, particularly after subjection to a blast. In addition, the pentagon shape provides improved safety when positioned along a perimeter wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY
    Inventors: John M Hoemann, Justin M Roberts
  • Patent number: 11251886
    Abstract: A wave shaping device which comprises a tunable impedance surface and a controller connected to the surface in order to control its impedance. The shaping device further comprises a transmission module for receiving a pilot signal used to control the impedance of the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE—CNRS, UNIVERSITE PARIS DIDEROT—PARIS 7
    Inventors: Mathias Fink, Geoffroy Lerosey, Matthieu Dupre, Nadége Kaina
  • Patent number: 11211987
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for performing channel measurement in a multi-beam wireless communication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication node is disclosed. The method comprises: transmitting a channel measurement frame based on a plurality of beams to a wireless communication device through a channel between the wireless communication node and the wireless communication device; and receiving a feedback frame from the wireless communication device. The channel measurement frame comprises a training sequence including a plurality of repetitive segments. Each of the plurality of repetitive segments is transmitted based on a respective one of the plurality of beams. The feedback frame comprises channel information of the channel with respect to at least one beam of the plurality of beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: ZTE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bo Zhang, Kaiying Lv, Bo Sun, Chen Lu
  • Patent number: 11095044
    Abstract: An apparatus, e.g. a hybrid antenna, includes a plurality of antenna arrays. Each array includes antenna elements, and each array is located on a polygonal antenna body such that each array faces a different direction. An RF network includes first and second duplexers and a divider. The first duplexer is configured to split a received multifrequency drive signal into a first component having a first frequency and a second component having a second frequency. The divider is configured to split the first component into attenuated portions, and to direct one of the attenuated portions to a first of the plurality of antenna arrays. The second duplexer is configured to combine another of the attenuated portions with the second drive signal component to form a combined drive signal component, and to direct the combined drive signal component to a second of the antenna arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Inventor: Charles M. Powell
  • Patent number: 11038581
    Abstract: An integrated repeater system that includes a repeater device having phased array antenna receivers that receives a mmWave radio frequency signal from a base station, and one or more phased array antenna transmitters that transmits the received mmWave radio frequency signal through a glass structure to a user equipment with a first level of transmission loss. Based on an impedance matching component provided in the integrated repeater system, the repeater device tunes an impedance of the one or more phased array antenna transmitters in accordance with the glass structure, and a filter response of the glass structure is changed such that transmitted mmWave radio frequency signal after propagation through impedance matching component and glass structure has either no transmission loss at a frequency of the transmitted mmWave radio frequency signal or a second level of transmission loss that is less than the first level of transmission loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: SILICON VALLEY BANK
    Inventors: Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Alfred Grau Besoli
  • Patent number: 10764832
    Abstract: Techniques for uplink power control (e.g., for New Radio (NR)) are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may determine that the WTRU is to perform a first and a second transmissions using a first and a second transmission beams. The WTRU may determine an uplink transmission power for one or more of the first or second transmissions. For example, if the angular separation of the first and the second transmission beams is greater than a first separation threshold, the WTRU may determine the uplink transmission power having a first maximum power level parameter and a second maximum power level parameter. If the angular separation of the first and the second transmission beams is less than a second separation threshold, the WTRU determine the uplink transmission power having a shared maximum power level parameter. The WTRU may transmit the first and second transmissions using the first and second transmission beams, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: IDAC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Virgil Comsa, Paul Marinier, J. Patrick Tooher, Tao Deng, Ghyslain Pelletier
  • Patent number: 10680325
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a remote electrical tilt unit, a base station, and a method for managing a remote electrical tilt antenna. The method includes: receiving, by the remote electrical tilt unit, permission configuration information sent by a first base station through a group of AISG ports of the remote control unit; configuring management permission of the first base station on the remote electrical tilt unit according to the permission configuration information, where the management permission includes at least control permission and query permission, and control permission on the remote electrical tilt unit can be allocated to only one base station. In this way, multiple base stations jointly manage a remote electrical tilt unit in a remote electrical tilt antenna, and a problem that it is difficult to locate and troubleshoot a fault when configuration of the remote electrical tilt unit is incorrect is resolved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yue Li, Lixin Jiang, Wei Jiang
