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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170481 | Techniques for discovering services provided in a wireless network An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for discovering services provided in a wireless network, comprising enabling devices equipped with radio interfaces to advertise the services it provides and discover services offered by other nearby devices w... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8165233 | Multi-element antenna beamforming in a wireless access network A communication node of a wireless local area network utilizes a multi-element array antenna to estimate an angle-of-arrival for one or more signal sources which may communicate on symbol-modulated orthogonal subcarriers. Channel coefficients may be estimated from t... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8152064 | System and method for adjusting a direction of fire A method for adjusting a direction of fire includes moving a view of at least one sensor between a target area and an impact area, where a sensor performs target location. Sensor data is received from the sensor. The sensor data includes target area sensor data gene... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149804 | Multi-transceiver wireless communication device and methods for operating during device discovery and connection establishment Embodiments of a multi-transceiver wireless communication device and methods for operating during device discovery and connection establishment are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the multi-transceiver wireless communication device includes a broadb... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149178 | Millimeter-wave communication system with directional antenna and one or more millimeter-wave reflectors Embodiments of millimeter-wave communication systems and methods for communicating using millimeter-waves are described. In some embodiments, a directional antenna (102) may direct millimeter-wave signals substantially in a horizontal plane (115), and ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144054 | Satellite receiver and method for navigation using merged satellite system signals Embodiments of a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver and method for navigation are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the GNSS receiver includes signal processing circuitry to systematically identify clear channels from channels with per... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8131306 | Wireless access network and method for allocating data subcarriers within a downlink subframe based on grouping of user stations Embodiments of a wireless access network and method for allocation time and frequency resources are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, a base station allocates contiguous groups of data subcarriers of a d... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126466 | System and method for relocating a foreign agent for an idle mode mobile station in a proxy mobile internet protocol enabled access service network Embodiments of a wireless access network and methods for relocating a foreign agent (FA) for an idle mode mobile station (MS) in a proxy mobile internet protocol (PMIP) enabled access service network (ASN) are described herein. In some embodiments, the relocation of... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8126077 | MIMO transmitter and methods for transmitting OFDM symbols with cyclic-delay diversity A multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) transmitter and methods for transmitting orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols with cyclic-delay diversity (CDD) are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a base station uses a number of antennas ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125941 | Wireless communication device and method for communicating voice over a wireless network using bidirectional multiple receiver aggregation Embodiments of a wireless communication device and a method for the communication of voice or video within a wireless network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, aggregated traffic is transmitted to mu... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8124921 | Methods and apparatus for guidance of ordnance delivery device A guidance system according to various aspects of the present invention operates in conjunction with a suite of different ordnance delivery devices. In one embodiment, the guidance system comprises an interface configured to attach to the ordnance delivery devices i... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8121562 | Transmitter and hybrid communication method for capacity optimization and outage minimization Embodiments of a system and method for communicating over a fading channel are generally described herein. A transmitter uses a water-filling technique at lower power levels when the channel is not experiencing fading and uses channel-inversion technique at higher p... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121023 | Coaxial network communication node and methods for communicating multimedia over a coaxial network with reduced-length cyclic prefixes A coaxial network communication node receives multimedia content with one or more other nodes in a coaxial network. The node determines a delay-spread of a coaxial channel based on receipt of a probe from a transmitting node and configures a channel-shortening time-... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8104719 | Digital interface unit (DIU) and method for controlling stages of a multi-stage missle A multi-stage missile with plural stages adapted to be physically coupled to and decoupled from adjacent stages and a processor disposed on a single stage for controlling each stage thereof. In the illustrative embodiment, the processor includes a field programmable... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098640 | Systems and methods for determining a predictable modulation and coding scheme Embodiments of a wireless communication system, device and method for determining a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for a control response packet in a wireless local area network based on the MCS of a received data frame are generally described herein. Other embo... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8086821 | Input-output memory management unit (IOMMU) and method for tracking memory pages during virtual-machine migration An input-output memory management unit (IOMMU) and method for tracking memory pages during virtual-machine migration are generally described herein. The IOMMU includes an IOMMU manager to service address translation requests associated with memory pages received fro... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085737 | Multi-transceiver mobile communication device and methods for negative scheduling A broadband wireless access network (BWAN) transceiver of a multi-transceiver mobile communication device may transmit a negative scheduling (NS) request frame that includes time-related QoS parameters to a BWAN base station to request one or more negative allocatio... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8064928 | System and method for providing location based services (LBS) to roaming subscribers in a wireless access network Embodiments of a wireless access network and method for providing a location based service (LBS) to a visiting mobile station are disclosed. In some embodiments, a location data request forwarded by a home location server (HLS) is received at a visited location serv... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8060754 | Cryptographic processing device and method for adapting to shared-cache attacks Embodiments of a cryptograph processing device and method for adapting to shared-cache attacks are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, the cryptographic processing device comprises first and second process... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059756 | High-speed serial link receiver with centrally controlled offset cancellation and method A high-speed serial link receiver includes variable offset comparators with centrally controlled offset cancellation. The receiver includes a comparator stage to receive a high-speed differential input signal. Comparator elements of the comparator stage have first a... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059695 | Spread carrier self correcting codes A transmitter, receiver and communication technique. The transmitter is adapted to interleave a first pseudo-noise sequence with a second pseudo-noise sequence to provide a third pseudo-noise sequence. The third sequence is transmitted and then received by the inven... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059622 | Multi-radio platform and method for coordinating activities between a broadband wireless access network transceiver and co-located transceiver Embodiments of a multi-radio platform (MRP) and method for coordinating activities between a broadband wireless access network (BWAN) transceiver and a co-located transceiver are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the BWAN transceiver includes a MRP co... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8056860 | Method and system for inflight refueling of unmanned aerial vehicles A system and method for refueling unmanned aerial vehicles. The system is adapted to refuel a first unmanned aerial vehicle from a second unmanned aerial vehicle and includes an arrangement for flying the first and second vehicles to proximity within a predetermined... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8054217 | Radar imaging system and method using gradient magnitude second moment spatial variance detection A detection system and method. The inventive system includes an arrangement for receiving a frame of image data; an arrangement for performing a rate of change of variance calculation with respect to at least one pixel in said frame of image data; and an arrangement... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8049148 | Missile airframe and structure comprising piezoelectric fibers and method for active structural response control Embodiments of a missile, an airframe and a structure comprising piezoelectric fibers and a method for active structural response control are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a housing structure includes a composite material containing a plurality of... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046024 | Multi-radio platform with WiMax and bluetooth radio modules and method Embodiments of a multi-radio platform with longer-range and shorter-range radio modules and method are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, a transmit power level is set for transmissions by a shorter-range... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045449 | OFDM receiver and methods for operating in high-throughput and increased range modes An OFDM receiver operates in a high-throughput mode or an increased-range mode. The receiver includes FFT circuitry to generate frequency domain symbol-modulated subcarriers for a set of OFDM subcarriers. During the increased-range mode, data is received on a single... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8044773 | Parallel RFID system using CDMA Various embodiments of the invention may use code division multiple access (CDMA) technology in communications from radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to RFID readers, so that multiple RFID tags may respond to the same RFID reader at the same time on the sam... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8036098 | Wireless network and method for adaptive opportunistic clustering for interference alignment in wireless networks Embodiments of a central scheduler and method for adaptive clustering are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a cluster of transmitter-receiver pairs is selected based on minimum singular values calculated from direct channel information and the selecte... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8033221 | System and method for sensing proximity A system for detecting proximity to a target object. The novel system includes a detector adapted to receive a reflected electromagnetic beam from the target and a processor adapted to determine a distance to the target by measuring an angle of the reflected beam. T... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8026840 | Biometric radar system and method for identifying persons and positional states of persons A biometric radar system and method for identifying a person's positional state are generally described herein. The biometric radar may phase adjust a sequence of radar return signals received through two or more receive antennas to remove at least some phase noise ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8019303 | Multi-antenna multicarrier receiver and methods for adaptively adjusting a receive data rate based on channel utilization A multicarrier receiver changes receive capabilities based on a current channel utilization. The number of antennas used to receive multicarrier communication signals may be changed or the channel bandwidth may be changed. ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8019010 | OFDM transmitter and method for multi-user MIMO transmissions An orthogonal-frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) transmitter is configured to transmit a data unit in accordance with a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technique over a wideband channel comprising a 20 MHz channel and another channel using a plurality of sp... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7999726 | Antenna pointing bias estimation using radar imaging A system for estimating an antenna boresight direction. The novel system includes a first circuit for receiving a Doppler measurement and a line-of-sight direction measurement corresponding with the Doppler measurement, and a processor adapted to search for an estim... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7979032 | Estimating statistical properties of noise in modulated data carrier signals Methods, systems and apparatus for estimating statistical properties of noise in modulated data carrier signals represented by modulated data symbols are disclosed. The method comprises generating an instantaneous estimate of the statistical property of noise from t... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7975593 | Methods for inductively transferring data and power to a plurality of guided projectiles to provide a lock-on-before-launch capability Embodiments of an inductive power transfer method are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a method of transferring data and power to a plurality of guided projectiles located in launcher tubes on a helicopter is described herein. In some embodiments, po... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7969245 | Millimeter-wave monolithic integrated circuit amplifier with opposite direction signal paths and method for amplifying millimeter-wave signals Embodiments of a high-frequency millimeter-wave amplifier are generally described herein. The high-frequency millimeter-wave amplifier may be constructed on a substrate to operate at a frequency of at least 75 GHz. In some embodiments, the millimeter-wave amplifier ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7957287 | Broadband wireless access network and method for internet protocol (IP) multicasting Embodiments of a wireless access network and method for IP multicasting are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, a serving base station receives a dynamic service addition request from a mobile station on a... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7952688 | Multi-waveband sensor system and methods for seeking targets Embodiments of a multi-waveband sensor system and method for seeking targets are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the multi-waveband sensor system includes a secondary reflector positioned within a gathering path of a primary reflector to reflect the... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7950634 | Linear filament compression and torsion spring A spring including a wire having an elasticity by which the wire is compressible by an external force to a first position at which first and second ends thereof of are separated by a first distance and when the force is removed or an electrical current applied, the ... | 05/31/2011 |
