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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189647 | Systems and methods for generating a codebook to encode embedded information A method for generating a codebook to encode embedded information is described. A distribution pattern of symbols is determined. A first number of codewords associated with the distribution pattern of symbols is determined. A subset of codewords from the first numbe... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8179947 | Radio communication apparatus and reference signal generating method A wireless communication apparatus capable of minimizing the degradation in separation characteristic of a code multiplexed response signal. In this apparatus, a control part (209) controls both a AC sequence to be used in a primary spreading in a spreading p... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8155169 | Method and system for a delta quantizer for MIMO pre-coders with finite rate channel state information feedback A delta quantizer for MIMO pre-coders with finite rate channel state information feedback may comprise partly quantizing a change in channel state information in a MIMO pre-coding system onto at least a first and a second codebook, each of which comprises one or mor... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8144747 | Primary and secondary synchronization codes from first, second, third sequences A wireless communication system. The system comprises transmitter circuitry (BST1), the transmitter circuitry comprising encoder circuitry (50) for transmitting a plurality of frames (FR). Each of the plurality of frames comprises a primary synchroniza... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144746 | Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method A wireless communication apparatus wherein the performance can be prevented from degrading due to the affection of a frequency offset, while the sequence length of Zadoff-Chu sequence (ZC sequence) being kept long. In this wireless communication apparatus, a ZC sequ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8121175 | Radio communication device and response signal diffusion method Provided is a radio communication device which can suppress inter-code interference between an ACK/NACK signal and a CQI signal which are code-multiplexed. In this device, a diffusion unit (214) diffuses the ACK/NACK signal inputted from a judgment unit (2... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116352 | Method for direct chaotic communications with predetermined spectral mask Methods and apparatuses for chaotic communication in a wireless personal area network, A chaotic information carrier is generated for a first predetermined frequency range using a ring-structure oscillator. The ring structure oscillator includes a non-linear element... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8102896 | Method and apparatus for multiplexing control and data channel An approach is provided for performing control signaling. Data and control information are received. The control information is orthogonalized using block-level spreading. The data and the orthogonalized control information are multiplexed at a symbol-level. ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102897 | Direct sequence spread spectrum system and method with plural chipping rates Direct sequence spread spectrum communications can use composite codes and can operate at a plurality of different chipping rates. The composite codes can be formed using a plurality of component codes, wherein the component codes can be relatively prime and at leas... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094700 | Transmitter, transmission method, receiver, receiving method, communication device, and communication method including generating an individual spread code and performing spread spectrum processing A communication device includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter includes a transmission-side code generator and a first spread unit for example. The receiver includes a reception-side code generator and a first inverse spread unit for example. The tran... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090005 | Spreading codes for a satellite navigation system One embodiment of the invention provides a method of creating a set of secondary spreading codes for use in a satellite navigation system comprising a constellation of satellites. Each satellite in the constellation employs a tiered spreading code comprising at leas... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085833 | Method and system for an efficient channel quantization method for MIMO pre-coding systems A method and system for processing communication signals is provided and may comprise, minimizing a cost function in a MIMO pre-coding system by choosing a smallest scalar cost from a plurality of scalar costs, wherein each one of the scalar costs is generated from ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077756 | Signal transmitting method, transmitting apparatus, and receiving apparatus used for the signal transmitting method A disclosed signal transmitting method includes the steps of a) categorizing plural digital signals, obtained by performing A/D conversion on plural analog signals consecutively arranged in a time direction, into plural signal groups in an order starting from lower ... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8059697 | Reduced peak-to-RMS ratio multicode signal A transmitter and a method are described herein that generate a reduced peak-to-rms ratio multicode radio signal which helps to conserve battery life and increase the communication range and average data throughput rate. ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059696 | Transmitting device using multicarrier transmission system and receiving device A transmitting device includes a setting unit dividing a transmitting frequency bandwidth into frequency blocks each narrower than a receivable bandwidth of a receiving device, and setting a transmission rate in each of the frequency blocks so as to increase or decr... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8045598 | Controlling power in a spread spectrum system A technique and system is disclosed for controlling power in a spread spectrum system. A fast slot of a frame is received where the frame is divided into a number of fast slots. The received power is measured on the fast slot. A second fast slot is transmitted at a ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8040935 | Methods and apparatus for spread spectrum modulation and demodulation The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for spread spectrum modulation and demodulation using a special spread spectrum sequence, characterized in that Golay complementary codes are modulated onto orthogonal channels such that a corresponding comp... | 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 |
