Combined With Noise Or Interference Elimination Patents (Class 455/278.1)
  • Patent number: 11936680
    Abstract: A threat monitoring and vulnerability management system is disclosed. The system includes one or more sensors configured to scan a frequency spectrum of a project 25 (P25) network and to collect data on the P25network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: 802 Secure, Inc.
    Inventors: Garry Drummond, Konrad Grutzmacher, Clifford Fernandez, Michael Raggo
  • Patent number: 11843409
    Abstract: The present invention provides a receiver including a filter, a signal detection circuit and a synchronization processing circuit. The filter is configured to filter a filter input signal to generate a filter output signal. The signal detection circuit is configured to determine whether the filter input signal or the filter output signal includes an interference signal according to the filter input signal and the filter output signal, to generate an interference signal indicator; wherein when the interference signal indicator indicates that the filter input signal or the filter output signal includes the interference signal, the signal detection circuit further determines whether the filter output signal comprises an effective signal to generate an effective signal indicator. The synchronization processing circuit is configured to process the filter output signal according to the interference signal indicator and the effective signal indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
    Inventor: Lihua Wang
  • Patent number: 11843406
    Abstract: Example systems and methods of a wireless device use a signal attribute detector to determine a signal attribute value associated with a first frame received via a first antenna. Media access control (MAC) logic can detect that the first frame indicates an acknowledgement (ACK) of a second frame transmitted by the wireless device. Responsive to the detection of the ACK by the MAC logic, an antenna evaluator uses the signal attribute value to select one of the first antenna and the second antenna to transmit or receive a third frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: David Hong
  • Patent number: 11792661
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for increasing bandwidth efficiency in satellite communications. In some embodiments, a satellite communications method is provided that comprises receiving, at a satellite and from a plurality of user ground terminals, a plurality of source signals, wherein each of the source signals are modulated according to at least one source modulation method, and further receiving, at a satellite and from a plurality of user ground terminals, a plurality of information signals corresponding to the plurality of source signals. The method further includes combining, at the satellite, the plurality of source signals into a combined source signal with an overlapping bandwidth, wherein each of the source signals are further modulated according to at least one predetermined modulation method before they are combined, and transmitting, by a downlink transmission from the satellite to a gateway ground station, the combined source signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: INTELSAT US LLC
    Inventors: Salim M K Yaghmour, Virgil Marvin Bernard Cannon
  • Patent number: 11777553
    Abstract: A high-frequency module includes a transmission signal amplifier that outputs a transmission signal to an antenna terminal side; a reception signal amplifier that amplifies a reception signal supplied from an antenna terminal; a switch that selectively connects the antenna terminal to either an output of the transmission signal amplifier or an input of the reception signal amplifier; and a directional coupler that is provided on a transmission signal path and detects a signal level of the transmission signal. The transmission signal amplifier is controlled by a first control signal supplied from a first control circuit. The reception signal amplifier is controlled by a second control signal supplied from a second control circuit. The switch is controlled by a switch control signal supplied from the first control circuit. The directional coupler is controlled by a coupler control signal supplied from the first control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Sakurai, Satoshi Arayashiki, Satoshi Tanaka, Kyoichi Hirayama, Tomohito Ito, Kenta Kurahashi
  • Patent number: 11595429
    Abstract: A threat monitoring and vulnerability management system is disclosed. The system includes one or more sensors configured to scan a frequency spectrum of a project 25 (P25) network and to collect data on the P25 network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: 802 Secure, Inc.