  • Patent number: 10615853
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a beamforming device (200), including: a first beamforming circuit (201) configured to generate a first beam (211) based on a first set of beamforming coefficients; a second beamforming circuit (202) configured to generate a second beam (212) based on a second set of beamforming coefficients; and a scheduling circuit (203) configured to allocate (204, 206) a first set of frequency resources, a second set of frequency resources, the first set of beamforming coefficients and the second set of beamforming coefficients to a plurality of mobile stations (UE0, UE1, UE2) based on an optimality criterion related to a target scheduling metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Honglei Miao, Bernhard Raaf, Michael Faerber
  • Patent number: 10587048
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a system having a polyrod antenna array. Beam steering can be performed according to a first subset of elements of the polyrod antenna array generating first electromagnetic waves with a first phase that is different from a second phase of the first electromagnetic waves being generated by a second subset of elements of the polyrod antenna array. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Shikik Johnson, Paul Shala Henry, Robert Bennett, Farhad Barzegar, Irwin Gerszberg, Thomas M. Willis, III, Donald J. Barnickel
  • Patent number: 10447374
    Abstract: A user equipment is configured for use in a wireless communication system. The user equipment in this regard is configured to detect an orientation of an equipment coordinate frame defined for the user equipment relative to an earth coordinate frame defined for Earth. The user equipment is also configured to determine, based on the detected orientation, a set) of beams defined in the equipment coordinate frame which does not include any beam pointing in one or more predefined directions in the earth coordinate frame. The user equipment is further configured to perform a beam sweep or scan on the determined set of beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Johan Rune, Icaro L. J. da Silva, Andres Reial, Henrik Sahlin
  • Patent number: 10440722
    Abstract: A base station receives measurement information from infrastructure units, and this measurement information in order to create a look-up table. Based on analysis of the measurement information, an indication of connections between a relay node and communications terminals in the network is transmitted, and communications resources are assigned to each of the infrastructure units in the network. The relay node in the network transmits channel sounding signals to be measured by other infrastructure units, in their assigned communications resource, and with a specified transmission power. The infrastructure units which detect the channel sounding signals can then use them to measure and estimate a state of the channel and determine which frequency resources to use when scheduling transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jussi Tapani Kahtava, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 10319222
    Abstract: A traffic condition monitoring system, provided in a base station installed by a side of a road for monitoring a traffic condition based upon communication signals transmitted from mobile terminals in a plurality of vehicles traveling on the road, includes a receiver part operable to receive the communication signals transmitted from the mobile terminals in the respective vehicles to output received signals, a speed/direction estimation part operable to estimate traveling speeds and traveling directions of the respective vehicles based upon the received signals, and a traffic condition analysis part operable to determine effective traveling speeds of the respective vehicles in each traveling direction, to calculate an average traveling speed of a group of vehicles in each traveling direction, and to analyze a traffic condition in each traveling direction based upon the average traveling speed of the group of vehicles in each traveling direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Satoshi Oura
  • Patent number: 10270518
    Abstract: Methods and wireless devices are described. A method includes a wireless device transmitting to wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) by being scheduled by the base station or using a pool of radio resources, which is for any of a plurality of wireless devices to use for transmission to WTRUs. On a condition that the wireless device is to be scheduled by the base station, the wireless device receives scheduling information for transmission to a WTRU having a group radio network terminal identifier (RNTI) and transmits to the WTRU in response to the received scheduling information. The scheduling information for transmission to the base station uses a different RNTI. On a condition that the wireless device is to use the pool of radio resources for transmission to a WTRU, the wireless device transmits to the WTRU without being scheduled by the base station using the pool of radio resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Sana Sfar, Alexander Reznik, Prabhakar Chitrapu, Zinan Lin, Mohammed Sammour, Ana Lucia A. Pinheiro, Mihaela Beluri, Chunxuan Ye, Yogendra Shah, Gregg A. Charlton, Guodong Zhang, Khushali N. Manseta, Ruiyuan Hu
  • Patent number: 10236999
    Abstract: A method comprises receiving a reference signal from a first node, estimating channel information from said received reference signal, and causing a signal to be transmitted to said first node, said signal comprising a reference signal and information dependent on said channel information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Deshan Miao, Jianhong Mou, Naizheng Zheng, Kari Pekka Pajukoski
  • Patent number: 10206122
