Frequency Switching Patents (Class 455/63.3)
  • Patent number: 11757559
    Abstract: A method for detecting communication jamming attacks includes collecting, via a processor associated with a base station, local jamming information from a first vehicle and a second vehicle. The local jamming information having an attack time, an attack localization, and an attack frequency. The method further includes building a global jamming map comprising global jamming information, based on the local jamming information, determining, based on the global jamming map, a location of a communication jamming device, and causing to transmit global jamming information to a third vehicle. The global jamming information is associated with the location of the communication jamming device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yu Seung Kim, Yun Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 11363595
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus which can simultaneously conduct communication on at least two frequency channels is described. The apparatus includes a communication unit which refers to a connection management table to determine a communication system which can be used by a wireless communication terminal using an identifier of the wireless communication terminal, and conducts communication with the wireless communication terminal on a second frequency channel using the communication system, when a request from the wireless communication terminal to change the first frequency channel to the second frequency channel is permitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoko Adachi, Toshihisa Nabetani, Kiyoshi Toshimitsu, Tatsuma Hirano
  • Patent number: 11140381
    Abstract: A method of operating a VR or AR head mounted display (HMD) system includes obtaining a video performance parameter for a video signal, selecting a clock frequency for video data transfer within the HMD system based on the video performance parameter, detecting one or more available frequency bands for a wireless data connection between a host device and the HMD system, and selecting a frequency band from the one or more available frequency bands for the wireless data connection, based on a predetermined connection suitability parameter for the one or more available frequency bands and based on the selected clock frequency for video data transfer within the HMD system. The method further includes establishing a wireless connection between the host device and the HMD system over the selected frequency band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Rui Zhang, Dong Yang
  • Patent number: 11109235
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for a spectrum management service. A spectrum management service may be utilized to manage wireless spectrum licenses, which may associated with various license-holders, spectrum bands, and geographic regions. The spectrum management service may determine a utilization of various spectrum licenses based on capacity data and usage data from a wireless service provider, and may identify underutilized licenses and/or regions within a wireless network where additional spectrum may be required. The spectrum management service may further identify candidates for spectrum license swaps, analyze proposed or actual license swaps, identify transmissions outside of licensed areas, and analyze information from various sources to improve the efficiency of licensed spectrum usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Shahzad Bashir
  • Patent number: 10363904
    Abstract: One general aspect includes a telematics unit including: a memory configured to include a program and a processor configured to execute the program, where the program enables the processor to: sense a disconnection event; in response to the disconnection event being sensed, gather telematics unit location data, transmit the location data to a remote facility, and transmit a theft alert to a remote facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Huong T. Chim, Matt Neely, Matthew E. Gilbert-Eyres, Eric T. Hosey
  • Patent number: 10187782
    Abstract: Method for passively identifying an entity responsible for causing a user equipment (UE) generated uplink communication in accordance with an LTE communication standard. The method includes capturing uplink traffic associated with an LTE communication network. A Demodulation Reference Signal (DRS) group sequence number is extracted from each of a plurality of data packets in a plurality of time slots associated with the uplink traffic. The DRS group sequence numbers which have been extracted are used to determine at least one Physical Cell Identity (PCI) of, or DRS group number used by, a Base Transceiver Station (BTS) entity responsible for causing the uplink traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: Brian J. Haman, Raphael Lyman, Allan Weiner
  • Patent number: 10177776
    Abstract: A distortion mitigation quantizer circuit includes a pre-quantizer to generate a first quantized signal having L output signal levels from an input signal and a digital pulse-width-modulation (PWM) circuit to modulate the first quantized signal using M modulating carriers with PWM carrier frequency fp and according to an over sampling ratio (OSR) N in order to generate a second quantized signal. In this case, a number of the modulating carriers M is substantially equal to twice L/N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Rui Ma, Omer Tanovic
  • Patent number: 10001964
