Transceiver Controlling A Separate Transceiver Or Receiver Patents (Class 455/88)
  • Patent number: 8238466
    Abstract: A spatial spreading unit is configured to utilize a spatial spreading matrix to distribute two or more encoded spatial data streams to transmission antennas. The spatial spreading matrix has components (i) associated with each row of a row dimension having a number of rows equal to the number of the transmission antennas to be used to transmit the encoded spatial data streams and (ii) associated with each column of a column dimension having a number of columns equal to the number of the encoded spatial data streams to be transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Arul Durai Murugan Palanivelu, Hui-Ling Lou, Kedar Shirali, Rohit U. Nabar, Atul Salhotra
  • Patent number: 8237953
    Abstract: To reduce trouble of specifying a target equipment, a nickname, an image, and the like are transmitted from a digital camera to a printer by wire connection not through a LAN. After the digital camera is connected to the printer through the LAN, the digital camera displays information regarding the printer on a monitor based on the nickname, the image, and the like received from the printer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hitoshi Watanabe
  • Patent number: 8238839
    Abstract: Variable operating currents are generated in relation to input signal power and output signal power and achieving both low noise and low power consumption. Emitter follower circuits are attached to output terminals of a frequency divider for generating a local signal. By adjusting the currents flowing through the emitter follower circuits, the amounts of currents flowing into mixers is adjusted. When the amounts of currents of local signals flowing into the mixers increases, the effect of noise suppression is expected. The amounts of the currents flowing through the emitter follower circuits is changed depending on the amplification factor of variable amplifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Hayashi, Satoshi Arayashiki, Takeshi Uchitomi, Tomomitsu Kitamura
  • Publication number: 20120196548
    Abstract: A wireless communication device uses operational parameters stored in a capabilities list to control operation of the device. The device may also provide auxiliary services, such as reception of broadcast television signals and location detection using network assisted GPS. When auxiliary services are selected, the cellular operation may cause interference with the auxiliary services. The wireless communication device includes a reduced set of capabilities to control operation of the wireless communication device when an auxiliary service is requested. The particular set of reduced capabilities may depend on the specific type of auxiliary service that has been requested. Upon termination of the auxiliary services, the full capabilities list may be restored and the operation of the wireless communication device is thereafter controlled by the full set of operational capabilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventor: Michael Edward Prise
  • Patent number: 8224261
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for creating a pencil beam using a plurality of small diameter dish antennas. A plurality of small diameter dish antennas are spatially arranged and driven by varying electronic signals in such a way that the plurality of small diameter dish antennas co-operatively produce a pencil beam in the direction of a distant object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Inventor: Arvind Vijay Keerthi
  • Patent number: 8224259
    Abstract: A radio-frequency (RF) receiver includes a receiver analog circuitry and a receiver digital circuitry. The receiver analog circuitry resides within a first integrated circuit and the receiver digital circuitry resides within a second integrated circuit. The second integrated circuit couples to the first integrated circuit via a one-bit digital interface. The receiver analog circuitry receives an RF signal and processes the received RF signal to generate a digital signal. The receiver analog circuitry provides the digital signal to the receiver digital circuitry. The receiver digital circuitry includes a digital down-converter circuitry that mixes the digital signal with an intermediate frequency (IF) local oscillator (LO) signal to generate a digital down-converted signal. The receiver digital circuitry also includes a digital filter circuitry that filters the digital down-converted signal to generate a filtered digital signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Richard T. Behrens, Tod Paulus, Mark S. Spurbeck, Vishnu S. Srinivasan, Donald A. Kerth, Jeffrey W. Scott, G. Tyson Tuttle, G. Diwakar Vishakhadatta