    Inventors: Garry Drummond, Konrad Grutzmacher, Clifford Fernandez, Michael Raggo
  • Patent number: 11417958
    Abstract: An omnidirectional quad-loop antenna has four open circular wire loops, each being the same length as the wavelength of a wireless signal. The loops are joined at their tops and each lies in a distinct plane that is rotated 45 degrees with respect to each adjoining wire loop. The bottom terminal ends of the loops are configured to connect to the outer conductor of a coaxial cable. A helical wire coil may be connected at one end to the loops at the connection point, or insulated from the loops, and the other end is configured to connect to the inner conductor of the cable. With the antenna and cable connected to a device, the wireless signal is much stronger, in any direction, than without. The compact antenna fits within the volume of a sphere with a circumference corresponding to the wavelength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Inventor: William Taylor
  • Patent number: 11265199
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a transmitting device may identify one or more blocks of data for transmission to a receiving device. The transmitting device may map subsets of bits of the one or more blocks of data to a constellation of symbol points of a modulation order to obtain a set of symbols and may then transmit a signal including the set of symbols to a receiving device. In some systems, a receiving device may receive, from the transmitting device, the signal including the set of symbols associated with blocks of data. The receiving device may de-map the set of symbols according to a constellation of symbol points of a modulation order to obtain a plurality of sets of de-mapped data bits and decode a plurality of sets of de-mapped data bits to obtain the blocks of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Assaf Touboul, Ronen Shaked
  • Patent number: 11245427
    Abstract: Disclosed is a frequency selective limiter with a switched multiplexer filter bank having a plurality of filters coupled between antenna and receiver ports, wherein the switched multiplexer filter bank is configured to enable and disable selected ones of the plurality of filters in response to control signals. First detector circuitry is coupled to the antenna port and configured to detect signal voltage at the antenna port and generate a first detector voltage. Second detector circuitry is coupled to the receiver port and configured to detect signal voltage at the receiver port and generate a second detector voltage, and a digital controller is coupled between the first detector circuitry, the second detector circuitry, and a control interface, wherein the digital controller is configured to limit interfering signals by sending control signals to the switched multiplexer filter bank in response to the first detector voltage and the second detector voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: QORVO US, INC.
    Inventor: Charles Forrest Campbell
  • Patent number: 11218201
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to 5G or pre-5G communication systems for supporting higher data transfer rates, following the 4G communication systems, such as LTE. The disclosure describes a method and a UE for sensor-based optimal antenna array switching in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ashok Kumar Sahoo, Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva, Sripada Kadambar, Anusha Gunturu, Shubham Khunteta
  • Patent number: 10999309
    Abstract: A threat monitoring and vulnerability management system is disclosed. The system includes one or more sensors configured to scan a frequency spectrum of a project 25 (P25) network and to collect data on the P25 network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: 802 Secure, Inc.
    Inventors: Garry Drummond, Konrad Grutzmacher, Clifford Fernandez, Michael Raggo
  • Patent number: 10944442
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a receiver included in a communications system includes a channel extractor configured to segregate a received signal into a plurality of channel signals, wherein the plurality of channel signals includes a plurality of data signals; a plurality of phase shifters electrically coupled to the channel extractor and configured to decode each data signal of the plurality of data signals with a respective phase; and a plurality of time delay filters electrically coupled to the plurality of phase shifters and configured to decode each data signal of the plurality of data signals with a respective time delay, wherein the plurality of time delay filters outputs each subset of the plurality of data signals in a respective channel of the plurality of channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Alireza Mehrnia, Masoud Kahrizi, Alex Ahmad Mirzaei, Bagher Afshar, Ali Sajjadi, Bernd Pregardier, Ka Shun Carson Pun, Omid Nasiby, Igor Elgorriaga
  • Patent number: 10727929
    Abstract: Disclosed are techniques for receive beam selection for measuring a reference radio frequency (RF) signal. In an aspect, a first node determines a type of measurement to be performed on the reference RF signal, selects a receive beam based on the type of measurement to be performed on the reference RF signal, generates the selected receive beam, receives, from a second node, using the generated receive beam, the reference RF signal transmitted on a wireless channel, and performs one or more measurements on the received reference RF signal according to the type of the measurement to be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bilal Sadiq, Tianyang Bai, Vasanthan Raghavan, Juergen Cezanne, Pavan Kumar Vitthaladevuni, Alexandros Manolakos, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Junyi Li, Naga Bhushan, Muhammad Nazmul Islam
