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| 8045935 | High data rate transmitter and receiver A high-speed transmitter and receiver are provided. In one embodiment, a transmitter comprises a baseband processor structured to receive data and to convert the data into a multiplicity of high and low signal values, with each high and low signal value having a fir... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8031690 | Ultra wide band communication network An ultra wide band communication network is provided. One embodiment ultra wide band network includes a master device and a plurality of slave devices structured to communicate with the master device using a plurality of ultra wide band pulses. The ultra wide band n... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7929596 | Ultra-wideband communication apparatus and methods Apparatus and methods of ultra-wideband (UWB) communication are provided. In one embodiment, an ultra-wideband receiver receives a serial data stream comprising a plurality of ultra-wideband pulses. A serial to parallel converter then converts the serial data stream... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7486742 | Optimization of ultra-wideband communication through a wire medium Apparatus and methods to optimize ultra-wideband communication through wire and cable media are provided. One apparatus comprises an ultra-wideband transmitter structured to transmit a training set of ultra-wideband pulses through the wire medium. An ultra-wideband ... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7483483 | Ultra-wideband communication apparatus and methods Apparatus and methods of ultra-wideband communication are provided. In one embodiment, a communication frame is generated and includes a synchronization section, and at least two data sections and at least two preamble sections. An ultra-wideband receiver synchroniz... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7480324 | Ultra wide band communication systems and methods Ultra wide band communication systems and methods are provided. In one embodiment, an ultra wide band communication system includes a first and a second communication device. A lowest common ultra wide band pulse repetition frequency is determined, and data is trans... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7450637 | Ultra-wideband communication apparatus and methods Apparatus and methods of ultra-wideband communication are provided. In one embodiment, an ultra-wideband receiver comprises an envelope detector that detects the amplitude of a received ultra-wideband pulse and generates a waveform representative of the envelope of ... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7406647 | Systems and methods for forward error correction in a wireless communication network A forward error correction encoder encodes input data words into code words that comprise a parity matrix. In one aspect, the encoder is optimized based on the properties of the parity matrix in order to reduce routing overhead size. ... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403576 | Systems and methods for receiving data in a wireless communication network A method of communicating over a wideband communication channel divided into a plurality of sub-channels comprises dividing a single serial message intended for one of the plurality of communication devices into a plurality of parallel messages, encoding each of the... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7397867 | Mapping radio-frequency spectrum in a communication system Methods and systems for analyzing or mapping portions of the radio frequency spectrum are provided. In one embodiment of the invention, a communication method is provided, with a first step of the method including receiving an electromagnetic energy from a portion o... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7391815 | Systems and methods to recover bandwidth in a communication system Systems and methods of ultra-wideband communication are provided. In one ultra-wideband communication system, a portion of a plurality of non-overlapping communication sub-channels are assigned to a first ultra-wideband communication device by a base station. Commun... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7358901 | Antenna system and apparatus An antenna design is provided. In one embodiment, the antenna is a planar element with a radiating element containing an elliptical curved portion connected to two curved regions, the curved regions meeting at a geometric construct. Another embodiment provides an an... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353436 | Synchronization code methods A system, method and computer software product are provided. One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for generating and employing numerical sequences that may be used for synchronization codes. In one embodiment of the present invention, the deriva... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349485 | Mapping radio-frequency noise in an ultra-wideband communication system A system and method for mapping, radio-frequency (RF) noise, and estimating channel quality in a multi-channel ultra-wideband communication system is provided. One method includes placing a plurality of time bins within a plurality of time frames and assigning a plu... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349439 | Ultra-wideband communication systems and methods Systems and methods of ultra-wideband communication are provided. In one ultra-wideband communication method, a communication channel is divided into a plurality of non-overlapping sub-channels by dividing a single serial message intended for an ultra-wideband commu... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349478 | Ultra-wideband communication apparatus and methods Apparatus and methods of ultra-wideband (UWB) communication are provided. In one embodiment, an ultra-wideband transmitter includes a processor configured to generate data for transmission in the form of a plurality of ultra-wideband pulses. The transmitter includes... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339955 | TDMA communication method and apparatus using cyclic spreading codes Systems and methods of ultra-wideband communication are provided. In one embodiment, an ultra-wideband communication system divides a stream of data conveying symbols into a plurality of unspread substreams. A common spreading code is generated at the ultra-wideband... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339883 | Ultra-wideband communication protocol A communication protocol for ultra-wideband communications is provided. The present invention provides compatibility and interoperability between ultra-wideband communications devices within various types of networks. In one embodiment, combined, or interleaved data... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7317756 | Ultra-wideband communication apparatus and methods Apparatus and methods of ultra-wideband (UWB) communication are provided. In one embodiment, an ultra-wideband receiver receives a serial data stream comprising a plurality of ultra-wideband pulses. A serial to parallel converter then converts the serial data stream... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7299042 | Common signaling method and apparatus A common signaling method are apparatus are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that enables communication in under-utilized radio frequencies by receiving a master beacon, scanning radio frequencies included in the master beacon, and establishing comm... