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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090238250 | REDUCED COMPLEXITY FREQUENCY BAND AND VIRTUAL ANTENNA COMBINATION (VAC) SELECTION A downlink Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) is estimated in two steps. Initially, one or more subsets of received reference symbols are selected. If the transmitter may transmit signals in one or more of two or more frequency bands, optimal frequency bands are selected b... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090238103 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE A wireless communication device capable of restraining interference and thereby improving transmission quality. A wireless controller includes a wireless communication interface, and a baseband controller includes a baseband communication interface for controlling the t... | 09/24/2009 |
| 20090232192 | Method and Transceiver System Having a Transmit Clock Signal Phase that is Phase-Locked with a Receive Clock Signal Phase A transceiver system is disclosed that includes a plurality of transceiver chips. Each transceiver chip includes one or more SERDES cores. Each SERDES core includes one or more SERDES lanes. Each SERDES lane includes a receive channel and a transmit channel. The transmi... | 09/17/2009 |
| 20090225817 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGH RATE OFDM COMMUNICATIONS Messages transmitted between a receiver and a transmitter are used to maximize a communication data rate. In particular, a multicarrier modulation system uses messages that are sent from the receiver to the transmitter to exchange one or more sets of optimized communica... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090224845 | MODULATION SIGNAL GENERATION CIRCUIT, TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION MODULE, AND RADAR DEVICE A modulation-signal generating circuit includes a temperature monitoring unit that detects a casing temperature of the circuit, a voltage control oscillator including two variable impedance circuits that independently control oscillation frequency based on an input cont... | 09/10/2009 |
| 20090219978 | Methods And Apparatus For Adaptive Link Partner Transmitter Equalization Methods and apparatus are provided for adaptive link partner transmitter equalization. According to one aspect of the invention, a local transceiver adapts one ox more equalization parameters of a link partner by receiving a training frame over a channel between the lin... | 09/03/2009 |
| 20090213913 | Internal Loop-Back Architecture For Parallel Serializer/Deserializer (SERDES) An internal loop-back architecture for a parallel serializer/deserializer (SERDES) includes a transmitter macro including a plurality of transmit elements arranged in a parallel architecture, and a receiver macro including a plurality of receive elements arranged in a p... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090213914 | CAPACITIVE ISOLATION CIRCUITRY An integrated circuit having voltage isolation capabilities includes a plurality of communications channels for transceiving data from the integrated circuit. Each of the communications channel includes capacitive isolation circuitry located in conductive layers of the ... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090207893 | HF CONVERTER FOR MOBILE DEVICES A high frequency (HF) converter for a mobile device, having an input device configured to receive a first signal including data in accordance with a standard, non-HF communication protocol or in accordance with an HF communication protocol; a converter device coupled to... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090207895 | Data transceiver system and associated methods A data transceiver system may include an error corrector. The error corrector may include a plurality of delay units, each delay unit being configured to delay a corresponding data signal among a plurality of data signals by a time in response to a corresponding delay c... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090207894 | Apparatus, methods, and computer program products providing improved communication in decentralized wireless networks The exemplary embodiments of the invention enable self-organizing decentralized functionalities in wireless networks, such as ones having an arbitrary topology (e.g., cognitive radio networks), that utilize non-continuous communication, such as packet-based communicatio... | 08/20/2009 |
| 20090201975 | DEGASSING CENTRIFUGAL APPARATUS WITH SENSOR The present invention relates to a degassing centrifugal apparatus (10), such as a degassing centrifugal pump (10) for use in a pulp- or papermaking process. The degassing centrifugal apparatus (10) according to the present invention comprises a rot... | 08/13/2009 |
| 20090190635 | TRANSCEIVER FOR COMMUNICATING OVER DIFFERENT MEDIA TYPES One embodiment of the present invention relates to a transceiver. The transceiver includes a transmitter having a first transmission path configured to transmit a digital baseband signal over a wireline medium. In addition, the transmitter has a second transmission path... | 07/30/2009 |