  • Patent number: 10587318
    Abstract: An apparatus for deriving a submatrix {tilde over (G)}?1 is described. The apparatus for deriving a submatrix {tilde over (G)}?1 is configured to select an N-elements-column and an N-elements-row of an N×N-Matrix G or G?1. The apparatus for deriving a submatrix {tilde over (G)}?1 is configured to rearrange the selected column to the rightest column and the selected row to the lowest row of G or G?1 so as to generate a N×N-matrix Gp or Gp?1. The apparatus for deriving a submatrix {tilde over (G)}?1 is configured to calculate a submatrix {tilde over (G)}?1 by G ~ - 1 = A - AbcA d - 1 + c T ? Ab , wherein the parameters (N?1)×(N?1)-submatrix A, b, d, c are obtained from the Gp or the Gp?1; wherein G p = [ G ~ b c T d ] , ? G p - 1 = [ A b ~ c ~ T d ~ ] .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Doron Ezri, Genadiy Tsodik, Shimon Shilo, Oded Redlich, Yaron Ben-Arie
  • Patent number: 10541654
    Abstract: Amplification with post-distortion compensation is disclosed. In an example aspect, an apparatus includes a voltage rail and a cascode amplifier. The cascode amplifier includes an amplification node, a cascode node, and a common-source node. The cascode amplifier also includes at least one cascode transistor, an input transistor, and a compensation transistor. The cascode transistor is coupled between the amplification node and the cascode node. The input transistor is coupled between the cascode node and the common-source node. The compensation transistor is coupled between the voltage rail and the cascode node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Makar Snai, Ehab Abdel Ghany, Manohar Seetharam, Li-chung Chang
  • Patent number: 10521619
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to a method for obtaining a backscatter modulated receive signal in an radio-frequency identification (RFID) system, comprising the steps: providing a carrier wave by a local oscillator; generating a transmit signal based on the carrier wave and an input signal; transmitting said transmit signal; receiving a backscatter modulated receive signal; and combining the receive signal with a cancel signal; wherein the method further comprises the step of determining a phase shift and an amplitude adjust from the corrected receive signal; wherein the determined phase shift is applied as a phase rotation when generating the transmit signal; and wherein the cancel signal is based on the un-shifted carrier wave and the determined amplitude adjust. The disclosed subject matter further relates to an RFID reader configured to perform said method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Kapsch TrafficCom AG
    Inventor: Alastair Malarky
  • Patent number: 10404293
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for dynamically modifying filter characteristics of a Delta-Sigma modulator to accommodate for Doppler shift. A transceiver in a wireless cellular communication system for adapt to changes in the RF carrier frequency for maintaining signal integrity by applying a pilot tone in calibration to determine a frequency shift response for a bandpass filter. During operation, the system is operative to determine a Doppler shift and to shift the bandpass filter in response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Timothy J. Talty, Cynthia D. Baringer, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Jongchan Kang, Yen-Cheng Kuan, James Chingwei Li, Emilio A. Sovero
  • Patent number: 10389477
    Abstract: Wireless communication devices are adapted to facilitate non-orthogonal underlay transmissions. In one example, wireless communication devices can receive a wireless transmission via a particular time and frequency resource, where the wireless transmission includes a first signal employing a modulation associated with orthogonal wireless communication, and a second signal employing a modulation associated with non-orthogonal wireless communication. The wireless communication device can decode the first signal and the second signal. In another example, wireless communication devices may transmit a first signal utilizing a first type of modulation associated with non-orthogonal wireless communication, where the first signal is transmitted over at least a portion of a time and frequency resource scheduled for a second signal from a second wireless communication device, the second signal utilizing a second type of modulation associated with orthogonal wireless communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tingfang Ji, John Edward Smee, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Naga Bhushan, Wei Zeng, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli
  • Patent number: 10205585
    Abstract: System and method embodiments are provided for analog cancellation for division free duplexing for radios using MIMO. In an embodiment, a system for minimizing transmitted signals from a transmitter appearing at a co-located receiver in a division free duplexing radio includes a transmitter to transmit an analog transmitted signal; an antenna; a circulator coupled to the transmitter and the antenna; a tuning algorithm component configured to receive a copy of the analog transmitted signal from the transmitter and a sampled analog received signal from a received signal path from the circulator, wherein the sampled analog received signal is sampled at a point in the received signal path before the analog received signal is provided to a receiver; and a multitap cancellation component configured to provide a cancellation signal to couple to the analog received signal such that an amount of the analog transmitted signal appearing at the receiver is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: James Gary Griffiths, Wolfgang Oberhammer, Michael Moher, Eddy Shi-Ning Hum