  • Patent number: 8219025
    Abstract: A stand alone sensor apparatus includes a moveable chassis and, mounted to the chassis, a wireless power receiver, a sensor, and a wireless transceiver. The wireless power receiver receives power wirelessly, converts the wireless power to electrical power, and provides the electrical power to the sensor and the wireless transceiver. The sensor measures a characteristic of a continuous web material. The wireless transceiver is coupled to the sensor and wirelessly sends a signal that is based upon the measured characteristic. An air source and/or a temperature control device may be mounted to the moveable chassis and receive electrical power from the wireless power receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Cristian Andronic
  • Patent number: 8213970
    Abstract: The system and method having a specialized software application on a personal computer or a PDA/cell phone that that enables a participant to force an automatic acknowledgement and a manual response to a text or voice message from other participants within the same network. Each participant's PDA/cell phone includes a force message alert software application program for both creating and processing these forced message alerts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Advanced Ground Information Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Malcolm K. Beyer
  • Patent number: 8208865
    Abstract: Embodiments of an RF front-end are presented herein. In an embodiment, the RF front end comprises a power amplifier (PA), a noise-matched low-noise amplifier (LNA), a balance network, and a four-port isolation module. A first port of the isolation module is coupled to an antenna. The second port of the isolation module is coupled to the balancing network. The third port is coupled an output of the PA. The fourth port is coupled to a differential input of the noise-matched LNA. The isolation module effectively isolates the third port from the fourth port to prevent strong outbound signals received at the third port from saturating the LNA coupled to the fourth port. Isolation is achieved via electrical balance. In an embodiment, the signal path coupling the antenna at the first port to the differential input of the LNA at the fourth port is shorter than a wavelength of the inbound signal received by the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Mohyee Mikhemar, Hooman Darabi
  • Patent number: 8208868
    Abstract: An adjustable antenna interface includes a single-ended to differential conversion circuit, an adjustable impedance matching circuit, an RF differential switch, and an input. The single-ended to differential conversion circuit converts inbound RF signals from single-ended signals to differential signals and converts outbound RF signals from differential signals to single-ended signals. The adjustable impedance matching circuit provides an impedance based on an impedance control signal. The RF differential switch provides the differential outbound RF signals from the IC to the single-ended to differential conversion circuit in accordance with a first antenna control signal and provides the differential inbound RF signals from the single-ended to differential conversion circuit to the IC in accordance with a second antenna control signal. The input receives the first antenna control signal, the second antenna control signal, and the impedance control signal from the IC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Vafa James Rakshani, Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran, Maryam Rofougaran, Frederic Christian Marc Hayem, Claude G. Hayek, Nelson R. Sollenberger
  • Publication number: 20120157014
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for transmitting/receiving data in a dual mode terminal having a host modem and a slave modem are provided. In the method, when an external apparatus generates data, the host modem receives the generated data. The host modem determines a destination of the received data. The host modem forwards the received data to the determined destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Jeong-Hoon Park, Sung-Wook Park, Jai-Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 8200169
    Abstract: The present invention has an object of providing a transmitter apparatus, a mobile communication system, a base station and a communication enable signal transmitter unit, which can prioritize communications of a mobile station in a priority communication system over communications of a mobile station in a non-priority communication system, in a network where the priority communication system and the non-priority communication system coexist in the same communication area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: NTT DoCoMo, Inc.
