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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| D653654 | 8-sided flat panel array antenna | 02/07/2012 |
| D652747 | Diagnostic RET controller | 01/24/2012 |
| 8085193 | System and method for preventing A-GPS devices from searching for specific satellites A system and method for estimating the location of a wireless device. A set of satellites may be determined as a function of an approximate area in which the wireless device is located. Assistance data is transmitted to the device including information from the set ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081109 | Method and apparatus for determining the geographic location of a device A method and apparatus for determining the location of a device from signals provided by a plurality of satellites. A device receives a first plurality of signals comprising one signal from each of a first plurality of satellites and determines a first location of t... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8032149 | Tasking and reporting method and implementation for wireless appliance location systems A system and method for determining the location of a mobile appliance where the tasking of the system to determine the location of the mobile appliance utilizes a first communications protocol standard and the reporting of the location of the mobile appliance utili... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8019339 | Using serving area identification in a mixed access network environment A system and method to arbitrate between SUP and CoPL LCS technology in a mized access network environment. The method includes signaling the serving network to obtain information prior to selecting a location determination session. The information is then indexed t... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8018390 | Cellular antenna and systems and methods therefor A cellular communications antenna including sensors for determining position and/or orientation of the antenna. Position information may be obtained using, for example, a GPS receiver or by triangulation. Orientation information may be obtained using, for example, a... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8011621 | Snap-in cable hanger clip A clip for a snap-in cable hanger with a top from which at least two clip arm(s) extend and at least one of the clip arm(s) formed with a clip tab projecting proximate a distal end. The top having a length greater than a diameter of the mounting hole and a width dim... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8010042 | Repeaters for wireless communication systems A repeater and associated method of use includes at least one antenna element for communicating in one direction and at least one antenna element for communicating in another direction. A radio frequency uplink path and a radio frequency downlink path are coupled be... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8002580 | Coaxial cable crimp connector A connector for semi-rigid outer conductor coaxial cable having a body provided with a connection interface at a connector end, a body bore and a crimp area around an outer surface of the body. The body bore dimensioned to receive the outer conductor together with a... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7986973 | Cellular antenna An antenna for communicating with mobile devices in a land-based cellular communication system via an antenna beam having a width, azimuth angle and downtilt angle. The antenna includes: a two dimensional array of radiating elements (31-34); and a feed... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7962174 | Transceiver architecture and method for wireless base-stations A system for wireless communications includes a tower structure supporting at least one transmit antenna at an elevated position on the tower structure and base electronics positioned proximate a base of the tower structure. The base electronics are coupled with the... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7948435 | Method and apparatus for determining the geographic location of a device A method and apparatus for determining the location of a device from signals provided by a plurality of satellites. A device receives a first plurality of signals comprising one signal from each of a first plurality of satellites and determines a first location of t... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7933610 | Method and apparatus to select an optimum site and/or sector to provide geo-location data A system and method selects secondary base stations to task that provide geo-location information used to geo-locate a mobile station. A network overlay location system may be co-located at base station sites of a wireless communications network. The location measur... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7931499 | Connector including flexible fingers and associated methods A coaxial cable connector is to be attached to a coaxial cable including an inner conductor, an outer conductor, and a dielectric therebetween. The coaxial cable connector includes a connector housing defining a ramp to receive an outer conductor thereagainst. A bac... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7927135 | Coaxial connector with a coupling body with grip fingers engaging a wedge of a stabilizing body A stabilizing coupling body assembly for a connector is provided with a monolithic coupling body dimensioned to couple with a cable end of a connector body of the connector. A plurality of grip fingers extends from a cable end of the coupling body, the grip fingers ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927134 | Coaxial connector for cable with a solid outer conductor A coaxial connector with a connector body is provided with a connector body bore. A grip ring is retained within the connector body bore, and an outer diameter of the grip ring abuts an annular wedge surface provided with a taper between a maximum diameter proximate... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925205 | System and method of operation for network overlay geolocation system with repeaters A novel system and method for a network overlay geolocation system operating in a host wireless communication system with repeaters is disclosed. Embodiments of the novel system and method enable wireless communication system to determine if signals being received b... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7918687 | Coaxial connector grip ring having an anti-rotation feature A coaxial connector with a connector body is provided with a connector body bore. A grip ring is retained within the connector body bore, and an outer diameter of the grip ring abuts an annular wedge surface provided with a taper between a maximum diameter proximate... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7907097 | Self-supporting unitary feed assembly A feed assembly for a reflector antenna having a unitary portion of dielectric material, a proximal end of the unitary portion configured for connection with the reflector antenna. The unitary portion having a waveguide portion extending between the proximal end and... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7907096 | Phase shifter and antenna including phase shifter A phase shifter includes two or more conductive strips, an input line and a wiper coupled to both the input line and the conductive strips. Rotation of the wiper about a pivot point alters the path lengths between the input line and output ports or antenna elements ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7902456 | Thermal mass compensated dielectric foam support structures for coaxial cables and method of manufacture Thermal mass compensated foam support structures for coaxial cables such as inner conductors and or inner conductor support structures. The foam support structures provided with an adhesive solid or high density foam polymer or blend layer to increase the thermal ma... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899496 | Cellular antenna An antenna for communicating with mobile devices in a land-based cellular communication system via an antenna beam having a width, azimuth angle and downtilt angle. The antenna includes: a two dimensional array of radiating elements (31-34); and a feed... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7898497 | Enclosed reflector antenna mount A reflector antenna mount for a reflector antenna with a primary mount coupled to a support arm. The primary mount rotatable in a first axis relative to the support arm. A secondary mount coupled to the primary mount; the secondary mount pivotable in a second axis r... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7898491 | Reflector antenna feed RF seal A reflector antenna feed RF seal between an antenna base, a feed hub and a vertex plate. The RF seal formed via a generally annular gasket of compressible material adapted to seat around an outer diameter of the feed hub. The gasket having an outer diameter greater ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7898357 | Coaxial impedance matching adapter and method of manufacture An impedance adapter with body and cap portions coupled together encloses a cavity with a printed circuit board (PCB). The PCB is provided with a trace on a first side and a ground plane on a second side. The trace is coupled to a first contact at a first end of the... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7893789 | Waveguide transitions and method of forming components A waveguide transition for transitioning from an overmoded waveguide to another waveguide is provided, where one end of the waveguide is configured to connect to a rectangular waveguide and the other end is configured to connect to an elliptical waveguide. The trans... | 02/22/2011 |
| D631431 | Solar shield | 01/25/2011 |
| 7857661 | Coaxial cable connector having jacket gripping ferrule and associated methods A connector is to be attached to a coaxial cable having an inner conductor, an outer conductor, a dielectric between the inner conductor and outer conductor, and a jacket surrounding the outer conductor. The connector includes a back nut to be received over the jack... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7856105 | Apparatus and method for processing of amplifier linearization signals A feed-forward amplifier includes a main amplifier having input signals and amplified output signals and an error amplifier for amplifying distortion signals to be added to the amplified output signals of the main amplifier to produce an amplifier output. A pilot to... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7853267 | Wireless system signal propagation collection and analysis Wireless systems coverage planning uses propagation modeling to provide a prediction of service coverage. Accurate and effective wireless systems coverage analysis requires a measurement of signal strength and knowledge of the location corresponding to the measureme... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7837502 | Multi-shot coaxial connector and method of manufacture A coaxial cable connector formed via multi-shot injection molding has a body formed by multiple injection molding layers of different injection moldable materials about a central inner contact to form an integral connector body. The connector body is provided with a... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7831221 | Predistortion system and amplifier for addressing group delay modulation An amplifier includes an RF power amplifier and a predistortion circuit coupled to the power amplifier. The predistortion circuit affects an input path of an RF input signal to the power amplifier. The predistortion circuit is operable for detecting a level of an in... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7830307 | Array antenna and a method of determining an antenna beam attribute A method of determining one or more attributes of an antenna beam based on measuring phase and/or amplitude differences at different points in a feed network. Amplitude and/or phase are measured by a probe (13) at an input to a differential variable element (... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7825855 | Assisted global positioning system location determination The present invention relates to a method for selectively reducing the amount of assistance data transmitted to an assisted GPS equipped mobile terminal by excluding the transmission of assistance data relating to one or more satellites that are potentially visible ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7824215 | Axial compression coaxial connector with grip surfaces A coaxial connector with a connector body is provided with a connector body bore, an annular ramp surface proximate the cable end of the connector body and a connector body mounting surface proximate the cable end of the connector body. A back body is provided with ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7819698 | Sealed inner conductor contact for coaxial cable connector A coaxial cable connector inner contact with an interface end and a cable end for coupling with the inner conductor of a coaxial cable, the inner conductor having an outer diameter surface. The inner contact provided with an inner conductor interface at the interfac... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7817096 | Cellular antenna and systems and methods therefor Multi-array antennas providing dual electrical azimuth beam steering, combined mechanical and electrical azimuth steering, independent mechanical column steering and dual mechanical steering. Systems incorporating such antennas and methods of controlling them are al... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7809047 | Digital repeater having bandpass filtering, adaptive pre-equalization and suppression of natural oscillation Repeaters, event those having digital processing, exist. The significant drawback of these digital repeaters is that the computational complexity or the processing speed has to be very high in order to guarantee, particularly when compensating for echo, that the nec... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7806724 | Coaxial connector for cable with a solid outer conductor A coaxial connector with a connector body is provided with a connector body bore. A grip ring is retained within the connector body bore, and an outer diameter of the grip ring abuts an annular wedge surface provided with a taper between a maximum diameter proximate... | 10/05/2010 |