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for handling Wi-Fi or Bluetooth signals in a wireless network are disclosed. Example embodiments include a method including the operations of receiving, by a speaker system comprising at least one processor and one or more output speakers, one or more encoded data streams over a wireless connection, decoding the one or more data streams and outputting the one or more decoded data streams through the one or more output speakers, and pausing outputting of the one or more decoded data streams upon determining a halting event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sagar Pawar, Prakash Pillai
  • Patent number: 9927517
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a rainfall sensor having a rainfall analyzer configured to induce transmitted electromagnetic waves that are guided by a transmission medium to propagate along the transmission medium, wherein the transmitted electromagnetic waves propagate without requiring an electrical return path, wherein the rainfall analyzer receives reflected electromagnetic waves from the transmission medium in response to the transmitted electromagnetic waves and wherein the rainfall analyzer analyzes the reflected electromagnetic waves and generates rainfall data in response thereto. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Bennett, Paul Shala Henry, Irwin Gerszberg, Farhad Barzegar, Donald J. Barnickel, Thomas M. Willis, III
  • Patent number: 9929753
    Abstract: Techniques for harmonizing wireless communications performed by a computing device which communicates using varying wireless communication standards are described herein. For instance, a computing device may include multiple chipsets with associated antennas that are configured to perform wireless communications using separate wireless standards which operate at overlapping frequencies. To avoid performance degradation experienced in simultaneous use cases with communications operating at overlapping frequencies, the multiple chipsets may be configured with logic to determine which communications are prioritized when multiple chipsets attempt to communicate simultaneously. The multiple chipsets may be communicatively coupled to coordinate their communications by prioritizing certain types of communications over other types of communications to avoid simultaneous communications in overlapping frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Morris Yuanhsiang Hsu, Pratik Kalpesh Patel, Qinghai Gao, Ateet Kapur, Milos Jorgovanovic, Jay Praful Desai, Jin Guo, King Shaw
  • Patent number: 9912396
    Abstract: A method of processing a reception signal and a MIMO receiver are disclosed. The method includes the steps of selecting a reference RE from an RE group including a plurality of REs, generating a preprocessing filter to be shared by the plurality of the REs belonging to the RE group based on channel information of the reference RE and generating detection signals for the plurality of the REs in a manner of compensating reception signals for each of the plurality of the REs using the preprocessing filter and channel information of each of the plurality of the REs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Kilbom Lee, Jiwon Kang, Kitae Kim, Heejin Kim
  • Patent number: 9813915
    Abstract: A base station in a spectrum sharing system includes a sensor configured to sense signals over a shared spectrum, a transceiver configured to receive at least one measurement report transmitted from at least one user terminal regarding signals over the shared spectrum sensed by the at least one user terminal and a processor configured to determine whether to utilize the shared spectrum according to the signals over the shared spectrum sensed by the sensor or acquired from the at least one measurement report. A user terminal in a spectrum sharing system includes a sensor configured to sense signals over a shared spectrum, a processor configured to generate a measurement report regarding the signals over the shared spectrum and a transceiver configured to transmit the measurement report to a base station so that the base station determines whether to utilize the shared spectrum according the signals over the shared spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
    Inventors: Chih-Chiang Wu, Chiu-Wen Chen, Chun-Che Chien
  • Patent number: 9756611
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques for reducing interference to non-cellular communications on an unlicensed band by a network entity sending/receiving cellular communications on the unlicensed band. For example, the technique may involve accessing a list of channels for cellular communication on the unlicensed band, the list having the channels in an order of priority for reducing interference to non-cellular communication on the unlicensed band. The technique may involve determining an interference criteria for a received signal, the interference criteria being based at in part on at least one of a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) or a duty cycle of the received signal. The technique may involve going through, in the order of priority, each channel in the list to identify a first channel that satisfies the interference criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mehmet Yavuz, Ahmed Kamel Sadek
  • Patent number: 9622085
    Abstract: A system and method for autonomous dynamic spectrum assignment for operating and configuring a cellular wireless communication network, employing multiple Radio Access Technologies (RATs). The method consists of: partitioning the system radio frequency resources (spectrum) into fixed and pooled spectrum blocks; autonomously assigning pooled spectrum blocks at individual system access points or radio units or groups thereof; dynamically adapting the assignment of pooled spectrum blocks at individual system APs/RUs or groups of APs/RUs; implementation of the pooled block assignment function and integration with radio resource assignment functions of co-deployed RATs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Inventors: Ahmed Alsohaily, Elvino Silveira Medina de Sousa
