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Attorney: Smith; Kevin L.


Number of patents: 196
Last date: May 15, 2012

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NumberTitleIssue Date
8180311Local oscillation routing plan applicable to a multiple RF band RF MIMO transceiver
Local oscillation circuitry for use in an RF transceiver Integrated Circuit (IC) includes local oscillation generation circuitry operable to produce a local oscillation and local oscillation distribution circuitry. The local oscillation distribution circuitry includ...
05/15/2012
8176229Hypertransport/SPI-4 interface supporting configurable deskewing
A dual mode digital interface supports the HyperTransport Standard and at least one other interface standard. The dual mode digital interface includes a plurality of data line deskew/sampling blocks, a data group deskew module, and an enablement control module. The ...
05/08/2012
8175557Processing 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 whi...
05/08/2012
8169365Communication system with assisted GPS and SBAS
A communication system includes a reference station and a mobile station. The reference station is operable to: receive GPS signals; generate GPS assisting data from the received GPS signals; receive SBAS signals; obtain SBAS data from the received SBAS signals; com...
05/01/2012
8156105Rapid item data entry for physical items in the control of a user in an item data management server
An item data management server with rapid item data entry to facilitate database population with physical item data records for physical items in the control of a user. The rapid item data entry includes receiving a media file with at least an image and/or a verbal ...
04/10/2012
8155703Wireless device having a configurable camera interface to support digital image processing
A camera operably coupled to a configurable camera interface within a wireless terminal operable to process images in accordance with multiple data formats. This camera interface has an ARM and an image process accelerator operably coupled to the ARM. The combinatio...
04/10/2012
8149707Minimization of radio resource usage in multi-hop networks with multiple routings
Packets in a multi-hop wireless network are routed based on the available link throughputs, network node congestion and the connectivity of the network in a manner that minimizes the use of radio resources and minimizes delay for packets in multi-hop system. The rou...
04/03/2012
8117370IC for handheld computing unit of a computing device
An IC includes a processing module, on-chip memory, one or more block input/output (I/O) interfaces for coupling to one or more off-chip block I/O devices, one or more character I/O interfaces for coupling to one or more off-chip character I/O devices when active, a...
02/14/2012
8116823Modular ear-piece/microphone (headset) operable to service voice activated commands
The present invention provides a modular headset operable to support both voice communications and voice activated commands. This may involve the use of multiple voice CODECs to process voice communications and voice activated commands. The modular headset includes ...
02/14/2012
8116290Reduced interframe spacing in a wireless LAN receiver
A receiver in a wireless local area network capable of receiving and processing plurality of frames that are separated by a reduced interframe spacing interval. Upon receiving a frame, the receiver determines whether the received frame is using Reduced Interframe Sp...
02/14/2012
8112053Shared LNA and PA gain control in a wireless device
A wireless device includes at least one antenna, a plurality of shared signal path components coupled to the at least one antenna, the plurality of shared signal path components including a shared adjustable gain element, e.g., Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), Power Ampli...
02/07/2012
8112047Configurable RF transmitter
An RF transmitter includes a Cartesian to polar conversion section, a PLL, a DAC module, a mixing module, and a PA module. The Cartesian to polar conversion section converts a Cartesian based symbol stream into a polar based symbol stream. The PLL generates an oscil...
02/07/2012
8107442Master/slave oscillation production and distribution in a multiple RF transceiver system supporting MIMO operations
A multiple input multiple output (MIMO) RF transceiver system includes a plurality of RF transceiver ICs, a crystal, and master oscillation coupling. Each of the plurality of RF transceiver ICs includes crystal oscillator circuitry. Crystal oscillator circuitry of t...
01/31/2012
8094025Integrated blocker filtering RF front end
A receiver architecture for canceling blocking signals in the receive path includes a low noise amplifier for receiving and amplifying an inbound RF signal to produce an amplified inbound signal, in which the inbound RF signal includes a modulated RF signal and a bl...
01/10/2012
8086243VoIP service threshold determination by home wireless router
A home wireless router establishes a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) that supports wireless communications within a WLAN service area. The home wireless router establishes broadband communications via a broadband connection with a VoIP service accumulator. The ho...
12/27/2011
8085199Receiver including a matrix module to determine angular position
A receiver includes an antenna array, a plurality of phase shifters, a matrix module, a low noise amplifier module, and a down conversion module. The antenna array is operably coupled to receive an inbound wireless signal. The plurality of phase shifters is operably...
12/27/2011
8081687Received signal determination based upon frame classification
A receiver includes digital logic for defining a plurality of signal paths for an ingoing digital signal to determine a frame classification. Frames are classified according to a combination of readings of a plurality of correlation block and relative signal (power)...
12/20/2011
8072915Common power control channel in a CDMA system and a system and method for using such a channel
A CDMA communication system supports designated mode data bursts and contention-based transmissions on a reverse link common channel from a subscriber unit to a base station. When transmissions are scheduled and serviced in the designated mode data burst, collisions...
12/06/2011
8065385Transferring information and records via a data structure for a physical item in the control of a user
An item data management server having the capability to transfer information and records via a physical item data record of an item data management server. The physical item data record transfer and/or cloning facilitates ready maintenance and upkeep of the inventor...
11/22/2011
8064967Wireless connection integrated circuit (IC) having power island(s)
A radio frequency (RF) integrated circuit (IC) operable to support wireless communications is provided. In one embodiment, the RF IC includes an advanced high-performance (AHB) bus matrix, a microprocessor core coupled to the AHB bus matrix, a plurality of processin...
