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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185927 | Video transmission system based on location data and methods for use therewith A video transmission system includes a transceiver module that receives location data from a remote device and that transmits a video signal to the remote device. A network module receives a video stream from a video source and that generates the video signal based ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185099 | Service aggregator for allocating resources to a plurality of multiservice communication devices A service aggregator allocates network resources to a plurality of multiservice communication devices capable of communicating via a plurality of networks. The service aggregator includes a communication device interface for facilitating a bidirectional data communi... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184543 | Millimeter wave probing of components via a probe device and methods for use therewith Probe data is directly communicating between a probe device and a component of an external device via a wireless millimeter wave communication path. A probe application is executed in accordance with the probe data, for diagnostics and testing, to update component s... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179983 | Video processing system with layered video coding for fast channel change and methods for use therewith A video processing system includes a video encoder that encodes a video stream into a independent video layer stream and a first dependent video layer stream based on a motion vector data or grayscale and color data. ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8175545 | Communication devices with integrated thermal sensing circuit and methods for use therewith A communication device includes an integrated circuit having an on-chip thermal sensing circuit that generates a temperature signal based on a temperature of the integrated circuit. A processing module processes the temperature signal to generate temperature informa... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175542 | Transceiver with plural space hopping phased array antennas and methods for use therewith A wireless transceiver includes a phased array of antennas, that transmit an outbound RF signal containing outbound data to remote transceivers and that receives an inbound RF signal containing inbound data from the remote RF transceivers, wherein the phased array o... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8175185 | RF polar transmitter and integrated circuit with programmable filter module and methods for use therewith A radio frequency (RF) transmitter includes a transmitter processing module that generates a processed signal and a modulating signal based on outbound data. An up-conversion module up-converts the processed signal to generate an up-converted signal. A programmable ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170497 | IC having an RF bus structure An integrated circuit (IC) includes a die and a package substrate. The die includes circuit modules and an RF bus transceiver module and the package substrate includes a micro-electromechanical (MEM) area. The RF bus transceiver module includes a baseband processing... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170496 | Transceiver with space hopping phased array antenna and methods for use therewith A wireless transceiver includes at least one phased array antenna, that transmits an outbound RF signal containing outbound data to at least one remote transceiver and that receives an inbound RF signal containing inbound data from the at least one remote RF transce... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170495 | Collaborative pairing transceiver with space hopping phased array antenna and methods for use therewith A wireless transceiver includes at least one phased array antenna, that transmits an outbound RF signal containing outbound data to a remote transceiver and that receives an inbound RF signal containing inbound data from the at least one remote RF transceiver, where... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170146 | Radio frequency integrated circuit having frequency dependent noise mitigation with spectrum spreading A plurality of baseband clock signals by detecting an interference condition associated with at least one of the plurality of baseband clock signals and by spreading the spectrum of the at least one of the plurality of baseband clock signals when the interference co... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169989 | Access point multi-level transmission power control based on the exchange of characteristics A first plurality of characteristics are received from a first client device relating to transmissions received by the first client device from both an access point and a second client device. A second plurality of characteristics are received from the second client... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166510 | Method and apparatus for distributing video on demand loading A method and apparatus for distributing video-on-demand loading include processing that begins by receiving a concurrent additional request for accessing a video program (i.e., while the server associated with the video program is processing one request for access t... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165210 | Video codec with shared interpolation filter and method for use therewith A video processing device operates in an encoding mode when a mode selection signal has a first value and operates in a decoding mode when the mode selection signal has a second value. The video processing device utilizes an interpolation filter to perform an encodi... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8160640 | Multi-mode mobile communication device with motion sensor and methods for use therewith A mobile communication device includes a motion sensor for generating motion signals in response to motion of the mobile communication device. A motion data generation module generates motion data based on the motion signals. At least one transceiver sends the motio... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8148832 | Electric power generating system An electrical power generating system includes a spring system that stores stored energy, the spring system having an input for recharging the stored energy and an output for releasing the stored energy, wherein the spring system generates a monitor signal based on ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147168 | Waste water electrical power generating system An electrical power generating system is connected to a sewer for conveying waste water to a sanitary treatment station. Waste water is propelled through the sewer line by pumping equipment which simultaneously pulverizes most large objects carried by the waste wate... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147167 | Waste water electrical power generating system with storage system and methods for use therewith A method for selectively generating electrical power uses waste water gravity flow to generate electrical power. An electrical power generator is driven to generate electrical power in response to the waste. A portion of the electrical power generated by the at leas... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145156 | Configuration controller for receiver and transmitter A configuration controller generates one or more control signals based on channel data. A receiver includes an RF receiver section and a receiver processing module that are configured in response to the control signal. A transmitter includes an RF transmitter sectio... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144781 | Video processing system for scrambling layered video streams and methods for use therewith A video processing system includes a video encoder that encodes a video stream into an independent video layer stream and a first dependent video layer stream that requires the independent video layer for decoding. A scrambling module scrambles the independent video... