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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7974807 | Adaptive calibration for digital phase-locked loops Techniques for adaptively calibrating a TDC output signal in a digital phase-locked loop (DPLL). In an exemplary embodiment, a calibration factor multiplied to the TDC output signal is adaptively adjusted to minimize a magnitude function of a phase comparator output... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974643 | Reducing mobile-terminated call set up by identifying and mitigating overlap between paging and system information broadcast In a Universal Mobile Telecommunications (UMTS) system, a mobile device reads scheduling information for uplink interference (SIB7) from a Master Information Block, broadcasted on the Broadcast Channel (BCCH). The UE wakes up from the sleep during its periodic pagin... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974639 | Method and apparatus for performing position determination with a short circuit call flow For a call flow to perform position determination, a network sends to a user equipment (UE) an indication (e.g., a request for permission) to perform a position fix for the UE. The UE responds by sending to the network an acknowledgment (e.g., a grant of permission)... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974580 | Apparatus and method for modulating an amplitude, phase or both of a periodic signal on a per cycle basis An apparatus for wireless communications is disclosed including a signal generator adapted to generate a substantially periodic signal including a plurality of cycles, and a modulator adapted to modulate an amplitude, a phase or both the amplitude and the phase of t... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974573 | Repeater open loop gain measurement A repeater is configured so as to detect feedback oscillation conditions by detecting a gain parameter, and responding to the detected gain parameter by reducing the gain when the loop gain approaches unity. When used in a framed shared channel wireless communicatio... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974362 | Method and apparatus for generating a permutation for reverse link hopping in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for generating a permutation for reverse link hopping is provided, comprising initializing permutation constants, determining a value for p such that i | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974360 | Multi input multi output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) communication system An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to process signals in a communication system. In one embodiment, a plurality of signal processing units processes signals received from a plurality of antennae. The signal processor units are controlled by operat... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974359 | Methods and apparatus for mitigating multi-antenna correlation effect in communication systems The disclosed embodiments provide for methods and systems for transmitting a number of streams of modulation symbols by a multi-antenna transmitter. In one aspect, a method for transmitting a number of streams of modulation symbols by a multi-antenna transmitter inc... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974355 | Method and apparatus for generating a permutation for forwarding link hopping in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for generating a permutation for forward link hopping is provided, comprising initializing permutation constants, determining a value for p such that i is less than 2p wherein i is a first counter, initializing a second counter j to... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974317 | Systems and methods for controlling the voltage of signals used to control power amplifiers A method for controlling the voltage of signals used to control power amplifiers is described. A first multiplexer and a second multiplexer are set to an enabling signal. The first multiplexer is on a first integrated circuit and the second multiplexer is on a secon... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974261 | Basestation methods and apparatus for supporting timing synchronization A wireless terminal using OFDM signaling supporting both terrestrial and satellite base station connectivity operates using conventional access probe signaling in a first mode of operation to establish a timing synchronized wireless link with a terrestrial base stat... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974253 | Methods and apparatus for implementing and using a rate indicator A base station selects and assigns uplink segments to specific wireless terminals. The base station estimates potential system interference levels, selects, assigns, and transmits a maximum uplink rate indicator value to a wireless terminal indicating the maximum up... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7974193 | Methods and systems for resizing multimedia content based on quality and rate information In general, this disclosure describes techniques for exchanging information between a plurality of encoder modules and a multiplex module to combine segments of data from the encoder modules with an improved overall quality. In particular, the encoder modules associ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973797 | Programmable blending in a graphics processing unit Techniques for implementing blending equations for various blending modes with a base set of operations are described. Each blending equation may be decomposed into a sequence of operations. In one design, a device includes a processing unit that implements a set of... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973733 | Electromagnetically coupled end-fed elliptical dipole for ultra-wide band systems An antenna that includes a first plane, a second plane spaced apart from the first plane, a first radiating surface, positioned substantially on the first plane, to act as a poise, a second radiating surface to act as a counterpoise, and an end-feed microstrip posit... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973612 | Supply-regulated phase-locked loop (PLL) and method of using A supply-regulated Phase-locked loop (PLL) is provided. The PLL comprises a supply-regulating loop, a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO), and a programmable decoupling capacitor array for the VCO. The capacitance of the VCO decoupling capacitor array is adjustable ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7973541 | Method and apparatus for estimating resistance and capacitance of metal interconnects Techniques for estimating resistance and capacitance of metal interconnects are described. An apparatus may include an interconnect, a set of pads, a set of isolation circuits, and a test circuit. The set of pads may be coupled to the interconnect and used for simul... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7969242 | Switching power amplifier for quantized signals An apparatus and method for communications are disclosed. The apparatus may include an a quantizer having three levels, and a switching power amplifier configured to drive a load having first and second terminals, wherein the switching power amplifier is further con... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7965688 | Signal splitting method for limiting peak power in a CDMA system The invention is a method for limiting the peak transmit power in a CDMA communication system. At least one of first and second high transmit power regions are separated into a plurality of high transmit power subregions. The high transmit power subregions of the pl... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965631 | Methods and systems for load-adaptive backoff for WiMAX ranging Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide an adaptive technique to determine size of a ranging back-off window according to a load of ranging channel. By applying an adaptive increase of the back-off window size, a probability of collision between rangin... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965624 | Data link fault tolerance A method is provided for automatically generating code to define and control a system of connected hardware elements. The method comprises: accepting a system configuration macro with sub-macros for system elements, subsystem elements, and connections there between;... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965230 | Satellite time determination for SPS receiver Methods and apparatus for improving position location performance, especially in weak coverage areas, are described herein. A SPS receiver is able to solve for position location in situations where at least two satellite signals can be received but only one time sta... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965111 | Method and apparatus for divider unit synchronization A method an apparatus for synchronizing phases of one or more divider units comprise powering on a master divider unit to provide a reference signal. A phase of a slave divider unit is synchronized to the reference signal from the master divider unit by providing a ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7962731 | Backing store buffer for the register save engine of a stacked register file A Backing Store Buffer is interposed between a Physical Register File and the Backing Store in a stacked register file architecture. A Register Save Engine temporarily stores data from registers in the Physical Register File allocated to inactive procedures on-chip,... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962681 | System and method of conditional control of latch circuit devices A circuit device includes a first input to receive a reset control signal and a second input coupled to an output of a latch. The circuit device also includes a logic circuit adapted to conditionally reset the latch based on a state of the output in response to rece... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962182 | Method and apparatus for content delivery to devices A technique for adjusting or modifying content delivery to devices is provided, thereby offering a degree of power consumption control in such devices. The device can determine a need to modify power consumption, either in response to an input or via detection of an... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962142 | Methods and apparatus for the utilization of core based nodes for state transfer Methods and apparatus for storing, manipulating, retrieving, and forwarding state, e.g., context and other information, used to support communications sessions with one or more end nodes, e.g., mobile devices, are described. Various features are directed to a mobile... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7962135 | Method and apparatus for efficient selection and acquisition of a wireless communications system A mobile station is adapted to avoid unusable wireless communications systems during system acquisition. The mobile station includes processing circuitry and a memory storing a preferred roaming list and system avoidance data. The system avoidance data identifies un... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961804 | Channel tracking with scattered pilots According to the disclosure, a system adapted to estimate and track a channel for wireless orthogonal frequency division modulation (OFDM) communication is disclosed. The system utilizes scattered pilot symbols being subject to channel conditions and estimates the c... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961708 | Coding methods of communicating identifiers in peer discovery in a peer-to-peer network Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate identifying peers based upon encoded signals during peer discovery in a peer to peer network. For example, direct signaling that partitions a time-frequency resource into a number of segments can be utilized to... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961698 | Methods and apparatus for controlling interference to broadcast signaling in a peer to peer network Methods and apparatus related to broadcasting data and interference management in a peer to peer wireless communications network are described. Scheduling of traffic air link resources is performed on a slot by slot basis in a decentralized manner. Wireless devices ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961682 | Handoff between base stations of different protocol revisions in a CDMA system Techniques for supporting handoff of a terminal between base stations of different protocol revisions (P_REVs) in a CDMA system. The terminal is handed off from a first base station (with a first P_REV) to a second base station (with a second P_REV) while it is in a... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961640 | Method and apparatus for codebook exchange in a multiple access wireless communication system Methods and apparatus are disclosed for generating and exchanging codebooks in a multiple access wireless communication system. The codebooks include a plurality of preferred precoding matrices. ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961609 | Packet aware scheduler in wireless communication systems Apparatuses and methodologies are described that facilitate packet aware scheduling are provided. In some embodiments, if all of the information of a packet cannot be scheduled in a single transmission period, additional resources may be assigned to transmission of ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961502 | Non-volatile state retention latch Electronic circuits use latches including a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure and logic circuitry arranged to produce a selective state in the MTJ structure. Because the selective state is maintained magnetically, the state of the latch or electronic circuit ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7961499 | Low leakage high performance static random access memory cell using dual-technology transistors A memory cell includes a storage element, a write circuit coupled to the storage element and a read circuit coupled to the storage element. At least a portion of the storage element and at least a portion of the write circuit are fabricated using a thicker functiona... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958252 | System for scalable transmission of content in a data network System for scalable transmission of content in a data network. A method is provided for transmitting a plurality of content clips. The method includes determining QoS factors for the content clips, and grouping the content clips into groups based on the determined Q... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957757 | Open loop power offset update Provided is an feedback mechanism to correct power control information in a broadcast signal that is determined to be incorrect by one or more devices that receive and rely on the broadcast information. A device that receives the incorrect broadcast information can ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957352 | Inter-system handoff between wireless communication networks of different radio access technologies Various schemes for performing inter-system handoff, e.g., from a UTRAN to a cdma2000 radio access network (RAN) are described. For a MAHHO scheme, the UTRAN uses measurements obtained by a multi-RAT device to determine suitable cdma2000 cell(s) for handover. The me... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7957351 | Method and apparatus for management of multi-carrier communications in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus manages resources in a wireless communication system by transmitting a multi-carrier switch command message to an access terminal instructing the access terminal to switch between a diversity mode where each antenna module of a plurality anten... | 06/07/2011 |
