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| 8143957 | Current-mode gain-splitting dual-path VCO Techniques to effectively handle large voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) gain are described. The techniques utilize (1) a slow high-gain path to provide an average control current that adjusts the center frequency of a VCO and (2) a fast low-gain path to provide a... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135097 | Sequential tracking and offline demodulation in receiver An apparatus and method for tracking a desired signal by sequentially tracking the desired signal with a variable integration time, performing automatic frequency control of the desired signal, and demodulating the desired signal using offline software. In one aspec... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131464 | Transmitter identifier database for enhanced GPS performance A mobile station database of cellular identifications and associated position information is stored in mobile station memory. The mobile station uses the position information in the database to assist in determining a current position for the mobile based on an iden... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131326 | GPS position tracking method with variable updating rate for power conservation A system and method in which the position update rate is adaptively modified, based on previous position measurements. By adjusting the update rate based on velocity predictions from two or more position fixes, a lower update rate may be used without exceeding the m... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130145 | Receive diversity in GNSS receivers The subject matter disclosed herein relates to receiving one or more SPS signals at two or more physically separated antennae. In an aspect, signals from the physically separated antennae may be downconverted into complex digital signals that may undergo further pro... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121292 | Method and apparatus for scrambling information bits on a channel in a communications system A control channel in a communication system transmits messages in a one or multiple-slot format. To assure consistency of a message, a content quality indicator is included in the message. Because a terminal receiving the message does not know the number of slots co... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8103301 | Dynamic noise floors in a wireless device A wireless device configured to support a wireless networking protocol may utilize signal processing techniques that can mitigate the effects of jammer signals. For example, when a measured power associated with a digital sample of a received wireless signal is grea... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102926 | Method and apparatus for communication in a system employing differing transmission protocols A method and apparatus for communication in a system employing differing transmission protocols. It is determined whether a first time slot of one transmission protocol is adjacent to a second time slot of another transmission protocol, and if a first symbol within ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102923 | Hierarchical coding for multicast messages Techniques for sending signaling information using hierarchical coding are described. With hierarchical coding, individual messages for users are encoded using multiple interconnected encoders such that (1) the message for each user is sent at a data rate suitable f... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8100004 | Weather prediction system The invention consists of a barometric pressure sensor, coupled to a processor for recording changes in the pressure over time, this is coupled to a GPS device providing an accurate measurement of the altitude which allows for the barometric pressure measurements to... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095166 | Digital and analog power control for an OFDMA/CDMA access terminal Aspects describe controlling a power level for an access terminal in a wireless communication system that utilizes multiple modulation waveforms. The power can be controlled after an Access Grant is received in response to an Access Probe until the mobile device tra... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094625 | Resource allocation for MIMO-OFDM communication systems Techniques to schedule terminals for data transmission on the downlink and/or uplink in a MIMO-OFDM system based on the spatial and/or frequency “signatures” of the terminals. A scheduler forms one or more sets of terminals for possible (downlink or uplink) data... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8065581 | Feedback for data transmissions Methods and apparatus are presented for dynamically controlling the re-transmission scheme of acknowledgment signals. A source transmits a first data packet over a slot s1. If channel conditions are favorable, source transmits a second data packet over sl... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064837 | Method and apparatus for optimum selection of MIMO and interference cancellation Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate performing interference nulling and rank prediction in an access terminal. Multiple receiver demodulator types may be implemented at the access terminal, and an interference covariance matrix may be estimated t... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064494 | Last finger polling for rake receivers Techniques for polling fingers on a channel (which are fingers for which symbols are to be combined) to determine the last finger on the channel. As each finger is polled, the polled finger compares its state information with the state information for the channel to... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8064424 | SDMA for WCDMA Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate increasing system capacity in a code-limited WCDMA (e.g., TDD, FDD, . . . ) wireless communication environment. According to one aspect, a larger code space can be defined by introducing multiple code clusters ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8050649 | Downconversion mixer with IM2 cancellation A downconversion mixer with IM2 cancellation includes a mixer, an IM2 generator, and a scaling unit. The mixer frequency downconverts an input RF signal with an LO signal and generates an output baseband signal. The IM2 generator includes first and second field effe... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8050225 | Assignment of primary and secondary synchronization code sequences to cells in a wireless communication system Techniques for assigning primary synchronization code (PSC) sequences and secondary synchronization code (SSC) sequences to cells in a wireless communication system are described. At least one PSC sequence and multiple SSC sequences may be used for multiple cells in... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8046839 | Mobile unit parental control Parents can desire to limit content viewable upon a mobile device and a universal integrated circuit card can be programmed to limit viewing upon the mobile device. A user completes a service request form that includes an allowable view threshold for content upon th... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041957 | Associating software with hardware using cryptography Techniques for associating software with hardware using cryptography are described. The software is identified by a software identifier (ID), and the hardware is identified by a hardware ID. The software is hashed to obtain a code digest. A code signature is generat... