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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120128035 | LOW POWER ULTRA WIDEBAND TRANSCEIVERS Low-power transmitter and/or receiver devices are provided by sacrificing time and/or frequency diversity in exchange for lower power consumption. When channel conditions indicate that time and/or frequency spreading are unnecessary for transmissions, a transmitter may ... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120044973 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING RECEPTION OF DATA IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENTS Generally described, the disclosed subject matter is directed to improving the reception of data in wireless communication environments. In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided for improving the reception of meter data in an AMR system. In particular, th... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120020388 | Reception apparatus, reception method, program, and reception system Disclosed herein is a reception apparatus including: a reception section configured to receive a signal at a frequency being changed; and a control section configured such that before changing the frequency to receive the signal, the control section stores control infor... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120002704 | Measuring Received Signal Strength on Neighboring Frequencies of a Channel with Interference in a Wireless Device System and method for operating a wireless narrowband receiver. A signal may be received on a channel of the wireless narrowband receiver. At least a portion of the signal may be received from a first wireless narrowband transmitter. The wireless narrowband receiver may... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110243192 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRACKING A FREQUENCY-HOPPED SIGNAL A frequency hopping signal receiving system comprising: a receiver for extracting discrete-time samples from the signal; a memory connected to the receiver for storing the extracted discrete-time samples from the signal; at least one processor operatively connected to t... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110243190 | MOBILE TERMINAL APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING SHARED CHANNEL SIGNAL In order to improve the reception quality of a shared channel signal transmitted on uplink or downlink, the present invention provides a mobile terminal apparatus that transmits a shared channel signal on uplink by using a predetermined number of basic frequency blocks ... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110206088 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FREQUENCY SHIFTING OF A WIRELESS SIGNAL AND SYSTEMS USING FREQUENCY SHIFTING Systems, methods and apparatus for improving the coverage of a wireless network based on frequency shifting scheme. A wireless signal in a frequency band is shifted to another distinct band, and carried in the shifted band, using wired or wireless mediums to another loc... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110188544 | Interference Classification with Minimal or Incomplete Information Interference classification with minimal or incomplete information. Receivers in access points and in other network devices on a wireless digital network may be switched to a spectrum monitor mode in which they provide amplitude-versus-frequency information for a chosen... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110150043 | FREQUENCY HOPPING RECEIVER CIRCUIT A frequency hopping receiver circuit has a frequency converter (12) and a hopping control circuit (14) coupled to the frequency converter (12), and configured to control frequency hopping of the received frequency, by controlling changes in frequenc... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110122923 | PREAMBLE DETECTION APPARATUS, PREAMBLE DETECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM A preamble detection apparatus includes: a correlation maximum value detection threshold generation unit that determines a correlation maximum value detection threshold on the basis of a correlation peak value; a correlation maximum value detection determination unit th... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110105148 | ULTRA-WIDEBAND RADIO RECEPTION A radio receiver arranged to sample an input signal comprising a carrier signal modulated by a predetermined spreading sequence of pseudo-noise code symbols or chips that is stored in the receiver, the carrier signal frequency hopping between predetermined values in a p... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110090939 | System and Method for Management of a Shared Frequency Band A system, method, software and related functions are provided for managing activity in a radio frequency band that is shared, both in frequency and time, by signals of multiple types. An example of such a frequency band is an unlicensed frequency band. Radio frequency e... | 04/21/2011 |
| 20110026565 | FREQUENCY HOPPING RF RECEPTION SYSTEM WITH PROGRAMMABLE ANTENNA AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH A (radio frequency) RF reception system includes an RF receiver that demodulates an RF signal at a sequence of selected carrier frequencies. A frequency hop module, coupled to the RF receiver generates the sequence of selected carrier frequencies. A programmable antenna... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20110007779 | MOBILE STATION APPARATUS, BASE STATION APPARATUS, AND COMMUNICATION CONTROL METHOD FOR RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Frequency hopping is appropriately applied even to a communication format involving a small number of minimum hopping units in one transmission unit according to various conditions, thereby enhancing receiving performance. When frequency hopping is applied to a communic... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20110007780 | Receiver with automatic gain control An automatic gain control (AGC) system and corresponding method is configured to increase signal to noise in a receiver. The AGC system includes: a signal level detector for determining a signal level for a desired signal; a wideband signal detector for determining a wi... | 01/13/2011 |
| 20100322288 | RADIO COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND OFFSET CORRECTION METHOD An apparatus includes: an offset adjustment unit that supplies an offset correction signal corresponding to a frequency switching to an adder unit that receives an output from a mixer; a timing adjustment unit that adjusts the timing of a frequency switching signal supp... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100303130 | BASEBAND PROCESSOR AND WIRELESS DEVICE A baseband processor includes a modulating unit and a converting unit. The modulating unit generates an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol by modulating a bit stream. The converting unit converts the OFDM symbol from a frequency domain into a time ... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100296549 | NOISE SUPPRESSION APPARATUS A noise suppression apparatus is provided with: an offset correction unit that corrects changes in a DC offset generated by the hopping of radio frequencies or a local leak correction unit that corrects changes of local leaks generated by hopping of radio frequencies; a... | 11/25/2010 |