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7289494 | Systems and methods for wireless communication over a wide bandwidth channel using a plurality of sub-channels A method of communicating over a wideband communication channel divided into a plurality of sub-channels comprises dividing a single serial message intended for one of the plurality of communication devices into a plurality of parallel messages, encoding each of the... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7099368 | Ultra-wideband communication through a wire medium Methods and apparatus for creating, transmitting and receiving ultra-wideband pulses through wire media are presented. One embodiment of the present invention transmits ultra-wideband pulses that occupy radio frequencies that are not used by other electromagnetic si... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7088795 | Ultra wide band base band receiver The present invention is a receiver having a radio frequency (RF) front end, a pulse detector operatively coupled to the RF front end, and a data recovery unit operatively coupled to the pulse detector. The data recovery unit is configured to receive spread spectrum... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7046618 | Bridged ultra-wideband communication method and apparatus Systems, apparatus and methods are provided for bridging data to and from different communication physical layers and protocols. The present invention comprises a communication system structured to “bridge” between conventional, narrowband carrier wave communica... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7042417 | Ultra-wideband antenna array An ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna array is provided. One embodiment of the present invention employs a multi-element antenna for UWB beam forming and also for time-of-arrival vector processing to resolve multi-path problems in an UWB communication system. Another embo... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7035246 | Maintaining a global time reference among a group of networked devices Synchronization is maintained among a plurality of network devices having local clocks that participate in a network. A first packet is broadcast from a first network device to other network devices that participate in the network. The first packet includes a global... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031294 | Baseband wireless network for isochronous communication A wireless communication network system apparatus which provides for isochronous data transfer between node devices of the network, which provides at least one master node device which manages the data transmission between the other node devices of the network, whic... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027483 | Ultra-wideband communication through local power lines A system, method and apparatus structured to transmit a plurality of ultra-wideband pulses through an electric power medium is provided. One embodiment of the method comprises an ultra-wideband transmitter structured to transmit the plurality of ultra-wideband pulse... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7023833 | Baseband wireless network for isochronous communication A wireless communication network system apparatus which provides for isochronous data transfer between node devices of the network, which provides at least one master node device which manages the data transmission between the other node devices of the network, whic... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6996075 | Pre-testing and certification of multiple access codes A system, method and article of manufacture are provided for managing the transmission suitability of a channel in a multi access scheme. In general, information relating to noise associated with a channel is obtained. A potential effect of the noise on a transmissi... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6980613 | Ultra-wideband correlating receiver A receiver for ultra-wideband communications is provided. One feature of the receiver architecture is that includes only a single correlator. The receiver may be used in wireless and wire communication mediums. The single correlator may be used to update a locally g... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6970448 | Wireless TDMA system and method for network communications The present invention describes a network communication system which includes a first slave transceiver configured to communicate a plurality of TDMA data packets at different data rates to a second slave transceiver. The second slave transceiver is also configured ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6952456 | Ultra wide band transmitter A transmitter system is provided. In one embodiment, the transmitter system includes a data modulation unit, which generates a stream of data that is synchronized with a master clock. The transmitter system additionally includes a transmitter that transmits the stre... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6947492 | Encoding and decoding ultra-wideband information A system and a method for encoding and decoding ultra-wideband information are provided. An ultra-wideband transmission is encoded by positioning bipolar pulse pairs. The bipolar pulse pairs assist in detecting errors in the ultra-wideband transmission, before the e... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6944148 | Apparatus and method for managing variable-sized data slots within a time division multiple access frame A reliable Medium Access Control layer protocol and method employing centralized management of communication in a Time Division Multiple Access network architecture. The Medium Access Control layer protocol implements Quality of Service guaranties to the layers of t... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6937674 | Mapping radio-frequency noise in an ultra-wideband communication system A system and method for mapping radio-frequency (RF) noise, and estimating channel quality in a multi-channel ultra-wideband communication system is provided. One method includes placing a plurality of time bins within a plurality of time frames and assigning a plur... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6919838 | Ultra-wideband imaging system The present invention comprises a scanner or imager that employs a plurality of ultra-wideband (UWB) transmitters that emit a multiplicity of UWB pulses, which are received by a plurality of receivers. An object or person positioned between the UWB transmitters and ... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6907244 | Hand-off between ultra-wideband cell sites Briefly, the present invention provides a dynamic channel re-assignment capability between mobile units, base stations and sectors within base station coverage areas. The wireless devices used in the present invention may include impulse radio communication devices ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6895034 | Ultra-wideband pulse generation system and method A system and method to generate an ultra-wideband pulse is provided. One method of the present invention includes generating an ultra-wideband pulse that includes a first section representing a first data symbol, and a second section representing a second data symbo... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6836223 | Ultra-wideband pulse modulation system and method An ultra-wideband pulse modulation apparatus, system and method is provided. The pulse modulation method increases the available bandwidth in an ultra-wideband, or impulse radio communications system. A set of different pulse transmission, or emission rates are empl... | 12/28/2004 |