11/22/2011
8064952A/V control for a computing device with handheld and extended computing units
An IC includes a microphone interface, a speaker interface, a baseband processing module, and RF section, a processing module, an on-chip to off-chip connector structure, and a digital audio switching module coupled to: provide the inbound voice signal from the proc...
11/22/2011
8050234Walsh code management in a code division multiple access cellular wireless communication system
A cellular wireless communication system and method of operation manages Walsh codes in order to ensure that sufficient Walsh codes are available to prevent call blocking and to support additional hand-off operations. In an initial operating condition, the cellular ...
11/01/2011
8045525Handover data integrity in a wireless data network
Provided is a method and apparatus for handover data integrity of a mobile station in a wireless data network with a plurality of wireless network service areas. The method and apparatus includes initiation of a handover by a mobile station, identifying at least one...
10/25/2011
8032182Subscriber identity module with an incorporated radio
A communication system includes a phone and a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM). The phone includes a user input interface, a first wireless transceiver and a first application program interface. The SIM is plugged into the phone and includes storage, a second wirele...
10/04/2011
8031757Time divided pilot channel detection processing in a WCDMA terminal having a shared memory
A method for operating a Radio Frequency (RF) receiver of a wireless terminal. During a first time interval, an RF front end is enabled and the RF receiver receives and processes an RF signal, e.g., a Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) signal, to produce...
10/04/2011
8031652Load balancing for an air interface protocol architecture with a plurality of heterogenous physical layer modes
A system and method for dynamic traffic load balancing with a multiple physical layer modes of an air interface protocol architecture, the protocol architecture residing in a base station and/or an access network that includes a base station and access gateway that ...
10/04/2011
8031121Apparatus for position detection using multiple antennas
An apparatus includes a transmitter and a receiver device, which includes a receiver section and a processing module. The transmitter transmits a high carrier frequency signal. The receiver section includes first and second antennas that have an antenna radiation re...
10/04/2011
8014471Bit stream conditioning circuit having adjustable input sensitivity
A high-speed bit stream interface module interfaces a high-speed communication media to a communication Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) via a Printed Circuit Board (PCB). The high-speed bit stream interface includes a line side interface, a board side...
09/06/2011
8010149Multi-mode IC with multiple processing cores
An integrated circuit (IC) includes an RF section, a DSP, and a plurality of processors. The RF section and the DSP process an inbound RF signal to produce inbound data and process outbound data to produce an outbound RF signal. In addition, the DSP converts an outb...
08/30/2011
8005874Data tag creation from a physical item data record to be attached to a physical item
A item data management server having the capability to create a data tag from a physical item data record, where the physical item data record is based upon a physical item in the control of a user. The data tag creation facilitates the identification, maintenance a...
08/23/2011
8005444Multiple die integrated circuit assembly
An integrated circuit (IC) includes a first die, a second die, a packaging substrate, and coupling circuit. The first die includes first circuitry and the second die includes second circuitry. The packaging substrate supports the first and second dies, wherein the f...
08/23/2011
8000664Linear high powered integrated circuit amplifier
A linear high powered integrated circuit amplifier includes a plurality of power amplifiers, balanced integrated circuit coupling, and a combining circuit. The balanced integrated circuit coupling couples a signal to the plurality of power amplifiers to the up-conve...
08/16/2011
7995667Reduced latency concatenated reed solomon-convolutional coding for MIMO wireless LAN
A wireless local area network (WLAN) transmitter includes a baseband processing module and a plurality of radio frequency (RF) transmitters. The baseband processing module operably coupled to scramble data in accordance with a pseudo random sequence to produce scram...
08/09/2011
7995564Geographic redundancy for call servers in a cellular system based on a bearer-independent core network
In a bearer-independent core network, the switching and transport of the bearer streams is separated from the processing of call sessions that control the bearer streams. The switching and transport of the bearer streams is executed by media gateways and packet swit...
08/09/2011
7991009Preamble formats for MIMO wireless communications
A method for generating a preamble of a frame for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) wireless communication begins by, for each transmit antenna of the MIMO wireless communication, generating a carrier detect field, wherein, from transmit antenna to transmit an...
08/02/2011
7986240RFID interface and applications thereof
A radio frequency identification (RFID) interface includes first coil, a plurality of coils, and a control module. The first coil is associated with an RFID tag and the plurality of coils is associated with an RFID reader. Each of the plurality of coils has a differ...
07/26/2011
7974578Baseband controller in a micronetwork
A baseband controller includes a microsequencer with special hardware resources circuitry and a configuration that supports real-time micronetwork functionality for an upper limit of slave devices. The microsequencer includes a correlator that may also be used as an...
07/05/2011
7924764Method and apparatus for packet processing
Frame processing for a wireless communication system. The frame processing includes detecting reception of a frame based on a portion of a preamble of a frame, wherein the frame includes a preamble and a data payload. With detecting the reception of a frame, determi...
04/12/2011
7907614Fast block acknowledgment generation in a wireless environment
Fast block acknowledgment generation is provided, via a receiving station, for a plurality of received frames to accommodate latency-sensitive data applications. The fast block acknowledgment generation includes receiving a frame of the plurality of received frames ...
03/15/2011
7898418Integrated blocker filtering RF front end
A receiver architecture for canceling blocking signals in the receive path includes a low noise amplifier for receiving and amplifying an inbound RF signal to produce an amplified inbound signal, in which the inbound RF signal includes a modulated RF signal and a bl...
03/01/2011
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