  • Patent number: 9585027
    Abstract: Methods and systems for enhanced 2-wire and 3-wire WLAN Bluetooth coexistence solution may include determining whether adaptive frequency hopping is active in a Bluetooth communication device. If the adaptive frequency hopping is active, handshaking with a collocated non-Bluetooth communication device may be disabled. The collocated non-Bluetooth communication device may be a wireless local area network communication device. If the adaptive frequency hopping is inactive, handshaking with the collocated non-Bluetooth communication device may be enabled. If the adaptive frequency hopping is inactive, the Bluetooth communication device may initiate handshaking prior to transmitting data. If the adaptive frequency hopping is inactive, the Bluetooth communication device may also respond to the handshaking initiated by the collocated non-Bluetooth communication device. The handshaking may be executed via a 2-wire Bluetooth/WLAN coexistence interface or a 3-wire Bluetooth/WLAN coexistence interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: BROADCOM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Asif Grushkevich
  • Patent number: 9385892
    Abstract: There is provided a communication system capable of achieving a high usage efficiency of frequencies without the need for cooperation of multiplexed users. A communication system communicates over frequency channels set by dividing a frequency bandwidth assigned to the system allows interference between channels by overlapping the adjacent frequency channels with each other in the frequency domain, or a transmitting and receiving device, which transmits and receives a signal by allowing the interference between symbols at a waveform level for each channel to decrease the occupied bandwidth, is provided with ICI removal and ISI compensation filter 111 serving as either an ICI removal filter for removing the interference between channels or an ISI compensation filter for compensating the interference between symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Anass Benjebbour, Takahiro Asai, Hitoshi Yoshino, Tatsuo Furuno, Tomoyuki Ooya
  • Patent number: 9374177
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method, a device, and a system for processing a communications system signal. The method includes: acquiring, by a communications system of a first standard, a first message, where the first message carries a signal strength, sent by a communications system of a second standard, on a frequency where interference of the communications system of the second standard on the communications system of the first standard exists; and performing, by the communications system of the first standard, according to the signal strength, filtering processing for a signal to be processed of the communications system of the first standard. In embodiments of the present invention, interference can be reduced and receiving performance can be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Xiaoyan Shi
  • Patent number: 9191037
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for simultaneously operating as a wireless radio and monitoring the local frequency spectrum. For example, described herein are wireless radio devices that use a secondary receiver to monitor frequencies within the operating band and prevent or avoid interferers, including in particular half-IF interferers. The systems, devices, and methods described herein may adjust the intermediate frequency in a superheterodyne receiver to select an intermediate frequency that minimizes interference. In particular, described herein are apparatuses and methods that use a second receiver which is independent of the first receiver and may be connected to the same receiving antenna to monitor the geographically local frequency spectrum and may detect spurious interferers, allowing the primary receiver to adjust the intermediate frequency and avoid spurious interferes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Lance D. Lascari, Robert J. Pera
  • Patent number: 9167552
    Abstract: A system and a method for determining a location area of a user using a mobile communication terminal in a geographical area covered by a mobile radio network, based on location probabilities for defined sub-areas of the geographical area. The location probabilities may be determined based on, e.g., field strengths expected in the sub-areas from antennas and based on the antenna used by the mobile communication terminal. The location probabilities may indicate, for a sub-area, the probability that the mobile communication terminal is located in the respective sub-area. At least one ellipse defining the location area may be determined, such as based on the location probabilities. The location probabilities may enable determining elliptical location areas of mobile users much smaller than the area each antenna does cover physically, but without the need for measuring at the mobile communication terminal signal properties such as signal strength or observed time differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: SWISSCOM AG
    Inventors: Ernst Versteeg, Eric Taillard, Patrick Bailly, Maxence Laurent
  • Patent number: 9148789