| 8027372 | Signal acquisition in a wireless communication system Each base station transmits a TDM pilot 1 having multiple instances of a pilot-1 sequence generated with a PN1 sequence and a TDM pilot 2 having at least one instance of a pilot-2 sequence generated with a PN2 sequence. Each base station is assigned a specific PN2 s... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8018984 | Transmitting spread signal in communication system The present invention provides for spreading a first signal using a plurality of spreading codes, multiplexing the first spread signal by code division multiplexing, transmitting the first multiplexed signal via a plurality of neighboring frequency resources of an O... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8009720 | Transmitting spread signal in communication system The present invention provides for spreading a first signal using a plurality of spreading codes, multiplexing the first spread signal by code division multiplexing, transmitting the first multiplexed signal via a plurality of neighboring frequency resources of an O... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8009721 | Wireless communication apparatus and response signal spreading method A wireless communication apparatus capable of minimizing the degradation in separation characteristic of a code multiplexed response signal. In this apparatus, a control part (209) controls both a ZC sequence to be used in a primary spreading in a spreading p... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8000377 | System and method for variable rate multiple access short message communications A communication system and receiver is provided that facilitates increased message size in a communication system that supports a large number of transmitters sharing a common frequency band. The communication system facilitates increased message size by incorporati... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7983322 | Method and system for codebook design of MIMO pre-coders with finite rate channel state information feedback Aspects of a method and system for codebook design of MIMO pre-coders with finite rate channel state information feedback may include quantizing channel state information in a MIMO pre-coding system onto a codebook, which include unitary matrices, using a cost funct... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7978749 | Bandjamming multi-channel DSSS transmitter and method therefor A direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) transmitter (12) is configured to form “N” multiple excess-bandwidth channels (44) in an allocated bandwidth (54), where N is an integer. Each excess-bandwidth channel (44) includes a lower rol... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7965760 | Radio communication device and response signal diffusion method Provided is a radio communication device which can suppress inter-code interference between an ACK/NACK signal and a CQI signal which are code-multiplexed. In this device, a diffusion unit (214) diffuses the ACK/NACK signal inputted from a judgment unit (2... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7965759 | Synchronization codes for wireless communication Techniques for supporting synchronization in wireless communication are described. A Node B generates a primary synchronization code (PSC) having a length of L chips based on a first inner sequence and a first outer sequence, where L is less than 256. The Node B als... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961775 | Method and system for a delta quantizer for MIMO pre-coders with finite rate channel state information feedback Aspects of a method and system for a delta quantizer for MIMO pre-coders with finite rate channel state information feedback may comprise quantizing a change in channel state information in a MIMO pre-coding system onto at least a first and a second codebook, each o... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7957454 | Transmitter, receiver, and data communications system and method There is provided a transmitter that transmits data in a spread spectrum communications system including a spread modulation portion spreading transmitting data with a spread code, an RZ conversion portion converting the transmitting data spread to an RZ signal, and... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953138 | Method and system for an efficient channel quantization method for MIMO pre-coding systems A method and system for processing communication signals is provided and may comprise, quantizing a channel estimate at a MIMO receiver onto a codebook based on a cost function, wherein the codebook comprises a plurality of unitary matrices. A codebook index may be ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949034 | Apparatus and method for estimating uplink frequency offset in wireless communication system Provided is an apparatus and method for estimating an uplink frequency offset in a wireless communication system. In a receiving apparatus of a wireless communication system using a random access channel composed of two equivalent sequences, the apparatus includes a... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7940833 | Transmitter with intelligent preconditioning of amplifier signal A transmitter (20) for a code division multiple access radio access network intelligently preconditions a channel-merged signal which is applied to its amplifier (22) so that the amplifier does not experience, e.g., precipitous power changes. The trans... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940832 | Method and apparatus for efficient Walsh covering and summing of signals in a communication system A method and apparatus is provided for efficient processing of signal in a communication system. The processing of the signal for transmission may include encoding a block of data at an encoding rate 1/R. The encoding produces R number of data symbols for every data... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7933312 | Method and system for reconfigurable SFBC/STBC in a diversity transmission system Aspects of a method and system for reconfigurable SFBC/STBC in a diversity transmission system are presented. Exemplary aspects of the system may include one or more circuits that enable generation of a plurality of codeword sequences based on a data sequence. In a ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933311 | Data transmission using repeated sets of spreading sequences Disclosed is a data transmission process using repetitive sets of spreading sequences, and corresponding transmitted and receiver. According to the invention, spectrum spreading is done on symbol packets using set of pseudo-random sequences used repetitively. This t... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929590 | Method and apparatus for multiplexing data and control information in wireless communication systems based on frequency division multiple access A signal transmission apparatus includes a symbol block generator configured to generate a first symbol block by multiplexing data information and control information in a symbol period, and a transmitter configured to transmit the first symbol block over a wireless... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7924907 | Apparatus and method for spreading/de-spreading data using pair of child orthogonal variable spreading factor codes there is provided a spreading apparatus using a child orthogonal variable spreading factor (OVSF) code pair, including: a channel condition information receiving unit for receiving channel condition information including a channel condition metric; a switch controll... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7903721 | Allocation of control channel for radio resource assignment in wireless communication systems A wireless communication device for receiving a frame corresponding to a transmission time interval, the frame having a control channel including at least two control channel elements and an embedded bit sequence, the location of which indicates a portion of the con... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7903720 | Alternative direct sequence spread spectrum symbol to chip mappings and methods for generating the same Alternative direct sequence spread spectrum symbol to chip mappings and methods for generating the same for use in a direct sequence spread spectrum wireless protocol and embedded in a transceiver chip used by wireless subsystems are provided. The present invention ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7894506 | Method and system for a delta quantizer for MIMO pre-coders with finite rate channel state information feedback Aspects of a method and system for a delta quantizer for MIMO pre-coders with finite rate channel state information feedback may include quantizing a change in channel state information in a MIMO pre-coding system onto a codebook, which comprises one or more unitary... | 02/22/2011 |
