Assignee: Bandspeed, Inc.

Location: Austin, TX
No. of patents: 25

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8023899	Approach for selecting communications channels in communication systems to avoid interference An approach for selecting communications channels to be used by a communication system includes evaluating for the presence of one or more signals both a particular communications channel currently being used by the communication system and one or more other communi...	09/20/2011
8023575	Approach for spectrum analysis in a receiver A wireless communications apparatus that it is useable as a spectrum analyzer and as a wireless receiver. The wireless communications apparatus has a radio circuit that is configured to receive EM radiation. Signal processing logic receives signals from the radio ci...	09/20/2011
7916814	Method and apparatus for real-time pulse parameter estimator A real-time pulse parameter estimator is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an apparatus has pulse detection logic, an abnormal pulse filter, and a pulse parameter estimator. The pulse detection logic is operable to detect pulses and to record an arrival time of e...	03/29/2011
7903608	Approach for managing the use of communications channels based on performance An approach for selecting sets of communications channels involves determining the performance of communications channels. A set of channels is selected based on the results of performance testing and specified criteria. The participant generates data that identifie...	03/08/2011
7570614	Approach for managing communications channels based on performance An approach for managing communications channels based on performance involves selecting a particular channel based on channel performance. Based on the selected channel, channel identification data is provided to another participant of the communications system to ...	08/04/2009
7570193	Detecting and recognizing long duration waveforms A method and apparatus for processing signal pulses received by a device to identify the presence or absence of a waveform is provided. The waveform may have a long duration and may have a sparse energy distribution. An example of such a waveform is the bin-5 radar ...	08/04/2009
7555301	Method and apparatus for coverage and throughput enhancement in a wireless communication system A multiple access wireless communications architecture provides selective, simultaneous communications with wireless devices located in different sections of a spatial area around a communications apparatus referred to as “sectors”. In one embodiment, channel al...	06/30/2009
7532868	Approach for determining signal to noise ratios based on equalizer outputs and managing power for communications channels based on performance A novel approach for determining signal to noise ratios based on equalizer outputs and managing power for a plurality of communications channels based on communications channel performance is disclosed. According to one aspect of the invention, a noise power is gene...	05/12/2009
7512404	Method and apparatus for sector channelization and polarization for reduced interference in wireless networks The present invention provides in one embodiment channel allocation and polarization techniques for reducing cross sector communications interference in a multiple access wireless communications environment. In one embodiment, channel allocation and/or polarization ...	03/31/2009
7482992	Multiple access wireless communications antenna apparatus A multiple access wireless communications architecture provides selective, simultaneous communications with wireless devices located in different sections of a spatial area around a communications apparatus referred to as “sectors”. This includes communications ...	01/27/2009
7477624	Approach for managing the use of communications channels based on performance An approach for selecting sets of communications channels involves determining the performance of communications channels. A set of channels is selected based on the results of performance testing and specified criteria. The participant generates data that identifie...	01/13/2009
7388930	Method and apparatus for removing crosstalk and other interference in communications systems An approach for estimating and removing crosstalk and other interference in a communications receiver is disclosed. The approach enables crosstalk and interference of arbitrary origin and power spectral density to be removed from a received signal, thereby improving...	06/17/2008
7310661	Approach for transferring functions between participants in a communications arrangement A novel approach for transferring management functions between participants generally involves the use of an associate master participant that assumes responsibilities for functions assigned to the master participant if the master participant can no longer perform t...	12/18/2007
7272199	Adaptive adjustment of time and frequency domain equalizers in communications systems An update mechanism and approach are provided for configuring a communications receiver. According to the approach, a time domain equalizer and a frequency domain equalizer in a communications receiver are dynamically updated based upon performance data that indicat...	09/18/2007
7248877	Multiple access wireless communications architecture A multiple access wireless communications architecture provides selective, simultaneous communications with wireless devices located in different sections of a spatial area around a communications apparatus referred to as “sectors”. This includes communications ...	07/24/2007
7222166	Approach for managing communications channels based on performance and transferring functions between participants in a communications arrangement A novel approach for selecting communications channels and participants with which to communicate based on channel performance and transferring management functions between participants in a communications arrangement is disclosed. According to one aspect of the inv...	05/22/2007
7177367	Method for bit assignment and fine gain setting in a multi-carrier communications system Embodiments of the invention provide for assigning bits to a discrete multi-tone modulation communications system. In an embodiment, one or more channels in the plurality of channels are assigned a number of bits based on a performance characteristic of that channel...	02/13/2007
7136655	Method and apparatus for coverage and throughput enhancement in a wireless communication system A multiple access wireless communications architecture provides selective, simultaneous communications with wireless devices located in different sections of a spatial area around a communications apparatus referred to as “sectors”. In one embodiment, channel al...	11/14/2006
7061986	Method for adaptive bit assignment and fine gain setting in a multi-carrier communications system Bits are assigned to channels of a discrete modulation communications system. A first set of channels and a second set of channels are selected from a plurality of channels in the communications system. The first and second set of channels are selected in order to r...	06/13/2006
7027418	Approach for selecting communications channels based on performance An approach for selecting sets of communications channels involves determining the performance of communications channels. A set of channels is selected based on the results of performance testing and specified criteria. The participant generates data that identifie...	04/11/2006
6996199	Approach for processing data received from a communications channel to reduce noise power and optimize impulse response length to reduce inter-symbol interference and inter-channel interference An approach for processing data received from a communications channel that minimizes noise power and optimizes impulse response length to reduce interference, such as from inter-symbol interference (ISI) and inter-channel interference (ICI), is disclosed. For examp...	02/07/2006
6987955	Approach for managing power for communications channels based on performance A novel approach for managing power for a plurality of communications channels based on communications channel performance is disclosed. According to one aspect of the invention, a first power and a second power that is different than the first power are determined ...	01/17/2006
6983030	Approach for processing data received from a communications channel in finite precision arithmetic applications An approach for processing data received from a communications channel in finite precision arithmetic applications generally involves equalizing received data in the time domain prior to demodulation using finite impulse response (FIR) filtering. FIR coefficients us...	01/03/2006
6804313	Approach for processing data received from a communications channel An approach for processing data received from a communications channel generally involves equalizing received data in the time domain prior to demodulation by an approach that incorporates mitigation of interference. Oversampling of the received signal provides impr...	10/12/2004
6295326	Kalman filter based equalization for digital multicarrier communications systems A computer-implemented approach for reducing distortion in digital communications systems generally involves obtaining an optimal estimation of the original data using a Kalman filter with an increased length state to remove substantially all ISI in the t...	09/25/2001

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