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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110047436 | Turbo decoder employing ARP (almost regular permutation) interleave and arbitrary number of decoding processors Turbo decoder employing ARP (almost regular permutation) interleave and arbitrary number of decoding processors. A novel approach is presented herein by which an arbitrarily selected number (M) of decoding processors (e.g., a plurality of parallel implemented turbo deco... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110044395 | MIXED MODE PREAMBLE FOR MIMO WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS A preamble of a frame for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication for a first transmit antenna of the MIMO communication includes a legacy preamble portion in accordance with a legacy wireless communication protocol. The preamble of the frame for ... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110040893 | Distributed Internet caching via multiple node caching management Distributed Internet caching via multiple node caching management. Caching decisions and management are performed based on information corresponding to more than one caching node device (sometimes referred to as a distributed caching node device, distributed Internet ca... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110039505 | INTEGRATED MULTIMODE RADIO TRANSMITTER AND COMPONENTS THEREOF An integrated multi-mode radio transmitter includes a multiplexor and a shared front-end. The is operable to select an IF signal of a plurality of IF signals based upon a selection signal that is indicative of a particular operational mode of the one of the plurality of... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110038496 | HEARING ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM AND COMPONENTS THEREOF A circuit includes a microphone circuit, an audio processing module, a digital audio processing module, and an active noise reduction (ANR) circuit. The microphone circuit receives acoustic vibrations and generates an audio signal therefrom. The audio processing module ... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110034180 | POSITION DETERMINATION USING RECEIVED BROADCAST SIGNALS A radio device that is capable of positioning itself within a broadcast radio system includes a receiver operable to receive a plurality of broadcast radio signals, each broadcast from a respective one of a plurality of broadcast radio signal sources. The radio device f... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110034133 | PROGRAMMABLE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE A wireless communication device includes a processing module, a receiver section, a transmitter section, and an antenna system. The processing module is operable to generate tuning information and configuration information of a given wireless communication protocol. The... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110032875 | Distributed signal field for communications within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications Distributed signal field for communications within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. In accordance with wireless communications, a signal (SIG) field employed within such packets is distributed or partitioned into at least two separate... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110029334 | METHOD FOR FACILITATING PERSONALIZED OR CUSTOMIZED TASKS BASED ON IMAGES CAPTURED VIA A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE Methods are presented for use with a wireless communication device. A digital image of an event venue is captured via a wireless communication device. The digital image of the event venue is displayed to the user. The wireless communication device interacts with the use... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110028182 | MULTIMODE WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE A multimode wireless communication device includes a first radio section operably to convert outbound analog baseband signals into first outbound RF signals and to convert first inbound RF signals into inbound analog baseband signals when the wireless communication devi... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110028103 | IC WITH A CONFIGURABLE ANTENNA STRUCTURE An integrated circuit (IC) includes a plurality of antenna elements, a coupling circuit, a control module, and an RF transceiver. The plurality of antenna elements is operable in a frequency range of approximately 55 GHz to 64 GHz. The coupling circuit is operable to co... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026576 | Adaptive interference cancellation algorithm using speech mode dependent thresholds Adaptive interference cancellation algorithm using speech mode dependent thresholds. A method of processing radio frequency (RF) bursts dependent on a speech mode associated with data contained within the RF burst is presented. Different voice modes, full rate, half rat... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026565 | FREQUENCY HOPPING RF RECEPTION SYSTEM WITH PROGRAMMABLE ANTENNA AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH A (radio frequency) RF reception system includes an RF receiver that demodulates an RF signal at a sequence of selected carrier frequencies. A frequency hop module, coupled to the RF receiver generates the sequence of selected carrier frequencies. A programmable antenna... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110026402 | TCP ACKNOWLEDGE FOR AGGREGATED PACKET A method and apparatus according to one embodiment of the invention are operable to detect the accumulation of redundant ACKs (acknowledgment signals) in a queue for streaming data packet units, and to delete a portion of the redundant ACKs to improve transmission effic... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110025161 | AXIAL FLUX STATOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF An axial flux stator includes a plurality of magnetically permeable members, a plurality of windings, a back iron, and an encasing. The plurality of windings is associated with the plurality of magnetically permeable members to produce a plurality of winding-magneticall... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110025056 | ELECTRIC POWER GENERATING SYSTEM An electrical power generating system includes a spring system that stores stored energy, the spring system having an input for recharging the stored energy and an output for releasing the stored energy, wherein the spring system generates a monitor signal based on a st... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110023640 | MOTOR-GEARBOX ASSEMBLY A motor-gearbox assembly includes a housing, a motor, and a gearbox. The housing includes a first alignment mechanism and a second alignment mechanism. The first alignment mechanism is at a first end of the housing and the second alignment mechanism is at a second end o... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110022875 | Integrated Circuit with Interpolation to Avoid Harmonic Interference An integrated circuit (IC) includes a clock circuit, a processing module, and processing circuitry. The clock circuit is coupled to produce a digital clock signal. The processing module is coupled to determine whether a harmonic component of the digital clock signal hav... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110021246 | RFIC with cellular and RFID functionality An integrated circuit (IC) includes a baseband processing module and a radio frequency (RF) section. The baseband processing module is coupled to convert outbound data into amplitude modulation information and phase modulation information when the IC is in a cellular da... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110021244 | TETHERED ANTENNA HAVING SERVICED DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS INTERFACE An antenna system includes a wired communications interface, an antenna, and antenna system control circuitry. The wired communications interface is operable to couple to a serviced host device and includes a control interface and an antenna interface. The antenna coupl... