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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7349679 | Integrated power amplifier A power amplifier develops a modulated high power signal by summing the outputs of multiple voltage controlled oscillators. A phase control circuit synchronizes the phase relationship of multiple voltage controlled oscillators. The voltage control oscillators provid... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349380 | System and method for providing an addressing and proxy scheme for facilitating mobility of wireless nodes between wired access points on a core network of a communications network A communications network which is capable of effectively and efficiently handling mobility of wireless user terminals between access point nodes of a packet-switched network with minimal overhead and packet loss, and a method for using the same. The communications n... | 03/25/2008 |
| RE40175 | Communication system At the transmitter side, carrier waves are modulated according to an input signal for producing relevant signal points in a signal space diagram. The input signal is divided into, two, first and second, data streams. The signal points are divided into signal point g... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349365 | Mobile telephone messaging by baseband envelope modulation A method and system communicates messages using a radio signal. The radio signal is transmitted according to an air interface standard for wireless radio communications. A baseband envelope of the transmitted radio signal is modulated while maintaining compliance wi... | 03/25/2008 |
| RE40174 | Communication system At the transmitter side, carrier waves are modulated according to an input signal for producing relevant signal points in a signal space diagram. The input signal is divided into, two, first and second, data streams. The signal points are divided into signal point g... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349465 | Line interface system A transceiver system is disclosed for use in a telecommunication system. The transceiver system includes a transmission circuit with a differential transmitter input coupled via a transmitter input stage to a differential input of a transmission amplifier in an embo... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349672 | Digital signal transceiver A digital signal transceiver includes a frequency modulator for outputting a high-frequency signal frequency-modulated with a digital signal input thereto, a power amplifier, an antenna terminal, and an antenna switch. The antenna switch includes a first branch port... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7348838 | Method and system for DC offset cancellation from a modulated signal Provided are a method and system for removing an offset direct current (DC) component from an input waveform. The method includes multiplying the input waveform with a demodulation waveform to produce a first differential current signal. An absolute value representa... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349489 | Pulse shaping filter with minimal intersymbol interference An improved shaping filter (R) is provided in a radio frequency communication system. The filter response of the shaping filter (R) is generated by constraining the filter coefficients in their adaptation at the optimal sampling point and not constraining them at th... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349506 | Semiconductor integrated circuit and method for testing the same A method and semiconductor integrated circuit in which a receiver receives reception data and executes reception processing on the basis of a clock signal supplied from a PLL and a transmitter which receives parallel transmission data and executes serial transmissio... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7346100 | Estimating gain and phase imbalance in upconverting transmitters Estimation of gain and phase imbalance of an upconverting transmitter. A transmitter transmits symbols containing vector components of pre-specific relationship in an analog signal. A receiver (also contained in a transceiver along with the transmitter) examines the... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346119 | System and method for high speed digital signaling The present invention relates in general to a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for providing high-speed digital communications through a communications channel. In one aspect, the present invention employs adaptive or adjustable equalization circuitry a... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346313 | Calibration of I-Q balance in transceivers Transceivers using direct conversion between baseband and RF have become popular for low-cost designs. Bandwidth-efficient modulations employ information on both phases of the carrier, and for high-order signaling alphabets, it becomes problematic to realize Direct-... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346099 | Network fabric physical layer A network fabric physical layer includes a driver coupled to a receiver via a bus, which implements a multiphase encoded protocol. A multiphase sequencer sequences (data or command/control) words for the driver. The driver outputs the sequenced words onto the bus as... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7343431 | Method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for disabling BIOS-provided console redirection capabilities in the presence of an incompatible communications device Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer-readable media are provided for disabling a BIOS-provided console redirection facility in the presence of an incompatible device. According to the method, a determination is made as to whether a port has been enabled for uti... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342954 | Adaptive modulation for wireless networks The invention relates to communication between terminals. Where communication is over an ideal channel then a high throughput modulation scheme can be used. Where the terminals suffer interference or noise, transmission can be modified to a more robust modulation sc... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342982 | Demodulation apparatus for a network transceiver and method thereof A transceiver of a communication system is disclosed. The transceiver is implemented by a demodulation apparatus including a front-end receiver, a noise canceller, a feedforward equalizer (FFE) and a decoding system. The front-end receiver receives a remote signal a... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343530 | Turbo decoder and turbo interleaver A processor on which a software-based interleaver is run performs interleaver generation, which is split into two parts to reduce the overhead time of interleaver changing. First, preprocessing prepares seed variables, requiring a small memory. Second, on-the-fly ad... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342915 | Data multiplexing method and data multiplexer, and data transmitting method and data transmitter An effective data multiplexing method wherein an error correction ability is exerted at the maximum so that data transmission quality is improved and a data transmitting method in which an interleaving process applicable to data transmission using interpolation pilo... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342956 | System and method to extract uplink status flag bits in a cellular wireless network Determining whether a first wireless terminal may transmit on an uplink to a servicing base station in a cellular wireless communication system includes first receiving a plurality of a Radio Frequency (RF) bursts at a wireless terminal from a servicing base station... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343145 | Radio control system for models In conventional radio controlled models, a receive frequency is changed with a changeover switch mounted in a receiver body. In the present invention, a frequency switching scheme, employing a radio system in which a transmitter switches the receive frequency, is pr... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342955 | Apparatus and method for mobile communication device transmission An apparatus and method for transmission power amplifier bias control in an enhanced data rate for global system mobile evolution mobile communication device. The apparatus can include a transmitter configured to transmit information on an enhanced data rate for glo... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339981 | Shifted training sequences in a communications system Embodiments of the present invention can be used to select a training sequence used by a base station and a user terminal for communications. In one embodiment, selecting the training sequence to use includes first selecting a training sequence from a set of trainin... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339978 | Adaptive weight update method and system for a discrete multitone spread spectrum communications system A new method makes the most efficient use of the scarce spectral bandwidth in a wireless discrete multitone spread spectrum communications system by updating the spectral and/or spatial spreading weights at a rate that is determined by the measured quality of the li... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340233 | Integrated circuit and methods for third sub harmonic up conversion and down conversion of signals An integrated circuit may include a receiver and/or a transmitter that performs third order sub-harmonic conversion. The integrated circuit may include a Gilbert cell active mixer with three or more serially-connected transistors in each of the mixer's four branches... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339955 | TDMA communication method and apparatus using cyclic spreading codes Systems and methods of ultra-wideband communication are provided. In one embodiment, an ultra-wideband communication system divides a stream of data conveying symbols into a plurality of unspread substreams. A common spreading code is generated at the ultra-wideband... | 03/04/2008 |
| RE40134 | Communication system At the transmitter side, carrier waves are modulated according to an input signal for producing relevant signal points in a signal space diagram. The input signal is divided into, two, first and second, data streams. The signal points are divided into signal point g... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339540 | Sparse and virtual array processing for rolling axle array system A radar signal processing system comprises a processor that determines a respective position of each of a plurality of radiating elements included in a radar array. Each radiating element has a respectively different motion vector from every other one of the plurali... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340002 | Pragmatic trellis code modulation decoder and a method thereof A pragmatic trellis code modulation decoder including a demodulator for receiving a modulated signal and computing coordination values of symbols of the modulated signal on an I-axis and Q-axis in a constellation; a coset mapper for generating 3-bit soft decision da... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340183 | Optical communications systems, devices, and methods A method of transmitting an optical communications signal, comprising receiving a first signal, encoding the signal with a differential or duobinary encoding scheme, encoding the signal with an oscillating signal component, and sub-carrier modulating the signal onto... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340001 | Multidimensional signal modulation and/or demodulation for data communications Systems and methods are described for multidimensional signal modulation and/or demodulation for data communications. A method includes modulating a carrier signal in a first domain selected from the group consisting of phase, frequency, amplitude, polarization and ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339919 | Communicating system, communicating method, and base station A communication system, a communicating method and a base station are provided. When a base station generates an FCM, the base station detects the use rate of a transmission buffer and decides how slots of a frame of an uplink channel are structured. When the use ra... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336706 | Programmable integrated DiSEqC transceiver Programmable integrated Digital Satellite Equipment Control (DiSEqC) transceiver. The DiSEqC functionality is integrated onto a semiconductor device. Rather than perform the DiSEqC protocol in software, the DiSEqC protocol is implemented in hardware thereby providin... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336702 | Jitter detecting apparatus and phase locked loop using the detected jitter A jitter detecting circuit and a phase locked loop using the detected jitter are provided. A jitter detecting circuit detecting a jitter value of a signal which is converted into a digital signal from an analog signal input, wherein the jitter value detecting circui... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336729 | Digital signal processing based de-serializer A DSP based SERDES performs compensation operations to support high speed de-serialization. A receiver section of the DSP based SERDES includes one or more ADCs and DSPs. The ADC operates to sample (modulated) analog serial data and to produce digitized serial data ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336700 | System bus transceiver interface The present invention is directed to a transceiver configured for use with a multi-tier system bus that allows for the flow of information to be managed among plural processors by connecting processors within modules on a local bus, which is then connected to the sy... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336938 | Phase-alternating mixer with alias and harmonic rejection Rejection of local oscillator alias response is provided in a mixing circuit by (1) a switching mixer producing an output that changes at least twice between two states (e.g., high-low-high or low-high-low) during each local oscillator period, and (2) a charge integ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334141 | Method of saving energy in an information handling system by controlling a main converter based on the amount of power drawn by the system An information handling system having an energy saving power converter that comprises a main converter for supplying power to the information handling system when in active operation, and an auxiliary converter for supplying standby power to the information handling... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333554 | Communication system with frequency modulation and a single local oscillator A signal processing unit is described relates to a communication system by radio waves with frequency modulation comprising a signal processing unit, a transmission stage for transmitting a transmission signal in response to a modulated control signal and in respons... | 02/19/2008 |
| RE40078 | Demand-based power and data rate adjustments to a transmitter to optimize channel capacity and power usage with respect to data transmission traffic over a fixed-bandwidth channel In a communication system in which a transmitter transmits data over a communication channel of a fixed bandwidth to a receiver, the method according to which the transmit data rate is continuously adjusted to a rate which is substantially equal to a short-term aver... | 02/19/2008 |