  • Patent number: 10158392
    Abstract: A transmission-reception device includes an antenna duplexer, an antenna, and first and second transmission-reception circuits. A demultiplexer is connected between the first transmission-reception circuit and the antenna duplexer, and a multiplexer is connected between the second transmission-reception circuit and the antenna duplexer. A signal adjusting unit is connected between the demultiplexer and the multiplexer. The amplitude and phase of a third harmonic signal of a first transmission signal reflected by the antenna are detected. The signal adjusting unit adjusts the amplitude and phase of the third harmonic signal demultiplexed by the demultiplexer on the basis of the detection results, and outputs a cancel signal. The multiplexer synthesizes and hence cancels the third harmonic signal reflected by the antenna and the cancel signal with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hidenori Obiya, Shinya Mizoguchi, Shinya Hitomi
  • Patent number: 9924385
    Abstract: An antenna apparatus operates as a base station in a wireless network, with a method configuring a transmission beam within such antenna apparatus. The antenna apparatus has a rotatable antenna assembly employing selected transmission beam patterns, and a controller to rotate the antenna assembly altering its azimuth direction. During configuration mode, a sweep operation rotates the antenna assembly to selected azimuth directions. Quality metric determination circuitry determines, for each selected azimuth direction, a link quality metric for wireless terminals based on communication between the wireless terminals and the base station whilst the rotatable antenna assembly is at that selected azimuth direction. Transmission beam determination circuitry determines, from the link quality metrics determined for the wireless terminals at each selected azimuth direction, both a transmission beam pattern and an azimuth direction for subsequent communication with the wireless terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: AIRSPAN NETWORKS INC.
    Inventors: Martin Lysejko, Krzysztof Dudzinski, Michele Frances Bozier
  • Patent number: 9807624
    Abstract: A communication cell may use a wireless in-band backhaul to route backhaul traffic to a macrocell of a carrier network such that the backhaul traffic is delivered to a core network of the carrier network. The communication cell may route backhaul traffic of user devices via the wireless in-band backhaul between the communication cell and the macrocell. The wireless in-band backhaul may take place of a dedicated backhaul between the communication cell and the core network. As the backhaul traffic is routed, if a characteristic of the wireless communication between the communication cell and the macrocell fails to meet a threshold, an antenna of the communication cell may be electrically or mechanically adjusted to improve the characteristic of the wireless communication. The adjustment of the antenna includes performing a beam forming or moving one or more antenna elements of the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Pablo Tapia, Brian Allan Olsen, Hongliang Zhang
  • Patent number: 9742592
    Abstract: Interference is processed in a waveform received at a device in a wireless network, the received interference comprising non-linear products of at least a first signal (C1) at a first carrier frequency and a second signal (C2) at a second carrier frequency. A complex composite baseband signal is generated comprising at least the first and second signal at baseband, occupying a respective first and second frequency range within a composite baseband frequency range and not overlapping in frequency. The complex composite baseband signal is processed by applying at least a first non-linear function (74a) to generate simulated interference comprising at least one simulated non-linear product. The received interference is then processed in dependence on the simulated interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: ACEAXIS LIMITED
    Inventors: David Bevan, James Naden, Simon Gale, Fiona Wilson
  • Patent number: 9729260
    Abstract: A base station (14) in a mobile communication system operating according to a synchronized time division scheme comprises an antenna (26), a radio communication unit (24) for communicating with mobile stations of the system and an interference investigating unit (28) comprising a link quality measuring element (30), which obtains link quality measurements that are measured in the base station during uplink communication (UL) between at least one mobile station and the base station, a link quality evaluation element (32) that compares link quality measurements of at least one uplink channel with a link quality threshold and determines that the uplink channel is interfered by another base station if the link quality threshold is exceeded, a base station identifying element (34) that identifies the other base station via signals broadcast by the other base station and an interference limiting element (36) configured to perform an interference limitation activity based on the identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Huaisong Zhu, Yang Hu, Steve Lou