| 20090180562 | Multi-Carrier Communication Systems Employing Variable Symbol Rates And Number Of Carriers A multi-carrier communication system such as an OFDM or DMT system has nodes which are allowed to dynamically change their receive and transmit symbol rates, and the number of carriers within their signals. Changing of the symbol rate is done by changing the clocking fr... | 07/16/2009 |
| 20090175321 | COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS Disclosed herein is a communication system including: at least one power line communication apparatus connected via a general power line for supplying a commercial alternate current power; a communication terminal having a modem for power line communication, and a plura... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090175322 | TRANSCEIVER WITH ADJUSTABLE SAMPLING VALUES AND SIGNAL TRANSCEIVING METHOD THEREOF A transceiver includes: a first DAC, for receiving a first digital signal to generate an analog signal; an operation circuit, coupled to the first DAC, for receiving the analog signal and a feedback signal to generate an operated analog signal; an ADC, for generating a ... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090175320 | Method to Determine the Number of Data Streams to Be Used in a MIMO System The invention relates to a method to determine a transmission mode to be used at a MIMO-transmitter. The determination of an optimum transmission mode is done at the side of a MIMO-receiver. The receiver calculates for each stream of a maximum number of received streams... | 07/09/2009 |
| 20090168854 | De-Emphasis Circuit for a Voltage Mode Driver Used to Communicate Via a Differential Communication Link A circuit for de-emphasizing information transmitted via a differential communication link includes a voltage mode differential circuit and a bi-directional current source circuit. The voltage mode differential circuit includes a first and second output terminal. The vo... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090167573 | Data transmission circuits and data transceiver systems A data transmission circuit is disclosed. The transmission circuit includes a serial clock generator, a serializer and a transmission clock generator. The serial clock generator generates a serial clock. The serializer serializes N-bit parallel data to N-bit serial data... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20090161738 | Transceiver system with reduced latency uncertainty A transceiver system with reduced latency uncertainty is described. In one implementation, the transceiver system has a word aligner latency uncertainty of zero. In another implementation, the transceiver system has a receiver-to-transmitter transfer latency uncertainty... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090161739 | RF TRANSCEIVER HAVING ADAPTIVE MODULATION A modulation control module for use in an RF transceiver, the modulation control module includes a processing module and memory. The memory is operably coupled to the processing module, wherein the memory stores operational instructions that causes the processing module... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090161737 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A COMMUNICATION SIGNAL An access terminal for processing a communication signal includes a receiver. The receiver is configured to determine a bias point for the communication signal based on a quality measurement of the communication signal, the quality measurement having a carrier-to-interf... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090156129 | SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO ARCHITECTURE A computing device with a software defined radio. The software defined radio has an architecture with separate components to provide control functions and data processing functions. The control components configure the data processing components so that the software def... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090154534 | SOFTWARE DEFINED COGNITIVE RADIO A computing device with a software defined radio. The software defined radio has an architecture with separate components to provide control functions and data processing functions. The control components configure the data processing components so that the software def... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090154527 | PULSE GENERATOR, TRANSMITTER-RECEIVER, AND PULSE GENERATION METHOD A pulse generator with a filter section limiting a band of an input signal, and a pulse generating section generating a plurality of pulses which are sequentially delayed one after another by a time period (τ) substantially equal to a reciprocal of a center frequency o... | 06/18/2009 |
| 20090147836 | METHOD FOR FREQUENCY OFFSET ESTIMATION AND AUTOMATIC FREQUENCY CONTROL FOR FILTERED SIGNAL WITH DESTROYED PHASE INFORMATION AND SIGNAL TRANSCEIVER The invention provides a method for frequency offset estimation according to a filtered signal with destroyed phase information. In one embodiment, a filter filters an original signal according to a series of first filter coefficients to obtain a first-channel component... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090147838 | Wireless Transceiver In a MIMO wireless transceiver, priority control that judges priority of transmit data and a transmission mode table are provided to control an option as to which transmission system SDM or STBC is selected, coding rate and modulation method based on a transmission mode... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090147837 | WIRELESS SYSTEM SYNCHRONIZATION USING FREQUENCY SHIFT MODULATION AND ON-OFF KEYING MODULATION A system and method of wireless communication, in which both OOK and FSK modulation transceivers are used for communication among participating devices. On-Off Key (“OOK”) may be used to awaken a communication device, establish a communication channel, and handle tr... | 06/11/2009 |