    Inventors: Hiromasa Fujii, Junichiro Hagiwara, Hitoshi Yoshino
  • Patent number: 8190214
    Abstract: An in-vehicle handsfree apparatus establishes a handsfree profile connection with at least two cellular phones. It may be determined that a first cellular phone and a second cellular phone are receiving incoming calls at the same time, or that while a first cellular phone is calling, a second cellular phone is receiving an incoming call. In such a case, based on attributes (for example, a holder or intended use) of the first and second cellular phones, a notice manner of information on incoming call or information on telephone call is differentiated, for instance, in regard to a background color of a display window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Yousuke Kimura, Hideaki Suzuki, Tooru Kakehi, Takehiro Abeta, Takafumi Okayasu
  • Patent number: 8184724
    Abstract: In a wireless communication system in which a sending side derives transmit weight vectors based on feedback information and carries out precoding, performance degradation is caused when the channel at the time when the transmit weight vectors are derived and the true channel are different from each other. Along with variations in the channel, the power allocation to a plurality of effective streams formed in MIMO is caused to approach asymptotically to uniform power allocation from the value determined based on the channel state information that the sending side has.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Yamamoto, Masaaki Shida
  • Patent number: 8175546
    Abstract: The present receive antenna interface for an RF (radio frequency) transceiver includes a transmitting and receiving antenna. The receive antenna interface also includes a relay and an electrically-isolated transmit-ground connector that are configured such that the receiving antenna is not capable of being used by the transceiver unless the transmit-ground connector is connected to a ground-on-transmit connector provided by the transceiver. As a result, damage from the accidental transmission of RF signals into the receiving circuitry of the transceiver is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: PDS Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul D. Sergi, Charles T. Rauch
  • Patent number: 8169319
    Abstract: A method of providing security and maintenance of a group of devices using a group of tags. Each of the tags is attached to a device and includes a radio frequency transceiver for intercommunicating using ultra-wide band signals. Using the intercommunication, distance between two of the tags is determined and an alarm is triggered when the distance is greater than a previously defined threshold distance. The distance is preferably determined by measuring a round trip delay time between the transmission of a transmitted signal to the other tag and reception of a response signal in response to the transmitted signal from the other tag. The distance is preferably determined by measuring a time delay between transmitting a unicast ultra-wide band message and receiving a unicast response message. The intercommunication preferably uses ultra-wide band signals which relay information regarding completeness of the group between the tags of the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Zebra Enterprise Solutions Corp.
    Inventors: Gideon Kaplan, Avraham Menkes, Dan Raphaeli
  • Patent number: 8165628
    Abstract: Briefly, some embodiments of the invention may provide devices, systems and methods for multi-profile wireless communication. For example, a wireless communication module may include first and second ports, and may be able to selectably operate in either a first mode of operation, in which said first port is used as an input port for incoming signals and said second port is used as an output port for outgoing signals, or a second mode of operation, in which said second port is used as an input port for incoming signals and said first port is used as an output port for outgoing signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Marvell International, Ltd.
    Inventor: David Sinai
  • Patent number: 8160508
    Abstract: A wireless communication device uses operational parameters stored in a capabilities list to control operation of the device. The device may also provide auxiliary services, such as reception of broadcast television signals and location detection using network assisted GPS. When auxiliary services are selected, the cellular operation may cause interference with the auxiliary services. The wireless communication device includes a reduced set of capabilities to control operation of the wireless communication device when an auxiliary service is requested. The particular set of reduced capabilities may depend on the specific type of auxiliary service that has been requested. Upon termination of the auxiliary services, the full capabilities list may be restored and the operation of the wireless communication device is thereafter controlled by the full set of operational capabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventor: Michael Edward Prise
  • Publication number: 20120083226
    Abstract: A remotely-located transceiver device is disclosed. The remotely-located transceiver device comprises a telecommunications signal transceiver and a service transceiver. The service transceiver is addressable over a short-range wireless link and is adapted to maintain the telecommunications signal transceiver. A method for maintaining a telecommunications signal transceiver is disclosed. The method comprises addressing a service transceiver using a short-range wireless link and interacting with the telecommunications signal transceiver utilising the service transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Inventors: Peter Kenington, Eric Westberg