| 20100271558 | HYBRID RECEIVER ARCHITECTURE USING UPCONVERSION FOLLOWED BY DIRECT DOWNCONVERSION A receiver configured to selectively receive an RF signal from an operating band having a plurality of RF channels. The receiver is configured to upconvert the desired RF channel to an intermediate frequency (IF) greater than the RF channel frequencies. The upconverted ... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100260233 | PHASE TRACKING IN FREQUENCY DOMAIN IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM Techniques for correcting sampling frequency offset (SFO) and carrier frequency offset (CFO) in a wireless communication system are disclosed. An apparatus for correcting SFO and CFO may include a pilot tone extractor for extracting a plurality of pilot tones from one o... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100254432 | TRANSMITTER-EMITTER SYSTEM USING FREQUENCY HOPPING WITH UNIDIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATION A communication method for transmitting a digital data sequence by a transmitter to a remote receiver, using frequency hopping spread spectrum, said data sequence comprising a plurality of blocks terminated by an end block, each block consisting of a plurality of consec... | 10/07/2010 |
| 20100238977 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE AND METHOD A wireless device is described that comprises a spread spectrum radio-frequency (RF) communications portion, such as a Bluetooth module, and an ancillary RF receiver portion. The spread spectrum RF communications portion is activated on receipt of a characteristic RF si... | 09/23/2010 |
| 20100195701 | Method of packet transmission and reception of Quadrature Amplitude Modulated signals in a frequency hopping radio system A method to decrease the amount of time required to achieve carrier and clock frequency synchronization in QAD packet communications systems including frequency-hopping radio systems using pseudo-noise data sequences to mark the beginning of data transmissions and carri... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100091818 | DYNAMIC CHANNEL EVALUATION IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE A frequency hopping wireless communication device including a controller configured to evaluate channels received by the wireless receiver for interference and to identify channels subject to interference as being unavailable for use by the wireless communication device... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20090268784 | MULTI-BAND OFDM RECEIVER A wireless communication arrangement includes a transmitter that transmits a signal having a carrier that repeatedly and sequentially hops through a first sequence of frequencies. A receiver includes a mixer having an antenna signal input for receiving an antenna signal... | 10/29/2009 |
| 20090262786 | POLARIZATION DIVERSITY A communication device for receiving a signal in the form of a series of bursts, each burst being in one of a plurality of different available transmission modes, the communication device comprising: a receiver unit coupled to a single antenna operable to receive bursts... | 10/22/2009 |
| 20090245328 | Integer cycle frequency hopping modulation for the radio frequency transmission of high speed data The invention disclosed in this application uses a method of modulation named Integer Cycle Frequency Hopping (ICFH) wherein a carrier signal, comprised of a continuum of sine waves is generated on a single frequency. A data bit representing either a “1” or a “0... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090185599 | Adjusting a transmit time of a wireless device Methods of adjusting a transmit time of a wireless device are disclosed. One method includes a receiver determining a frequency hopping sequence of an interfering signal. The receiver obtains an observed pattern of at least one of time and frequency overlap between the ... | 07/23/2009 |
| 20090168847 | Tunable Diversity Antenna for use with Frequency Hopping Communications Protocol A sound reproducing device. The sound reproducing device for receiving a frequency-hopping signal having an instantaneous frequency within a hopping bandwidth. The sound reproducing device comprises a first antenna having a bandwidth including the hopping bandwidth for ... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090116541 | Mitigating interference in a coded communication system A technique weights noise power used in a demodulation/demapping process using on an estimate of interference and its associated power. Using this technique the effect of partial interference can be ameliorated. For example, a value, σ2, can be used to repre... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090103591 | Bit confidence weighting based on levels of interference Methods and systems of frequency hopping communication are disclosed. One method includes a receiver obtaining a frequency hopping sequence, wherein the frequency hopping sequence defines a time sequence of reception through each of a plurality of frequency hopping band... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090080498 | ADAPTIVE RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE MITIGATION DURING CHANNEL SCANNING OR HOPPING In some embodiments an adaptive clock controller is to determine clock interference associated with a channel changing pattern for a radio in a computing platform, and to determine an earliest switching time of a clock of the computing platform. A clock generator is to ... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090046763 | Conditional Scanning A method of controlling a low power radio receiver including controlling the radio receiver for a first, relatively short, period of time to detect radio transmissions in a predetermined frequency band, and determining whether to control the radio receiver for a subsequ... | 02/19/2009 |
| 20090028220 | Robust packet detection, symbol timing, channel length estimation and channel response estimation for wireless systems A method. The method includes producing a first signal match indication based on at least one match indication indicative of a match between at least one signal received in at least one band and a reference signal. The method also includes producing a first signal multi... | 01/29/2009 |
| 20090010311 | Antenna Diversity A communication device for receiving a signal in the form of a series of bursts, each burst being at one of a plurality of different available transmission modes, the communication device comprising: two antennas; a receiver unit coupled to the antennas for preferential... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20090010367 | MULTI-BAND SINGLE-CARRIER MODULATION Multi-band single-carrier modulation. A novel approach is presented by which interference compensation may be performed for signals received by a piconet operable device. The piconet operable device may be implemented within a region that includes two or more SOPs (Simu... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080304550 | Method and System for Fast Synchronization and Data Reception for Frequency Hopping Wireless Communication Systems Methods and systems for fast synchronization and data reception for frequency hopping wireless communication systems are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include receiving a plurality of RF signals corresponding to a plurality of hopping frequencies. The RF signals ... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080279258 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND FREQUENCY HOPPING METHOD THEREFOR, AND BASE STATION AND MOBILE STATION In a wireless communication system, a control unit (17) of a base station (1) sets a frequency hopping cycle longer than a predetermined value during a certain measurement interval in which an measurement of a frequency drift is conducted, allowing recepti... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080253431 | Receiving apparatus and signal processing method In the reception and demodulation of a communication signal with frequency hopping among a plurality of frequency bands, a demodulator is formed by a balance circuit. The demodulator performs frequency conversion by multiplying signals in_a and in_b, which are obtained ... | 10/16/2008 |
| 20080219325 | MMSE MUD IN 1x MOBILES Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate equalizing inter-sector interference and performing interference cancellation on a forward link by utilizing a combination of pilot interference cancellation followed by selective interference cancellation. Selecti... | 09/11/2008 |