| 20090141783 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD OF LIMITING QUANTITY OF DATA TRANSMITTED BY A COMMUNICATION DEVICE A communication device is provided with a power-limiting module connected to the power supply and configured to limit energy supplied to the transmitter portion such that a defined maximum data transmission rate is not exceeded. The power-limiting module comprises an en... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090141782 | VOICE AND DATA COMMUNICATION SERVICES USING ORTHOGONAL SUB-CHANNELS A method for using orthogonal sub-channels (OSCs) in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). A capability report is received from the WTRU, including an indication whether the WTRU supports OSCs. A determination is made whether to use OSCs for the WTRU and the result o... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090141781 | DIGITAL COMMUNICATION USING AN INEXPENSIVE REFERENCE CRYSTAL Systems and methods for digital communication using an inexpensive reference crystal are described herein. Some illustrative embodiments include a method that includes setting a center frequency of a local oscillator used by a radio frequency (RF) transceiver, sequentia... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090135890 | Physical layer device having an analog SERDES pass through mode A physical layer device (PLD) includes a first serializer-deserializer (SERDES) device and a second SERDES device. Each SERDES device includes an analog portion with a serial port that is configured to communicate serial data with various network devices, and a digital ... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090129451 | Data Transmission Rate Adaptation in a Wireless Communication System A method for controlling a data transmission rate of at least one transceiver in a wireless system, the transceiver including a transmitter and a receiver, the method including the steps of: determining a signal quality characteristic corresponding to a signal received ... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090122844 | TRANSFER OF ENCODED DATA The invention relates to a method that includes transfer of data encoded on the basis of a first encoding scheme via an interface between a baseband assembly and a radio-frequency assembly of a mobile radio transceiver. The method further includes transfer of a data seq... | 05/14/2009 |
| 20090117857 | FM radio devices determining preferred inactive FM radio channel for communication Radio devices that are able to communicate with each other using frequencies within the FM radio spectrum are described. One or both of the radio devices identifies inactive FM radio channels within the FM radio spectrum on which no signal is present and selects one of ... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090103595 | Device and method for transmitting/receiving pulse signal A pulse signal transmitting/receiving device is provided. The device includes a signal generating module for generating a transmitting signal including an amplitude-modulated chirp signal, and a reference signal including a chirp signal having a frequency that changes s... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090088101 | WIRELESS TRANSCEIVER AND WIRELESS TRANSMISSION METHOD A DC offset of a VGA is measured by selecting a ground contact of a switch. Then, the gain of the VGA is set at an appropriate value, monitoring contacts of the switch are successively selected, and the output values of an ADC for the respective cases are measured with ... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090086796 | Method And System For A High Frequency Signal Repeater Using A DDFS Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for a high frequency signal repeater using DDFS. Aspects of the method may comprise generating a first signal via a direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS), frequency translating a received RF ... | 04/02/2009 |
| 20090080502 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTED TRANSCEIVERS BASED ON RF QUADRATURE AND LO QUADRATURE FILTERING FOR HIGH FREQUENCY APPLICATIONS Aspects of a method and system for distributed quadrature transceiver using phase shifting may include frequency-translating a first signal to generate a second signal and a third signal, utilizing a plurality of conversion stages, wherein in at least one of said plural... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090080503 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN OPERATION OF AN APPARATUS The present invention relates to various embodiments of an apparatus, particular to an apparatus comprising a radio signal transmitter and/or receiver circuitry and to a method for controlling an operation of an apparatus.... | 03/26/2009 |