  • Publication number: 20120083225
    Abstract: Methods and systems for a 60 GHz communication device comprising multi-location antennas for pseudo-beamforming are disclosed and may include configuring antennas in RF modules for beamforming transmitted signals. Each of the RF modules may receive IF signals via coaxial lines. The beamformed RF signals may be transmitted via the antennas to external devices. The RF signals may be generated from IF signals from baseband signals. The RF modules may be configured utilizing a processor in the wireless communication device. The RF signals may be transmitted to a display device. Control signals for the RF devices may be communicated utilizing the coaxial lines. The RF devices may be selected for the beamforming based on a direction to a receiving device. The beamforming may include adding a phase shift in upconverting the IF signals to the RF signals, which may include 60 GHz signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Publication date: April 5, 2012
    Inventors: Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Maryam Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 8144846
    Abstract: A system and method for interrupting a transmitting communication unit in a communication system. When a call is first initiated, the call is assigned to a communication channel and broadcast from a base site using the assigned communication channel. If it is determined that a transmitting communication unit should be interrupted, a zone controller signals a base site to generate an interrupt message. The base site generates an interrupt message containing an identification code for the transmitting communication unit and broadcasts the interrupt message on an outbound link of the communication channel. The transmitting communication unit, while transmitting on an inbound link of the communication channel, continuously monitors the outbound link. If the transmitting communication unit receives, on the outbound link, an interrupt message containing an identification code matching its own identification code, the transmitting communication unit stops transmitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: John M. Gilbert, Gary P. Hunsberger, Daniel J. McDonald
  • Patent number: 8134450
    Abstract: Methods and systems that provide content to subscribers via wireless transmission by initiating a page that does not automatically provide associated content. The content provider conserves air time by not automatically transmitting the content. The information content may be of different types, such as voice, text, audio, or even video, and may be dynamic. In addition to the aforementioned, the content provider may provide to subscribers via wireless transmission songs or video clips or updates on weather or stock rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Wireless Science, LLC
    Inventor: Richard J. Helferich
  • Publication number: 20120058737
    Abstract: In a system that includes electronic equipment such as a computer or power adapter and that includes electronic devices such as cellular telephones, media players, and other devices, cables may be provided with wireless transceiver circuitry. Each cable may include a power path without including data lines. When a user desires to power a device, the cable may be used to connect the device to the electronic equipment. The power path in the cable may deliver power from the electronic equipment to the electronic device. Data may be conveyed between the electronic equipment and the electronic device wirelessly, using the wireless transceiver circuitry in the cable. The cable may have first and second connectors at respective ends of the cable. The wireless transceiver circuitry may be contained within the first connector or within the first and second connectors. The wireless transceiver circuitry may be identified using an identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Inventors: Nicholas A. Sims, Jeffrey J. Terlizzi
  • Patent number: 8121557
    Abstract: A transceiver includes an RF receiver section having a plurality of RF receiver stages configured in parallel, and a configurable RF transmitter section. The plurality of RF receiver stages are selectively enabled in response to a control signal. The configurable RF transmitter section is configured to operate in one of: a mixed signal mode of operation and a phase modulation mode of operation, in response to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Ahmadreza (Reza) Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 8116684
    Abstract: Techniques are described that can be used to perform one or more of the following actions in order to reduce signal interference between WLAN and BlueTooth radios that are proximate to one another. One action is to selectively reduce a filter bandwidth in a WLAN radio applied to a received WLAN radio signal to reduce BlueTooth signal interference. An additional or alternative action is to selectively indicate a WLAN radio channel bandwidth larger than a channel bandwidth used for the WLAN radio so that the BlueTooth radio avoids transmitting over the indicated channel bandwidth. An additional or alternative action is to selectively reduce BlueTooth transmitter power in response to antenna isolation between BT and WLAN radio being less than a first threshold in order to reduce the likelihood of WLAN radio front end saturation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jie Gao, Xntian Eddie Lin
