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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8098755 | Method and system for beamforming in a multiple user multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system using a codebook A method and system for beamforming in a multiple user multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication system using a codebook may include a processor in a node B that enables generation of an interference cancellation matrix (WR). The interference ca... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098725 | Equalization and decision-directed loops with trellis demodulation in high definition TV Improved decision feedback equalizer and decision directed timing recovery systems and methods suitable for use in connection with a dual mode QAM/VSB receiver system are disclosed. A trellis decoder operates in conjunction with a decision feedback equalizer circuit... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098716 | Method and apparatus for providing an energy-based signal tracking loop A method and apparatus for tracking a signal comprises correlating a digital signal with a code using a hypothesis at a plurality of frequencies and at least one delay to produce correlation results, measuring an energy value of the correlation results, adjusting at... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098691 | Base-band ethernet over point-to-multipoint shared single conductor channel A method for point-to-point ethernet communication over point-to-multipoint shared single conductor channel topology comprises transmitting an ethernet signal upstream over the point-to-multipoint topology from one end point of the topology to the root of the topolo... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098683 | Method and system for implementing a single weight (SW) single channel (SC) MIMO system with no insertion loss In a RF communications system, aspects for implementing a single weight single channel MIMO system with no insertion loss may comprise generating at least one control signal that is utilized to control at least one of a plurality of received signals in a WCDMA and/o... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098682 | System and method for interfacing with a management system A network controller may split, via a pass-through driver, processing of transmit and/or receive network traffic handled by the network controller. Physical layer (PHY) processing and/or Medium Access Control (MAC) processing of the management traffic may be perform... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098657 | System and method for providing data commonality in a programmable transport demultiplexer engine A method and system are provided for providing data commonality in a programmable transport demultiplexer engine. The method may involve utilizing a hardware assist block to process a portion of an incoming data packet, which may result in a partially processed data... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098606 | Modified upstream channel descriptor messages for DOCSIS-based broadband communication systems A method, apparatus and computer program product for generating and processing upstream channel descriptor (UCD) messages in a DOCSIS-based broadband communications system, such as a DOCSIS-based two-way satellite communications system, is provided. A satellite mode... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098111 | Reduced phase noise multi-band VCO Embodiments of a multi-band voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) are provided herein. The multi-band VCO is configured to adjust a frequency of an output signal based on an input signal. The multi-band VCO includes a tank module, an active module, and a control modul... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098109 | Differential varactor circuit for a voltage controlled oscillator According to one exemplary embodiment, a differential varactor circuit for a voltage controlled oscillator having two differential outputs includes a first varactor having first and second terminals and a second varactor having first and second terminals. In the dif... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8097982 | System and method for pre-detection in a power over ethernet system A system and method for pre-detection in a power over Ethernet (PoE) system. A power sourcing equipment (PSE) is designed to measure a port voltage upon application of a small current source. A microcontroller controls the current source based on a comparison of the... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095976 | Data excess protection Systems, methods, and computer program products that can be used concurrently or alternatively to detect errors in data as well as to protect access to data are provided. Embodiments enable a coherent data set (CDS) which is a data set guaranteed to be genuine and e... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095162 | Control device for allocating resources to communication devices that use differing protocols and methods for use therewith A control device includes at least one communication interface for communicating first control data with a first plurality of communication devices that utilize the millimeter wave frequency band in accordance with a first protocol and further for communicating seco... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095083 | Method and system for multiple shared antenna mobile devices A wireless device may comprise a plurality of antennas that may be utilized during communications via various wireless interfaces. The wireless interfaces may comprise mobile interfaces, wireless personal area network (WPAN) interfaces, and/or wireless local area ne... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095080 | Power management unit for configurable receiver and transmitter and methods for use therewith A configurable transceiver includes an RF receiver that generates a stream of inbound data from at least one received RF signal, wherein the RF receiver is configurable in response to a control signal. An RF transmitter generates at least one RF signal from a stream... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094814 | Method and apparatus for using counter-mode encryption to protect image data in frame buffer of a video compression system Certain aspects for protecting image data in a video compression system may include encrypting image data utilizing counter-mode scrambling. The encrypted image data may be buffered in at least one frame buffer. The buffered encrypted image data may be decrypted by ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094749 | Signaling format for wireless communications Methods, devices and systems for wireless communication generate signals by determining whether legacy devices are within a proximal region of the wireless communication. When at least one legacy device is within the proximal region, a frame is formatted to include ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094676 | Flexible upstream PHY burst profile parameters to improve performance of short bursts in impulse noise A single carrier cable modem can be initialized on multiple channels. By initializing a cable modem on more than one channel, the error rate performance of short data packets in cable modems in an impulsive noise environment is improved. The advantage of low symbol ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094629 | Wireless local area network real-time quality management The present invention provides a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) terminal, having a wireless interface that exchanges packetized communications with servicing Access Points (APs). A processing unit communicatively coupled to the wireless interface selects an appr... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094590 | Cross link multiplexer bus A cross link multiplexer bus comprising a plurality of cross link multiplexers and a plurality of interconnects. The plurality of cross link multiplexers has a destination port configured to receive a signal and an origin port configured to produce the signal. The p... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094499 | Method using a one-time programmable memory cell A one-time programmable device includes a controller, a protection system, a static storage element and a latch, which can be referred to as a latch-based one-time programmable (OTP) element. In one example, the static storage element includes a thin gate-oxide that... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094067 | Method and system for determining a position of a mobile communication device A GNSS enabled mobile device transmits to a location server a combination of GNSS-based location data and non-GNSS based location data used to determining reference positions at the location server. The GNSS mobile device receives the determined reference positions ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094033 | Apparatus to monitor process-based parameters of an integrated circuit (IC) substrate A process monitor measures the absolute value of unit sample resistors and transistors on a common Integrated Circuit (IC) substrate. This information can be used to adjust the gain of an amplifier assembly to a desired value, or to determine the true, corrected gai... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094025 | Integrated blocker filtering RF front end A receiver architecture for canceling blocking signals in the receive path includes a low noise amplifier for receiving and amplifying an inbound RF signal to produce an amplified inbound signal, in which the inbound RF signal includes a modulated RF signal and a bl... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8093990 | Far field RFID reader with blocking A far field radio frequency identification (RFID) reader includes a baseband processing module, a transmitter section, and a receiver section. The receiver section includes a low noise amplifier module, a down conversion module, and a current mode blocking circuit. ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8093952 | Method and system for precise current matching in deep sub-micron technology Aspects of a method and system for precise current matching in deep sub-micron technology may include adjusting a current mirror to compensate for MOSFET gate leakage currents by using feedback circuits. The feedback circuits may be implemented from active component... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8091013 | Multi-code LDPC (low density parity check) decoder Multi-code LDPC (Low Density Parity Check) decoder. Multiple LDPC coded signals can be decoded using hardware provisioned for a minimum requirement needed to decode each of the multiple LDPC coded signals. In embodiments where each LDPC matrix (e.g., employed to dec... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8091011 | Method and system for dynamically adjusting forward error correction (FEC) rate to adapt for time varying network impairments in video streaming applications over IP networks Certain aspects of a method and system for dynamically adjusting forward error correction (FEC) rate to adapt for time varying network impairments in video streaming applications over IP networks may be disclosed. At a server side of a client-server communication sy... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8091009 | Symbol by symbol map detection for signals corrupted by colored and/or signal dependent noise Symbol by symbol MAP detection for signals corrupted by colored and/or signal dependent noise. A novel means is presented for recursive calculation of forward metrics (α), backward metrics (β), and corresponding soft information (e.g., which can be provided as LLR... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090890 | Dockable handheld computing device with video application and methods for use therewith A handheld computing device includes a video camera for generating a local video signal. A handheld memory stores at least one handheld application that includes a video application. A handheld processing module, coupled to the handheld memory, executes the video ap... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090879 | Multiband communication device with graphical connection interface and methods for use therewith A communication device includes an RF transceiver for communicating first data with a first remote communication device via a first protocol and a first frequency band in a first mode of operation. A millimeter wave transceiver communicates second data with a second... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090864 | Media exchange network supporting varying media guide based on viewing filters Systems having a user interface comprising a filtered view of media available for consumption are disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention may provide a first user with a view that enables consumption of only the available media that matches characteristics... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090790 | Method and system for splicing remote direct memory access (RDMA) transactions in an RDMA-aware system Aspects of a system for splicing RDMA transactions in an RDMA system may include a main processor within a main server that may receive read requests from a client device. The main processor may translate a data reference contained in each read request to generate a... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090536 | Method and apparatus for compression of long term orbit data A method and apparatus for processing long term orbit data that is valid for an extended period of time into the future (i.e., long term orbit data). The long term orbit data is processed by reducing redundant information from the data to form compressed long term o... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090412 | Multi-sector base station and shared processing information A communication system is described in which a receiver allocated to a sector of a communication network receives signals via all antennas of the network regardless of the sector allocation of the antenna. The system includes multiple antennas configured to form num... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090404 | Methods of recording voice signals in a mobile set The present invention relates to a mobile set integrating a memory efficient data storage system for the real time recording of voice conversations, data transmission and the like. The data recorder has the capacity to selectively choose the most relevant time frame... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090328 | Voice, data and RF integrated circuit with off-chip power amplifier and methods for use therewith An RFIC includes an RF transmitter, that generates an RF signal to a power amplifier module that operates a selected one of a plurality of power amplifiers, based one or more control signals. A processing module generates the control signals based on a selected one ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090327 | Configurable baseband processing for receiver and transmitter and methods for use therewith A configurable transceiver includes an RF receiver section that generates at least one downconverted signal from a received RF signal. A receiver processing module processes at least one downconverted signal in a plurality of receiver stages to produce a stream of i... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090315 | Method and system for frequency control in a frequency shifting repeater Aspects of a method and system for frequency control in a frequency shifting repeater are provided. In this regard, a reference frequency may be divided to generate a first pair of local oscillator (LO) signals, the first pair of LO signals may be divided to generat... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8090314 | Method and system for communicating via a frequency shifting repeater Aspects of a method and system for communicating via a frequency shifting repeater are provided. In this regard, a signal having a first frequency may be received, the received signal may be quadrature down-converted by mixing it with a pair of phase-quadrature loca... | 01/03/2012 |