    Abstract: It is provided a solution for controlling interference in a cellular telecommunication system. An interference controller of the cellular telecommunication utilizes interference level information received from another cellular telecommunication system in controlling interference towards a target cell suffering from high interference which degrades the grade of service in the target cell. The interference level information comprises information on levels of interference between neighboring cells of the other cellular telecommunication system. The interference controller analyzes the received interference level information and controls communication links in cells of the cellular telecommunication system determined to cause the highest interference towards the target cell. The cells determined to cause the highest interference towards the target cell are determined from the received interference level information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventors: Jari Yrjänä Hulkkonen, Esa Tapani Tiirola, Mikko Säily, Kari Pekka Pajukoski
  • Patent number: 9125203
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing radio resources in one or more wireless communication networks. At least one radio resource manager (RRM) is provided within a network node, or as an independent entity. The RRM monitors performance on wireless communication links of the network(s) and interacts with nodes associated with those links to change the configuration on a particular wireless communication link if its performance (i.e., quality) falls below an established threshold. Information regarding current resource usage of the network is sent to the RRM by the nodes. Each of the nodes may send a quality report to the RRM including wireless communication link quality measurements and performance statistics. Alternatively, the RRM may perform the wireless communication link quality measurements. The RRM facilitates the broadcasting of information regarding current resource usage of one network to other networks to avoid collisions and interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Juan Carlos Zuniga, Marian Rudolf, Shamim Akbar Rahman
  • Patent number: 9094986
    Abstract: Interference management may involve the transmission of interference management messages by wireless nodes that are experiencing interference and appropriate responses by potential interferers that receive the interference management messages. Upon detection of interfering signals, a wireless node may determine whether the signals are from a synchronous interferer or an asynchronous interferer. Based on this determination, the wireless node may use different types of signals to manage the different types of interference. In some aspects, asynchronous interference management may involve backing-off in frequency and/or in time in response to interference signals. Asynchronous interference management may involve transmitting back-off beacons to clear potential interferers from a given carrier. Here, the transmission of beacons by a wireless node may be metered to facilitate fair sharing of communication resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Gavin Bernard Horn, Ashwin Sampath, Sanjiv Nanda
  • Patent number: 9088985
    Abstract: A base station includes a receiving unit configured to receive a UE capability regarding a bandwidth from a mobile station; and a specifying unit configured to specify, among plural basic frequency blocks included in a system band, one or more basic frequency blocks to be used by the mobile station based on the UE capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: NTT DOCOMO, INC.
    Inventors: Yoshihisa Kishiyama, Motohiro Tanno, Nobuhiko Miki, Hidekazu Taoka, Kenichi Higuchi, Mamoru Sawahashi
  • Patent number: 9049716
    Abstract: An eNB10-1 receives high-interference RB information from eNB10-2 to eNB10-4, and acquires a transmission power value for UE40-10. When the transmission power value for UE40-1 is greater than or equal to a transmission power threshold value, eNB10-1 restricts the assignment of high-interference RBs to UE40-1, and when the transmission power value for UE40-1 is less than the transmission power threshold value, eNB10-1 assigns high-interference RBs to UE40-1 in a preferential manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Minako Kitahara
  • Patent number: 9042836
    Abstract: A communications apparatus includes a wireless module and a controller module is provided. The wireless module transmits and receives radio frequency signals to and from a service network via at least a first and a second component carriers. The controller module receives a first measurement configuration corresponding to the first component carrier from the service network, receives a message indicating that the first component carrier is replaced by a third component carrier from the service network via the wireless module, receives a second measurement configuration corresponding to the third component carrier from the service network via the wireless module, keeps at least one of the first and second measurement configurations in response to receiving the message, and performs measurements according to the kept measurement configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: HTC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chih-Hsiang Wu
  • Publication number: 20150133057
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques for reducing interference to non-cellular communications on an unlicensed band by a network entity sending/receiving cellular communications on the unlicensed band. For example, the technique may involve accessing a list of channels for cellular communication on the unlicensed band, the list having the channels in an order of priority for reducing interference to non-cellular communication on the unlicensed band. The technique may involve determining an interference criteria for a received signal, the interference criteria being based at in part on at least one of a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) or a duty cycle of the received signal. The technique may involve going through, in the order of priority, each channel in the list to identify a first channel that satisfies the interference criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Mehmet Yavuz, Ahmed Kamel Sadek