  • Patent number: 8116724
    Abstract: A safety system comprising a plurality of wearable transceiver devices for operation in independent use with a plurality of a landline-based phone and a cell phone to establish contact between a user of a wearable transceiver device and a central monitoring station. The wearable transceiver devices sense a crash or a fall and notify a monitor by a landline-based phone or a cell phone of this incident and the assisted GPS determined location of the incident. The information is provided to the monitor a short predetermined time following activation unless the device is deactivated by pressing a communication button. When the device has not been activated by a crash or fall, the user may press the communication button to communicate with the monitor to obtain a wide variety of services. A cell phone having reserve batteries, accelerometers, and assisted GPS location capabilities is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: VoCare, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven R. Peabody
  • Patent number: 8111041
    Abstract: A power reception device transmits authentication information (e.g., start code, manufacturer ID, product ID, rated power information, and resonance characteristic information) to a power transmission device before starting normal power transmission by a non-contact power transmission system. The power transmission device performs instrument authentication based on the received authentication information, and regulates the maximum transmission power is regulated to conform to a power-reception-device side rated power. The power transmission device then performs normal power transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignees: Seiko Epson Corporation, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
    Inventors: Kota Onishi, Kentaro Yoda, Haruhiko Sogabe, Takahiro Kamijo, Kuniharu Suzuki, Hiroshi Kato, Katsuya Suzuki, Manabu Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 8107893
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for transmission and reception of signals. An AlGaN amplifier is connected to an antenna. The AlGaN amplifier amplifies signals for transmission over the antenna and signals received from the antenna. Switches are controlled to provide the amplified signals for transmission to the antenna. The switches are also controlled to provide the signals received from the antenna to the AlGaN amplifier and to the receive path of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventor: Jose L. Ramos
  • Patent number: 8103267
    Abstract: A communication device that includes a femtocell base station and a mobile station transmitter/receiver. The femtocell base station may provide bidirectional internet protocol (IP) communication for one or mobile devices to a cellular network. The femtocell base station may be operable to communicate with the cellular network using a wide area network. The mobile station transmitter/receiver may be coupled to the femtocell base station (in a same housing). The mobile station transmitter/receiver may be operable to perform radio frequency (RF) wireless communication with the cellular network, e.g., to detect and/or report environmental parameters, performing testing (e.g., loopback testing), and/or provide communication for the one or more mobile devices (e.g., when the wide area network is down), among others.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: VIA Telecom, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Lee, Ning Nicholas Chen
  • Patent number: 8099058
    Abstract: A method for operating an integrated transceiver, comprising coupling an operating transmitter and an operating receiver within the integrated wideband receiver, inputting a signal into the operating transmitter, performing a first conversion of the signal, wherein the signal is converted into a second signal, transmitting the second signal into the operating receiver, performing a second conversion of the signal, wherein the signal is converted into a third signal, transmitting the third signal into the operating transmitter, and adjusting the operating transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Rockstar Bidco, LP
    Inventors: Bradley John Morris, Edward M. Sich
  • Publication number: 20120009888
    Abstract: A mobile communication device includes a first radio frequency (RF) transceiver and a second RF transceiver. The first RF transceiver is operative for communications in accordance with a first radio protocol (e.g. BLUETOOTH®) using a first set of RF channels, and the second RF transceiver is operative for communications in accordance with a second radio protocol (e.g. IEEE 802.11) using a second set of RF channels. The mobile device identifies a list of noisy RF channels in the first set of RF channels, detected through operation of the first RF transceiver in accordance with the first radio protocol. The mobile device selects one of the RF channels from the second set based on the identified list of noisy RF channels. The mobile device then controls operation of the second RF transceiver in accordance with the second radio protocol for communicating data to another communication device over the selected RF channel of the second set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: Research In Motion Limited
    Inventor: Mohammed Nawaf Smadi