    Abstract: A method of direction finding (DF) positioning in a wireless location area network (WLAN) is proposed. A multiple antenna IEEE 802.11 transmitting device can transmit signal preamble containing multiple Long Training Field (LTF) symbols in a radio frame from multiple antennas simultaneously, which allows a receiving device to resolve multiple DF sounding signals transmitted from the multiple antennas. As a result, angle of departure (AoD) of the transmitting device can be estimated by using the multiple resolved DF sounding signals from each antenna for DF positioning purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
    Inventors: James June-Ming Wang, Jianhan Liu, Thomas Edward Pare, Jr., Tianyu Wu, Gabor Bajko, Yung-Ping Hsu
  • Patent number: 10165522
    Abstract: An electronic device includes communication circuitry configured to communicably couple the electronic device to one or more other electronic devices in a wireless network associated with a structure. A processor of the electronic device is operatively coupled to a memory. The processor is configured to determine a status associated with one or more occupants of the structure. The processor is configured to control wireless transmission power output of the electronic device or the one or more other electronic devices based on the status associated with one or more occupants of the structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Kamesh Raj Velu
  • Patent number: 10122082
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an RCU (remote control unit), an antenna apparatus, an antenna electrical tilting method and an antenna system. The RCU includes a reading device and a driver. The reading device is configured to read, from a memory inside the antenna apparatus, when the antenna apparatus is communicatively connected with the RCU, antenna information of an antenna controlled by the antenna apparatus and configuration data corresponding to the antenna. The antenna information includes the antenna serial number and the antenna model of the antenna. The driver is configured to control the antenna apparatus to adjust an electrical down-tilt angle of the antenna in accordance with the configuration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tingting Zhang, Jisong Wang, Shoubo Xie, Shubao Pei
  • Patent number: 10050681
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). An apparatus and a method for performing beamforming by using an antenna array in a wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus includes at least one antenna array comprising antenna elements, a control unit configured to determine a number of beams to be formed through the at least one antenna array, and a communication unit configured to adjust paths associated with the antenna elements in order to configure as many antenna subsets as the number of the beams, and to form at least one beam through at least one antenna subset configured from the at least one antenna array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jaewon Kim, Hyunkyu Yu, Jeongho Park, Kyungwhoon Cheun, Jongho Oh, Sung Tae Choi, Jung Il Han, Sooyoung Hur
  • Patent number: 9887745
    Abstract: A communicating method for an antenna array communication system, a user equipment and a base station are provided. The communicating method includes the following steps. A plurality of beams which are formed by a plurality of antennas is transmitted by a base station, and some of the beams is selected by a user equipment. A beam set of the selected beams for the user equipment is configured by the base station. A pre-coding information is fed back to the base station according to the configured beam set by the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sung-En Chiu, Chia-Pang Yen
  • Patent number: 9876556
    Abstract: Disclosed are passive reflector radio communications systems, such as for UHF frequencies or greater than UHF frequencies, and related deployment systems and devices that provide underground communications. Embodiments of the system include reflector elements to provide passive radio communications, structural frameworks to support and orient the reflector elements, methods for calculating reflector size, shape, and position corresponding to a desired wavelength, and deployment methods and devices to install the communication system at a desired location. The passive reflectors can be placed in a folded or otherwise compact mode, for transport into underground tunnels. Once at the desired installation location, the system can be installed, with the reflectors positioned appropriately for the radio frequencies used at the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Applied Minds, LLC
    Inventors: Charles L. Gandy, Clinton Blake Hope, Edward Francis Adams, Donald Gregory Lariviere, Houstin L. Lichtenwalner
  • Patent number: 9686753
    Abstract: Disclosed are a base station, a terminal and power control methods thereof, and the power control method for a base station, when the base station transmits information to a user terminal, includes: a first transmission power at which the data information is transmitted to the user terminal is acquired; a first strength of data interference on a terminal attributed to a neighboring base station is determined based on the first transmission power; it is determined whether a difference value between the first strength of the data interference and an interference threshold is larger than 0 to acquire a determination result; and if the determination result is larger than 0, the first transmission power is lowered to a second transmission power so that when the data information is transmitted at the second transmission power, a second strength of the data interference on the terminal attributed to the neighboring base station does not exceed the interference threshold, thereby solving the technical problem in the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: ZTE Corporation
    Inventor: Kanhao Chen
  • Patent number: 9622064
