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| 8145921 | Multi-regulator power supply chip with common control bus A system and method for implementing a common control bus in a multi-regulator power supply integrated circuit. The integrated circuit may, for example, comprise first and second power regulator modules that control at least one characteristic of respective power si... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145814 | Method and system for a configurable connnector for ethernet Aspects of a method and apparatus for a configurable connector for Ethernet are provided. In this regard, a configurable Ethernet connector residing in an Ethernet enabled communication device may couple the communication device to one or more twisted pairs and enab... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145739 | Method of analyzing non-preemptive DRAM transactions in real-time unified memory architectures Systems and methods are disclosed for non-preemptive DRAM transactions. More specifically, the present invention relates to improvements in non-preemptive DRAM transactions in real-time unified memory architectures. One embodiment of the present invention relates to... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145263 | Method and system for cellular network services and an intelligent integrated broadcast television downlink having intelligent service control with feedback In an RF communication system, aspects for cellular network and intelligent integrated broadcast television downlink with intelligent service control with feedback may comprise a mobile terminal (MT) generating a request for media comprising a specified quality of s... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145219 | Handoff of a multimedia call session using background network scanning A method and system supporting handoff of a multimedia call session using background network scanning is disclosed. A mobile multimedia handset may engage in the exchange of a multimedia information stream via a first wireless network, and may sniff a portion of rad... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145178 | Wireless terminal baseband processor high speed turbo decoding module A baseband processing module for use within a Radio Frequency (RF) transceiver includes a downlink/uplink interface, TX processing components, a processor, memory, RX processing components, and a turbo decoding module. The RX processing components receive a baseband... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145169 | Method and system for LNA adjustment to compensate for dynamic impedance matching Aspects of a method and system for LNA adjustment to compensate for dynamic impedance matching are provided. In this regard, an antenna matching network may be configured to maximize received signal strength for a determined frequency and an amplifier gain may be ad... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145161 | Receive configuration adaptation for wireless transceivers An integrated circuit radio transceiver and method therefor is operable to determine an antenna configuration for receive operations. More specifically, the system is operable to determine a receive antenna configuration in a network that includes a number of spatia... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145156 | Configuration controller for receiver and transmitter A configuration controller generates one or more control signals based on channel data. A receiver includes an RF receiver section and a receiver processing module that are configured in response to the control signal. A transmitter includes an RF transmitter sectio... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145146 | RF transmitter front-end and applications thereof A radio frequency (RF) transmitter front-end includes a digital to analog conversion module and a power amplifier module. The digital to analog conversion module is coupled to convert amplitude information into analog amplitude adjust signals when a first mode is ac... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145142 | Method and system for increased resolution switching using MEMS and switched capacitors Certain aspects of a method and system for increased resolution switching using MEMS and switched capacitors may include a mobile terminal that includes an integrated circuit bonded to a multi-layer package. A capacitance of a first switched capacitor array in the m... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145140 | Method and system for clocking FM transmit, FM receive, and near field communication functions using DDFS Methods and systems for clocking FM transmit, FM receive and near field communication functions using DDFS are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include generating a Bluetooth signal that may comprise, for example, I and Q components, or Bluetooth local oscillato... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144798 | Long training sequence for MIMO WLAN systems A method for configuring a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication begins by generating a plurality of preambles for a plurality of transmit antennas. Each of the plurality of preambles includes a carrier detection sequence at a legacy transmit ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144794 | Efficient optimal ML detector An efficient optimal maximum-likelihood output detector reducing the complexity of demodulation/decoding computations in multiple-input multiple-output communication systems. A plurality of received signals may be combined into a plurality of combined received signa... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144781 | Video processing system for scrambling layered video streams and methods for use therewith A video processing system includes a video encoder that encodes a video stream into an independent video layer stream and a first dependent video layer stream that requires the independent video layer for decoding. A scrambling module scrambles the independent video... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144768 | Apparatus and method for conserving memory in a fine granularity scalability coding system Decoding time stamps (DTSs) and presentation time stamps (PTSs) are used in fine granularity scalability (FGS) coding during MPEG-4 video coding. An input video is encoded in an FGS encoder into a base layer bitstream and an enhancement bitstream. The bitstreams are... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144674 | Method and system for inter-PCB communications with wireline control Aspects of a method and system for inter-PCB communications with wireline control may include setting up a microwave communication link between a first PCB and a second PCB via a wireline communication bus. The initialization may comprise adjusting beamforming param... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144669 | System and method for best effort scheduling A system and method for increasing bandwidth usage between an access point and a wireless device are described. One embodiment can include an access point, a prioritizer, and a priority storage device. These components can increase bandwidth usage between an access ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144640 | Location tracking in a wireless communication system using power levels of packets received by repeaters A location tracking apparatus and method are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving information from each repeater indicating which packets wirelessly transmitted by a mobile station were received by each repeater including received signal stre... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144608 | Method and system for medium access control (MAC) rate selection Aspects of a method and system for medium access control (MAC) rate selection are presented. Aspects of the system may include at least one processor that enables selection of MAC layer parameter values and/or PHY layer parameter values, to maintain a rate of data t... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144413 | Reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processor based disk manager architecture for hard disk drive (HDD) controllers Reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processor based disk manager architecture for HDD (Hard Disk Drive) controllers. Disk manager operations of a HDD are off-loaded from a main processor to a dedicated RISC processor. The main processor is operable to provide hi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144260 | System and apparatus for receiving digital television signals Apparatus and methods to receive and display digital television signals are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus to receive digital television signals comprises an antenna assembly coupled to the signal processing circuitry and comprising a first antenna posit... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143965 | Enhanced polar modulator for transmitter Enhanced polar modulator for transmitter. Within a phase locked loop (PLL), a two point modulation topology is employed in which phase information passes through a limiter (e.g., a ±90° or ±π/2) in which the phase information dynamic range is divide by a factor ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8143960 | Voltage controlled oscillator with multi-tap inductor According to one exemplary embodiment, a voltage controlled oscillator configured to operate in low and high band modes includes a low band section and a high band section. The voltage controlled oscillator further includes a multi-tap inductor having a high inducta... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140818 | Method and system for scalable video data width Processing data samples may comprise partitioning the data samples in a first set of data bits and a second set of data bits and utilizing at least some of the first and second set of data bits while operating under a first condition. Only at least some of the first... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140657 | Method and system to connect multiple SCSI initiators to a fibre channel fabric topology using a single N-PORT A method and system for connecting multiple initiators to a storage area network (SAN) via a Fiber channel fabric using a single N_port fiber channel switch. The multiple initiators are associated with a common domain identification (DID), each initiator having a un... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140127 | System and method for controlling notification characteristics of a mobile communication device A system and method for controlling user notification characteristics of a mobile communication device. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise transmitting a wireless signal from a wireless transmitter. Such a wireless signal may, for example, compris... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8140113 | High frequency signal combining An integrated circuit transmission system includes a dielectric substrate wave guide and first and second substrate antennas. A substrate transmitter is operable to produce an radio frequency (RF) signal, the RF signal having first and second components. A micro-str... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139749 | Hierarchical data collection network supporting packetized voice communications among wireless terminals and telephones A packet-based, hierarchical communication system, arranged in a spanning tree configuration, is described in which wired and wireless communication networks exhibiting substantially different characteristics are employed in an overall scheme to link portable or mob... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139667 | Method and apparatus for estimating frequency offset and timing offset of one or more mobile stations A method and apparatus for estimating frequency offset and timing offset of a first Mobile Station (MS) in a communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a composite signal at a plurality of receiver antennas of a Base Transceiver Station (BTS). T... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139659 | Multiple transmit antenna interleaver design An arrangement of interleavers allocates bits from an input symbol across sub-symbols transmitted via sub-carriers of multiple orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) carriers. The input bits are allocated in a fashion to provide separation across subcarriers... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8139608 | Method and apparatus optimizing a radio link Optimizing a radio link is done by acquiring at least OSI layer one and two performance measurements, determining an optimum setting collection for at least OSI layer three to a top layer, then configuring at least the OSI layer three to the top layer based upon the... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138839 | Wideband CMOS gain stage A CMOS gain stage includes biasing circuitry configured to insure saturation of a subsequent stage without a source follower circuit. The CMOS gain stage is optionally powered by a supply voltage that is greater than a permitted supply voltage for a processes techno... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138623 | Integrated circuit with supply line intra-chip clock interface and methods for use therewith An integrated circuit includes a first circuit and a first power supply line for powering the first circuit. A first intra-chip clock interface generates a first clock signal on the first power supply line. A second power supply line is coupled to the first power su... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138608 | Integrated circuit package substrate having configurable bond pads Methods, systems, and apparatuses for integrated circuit package substrates, integrated circuit packages, and processes for assembling the same, are provided. A substrate for a flip chip integrated circuit package includes a substrate body having opposing first and ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8136162 | Intelligent network interface controller A network interface device includes a security database and a security services engine. The security database is configured to store patterns corresponding to predetermined malware. The security services engine is configured to compare data to be transmitted through... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8136013 | Burst error correction based on fire code According to an example embodiment, an apparatus may include logic. The apparatus may be configured to: determine, based on an error location polynomial, an error location syndrome corresponding to an actual location of a burst error in a data block; select a burst ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135806 | Virtual system configuration A method, system and apparatus for decoupling devices in a network for use by a system-wide application. The invention includes accumulating configuration information for the network, wherein the network includes a plurality of units, and each of the units includes ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135430 | Method and system for WCDMA power amplifier closed loop power control Methods and systems for WCDMA power amplifier closed loop power control are disclosed and may include determining a magnitude of an output RF signal generated by a power amplifier (PA), and configuring a gain of a PGA coupled to an input of the PA via closed-loop fe... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8135367 | Method and system for on-demand linearity in a receiver Aspects of a method and system for on-demand linearity in a receiver are provided. In this regard, in a receiver such as on-chip receiver, a strength of a signal received by one or more antennas may be measured and linearity of the receiver may be controlled in resp... | 03/13/2012 |