  • Patent number: 9031255
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to provide for low-latency delivery and playback of audio are disclosed. In one embodiment, an example audio system includes multiple playback devices including a primary device and one or more secondary devices, whereby, the primary device establishes and controls a peer-to-peer network that connects, wirelessly or wired, to each of the satellite devices. An example audio device contains a channel selector, a control interface, and an audio interface. In some embodiments the control interface is used to transmit control information to another device on a first frequency channel, and the audio interface is used to transmit audio information to another device on a second frequency channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Beckhardt, Hrishikesh Gossain, Nicholas A. J. Millington, Jeffrey M. Peters
  • Patent number: 9031510
    Abstract: A control apparatus of a capacitive touch sensor includes a capacitive sensor, a radio receiver, a setting unit, and a charge control unit. The capacitive sensor is coupled to a manipulation panel and detects an approach of a finger of a user to the manipulation panel and a touch of the finger on the manipulation panel. The radio receiver receives a radio broadcast at a radio receiving frequency. The setting unit sets a sensing frequency to a selected value, which is determined from a plurality of selectable sensing frequency values, corresponding to the radio receiving frequency. The charge control unit is coupled to a switching unit, and controls the switching unit to operate at the sensing frequency in order to charge and discharge an electrostatic capacitance generated between the capacitive sensor and the finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yuusuke Oda
  • Patent number: 9020434
    Abstract: Disclosed in some examples is a method including receiving at a coordinator node a plurality of operational reports from a plurality of devices, each device engaging in a WiFi Direct communication session, the operational reports identifying a first communication parameter used for the WiFi Direct wireless communication session and a second communication parameter observed of a neighboring communication session; calculating one or more optimal communication parameters for one or more of the plurality of devices using the first and second communication parameters from the plurality of operational reports; and sending to the one or more of the plurality of devices the calculated one or more optimal communication parameters, wherein the plurality of operational reports are received and the optimal communication parameters are sent over a network out-of-band from the WiFi Direct communication sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Roni Abiri
  • Patent number: 9014751
    Abstract: Apparatus having corresponding methods and computer-readable media comprise: a transmitter configured to transmit, according to a first protocol, first wireless signals in a first frequency band; and a receiver configured to receive, according to a second protocol, second wireless signals in a second frequency band, wherein the second frequency band is adjacent to or overlaps the first frequency band; and an arbiter configured to allow the transmitter to transmit the first wireless signals according to the first protocol while the receiver receives the second wireless signals according to the second protocol responsive to at least one of i) a signal power level of the first wireless signals being less than a first signal power threshold; and ii) a signal power level of the second wireless signals being greater than a second signal power threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Jihwan P. Choi, Hui-Ling Lou, Ying Cai, Leilei Song, Vladan Petrovic
  • Patent number: 9008702
    Abstract: Provided is a base station capable of maintaining a communication quality of a communication terminal (mobile station) having registered its position with the base station itself, even if an operating frequency is changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Hidaka
  • Publication number: 20150099471
    Abstract: A receiver and a transmitter that copes with interference in a super-regenerative communication system, and a method of using the receiver and the transmitter, are provided. A super-regenerative receiver includes a resonance frequency adjusting unit configured to adjust a resonance frequency associated with a filtering band of a transmission signal that is received from a transmitter. The super-regenerative receiver further includes an oscillation signal generating unit configured to generate an oscillation signal, using a positive feedback amplification, based on the resonance frequency and the transmission signal. The super-regenerative receiver further includes an oscillation characteristic detecting unit configured to detect a characteristic of the oscillation signal. The super-regenerative receiver further includes a determining unit configured to determine whether interference is included in the transmission signal based on the characteristic of the oscillation signal and the resonance frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Joon Seong KANG, Jae Sup LEE, Hyo Sun HWANG
  • Publication number: 20150079909