    Abstract: A method of adjusting power of a neighbor discovery signal may include determining a maximum transmission power of a transmitting wireless device. The transmitting wireless device may be configured to transmit a neighbor discovery signal to one or more receiving wireless devices. The one or more receiving wireless devices may be discovered neighbor wireless devices of the transmitting wireless device and may be configured to receive the neighbor discovery signal. The method may further include determining a power level of the neighbor discovery signal based on the maximum transmission power of the transmitting wireless device and a number of the discovered neighbor wireless devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Chenxi Zhu, Dorin Viorel, Huy Dung Han, Akira Ito
  • Patent number: 9609648
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for beamforming in a wireless communication are provided. The apparatus determines a beamforming direction and a SNR of at least two user equipments (UEs) and determines whether to schedule communication with the at least two UEs during a same time interval via a single communication beam based on the beamforming directions and the SNRs of the at least two UEs. When the communication with the at least two UEs during the same time interval via the single communication beam is scheduled, the apparatus allocates bandwidth resources respectively among the at least two UEs, sizes a width of the single communication beam to encompass the beamforming directions of the at least two UEs, and communicates with one or more of the at least two UEs during the same time interval via a respectively allocated bandwidth resource using the sized single communication beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Zhenliang Zhang, Sundar Subramanian, Junyi Li, Ashwin Sampath
  • Patent number: 9544855
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling power of an uplink in a beam forming system is disclosed. The method includes generating power control information based on a quality of a signal which is measured for each reception beam of a base station, so as to transmit the power control information to terminals. The method also includes receiving a signal transmitted by using the power control information from at least one terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Su-Ryong Jeong, Jeong-Ho Park, Hyun-Kyu Yu
  • Patent number: 9416511
    Abstract: Working platform (6) and offshore wind energy plant (2) comprising a working platform (6), wherein the working platform (6) is configured to be mounted to an outside wall (16) of the tower (4) of the offshore wind energy plant (2) by help of welded joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: AREVA Wind GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Kramer, Michael Gennrich
  • Patent number: 9412968
    Abstract: A display device includes a first substrate having a plurality of pixel regions separated by a non-pixel region; a second substrate facing the first substrate; and a spacer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate to maintain a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate. The pixel regions include a first pixel region and a second pixel region which neighbor each other, the non-pixel region between the first pixel region and the second pixel region is bisected into a first non-pixel region adjacent to the first pixel region and a second non-pixel region adjacent to the second pixel region, and the spacer is formed on the non-pixel region between the first pixel region and the second pixel region. An area of the first non-pixel region occupied by the spacer is smaller than an area of the second non-pixel region occupied by the spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Han-Soo Kim
  • Patent number: 9408245
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes systems and methods for acquiring service using multiple channels. In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method comprising successively configuring a first wireless communication channel and a second wireless communication channel of a single wireless apparatus to receive a plurality of signal frequencies of one or more radio communication protocols. The first wireless communication channel is configured to receive different signal frequencies of the plurality of signal frequencies than the second wireless communication channel. The first wireless communication channel and the second wireless communication channel process the plurality of signal frequencies in parallel to establish a service connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Appala Naga Raju Bodduru, Venkata Appala Naidu Babbadi, Kondal Reddy Narlengi, Rahul Gupta
  • Patent number: 9347236
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tower or a tower segment of a wind turbine, having a door for entering the inside of the tower, comprising a door frame, which has a door opening that is preferably closed by a door leaf. The Invention further relates to a door frame for a door of a tower of a wind turbine, said frame having a door opening that is preferably closed by a door leaf, and to a wind turbine having a tower, a door provided for entering the inside of the tower, and a staircase leading to the door on the outside of the tower, preferably of a tower described above. The underlying object of the invention is to provide an air passage opening in at least one advantageous location. This object is achieved according to the invention in that the door frame has at least one air passage opening, particularly an air inlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Senvion SE
    Inventors: Rüdiger Gawrisch, Roberto Klugmann
  • Patent number: 9294159