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140113 | High frequency signal combining An integrated circuit transmission system includes a dielectric substrate wave guide and first and second substrate antennas. A substrate transmitter is operable to produce an radio frequency (RF) signal, the RF signal having first and second components. A micro-str... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8138623 | Integrated circuit with supply line intra-chip clock interface and methods for use therewith An integrated circuit includes a first circuit and a first power supply line for powering the first circuit. A first intra-chip clock interface generates a first clock signal on the first power supply line. A second power supply line is coupled to the first power su... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131905 | Dockable handheld computing device with graphical user interface and methods for use therewith A physical docking interface facilitates co-processing with an extended processing module of an extended computer unit in a physical docked mode, when the handheld computing unit is coupled to the extended computer unit via the physical docking interface. A quasi do... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8131220 | Management unit for managing a plurality of multiservice communication devices A management unit manages a plurality of multiservice communication devices capable of communicating via a plurality of networks. The management unit includes a communication device interface for facilitating a bidirectional data communication with the plurality of ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130823 | Channel adaptive video transmission system for use with layered video coding and methods for use therewith A video transmission system includes a transceiver module that transmits a video signal to a remote device over at least one RF communications channel wherein the video signal is transmitted as at least one separate video layer stream chosen from, an independent vid... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130670 | Power consumption management in a MIMO transceiver and method for use therewith A mobile communication device includes a first wireless transceiver that receives a first inbound RF signal and that transmits a first outbound RF signal based on a first power supply signal. A second wireless transceiver receives a second inbound RF signal and that... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8130659 | RF transceiver system with adjustable transmission parameters and methods for use therewith A circuit includes a transceiver coupled to transmit an outbound signal in accordance with a plurality of transmit parameters to at least one remote station and receive an inbound signal from the at least one remote station. The transceiver detects a packet transmis... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8121557 | Configurable RF sections for receiver and transmitter and methods for use therewith A transceiver includes an RF receiver section having a plurality of RF receiver stages configured in parallel, and a configurable RF transmitter section. The plurality of RF receiver stages are selectively enabled in response to a control signal. The configurable RF... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8121541 | Integrated circuit with intra-chip and extra-chip RF communication An integrated circuit includes a first integrated circuit die having a first circuit and a first intra-chip interface and a second integrated circuit die having a second circuit and a second intra-chip interface and a remote interface, wherein the first intra-chip i... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116718 | Power management for a mobile communication device and method for use therewith A communication device includes a voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) that includes a memory module that stores a plurality of applications corresponding to a plurality of uses of the communication device. A processing module executes a selected one of the plu... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116294 | RF bus controller A radio frequency (RF) bus controller includes an interface and a processing module. The interface is coupled for communicating intra-device RF bus access requests and allocations. The processing module is coupled to receive an access request to an RF bus via the in... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8112074 | Access point multi-level transmission power control supporting periodic high power level transmissions A wireless access point selects its own transmission power for different types of the transmissions. The access point transmits to client devices at reduced power levels, however, periodic beacons and other selected non-beacon transmissions can be transmitted at a h... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107895 | Independent power consumption management in a MIMO transceiver and method for use therewith An integrated circuit (IC) includes a multi-input multi-output transceiver system that includes a plurality of RF transceivers. Each RF transceiver includes an RF transmitter that transmits a transmit signal at a selected transmit power, based on a transmit power co... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107188 | Self servo writing disk controller and methods for use therewith A self servo writing disk controller detects a plurality of spiral sync marks and a plurality of spiral bursts corresponding to one of a plurality of servo spirals from a read signal from the read/write head. A timing reference signal is generated based on timing of... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8107179 | Magnetic disk drive, servo writer, self-servo writer and methods for use therewith A servo writer includes a servo data generation module that generates servo data corresponding to a plurality of servo wedges and a plurality of tracks of a disk, the servo data including track identification data that is repetition coded. A servo write module write... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106848 | Programmable antenna with programmable impedance matching and methods for use therewith A programmable antenna includes a fixed antenna element and a programmable antenna element that is tunable in response to at least one antenna control signal, wherein tuning the programmable antenna element changes an impedance of the antenna. A programmable impedan... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102665 | Integrated circuit with intra-chip clock interface and methods for use therewith An integrated circuit includes a substrate. A first integrated circuit die includes a first circuit and a first intra-chip clock interface that transmits a first clock signal via the substrate. A second integrated circuit die includes a second circuit that operates ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095162 | Control device for allocating resources to communication devices that use differing protocols and methods for use therewith A control device includes at least one communication interface for communicating first control data with a first plurality of communication devices that utilize the millimeter wave frequency band in accordance with a first protocol and further for communicating seco... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8095080 | Power management unit for configurable receiver and transmitter and methods for use therewith A configurable transceiver includes an RF receiver that generates a stream of inbound data from at least one received RF signal, wherein the RF receiver is configurable in response to a control signal. An RF transmitter generates at least one RF signal from a stream... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090890 | Dockable handheld computing device with video application and methods for use therewith A handheld computing device includes a video camera for generating a local video signal. A handheld memory stores at least one handheld application that includes a video application. A handheld processing module, coupled to the handheld memory, executes the video ap... | 01/03/2012 |