    Abstract: In one configuration, an apparatus and a method to operate the apparatus are provided. The apparatus includes at least one processor configured to receive operating information indicating a set of operating frequencies from a first circuit and to select an operating frequency from the set of operating frequencies. The at least one processor is further arranged to configure an operation of a second circuit based on the selected operating frequency. In another configuration, the apparatus includes at least one processor configured to select a set of operating frequencies based a radio frequency operation and to transmit operating information indicating the set of operating frequencies to a control circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Carlos SOLEDADE, Ajay BAWALE, Graham ROFF, Girish BHAT
  • Patent number: 8982282
    Abstract: A display apparatus and a method of searching for a channel in the display apparatus includes a plurality of tuners and a plurality of antenna ports respectively connected to the plurality of tuners. The method includes receiving a channel search command; if the channel search command is input, searching for one of the plurality of antenna ports that is connected to a satellite antenna to receive a broadcasting signal, if one of the plurality of antenna ports is connected to the satellite antenna to receive the broadcasting signal, setting one of the plurality of tuners connected to the one antenna port, to a main tuner, and performing a channel search through the tuner set to the main tuner. Therefore, although an antenna port connected to one of the plurality of tuners initially set to a sub tuner, the display apparatus performs a channel search through the corresponding tuner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun-hee Woo
  • Publication number: 20150072623
    Abstract: A method for reducing transmission interference is described. The method includes determining that an FM receiver is turned on. The method also includes determining that the FM receiver is tuned to an FM channel experiencing interference from an induction-based communication transmitter. The method further includes adjusting a transmit frequency of the induction-based communication transmitter by a temporary frequency shift.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Mahbod Mofidi
  • Patent number: 8971814
    Abstract: In order to effectively determine an optimized radio resource, a radio communication system (100) includes a plurality of first base stations (111) and a plurality of first mobile stations (112) respectively connected to the plurality of first base stations (111). In the radio communication system (100), there are included calculation means (103) for calculating a statistic (130) by aggregating interference levels of radio waves between the plurality of first base stations (111) and second mobile stations (122) connected to a second base station (121) that forms a second cell (120) larger than a first cell (110) formed by each of the first base stations (111); and determination means (104) for determining, based on the statistic (130), a radio resource to be used by the plurality of first base stations (111) or the plurality of first mobile stations (112).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Corporation
    Inventors: Motoki Morita, Kojiro Hamabe, Yasuhiko Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 8958744
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a wireless communication apparatus for making wireless connection in the first connection attempt state wherein a connection request is attempted using a predetermined frequency channel or the second connection attempt state wherein a connection request is attempted using a plurality of frequency channels. A frame generation unit generates a connection request frame which includes the first field for requesting a search of the plurality of frequency channels in response to occurrence of interference, and the second field indicating whether a corresponding frequency channel is a channel wherein occurrence of interference has been detected. A transmission unit transmits the connection request frame using the predetermined frequency channel in the first connection attempt state, and transmits the connection request frame using the plurality of frequency channels in the second connection attempt state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tomoya Tandai, Tomoko Adachi, Takeshi Tomizawa
  • Patent number: 8958749
    Abstract: A communication apparatus including a first communicator which communicates with a first other communication apparatus, a detector which detects, with respect to each of the frequency channels, a value of a parameter for evaluating a quality of a communication between the communication apparatuses, a determiner which determines, on the basis of the value of the parameter detected with respect to a corresponding one of the frequency channels by the detector, whether the quality of the communication between the communication apparatuses made by using each of the frequency channels is not less than a first threshold, and a communication controller which sends the first other communication apparatus data by means of the first communicator, once when a good-quality frequency channel is used, and repeatedly a plurality of times when a poor-quality frequency channel is used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tadahiro Kunii
  • Patent number: 8948700