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110021138 | MULTI-PATH TRANSCEIVER LAYOUT WITHIN A DEVICE A radio transceiver device includes circuitry for radiating electromagnetic signals at a very high radio frequency both through space, as well as through wave guides that are formed within a substrate material. In one embodiment, the substrate comprises a dielectric sub... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110019786 | PROCESSING RECEIVED DIGITAL DATA SIGNALS BASED ON A RECEIVED DIGITAL DATA FORMAT An integrated circuit radio receiver includes radio frequency (“RF”) front-end circuitry to receive a wireless signal and to produce digital data. The integrated circuit radio receiver includes a baseband processor is operable to process the digital data, in which t... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110018759 | COUPLED GPS PHONE AND NAVIGATION SYSTEM A navigation system includes a Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled wireless phone and a GPS navigation system. The GPS enabled wireless phone includes a GPS receiver, a communications interface, and processing circuitry coupled to the GPS receiver and to the communi... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110014943 | 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 rem... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110014888 | RF RECEPTION SYSTEM AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH PROGRAMMABLE FILTER AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH An integrated circuit includes an on-chip filter component that forms a programmable filter with the at least one off-chip filter component. An RF receiver generates inbound data in response to a received signal from the programmable filter.... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013887 | Command packets for personal video recorder Command packets for a personal video recorder that provides for a transport stream (TS) that contains data and also includes a transport packet (TP)/TS formatted command packets. The TP/TS formatted command packet may be communicated between any number of devices, inclu... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013677 | CONFIGURABLE TRANSCEIVER INTEGRATED CIRCUIT A configurable radio frequency (RF) transceiver integrated circuit (IC) includes an RF input/output (IO) module, a plurality of switching modules, and a plurality of components. The RF IO module and selected components of the plurality of components are inter-connected ... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013616 | Management frame map directed operational parameters within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications Management frame map directed operational parameters within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. A management frame map may be generated within and transmitted from a first wireless communication device to a number of other wireless commu... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110013533 | ADAPTIVE COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT TO ACCOMMODATE HIDDEN TERMINAL CONDITIONS A method for use in an access point includes managing communication, based on an associated set of communication parameters, between a first client wireless transceiver and the packet switched backbone network, and between a second client wireless transceiver and the pa... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20110007843 | LOW POWER FM TRANSMITTER An FM transmitter operates at low power by maintaining a substantially constant transmit voltage over the FM frequency band. A transmit signal strength indicator (TSSI) is provided at the output of the FM transmitter to measure the power at the output of the power ampli... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110002291 | Cooperative Transceiving Between Wireless Interface Devices of a Host Device with Shared Modules A circuit includes a first wireless interface circuit that transceives packetized data between a host module and a first external device in accordance with a first wireless communication protocol. A second wireless interface circuit transceives packetized data between t... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002242 | Sparse channel equalization Sparse channel equalization may be achieved by receiving a signal via a multi-path communication channel. The equalization then continues by extracting sparse information regarding the multiple path communication channel from the signal. Such sparse information generall... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20110002219 | GROUP IDENTIFICATION AND DEFINITION WITHIN MULTIPLE USER, MULTIPLE ACCESS, AND/OR MIMO WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS Group identification and definition within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. A group identification definition field may be transmitted to a number of receiving devices for use in interpreting current or subsequently received packets t... | 01/06/2011 |
| 20100328032 | SECURITY FOR COMPUTING UNIT WITH FEMTOCELL AP FUNCTIONALITY A computing unit includes a radio that communicates with at least one external station in a femtocell access point (AP) mode of operation. A processing module executes a plurality of applications including a femtocell application in the femtocell AP mode of operation an... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100325683 | Media broadcast emulator Media broadcast emulator. A media processing device is operative to create a live program type experience for a user. Various types of media are combined to emulate a live media broadcast. Different portions of various media types (e.g., real-time media, stored media, e... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100325545 | Replacing first sourced media with second sourced media based on first sourced media quality Replacing first sourced media with second sourced media based on first sourced media quality. A media processing device is operative to monitor the quality of first media and selectively to substitute second media in its place (in full or in part) based on a change in t... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100322222 | SHARED PROCESSING BETWEEN WIRELESS INTERFACE DEVICES OF A COMMUNICATION DEVICE An integrated circuit includes a first wireless interface circuit that transceives first packetized data with a first external device in accordance with a first wireless communication protocol, wherein the first wireless interface circuit includes a first processing mod... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100322219 | Management frame directed cluster assignment within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications Management frame directed cluster assignment within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. From a first wireless communication device, a management frame may be transmitted to a number of other wireless communication devices to assign respe... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100321304 | GRAPHICAL AUTHENTICATION FOR A PORTABLE DEVICE AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH A portable device includes a touch screen that includes a display screen and that generates touch screen data in response to a user's interaction with the touch screen. A processor executes a security application for authenticating the user to the portable device that p... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100317300 | MULTIPLE BAND DIRECT CONVERSION RADIO FREQUENCY TRANSCEIVER INTEGRATED CIRCUIT A multiple band direct conversion radio frequency (RF) transceiver integrated circuit (IC) includes a multiple band direct conversion transmitter section, a multiple band direct conversion receiver section, and a local oscillation module. The multiple band direct conver... | 12/16/2010 |