    Abstract: An antenna relay system for facilitating wireless communication between mobile terminals on a high-speed rail vehicle and stationary base stations with substantially reduced Doppler shift effects comprises matched traveling wave directional antennas mounted to a high-speed rail vehicle and positioned collinearly alongside the railway. Both antennas continually transmit and receive at a fixed angle relative to the motion of the train so as to circumvent the Doppler shift. The signal transmitted or received by the stationary antenna is conducted to a nearest node for communication with an access network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventor: Gary L. Duerksen
  • Patent number: 9271293
    Abstract: Bidirectional iterative beam forming techniques are described. An apparatus may include a wireless device having an antenna control module operative to initiate beam formation operations using an iterative training scheme to form a pair of communications channels for a wireless network, the antenna control module to communicate training signals and feedback information with a peer device via the transceiver and phased antenna array using partially or fully formed high rate channels, and iteratively determine antenna-array weight vectors for a directional transmit beam pattern for the phased antenna array using feedback information from the peer device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ilan Sutskover, Assaf Kasher, Quinghua Li, Huaning Niu
  • Patent number: 9203691
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a fail-safe communication system in which certain communication components fail, the system detects the failure, and the system maintains communication by routing data sets to different communication components. In various embodiments, the communication components fail on the network side. In various embodiments, the communication components fail on the remote side. In various embodiments, there are methods for fail-safe communication in which a system detects communication component failure, and routes data sets to other communication components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Siklu Communication Ltd.
    Inventors: Baruch Schwarz, Ariel Picholtz, Yigal Leiba
  • Patent number: 9154977
    Abstract: A system and methods for maintaining or optimizing a mobile phone network by spatially correlating geolocated radio access network (RAN) performance measurement data and geolocated subscriber account data, which in embodiments provides additional technical information on the RAN performance. These data are integrated in a spatial data structure and provided with a spatial querying and data correlation system for identifying, and addressing problem areas of the RAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: ACTIX LIMITED
    Inventors: Richard Kateley, Chris Haines, Richard Harris, Martin Hunt
  • Patent number: 9094458
    Abstract: One example embodiment provides a method and system where a node in a utility network receives a block of IPv6 network addresses from an access point in the utility network. The utility node allocates an IP network address from the block of IPv6 network addresses received from the access point to an in-premise device which communicates to the utility node over an in-premise network which is not IP based. The utility node proxies the allocated IP address to the utility network, allowing other nodes on the utility network to address and communicate with the in-premise device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: SILVER SPRING NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Raj Vaswani, Jeremy Johnson, Jay Ramasastry
  • Patent number: 9085904
    Abstract: A modular, prefabricated stair tower comprising a plurality of stairs, landings, handrails and hangers pre-assembled into a module configured such that it might be shipped and installed into a wind power tower tube section, with installation preferably occurring prior to shipment to the wind farm jobsite so that, when the tube section is erected vertically, authorized personnel gain immediate, efficient and economical access for ascending and descending large land based and offshore wind power turbine towers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Inventor: Larry James Hopper
  • Patent number: 9055404
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program product are described that provide for a user to share content with other users who are proximate to his or her device in a simple and intuitive manner. In some embodiments, a “wave” gesture is used to identify users of devices that nearby to the source user's device with whom the source user may communicate, such as to share content. Upon receiving a first orientation input, a scanning mode may be initiated during which one or more devices proximate the apparatus are determined. A second orientation input that is different from the first orientation input, and the scanning mode may be terminated in response. As a result, a communication with at least one selected device of the one or more devices determined to be proximate the apparatus may be facilitated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Vidya Raghavan Setlur, Lu Luo, David Alexander Dearman, Hawk Yin Pang, Raja Bose, Vivek Vishal Shrivastava
  • Patent number: 9026040
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a retro-directive array that facilitates a tracking operation. This retro-directive array includes a first antenna configured to receive an input signal which is substantially circularly polarized from a tracking device. The first antenna separates the input signal into two signal components (e.g., Ex and Ey) associated with different orthogonal polarizations, wherein the two signal components comprise a quadrature signal wherein Ey=j·Ex. The retro-directive array also includes a bi-directional quadrature gain (BQG) module coupled to the first antenna which is configured to boost the quadrature signal. It additionally includes a second antenna which configured to transmit the boosted quadrature signal to the tracking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Silicon Image, Inc.