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040936 | Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving high speed data using code division multiple access channels The present invention describes a spread spectrum communication system wherein the frequency of carriers and the code channels of the carriers or both for transmission to a given remote station user vary in time. This provides for a direct sequence spectrum communic... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040240 | Method and apparatus to automatically trigger position location fixes for external devices A method and apparatus automatically triggers position location fixes for external devices. In one embodiment of the present invention, a mobile station generates position location data for a position location function in an external device in response to determinin... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8036622 | DC offset cancellation circuit for a receiver Techniques for cancelling DC offset are described. A DC offset cancellation circuit in a receiver cancels DC offsets caused by leaked LO (local oscillator) signals from a LO signal generator. The receiver first calibrates itself by using the DC offset cancellation c... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8027373 | Quick detection of signaling in a wireless communication system Quick frequency tracking (QFT), quick time tracking (QTT), and non-causal pilot filtering (NCP) are used to detect sporadically transmitted signaling, e.g., paging indicators. For QFT, multiple hypothesized frequency errors are applied to an input signal to obtain m... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8009761 | Unified modulator for continuous phase modulation and phase-shift keying A “unified” modulator for multiple modulation schemes (e.g., GMSK and 8PSK) is described. The waveform for each modulation scheme is generated based on a set of one or more pulse shaping functions. The waveforms for all supported modulation schemes may be genera... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000687 | Wireless terminal location using apparatus and methods employing carrier diversity Wireless terminals, e.g., mobile nodes, receive, identify, and measure broadcast signals from a plurality of cells. They determine relative transmission power relationships corresponding to the received measured signals and determine at least two channel gain ratios... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991396 | Method and apparatus for broadcast application in a wireless communication system Systems and methods are provided in which an origination station broadcasts a broadcast program to at least one of a plurality of destination stations. A first destination station (or a first group of destination stations) receives a first registration period parame... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7991041 | Iterative detection and cancellation for wireless communication Techniques for recovering a desired transmission in the presence of interfering transmissions are described. For iterative detection and cancellation, multiple groups of code channels are formed for a plurality of code channels for at least one sector. Processing is... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7986661 | Efficient utilization of transmission gaps for cell measurements A terminal communicates with a first wireless network and obtains a list of cells in a second wireless network to measure. The terminal operates in a compressed mode and receives multiple transmission gap pattern sequences for different measurement purposes, e.g., R... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7966033 | Serving sector directed power control Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate serving sector directed transmit power control in a wireless communication environment. Under certain conditions, an access point can have better data with which to determine appropriate power levels than an in... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7966011 | Determining per sector received power level At a mobile device, a total received power represents signals received from all access points. In order to calculate an appropriate transmit power for communication with a single access point, a mobile device determines a per sector received power level. The mobile ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965789 | Reverse link power control for an OFDMA system Techniques for performing power control of multiple channels sent using multiple radio technologies are described. The transmit power of a reference channel, sent using a first radio technology (e.g., CDMA), is adjusted to achieve a target level of performance (e.g.... | 06/21/2011 |
| 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 |
| 7957327 | Efficient support for TDD beamforming via constrained hopping and on-demand pilot Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate providing time-division duplexed beam-forming support in traditionally non-time-division duplexed wireless systems, such as an OFDMA system, a WCDMA system, etc. According to an aspect, a base station can analy... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956642 | Level shifter having low duty cycle distortion A level shifter includes an inverting circuit, a cross-coupled level shifting latch, and a SR logic gate latch. The first and second outputs of the level shifting latch are coupled to the set (S) and reset (R) inputs of the SR latch. The inverting circuit, that is p... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7945007 | Multi-antenna wireless receiver chains with vector decoding A receiver chain is provided for use in wireless data communication including a plurality of receive antennas and a vector Barker decoder or a CCK decoder. The vector Barker decoder operates on the plurality of received signals, preferably processed through a plural... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7929597 | Equalizer for a receiver in a wireless communication system Techniques for performing equalization at a receiver are described. In an aspect, equalization is performed by sub-sampling an over-sampled input signal to obtain multiple sub-sampled signals. An over-sampled channel impulse response estimate is derived and sub-samp... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929480 | Quality indicator bit (QIB) generation in wireless communication systems Techniques for generating quality indicator bits in a wireless communication system (e.g., a cdma2000 that implements IS-2000). In one method, a determination is first made whether a good data frame was received from a first transmission for the current frame interv... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7921303 | Mobile security system and method A system and method for providing a secure environment for mobile telephones and other devices are disclosed. The system and method may utilize trust zoning, layered memory, and a secure matrix model having, for example, a memory protection module for protecting mem... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7889007 | Differential amplifier with active post-distortion linearization A differential amplifier, which has good linearity and noise performance, includes a first side that includes first, second, third, and fourth transistors and an inductor. The first and second transistors are coupled as a first cascode pair, and the third and fourth... | 02/15/2011 |