  • Patent number: 9635572
    Abstract: Provided are an interference mitigation method and a base station device in a wireless communication system. The interference mitigation method to be performed by a base station comprises a step in which a serving base station measures interference from a terminal that belongs to a neighboring cell; a step of determining a beamforming vector of the neighboring cell on the basis of the measured interference; a step of transmitting the beamforming vector of the neighboring cell to a base station of the neighboring cell; and a step of feeding back, to a terminal that belongs to a serving cell, the beamforming vector of the serving base station determined on the basis of the beamforming vector of the neighboring cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignees: LG ELECTRONICS INC., INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, YONSEI UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hanbyul Seo, Dongku Kim, Sungyoon Cho, Byounghoon Kim, Kaibin Huang
  • Patent number: 9496940
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods for determining the interference variability of a precoding matrix set, and the use of same for purposes of scheduling and precoding matrix set selection. The precoding matrix set used by an interferer base station is evaluated by the mobile terminal which experiences the intercell interference from the interferer base station. The mobile terminal is informed about the precoding matrices of the precoding matrix set used by the base station. The mobile terminal measures the radio channel to the interferer cell, and then estimates based on the measured radio channel and with the knowledge on the particular precoding matrices of the precoding matrix set, the interference variability of the precoding matrix set. The interference variability may be reported to the serving base station of the mobile terminal, and thus considered for scheduling decisions by the serving base station referring the mobile terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
    Inventors: Michael Einhaus, Christian Wengerter, Alexander Golitschek Edler von Elbwart, Masayuki Hoshino
  • Patent number: 9496970
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of handling in-device co-existence interference in a multi-radio environment are provided. The method includes measuring an adjacent band interference value indicating an amount of adjacent band interference in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) band associated with an LTE radio entity prior to switching the LTE radio entity to an active state from an inactive state, comparing the adjacent band interference value with a predetermined threshold value, and reporting in-device co-existence interference in the LTE band to an evolved Node B (eNB) according to an outcome of the comparing of the adjacent band interference value with the predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sarvesha Anegundi Ganapathi, Satish Nanjunda Swamy Jamadagni
  • Patent number: 9226178
    Abstract: Optimizing a plurality cell sites or sectors in a wireless network including receiving network data regarding a plurality of cell sites or sectors; determining a critical zone in which communication is degraded; determining best neighbor cell sites or sectors among the neighbor cell sites or sectors associated with the critical cell sites or sectors; determining if the critical cell sites or sectors in the critical zone have available resources for achieving a desired improvement in communications; determining if the best neighbor cell sites or sectors have available resources for achieving the desired improvement in communications; and altering wireless network parameters of the critical cell sites or sectors, or the best neighbor cells sites or sectors for achieving the desired improvement in communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Reverb Networks
    Inventors: Osama Tarraf, Trigui Hafedh
  • Patent number: 9214990
    Abstract: A method of communication is provided. The method includes detecting at least a portion of a preamble of a packet transmitted by a first device by sweeping over a plurality of receive directions; receiving and decoding a header of the packet based on a first receive direction to identify that the first device had transmitted the packet; and completing reception of the packet based on a second receive direction. An apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ismail Lakkis, Vered Bar Bracha
  • Patent number: 9071647
    Abstract: A codebook creating method involves acquiring amplitude or power of channel state information of channels between the transmission antennas and the reception antenna, mapping elements of a codeword of an initial codebook dynamically to the respective transmission antennas based on the amplitude or power of the channel state information thereby to create a first codebook, and scaling norms of elements corresponding to the respective transmission antennas in a codeword of the first codebook by using norm scale factors of the respective transmission antennas fixed based on the amplitude or power of the channel state information. An initial codebook creating method involves configuring a predetermined element of the codeword of the initial codebook to have a predetermined phase resolution, and configuring other elements of the codeword of the initial codebook to be arranged in an increasing or decreasing order of phase resolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nagata, Yang Song, Lan Chen
  • Patent number: 9036740
