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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6781530 | 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. One embodiment of the present invention comprises a pulsed modula... | 08/24/2004 |