    Inventor: Farshid Aryanfar
  • Patent number: 9014622
    Abstract: A repeater device may be utilized to enable forwarding extreme high frequency (EHF) communication between EHF-enabled wireless devices. The repeater device may utilize spatial isolation to prevent and/or reduce interference between received and transmitted EHF RF signals, wherein reception and/or transmission of EHF RF signals in the repeater device may be performed via narrow beams that may enable minimal interference by transmit EHF RF signals to reception of EHF RF. The repeater device may utilize phased arrays to enable performing beamforming, and signal processing operations, including shift and/or amplitude adjustment, may be performed on signals received and/or transmitted via antenna elements in the phased arrays to enable beamforming during reception and transmission of EHF RF signals. Signal processing operations performed in the repeater device may be modifiable to enable continued spatial isolation between receive and transmit EHF RF signal in the repeater device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Ahmadreza Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 8996023
    Abstract: For downlink communication with a communication terminal using a downlink radio resource allocated to this communication terminal by a radio resource allocating unit, if this communication terminal does not transmit a first known signal using an associated uplink radio resource associated with this downlink radio resource but it transmits the first known signal using a nonassociated uplink radio resource which is not associated with this downlink radio resource and which includes the frequency band of this downlink radio resource in a frequency direction, a communication unit controls the transmission directivity of a plurality of antennas based on a second known signal if the aforementioned communication terminal transmits the second known signal in the frequency band of the aforementioned downlink radio resource in an interval between a time period of this downlink radio resource and a time period of the aforementioned nonassociated uplink radio resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Yuuki Nakasato
  • Publication number: 20150087226
    Abstract: A monolithic integrated circuit for use in a microwave backhaul system may comprise a plurality of microwave transceivers and outdoor-unit to indoor-unit (ODU/IDU) interface circuitry. The monolithic integrated circuit may be configurable into an all-outdoor configuration in which the ODU/IDU interface circuitry is disabled. The monolithic integrated circuit may be configurable into a split-indoor-and-outdoor configuration in which the ODU/IDU interface circuitry is enabled to communicate signals between an outdoor unit of the microwave backhaul system and an indoor unit of the microwave backhaul system. While the monolithic integrated circuit is configured in the split-indoor-and-outdoor configuration, the ODU/IDU interface circuitry may be configurable to operate in at least a non-stacking mode and a stacking mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Curtis Ling, Kishore Seendripu, Raja Pullela, Madhukar Reddy, Timothy Gallagher
  • Patent number: 8989796
    Abstract: A radio communication system including a relaying apparatus and a base station, at an installment of a new base station, a parameter is autonomously adjusts a parameter to maintain a communication of the relaying apparatus. The new base station transmits a radio signal while increasing a transmission power, and the relaying apparatus, upon detecting the radio signal, transmits a signal indicating detection of the signal to an existing base station. The existing base station, upon receiving the signal indicating the detection, reduces an transmission power thereof to a minimum power to maintain a communication with a relaying apparatus and adjusts the parameter to set the transmission power to the minimum transmission power. The new base station, based on the transmission power at a time when the relaying apparatus has detected the radio signal, sets the parameter of the transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Susumu Asaoka