    Abstract: An image rejection (IR) circuit is configured to receive a complex signal from a radio frequency (RF) mixer, where the complex signal includes an in-phase signal portion and a quadrature signal portion. This IR circuit may include: an in-phase path to remove first mismatch information from the in-phase signal portion and associated with at least one in-phase multi-tap filter; a quadrature path to remove second mismatch information from the quadrature signal portion and associated with at least one quadrature multi-tap filter; and a correlation unit to independently update each of the multiple taps of the in-phase multi-tap filter and the quadrature multi-tap filter according to a priority scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: John Khoury, Yan Zhou
  • Patent number: 9014320
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for whitening noise of a received signal vector in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) transmission or storage system. The whitening filter may be designed to whiten an interference component of the received signal vector, where the interference component is derived from modeling transmitter and receiver imperfections as a first coupling between MIMO transmitter outputs and a second coupling between MIMO receiver. The whitening filter may be computed based on the covariance matrix of the interference component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Leilei Song, Rohit U. Nabar, Kedar Shirali
  • Patent number: 8983420
    Abstract: An antenna array system and method is provided for reducing interference from a source moving relative to the antenna array system. The antenna array system includes a receiver and a plurality of antenna array elements arranged in a planar array. Each of the plurality of antenna array elements is in electrical communication with the receiver and in a locationally fixed position relative to the receiver. The plurality of antenna array elements receives a desired signal and interference from the source moving relative to the antenna array system. The receiver is configured to detect a presence of the interference. In response to the detection of the presence of the interference, the receiver is further configured to steer a deep antenna-pattern null in a direction of the interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Randall Lee Musselman
  • Patent number: 8977311
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and arrangement for reducing interference in a cellular communication network. A radio base station of the network is configured to serve at least a first cell, where interference is reduced by selecting a link adaptation scheme for a UE in the first cell, The arrangement comprises means for receiving measurements on estimated channel quality, means for estimating channel quality for a future transmission by adjusting the received measurements on estimated channel quality based on knowledge of future UE scheduling in at least the first cell, and means for selecting the link adaptation scheme comprising a transmit power level based on the estimated channel quality for the future transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jacob Osterling, Franz Heiser, Gunnar Peters
  • Patent number: 8971460
    Abstract: A wireless receiving apparatus includes a spurious component extraction unit, and a spurious cancellation unit. The spurious component extraction unit is configured to cancel a desired wave with a multi-antenna configuration, and extract spurious components. The spurious cancellation unit is configured to cancel spurious in received signals by using the spurious components extracted. A first correlation unit in the spurious component extraction unit finds a correlation between an output of the spurious extraction unit and an output of the spurious cancellation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Hideki Furudate, Takanori Iwamatsu
  • Patent number: 8965319
    Abstract: Devices and methods for selectively reducing interference in wireless signals through field nulling and signal cancelling by signal agnostic, intrinsically stable, analytic means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Physical Devices, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Ryan Wilkerson, Frederick Vosburgh
  • Patent number: 8965318
    Abstract: Provided herein are different embodiments for performing radio frequency interference (RFI) detection in electronic devices such as mobile computing systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Chaitanya Sreerama
  • Patent number: 8954024
    Abstract: A full duplex wireless system is employed for communicating data between an access point and a client. The full duplex wireless system includes a receive path configured to receive radio frequency data, including self interference, from an antenna and generates baseband output to a demodulator, the receive path includes a combiner that combines the received radio frequency with a self interference canceller path output to generate a combiner output. Further, a self interference tracking path is configured to receive the combiner output and to generate a self interference tracking path output, the self interference tracking path converts the combiner output to baseband and tracks the self-interference. Additionally, a self interference canceller path receives the self interference tracking path output and generates the self interference canceller path output that is at radio frequency (RF).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2015
    Inventor: Chien-Cheng Tung
  • Publication number: 20150017940