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for compensating for distortion in a transmitter by utilizing a digital predistortion scheme with a feedback mixer configuration are presented. Aspects of the system may include an RF transmitter that enables generation of an RF output signal in response to one or more generated input signals. One or more feedback signals may be generated by performing frequency downconversion on the RF output signal within a corresponding one or more feedback mixer circuits. The generated one or more feedback signals may be inserted at a corresponding one or more insertion points in an RF receiver. Each insertion point may be between a receiver mixer circuit and corresponding circuits that generate a baseband signal based on the corresponding one of the feedback signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Arya Behzad, Ali Afsahi, Vikram Magoon, Mark Gonikberg, George Varghese, Guruprasad Revanna
  • Patent number: 8948707
    Abstract: A transceiver module and duplexer within a communication device supports a minimized antenna volume and enhances a transfer gain for transmit and receive channels. The duplexer is communicatively coupled to one of multiple antenna and filter matching configurations which include a first configuration that couples receive and transmit filter matching circuits to a single antenna matching circuit. When the duplexer is coupled to the first configuration, receive and transmit filters of the duplexer are respectively coupled to the receive filter matching circuit and the transmit filter matching circuit. As a result, the antenna matching circuit and the filter matching circuits collectively provide the enhanced transfer gain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Richard E. Mach, Gregory R. Black
  • Patent number: 8942636
    Abstract: An adaptive scheme controls the transmission of interference management messages by wireless nodes. For example, the adaptive scheme may be used to determine whether and/or how to transmit resource utilization messages. Such a determination may be based on, for example, comparison of a quality of service threshold with a current quality of service level associated with received data. A quality of service threshold may be adapted based on the effect of previously transmitted resource utilization messages. A quality of service threshold for a given wireless node may be adapted based on the frequency at which the wireless node transmits resource utilization messages. A quality of service threshold for a given wireless node may be adapted based on information received from another wireless node. An adaptation scheme also may depend on the type of traffic received by a given wireless node. A quality of service threshold also may be adapted based on throughput information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Rajarshi Gupta, Gavin Bernard Horn, Anastasios Stamoulis, Ashwin Sampath, Santosh Abraham
  • Patent number: 8934909
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing network assisted local communication offloading to unlicensed bands may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured, with the processor, to cause the apparatus to perform at least receiving, via signaling associated with licensed band resources, information indicative of unlicensed band resources available in a particular area, and providing resource availability data, via signaling associated with the licensed band resources, to one or more devices within the particular area. The resource availability data may enable unlicensed band resource usage by at least one of the one or more devices. A corresponding method and computer program product are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Timo Koskela, Vinh Van Phan, Gilles Charbit, Sami-Jukka Hakola
  • Patent number: 8934848
    Abstract: A wireless communication apparatus is provided including: a radio receiver configured to acquire, from a base station, a first information indicating a fixed number identifying quantity of sub-carrier bands to be selected for channel quality reporting; a reception quality measurer configured to measure channel quality of each of a plurality of sub-carrier bands within a communication band; a subcarrier selector configured to select sub-carrier bands from the plurality of sub-carrier bands based on the measured channel quality, wherein quantity of the selected sub-carrier bands matches the quantity of sub-carrier bands identified by the fixed number; a modulator configured to modulate a second information indicating channel quality of the selected sub-carrier bands and a third information indicating positions of the selected sub-carrier bands according to a modulation scheme; and a radio transmitter configured to report to the base station the second and third modulated information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America
    Inventors: Akihiko Nishio, Jun Cheng
  • Patent number: 8923877
    Abstract: An approach is provided for mitigating interference from Long Term Evolution (3GPP LTE) terminals to adjacent frequency bands. A platform determines whether a region associated with transmission of one or more resource blocks are an interfering region according to predetermined criteria, where one or more resource blocks are assigned a primary carrier as a default carrier for the transmission. The platform selects a secondary carrier for the one or more resource blocks instead of the primary carrier if the region is determined to be interfering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Youtz, Iftekhar Rahman, Pingping Zong, Zheng Zhao
  • Patent number: 8918056