  • Patent number: 8093992
    Abstract: A system and method related to weapon mounted auxiliary devices that can be operated by wireless remote control, and a remote controller by which an operator can operate the auxiliary devices remotely by wireless control. This includes all means of remote control of the auxiliary devices to include but not be limited to radio frequency (RF), infrared (IR) energy, all other wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, and acoustic, pressure, or sound waves. Control of the auxiliary devices can range from simple activation to wireless control of all auxiliary device controls and adjustments. This can also include a single remote control device that can operate one or more weapon mounted auxiliary devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: L-3 Communications Insight Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Dale Allen Jancic, Paul Joseph Deyeso
  • Patent number: 8086190
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for reconfigurable devices for multi-frequency coexistence are provided. In this regard, an IC may be configured based on a frequency of signals processed by the IC. In instances that the IC may process signals of a first frequency, the IC may be configured such that a loop communicatively coupled to the integrated circuit may function as an inductor. In instances that the IC may process signals of a second frequency, the IC may be configured such that the loop may function as an antenna for transmitting and/or receiving the signals. The loop may be within and/or on the IC and/or a package such as a multilayer package to which the IC may be bonded. The loop may be fabricated with stripline and/or microstrip transmission line. In instances that the loop may function as an inductor, the loop may be communicatively coupled as part of a VCO tank circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Ahmadreza Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 8086188
    Abstract: The transmitter of the transceiver includes: a transmitter-side mixers of a transmitter-side modulator; a transmitter-side voltage-controlled oscillator; and a transmitter-side divider. The divider having a dividing factor of a non-integral number is supplied with an oscillating output of the oscillator. A pair of non-quadrature local signals having a phase difference of 90° plus a predetermined offset angle is produced by the divider and supplied to the mixers. The transmitter includes a phase-shift unit which converts a pair of quadrature transmit signals having a phase difference of about 90° on an analog basis into a pair of non-quadrature shifted transmit signals. Consequently, quadrature modulation is performed by the mixers. Use of a similar configuration enables the reduction in interference of an RF signal with local signals supplied to receiver-side mixers of the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Tanaka, Hiroshi Kamizuma, Koji Maeda, Sungwoo Cha, Yukinori Akamine, Taizo Yamawaki
  • Publication number: 20110312288
    Abstract: A wireless device having a central control entity that coordinates multiple radio transceivers co-located within the same device platform to mitigate coexistence interference. The wireless device comprises an LTE transceiver, a WiFi transceiver, a BT transceiver, or a GNSS receiver. In one embodiment, the central control entity receives radio signal information from the transceivers and determines control information. The control information is used to trigger FDM solution such that the transceivers operate in designated frequency channels to mitigate co-existence interference. In another embodiment, the central control entity receives traffic and scheduling information from the transceivers and determines control information. The control information is used to trigger TDM solution such that the transceivers are scheduled for transmitting or receiving radio signals over specific time duration to mitigate co-existence interference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: I-Kang Fu, Li-Chun Ko, Chi-Chen Lee, Huanchun Ye, Hong-Kai Hsu, Willaim Plumb
  • Patent number: 8072936
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for handover of a dual mode wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) from an LTE system to a GERAN system uses measurements of the LTE and GERAN frequencies and a decision by a source evolved Node B to perform the handover. A GERAN access procedure includes PS attach messages exchanged between the WTRU and the target base station controller and a target SGSN. Alternatively, the GERAN access procedure uses RAN mobility information messages exchanged by the WTRU and the target base station controller and a relocation detect message by the source evolved Node B.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2011
    Assignee: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventor: Kamel M. Shaheen
  • Patent number: 8068792
    Abstract: An inband signaling modem communicates digital data over a voice channel of a wireless telecommunications network. An input receives digital data. An encoder converts the digital data into audio tones that synthesize frequency characteristics of human speech. The digital data is also encoded to prevent voice encoding circuitry in the telecommunications network from corrupting the synthesized audio tones representing the digital data. An output then outputs the synthesized audio tones to a voice channel of a digital wireless telecommunications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: Airbiquity Inc.
