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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8156413 | Convolutional encoding with partitioned parallel encoding operations Convolutional encoding throughput is increased by partitioning input information bits into a plurality of blocks that are convolutionally encoded in parallel. A plurality of convolutional encoding operations which have respective initial encode states that are mutua... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156390 | Pruned bit-reversal interleaver A pruned bit-reversal interleaver supports different packet sizes and variable code rates and provides good spreading and puncturing properties. To interleave data, a packet of input data of a first size is received. The packet is extended to a second size that is a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8156389 | Pruned bit-reversal interleaver A pruned bit-reversal interleaver supports different packet sizes and variable code rates and provides good spreading and puncturing properties. To interleave data, a packet of input data of a first size is received. The packet is extended to a second size that is a... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150345 | Simplified interference suppression in multi-antenna receivers A signal received via a plurality of antennas, and containing an interference component and a desired communication component, is processed to suppress the interference component. The interference component is suppressed based on an inverse of a spatial covariance m... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8150172 | Video coding mode selection using estimated coding costs A method and system for coding mode selection using estimated coding costs. To provide high compression efficiency, for example, an encoding device may attempt to select a coding mode for coding blocks of pixels that codes the data of the blocks with high efficiency... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149936 | Apparatus and methods for tile and assignment processing Disclosed are methods and apparatus for synchronizing tile processing and assignment processing in a communication device. In particular, the methods and apparatus utilize a tile processing scorecard with a number of assertable bits corresponding to a number of tile... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8139672 | Method and apparatus for pilot communication in a multi-antenna wireless communication system Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate improved pilot information to MIMO user devices without increasing interference of SISO user devices in a wireless communication environment. A data communication signal can be generated and transmitted at a fi... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135395 | Methods and apparatus for monitoring configurable performance levels in a wireless device Apparatus and methods may include a performance module operable to monitor and generate performance statistics on a wireless device based on a received monitoring configuration. In some aspects, the wireless device may forward the performance statistics to another d... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8127105 | Parallel pruned bit-reversal interleaver A parallel lookahead pruned bit-reversal interleaver algorithm and architecture have been proposed. The algorithm interleaves a packet of length N in at most log(N)−1 steps compared to N steps using existing sequential algorithms, and has a simple architecture ame... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126482 | Multiple paging channels for efficient region paging Systems and methods are described that mitigating coverage gaps near region boundaries using a plurality of multi-sector broadcast (MSBC) paging channels in wireless networking environments. One or more MSBC paging channels can be assigned unique time slots, such th... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8107517 | Average-tap energy based thresholding for channel estimation in multi antenna systems Techniques to facilitate estimating the frequency response of a wireless channel in an OFDM system are provided. The method and systems allow for combining signal information across multiple communication channels at one or more channel tap delays in order to determ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103266 | Apparatus and methods for managing battery performance of a wireless device Apparatus, methods, and programs that determine and manage battery performance characteristics of a wireless device. Embodiments include a wireless device having a computer platform with a processing engine operable to generate a plurality of battery performance dat... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102832 | Fast frequency hopping with a code division multiplexed pilot in an OFDMA system Techniques are provided to support fast frequency hopping with a code division multiplexed (CDM) pilot in a multi-carrier communication system (e.g., an OFDMA system). Each transmitter (e.g., each terminal) in the system transmits a wideband pilot on all subbands to... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102795 | Channel equalization with non-common midamble allocation in 3GPP TD-CDMA systems Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate implementing a linear adaptive equalizer receiver on the downlink link of a UMTS TDD wireless communication system. A reference signal can be generated based on multiple non-common midamble sequences in a time ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098711 | Methods and apparatus for flexible hopping in a multiple-access communication network Techniques for efficiently designing random hopping patterns in a communications system are disclosed. The disclosed embodiments provide for methods and systems for generating random hopping patterns, updating the patterns frequently, generating different patterns f... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098710 | Methods and apparatus for flexible hopping in a multiple-access communication network Techniques for efficiently designing random hopping patterns in a communications system are disclosed. The disclosed embodiments provide for methods and systems for generating random hopping patterns, updating the patterns frequently, generating different patterns f... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8077595 | Flexible time-frequency multiplexing structure for wireless communication Techniques for efficiently sending data in a wireless communication system are described. Code division multiplexing (CDM) or orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) may be selected for each traffic segment, which may correspond to specific time frequency ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8045512 | Scalable frequency band operation in wireless communication systems To support mobile stations that are not capable of demodulating the entire bandwidth or that can be made to demodulate less than the entire bandwidth, a system, apparatus and method are provided to schedule users on less than all of the bandwidth. Further, certain u... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040961 | Sample rearrangement for a communication system with cyclic extension Signal detectivity is improved by implementation of address adjustment to reorder samples and to discard undesired samples. Such reordering is utilized when the time order of received samples are distorted and/or corrupted, which can occur in at least three situatio... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8027399 | Pilot transmission and channel estimation for an OFDM system with excess delay spread Pilot transmission and channel estimation techniques for an OFDM system with excess delay spread are described. To mitigate the deleterious effects of excess delay spread, the number of pilot subbands is greater than the cyclic prefix length. This “oversampling”... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8019032 | Method and system for channel equalization One embodiment includes a method of receiving a transmitted signal. The method comprises receiving a signal transmitted over a channel. The signal comprises a known signal and an information signal. The method further includes determining at least one indicator of c... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7970976 | Remote memory access using reversible host/client interface Accessing memory on a first device from a second device is supported by reversible host/client interfacing between the devices. The reversible interfacing permits the first and second devices to be configured respectively as host and client, or respectively as clien... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970368 | Wired cellular telephone system Telephone apparatus, including a cable television (CATV) network interface, which is adapted to be connected to a CATV network so as to receive downstream cellular telephone communication signals transmitted at a downstream intermediate frequency (IF) via the CATV n... | 06/28/2011 |
| 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 |
| 7925253 | Radiated performance of a wireless device Systems, methods, apparatus, processors and computer-readable media include a radiated testing module that executes a predetermined radiated performance test on a wireless device. The test dictates various performance-related parameters to measure and log at each of... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7907593 | Staggered pilot transmission for channel estimation and time tracking To allow a receiving entity to derive a longer channel estimate while limiting overhead, a transmitting entity transmits a pilot on different groups of subbands in different time intervals. N subbands in the system are arranged into M non-overlapping groups. Each gr... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7903628 | Configurable pilots in a wireless communication system Techniques for transmitting configurable pilots in a wireless communication system are described. The placement of pilots is determined based on an assignment of resources for transmission. Different placements of pilots are used for different assignments of resourc... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899134 | Dynamic demodulator selection based on channel quality In general, this disclosure describes techniques for demodulating wireless signals. In particular, the techniques of this disclosure dynamically select between two or more demodulators based on channel quality information measured over a plurality of measurement per... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7898443 | Apparatus and methods using a linear memory model for encoder output buffers Apparatus and methods for using a linear memory model for encoder output buffering are disclosed. The apparatus and method effect linear memory output buffering by dividing an encoder operation having N sequential frames to be encoded by an encoder into N encoder op... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7890144 | Successive interference cancellation receiver processing with selection diversity Techniques are provided to support successive interference cancellation (SIC) receiver processing with selection diversity whereby each of NT transmit antennas may be turned on or off. One symbol stream may be transmitted from each transmit antenna. A SIC... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889755 | HSDPA system with reduced inter-user interference In a wireless network (100) with HSDPA-enabled user equipment devices (130), the base transceiver station (120) transmits to each HSDPA-enabled UE information regarding allocation of HSDPA codes and associated modulation techniques for other HSD... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7860149 | Methods and apparatus for flexible hopping in a multiple-access communication network Techniques for efficiently designing random hopping patterns in a communications system are disclosed. The disclosed embodiments provide for methods and systems for generating random hopping patterns, updating the patterns frequently, generating different patterns f... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7852744 | Method and apparatus for channel estimation in a wireless communication device The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus of channel estimation for a wireless communication system. A pilot signal energy is estimated based on received pilot symbols. An estimated traffic signal energy of the traffic signal symbols is estimated based ... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7839960 | System and method for generating signal waveforms in a CDMA cellular telephone system A system and method for communicating information signals using spread spectrum communication techniques. PN sequences are constructed that provide orthogonality between the users so that mutual interference will be reduced, allowing higher capacity and better link ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7800449 | Single-ended-to-differential converter with common-mode voltage control Provided is a circuit to perform single-ended to differential conversion while providing common-mode voltage control. The circuit includes a converter to convert a single-ended signal to a differential signal and a stabilizing circuit adapted to receive the differen... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7787820 | System and method for establishing a connection between wireless devices A system and method according to the present invention allow two or more peer-to-peer wireless devices to automatically connect to each other with no knowledge or pre-configuration of client/server roles. According to a first aspect of the present invention, a wirel... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7751371 | Method and apparatus for providing variable rate data in a communications system using non-orthogonal overflow channels A variable rate transmission system where a packet of variable rate data is transmitted on a traffic channel if the capacity of the traffic channel is greater than or equal to the data rate of the packet. When the rate of the packet of variable rate data exceeds the... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7734303 | Pilot modulation error ratio for evaluation of transmitter performance Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate monitoring transmitter performance in a wireless communication environment. A metric or metrics associated with one or more pilot symbols can be generated and used to evaluate performance. To generate pilot met... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7706463 | Methods and apparatus for decoding frame packet data in a communication system Methods and apparatus for decoding frame packet data in a communication system to reduce latency for decoding particular types of broadcast signals in a frame. In particular, decoding of a communication signal includes demodulating at least a particular type of enco... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7706324 | On-demand reverse-link pilot transmission Pilots are transmitted on demand on a reverse link and used for channel estimation and data transmission on a forward link. A base station selects at least one terminal for on-demand pilot transmission on the reverse link. Each selected terminal is a candidate for r... | 04/27/2010 |