    Abstract: A wireless communication device includes a communication unit, a detection unit, and a control unit. The communication unit communicates with another wireless communication device by use of a wireless channel selected from wireless channels. The detection unit detects field intensities of first wireless channels. The control unit calculates a field intensity of a second wireless channel based on the field intensities of the first wireless channels, wherein the first wireless channels do not include the second wireless channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takehiro Aibara, Hitoshi Amagai, Naotaka Uehara, Takayuki Kogane, Sumito Shinohara, Masato Nunokawa, Tetsuya Handa, Kimiyasu Mizuno
  • Patent number: 8914838
    Abstract: A communication apparatus comprises a reception unit that receives a reception signal from a metal cable and extracts reception data; a transmission unit that sends a transmission signal obtained by modulating transmission data with a frequency included in a first frequency band to the metal cable; an interference signal detection unit that detects a signal used in communication using a cable modem, modulated by a frequency included in a second frequency band, and transmitted over the metal cable as an interference signal; and a signal transmission control unit that instructs the transmission unit to modulate transmission data using a frequency included in a third frequency band that does not have any frequency band overlapping the second frequency band when the interference signal is detected and a frequency band overlapping both the first frequency band and the second frequency band exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: NEC Magnus Communications, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuusaku Okamura, Yasushi Hamada, Yoshitaka Nakano, Kazutoshi Ohishi
  • Patent number: 8892047
    Abstract: A wireless communication terminal capable of changing a channel, and a channel changing method of the wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal generates a plurality of channels by dividing at least part of a frequency band for ultra-wideband communications into a plurality of frequency sub-bands, receives a radio signal in at least one of the plurality of the channels, and changes a channel for receiving the radio signal. Accordingly, high quality communications are feasible between the transmitter terminal and the receiver terminal in an optimized channel environment, and signal interference between the receiver terminals connected to different transmitter terminals can be prevented. Additionally, it is possible to carry out the channel change rapidly and efficiently and to reduce the power consumption required to transmit and receive radio signals comprising a chaotic carrier signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-Min Han, Young-hwan Kim, Mi-hyun Son, Seong-soo Lee
  • Patent number: 8879999
    Abstract: Apparatus having corresponding methods and computer-readable media comprise: a first transceiver comprising a controller configured to select one of a plurality of frequency regions, and a transmitter configured to transmit, according to a first protocol, first wireless signals in the one of the plurality of the frequency regions selected by the controller, wherein each frequency region is characterized by a respective type of unwanted interference generated responsive to the transmitter transmitting the first wireless signals in the respective frequency region; an arbiter configured to select one or more frequency channels based on the one of the plurality of the frequency regions selected by the controller; and a second transceiver configured to transceive, according to a second protocol, second wireless signals only in the one or more frequency channels selected by the arbiter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Ying Cai, Jihwan P. Choi, Hui-Ling Lou, Vladan Petrovic, Chuxiang Li
  • Patent number: RE46905
    Abstract: A communications system network that enables secondary use of spectrum on a non-interference basis is disclosed. Each secondary transceiver measures the background spectrum. The system uses a modulation method to measure the background signals that eliminates self-generated interference and also identifies the secondary signal to all primary users via on/off amplitude modulation, allowing easy resolution of interference claims. The system uses high-processing gain probe waveforms that enable propagation measurements to be made with minimal interference to the primary users. The system measures background signals and identifies the types of nearby receivers and modifies the local frequency assignments to minimize interference caused by a secondary system due to non-linear mixing interference and interference caused by out-of-band transmitted signals (phase noise, harmonics, and spurs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: SHARED SPECTRUM COMPANY
    Inventor: Mark Allen McHenry
  • Patent number: RE47120
    Abstract: A communications system network that enables secondary use of spectrum on a non-interference basis is disclosed. Each secondary transceiver measures the background spectrum. The system uses a modulation method to measure the background signals that eliminates self-generated interference and also identifies the secondary signal to all primary users via on/off amplitude modulation, allowing easy resolution of interference claims. The system uses high-processing gain probe waveforms that enable propagation measurements to be made with minimal interference to the primary users. The system measures background signals and identifies the types of nearby receivers and modifies the local frequency assignments to minimize interference caused by a secondary system due to non-linear mixing interference and interference caused by out-of-band transmitted signals (phase noise, harmonics, and spurs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Shared Spectrum Company
    Inventor: Mark Allen McHenry