    Inventors: Dan A. Preston, Joseph D. Preston, Robert Leyendecker, Wayne Eatherly, Rod L. Proctor, Phillip R. Smith
  • Patent number: 8064846
    Abstract: A RF circuit includes a master PCB, a plurality of slave PCBs and a plurality of antennas. The master PCB includes at least two RF ICs and at least two transceiving diplexer groups for tranceiving different frequency bands. Each transceiving diplexer group includes a plurality of transceiving diplexers transceiving a same frequency band and electrically connected to the RF ICs via PCB tracks without intersection. Each slave PCB includes a frequency division diplexer electrically connected to at least two transceiving diplexers respectively belonging to different tranceiving diplexer groups for respectively transmitting different frequency bands. Each antenna electrically connects to one of the division diplexers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shyue-Dar Chen, Chia-Yin Liao, Chi-Hsin Wu
  • Patent number: 8050634
    Abstract: A transceiver includes a transmitter configured to transmit a first radio frequency signal, a switching device connected to the transmitter and configured to receive and transmit the first radio frequency signal to an antenna, a receiver connected to the switching device via an input and configured to receive a second radio frequency signal from the switching device, the receiver including an electrostatic discharge protection device connected to the input, and a biasing device connected to the electrostatic discharge protection device and configured to forward bias the electrostatic discharge protection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Torbjörn Jan Evert Olsson, Eric Westesson
  • Publication number: 20110263214
    Abstract: Techniques to control shared antenna architectures for multiple co-located radio modules are disclosed. The shared antenna architecture may include a combiner and at least one bypass switch for enabling simultaneous operations or mutually-exclusive operations of multiple transceivers. Dynamic gain control is employed to accommodate different front-end losses associated with a variety of signal paths that are achievable using the switch and combiner. Such dynamic gain control can include selecting from multiple sets of amplifier gain values that are tailored to meet the needs of the particular applications that are active at a particular time. Gain values can be chosen based upon received gain information including characteristics including a desired path loss, an application demand, a radio module type, a path configuration, and a mode of operation. By providing dynamic selection of gain values based on application demands, range and throughput of the transceivers can be attained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Mike Robinson, James Beninghaus
  • Patent number: 8045626
    Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to realize a signal transmitter which is capable of reducing power consumption and which can be easily designed. A differential transmitter block outputs differential output signals fixed to a predetermined logic signal to a differential receiver block and disconnects terminating resistors from a signal transmission path in an idle state. In the differential receiver block, a differential comparator outputs a logic determined by symbols of the differential output signal from the differential transmitter block, and an operating state detector detects the idle state upon detection that time successively outputting a predetermined logic by the differential comparator reaches a predetermined time, and controls switches so as to disconnect the terminating resistors from the signal transmitter in the receiving side upon detection of the idle state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
    Inventor: Tadashi Iwasaki
  • Publication number: 20110244813
    Abstract: This communication system is equipped with a plurality of transceiver devices each composed of a transmission device that transmits unit data and a reception device that receives unit data from the transmission device. The transmission devices are connected in series. Each of the transmission devices stores identification information for identifying the device itself. The transmission device accepts unit data from a front stage side. The transmission device generates identification information for identifying one of the transmission devices from information included in the accepted unit data, in accordance with a predetermined generation process. In a case that the generated identification information corresponds to the stored identification information, the transmission device transmits the accepted unit data to the reception device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Taiki Kanai, Akira Sakurai, Atsuya Yamashita, Hiroaki Nakajima
  • Patent number: 8032182
    Abstract: A communication system includes a phone and a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM). The phone includes a user input interface, a first wireless transceiver and a first application program interface. The SIM is plugged into the phone and includes storage, a second wireless transceiver, and a second application program interface. The phone uses a service-subscriber key stored in the storage of the SIM to access a plurality of services provided by a wireless network using the first transceiver according to a first communication protocol. The first application program interface, in response to a user selection via the user input interface, interacts with the second application program interface. The phone communicates with a node using the second wireless transceiver according to a second communication protocol by way of the interaction between the first application program interface and the second application program interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: James D. Bennett