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for performing adaptive receive-diversity (RxD) to improve power consumption using multiple antennas/receivers. In one aspect, a first receive-diversity (RxD) state is enabled at an access terminal utilizing two receive chains for a communication link. Link quality metrics corresponding to the communication link are determined. The access terminal selectively switches from the first RxD state to a second RxD state utilizing three or more receive chains dependent upon the link quality metrics, such that the energy per bit of the second RxD state is more energy efficient than the energy per bit of the first RxD state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Joseph B. SORIAGA, Jun Hu, Christopher Gerard Lott, Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar
  • Patent number: 8892140
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for bi-direction training in D2D/cellular networks. An embodiment method includes sending training symbols to sense interference from the cellular UEs, calculating an interference subspace from the cellular UE to each of the D2D UEs, calculating an orthogonal projection matrix based on the interference subspace calculated, and iteratively updating receive filters through forward training and transmit beamformers through backward training after the orthogonal projection matrix is calculated to align the D2D UEs. In an embodiment, training symbols are sent to sense interference from the cellular UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Binnan Zhuang, Weimin Xiao, Philippe Sartori, George Calcev, Fei Teng
  • Patent number: 8885453
    Abstract: Enhanced stomp-and-restart techniques are provided. At a plurality of antennas of a wireless communication device, energy is received in a channel in which one or more frames may be transmitted to the wireless communication device from any one of a plurality of other wireless communication devices. A first frame is acquired from the received energy. Channel state information is computed for the first frame and the channel state information associated with the first frame is stored. Interference suppression parameters are computed for the first frame from the channel state information. It is determined whether a stronger second frame is being received by the wireless communication device. The received energy associated with the first frame is nulled-out using the interference suppression parameters when the stronger second frame is determined to be received so that start-of-packet processing and decoding is performed on the stronger second frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul J. Stager
  • Patent number: 8880017
    Abstract: A system includes a transceiver configured to receive a composite signal. The composite signal is a composite of a transmit signal and a receive signal. A replica transmitter is configured to generate a replica transmit signal based on the transmit signal. A transmit canceller is configured to recover the receive signal at least in part by resistively summing the composite signal and the replica transmit signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Pierte Roo, Sehat Sutardja
  • Patent number: 8873683
    Abstract: A receiver circuit receives a signal including a first reference signal from a first antenna port that is allocated to the UE. The receiver circuit includes a descrambling and despreading unit that despreads and descrambles the signal using a spreading code of the first antenna port and a scrambling sequence assigned to the UE to generate a first antenna port signal. The descrambling and despreading unit despreads and descrambles the signal using a spreading code of a second antenna port and the scrambling sequence assigned to the UE, wherein the second antenna port is unallocated to the UE to generate a second antenna port signal. A channel estimator generates a channel estimate of the first antenna port based on the first antenna port signal. An estimation unit estimates an interference and noise covariance measure based on the first antenna port signal, the channel estimate and the second antenna port signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Intel Mobile Communications GmbH
    Inventors: Rajarajan Balraj, Biljana Badic, Tobias Scholand
  • Patent number: 8861428
    Abstract: A system and process that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an interference monitor configured to detect occurrences of unintended signals within a communications link. A communications link may carry a down-converted format of a satellite signal from an earth terminal to an integrated receiver and decoder for further network distribution. Depending upon the nature of any such detected unintended signals, the communications link can be “swapped out” for a redundant communications link carrying a down-converted format of the same satellite signal obtained by way of a redundant earth terminal. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP
    Inventors: Douglas Medina, Ronald Jones, Michael Peck
  • Patent number: 8855692
    Abstract: A satellite communication system comprised of a hub and plurality of remote terminals, wherein the system is configured for frequency reuse, a method and apparatus for signal cancellation are disclosed. The disclosed method and apparatus enable the hub to extract return link signals overlaying a transmitted forward link signal, wherein the forward link signal is transmitted at a power level higher than that of the overlaying return link signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Gilat Satellite Networks, Ltd.