  • Patent number: 8027645
    Abstract: A method for automatically tuning a frequency modulator in a mobile device is described. A frequency band is automatically scanned using a frequency modulation (FM) receiver. The FM receiver is integrated as a part of the mobile device. Quality associated with channels of the frequency band is analyzed to identify at least one available channel at a first frequency. The first frequency is assigned to an FM modulator. The FM modulator is integrated as a part of the mobile device. A determination is made whether a command to scan for a second frequency is received. If the command to scan for the second frequency is not received, a signal on the first frequency is transmitted by the FM modulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Houman Haghighi, Victoria Ann Smith
  • Patent number: 8023902
    Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention described and shown in the specification and drawings is a transceiver with a receiver, a transmitter, a local oscillator (LO) generator, a controller, and a self-testing unit. All of these components can be packaged for integration into a single IC including components such as filters and inductors. The controller for adaptive programming and calibration of the receiver, transmitter and LO generator. The self-testing unit generates is used to determine the gain, frequency characteristics, selectivity, noise floor, and distortion behavior of the receiver, transmitter and LO generator. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or the meaning of the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Shervin Moloudi, Ahmadreza Rofougaran, Maryam Rofougaran
  • Patent number: 8010058
    Abstract: A system and method for communications between a plurality of shipping containers and a central monitoring station using a meteor burst communication method is provided. The system may also be used as a redundancy scheme as a backup communications device for a primary satellite or cellular channel. The channel also uses an error protection protocol, and proposes a method to conserve battery power for the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: System Planning Corporation
    Inventors: Richard C. Meyers, Roy Smith
  • Patent number: 7986957
    Abstract: A transmission level control method in a wireless local loop system capable of suppressing occurrence of an unnecessarily high transmission level, comprises a step of generating a required reception level corresponding to a classification of data, a step of detecting the reception level of data at a receiver side transceiver apparatus, a step of finding a level difference between the detected reception level and the required reception level corresponding to the classification of the related received data, and a step of controlling a change of the transmission level at a transmitter side transceiver apparatus according to this level difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventors: Shoichi Sato, Koji Arai
  • Patent number: 7984321
    Abstract: A data transfer control device includes an OUT-transfer transmitter circuit which transmits OUT data by driving a serial signal line, a clock-transfer transmitter circuit which transmits a clock signal CLK by driving a serial signal line, a PLL circuit which generates the clock signal CLK, and a power-down setting circuit which sets a power-down mode. In a first power-down mode, the OUT-transfer transmitter circuit is set to the power-down mode, and the clock-transfer transmitter circuit is set to the power-down mode to stop a system clock signal of a target-side data transfer control device. In a second power-down mode, the OUT-transfer transmitter circuit is set to the power-down mode without setting the clock-transfer transmitter circuit to the power-down mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yukinari Shibata, Nobuyuki Saito, Tomonaga Hasegawa, Takuya Ishida
  • Patent number: 7978781
    Abstract: A first packet is transmitted via a forward channel corresponding to a signal direction from a first transceiver device to a second transceiver device, wherein the first packet includes a request to initiate calibration. A partial dimensional description of a reverse channel is determined based on the reception of a second packet received from the second transceiver device, wherein the second packet includes training information of spatial dimensions used for the transmission of the second packet but does not include training information for all available spatial dimensions of a reverse channel. A correction matrix is developed from the partial dimensional description of the reverse channel and a description of the forward channel, and the correction matrix and a steering matrix is used to process signals to be transmitted via the forward channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: Hongyuan Zhang, Rohit U. Nabar, Kedar Shirali, Peter Loc
  • Publication number: 20110143692
    Abstract: Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of wireless communication via multiple antenna assemblies. For example, a device may include a wireless communication unit to transmit and receive signals via one or more quasi-omnidirectional antenna assemblies, wherein the wireless communication unit is to transmit, via each quasi-omnidirectional antenna assembly, a plurality of first transmissions, to receive, in response to the first transmissions, a plurality of second transmissions from another device via one or more of the quasi-omnidirectional antenna assemblies, and, based on the second transmissions, to select at least one selected transmit antenna assembly for transmitting to the other device and a selected receive antenna assembly for receiving transmissions from the other device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Menashe Sofer, Assaf Kasher