    Inventors: Avihay Lachman, Yariv Hayoun
  • Patent number: 8843097
    Abstract: Methods and systems for blocker attenuation using multiple receive antennas are disclosed. In this regard, a plurality of signals may be received via a corresponding plurality of antennas and a corresponding plurality of interference-suppressed signals may be generated. The interference-suppressed signals may be generated by adjusting a gain and phase of the plurality of received signals to generate a corresponding plurality of adjusted signals, and combining the corresponding plurality of adjusted signals, respectively, with the plurality of received. The gain of the received signals may be adjusted based on a wide bandwidth signal strength measurement and a narrow bandwidth signal strength measurement. A center frequency of one or more of the plurality of antennas may be adjusted based on received signals strength measurements. A gain and/or phase adjustment of each one of said received signals may be independent of gain and/or phase adjustments of other ones of the receive signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Ahmadreza Rofougaran
  • Publication number: 20140235190
    Abstract: Devices and methods for selectively reducing interference in wireless signals through field nulling and signal cancelling by signal agnostic, intrinsically stable, analytic means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: PHYSICAL DEVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Ryan Wilkerson, Frederick Vosburgh
  • Patent number: 8805315
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling a whitening function of a whitening Maximum Ratio Combining (MRC) in a receive end of a multiple antenna system are provided. The method includes identifying if there is interference from at least one neighbor cell, if there is interference, generating a weight of the whitening MRC using a pre-whitening inverse matrix, and, if there is no interference, generating a weight of the whitening MRC using a unit matrix, thus being capable of improving a reception performance of the receive end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ik-Beom Lee, Sung-Kwon Jo
  • Patent number: 8804610
    Abstract: Provided are a packet transmission scheduling method in a wireless network and a packet transmission method using the same. The packet transmission scheduling method, includes storing location information and a path loss exponent of each node on a multiplexing path; calculating a Signal-to-Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR) between nodes on a predetermined path based on the stored location information; when the calculated SINR exceeds a threshold, forming the paths as a path table; and scheduling packet transmission based on the formed path table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Hyunduk Kang, Heon-Jin Hong, Hyuk Lim, Daewon Jung
  • Patent number: 8798073
    Abstract: The present invention is provided to perform uplink scheduling of a mobile station. In order to perform the uplink scheduling of the mobile station located in a service cell, a base station receives a plurality of interference amounts each corresponding to a plurality of frequency bands associated with an uplink in at least one adjacent cell corresponding to the mobile station from the base station of at least one adjacent cell, respectively, and calculates a plurality of interference values each corresponding to the plurality of frequency bands by using the plurality of interference amounts each corresponding to at least one adjacent cell. In addition, the base station generates scheduling control information corresponding to the mobile station by using the plurality of interference values and transmits the scheduling control information to the mobile station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: Kwang Jae Lim, Chul Sik Yoon