Bizarre Patents
Hands free towel carrying system
A hands free towel carrying system for coupling a towel to a user to prevent loss, theft or contamination.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8102905 | Pulse detection in wireless communications system Pulses are detected in a communications receiver by programming each of a plurality of comparators (44a, 44b, . . . , 44n) with a sampling time point selected from a plurality of sampling time points (58, 60) and with... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8094706 | Frequency-based, active monitoring of reliability of a digital system Method, system and article of manufacture are provided for continually monitoring reliability, or aging, of a digital system and for issuing a warning signal if digital system operation degrades to or past a specified threshold. The technique includes periodically d... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090012 | Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving channel quality information in a communication system An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving Channel Quality Information (CQI) in a communication system. A Base Station (BS) transmits, to a Subscriber Station (SS), a request for CQI of a resource region corresponding to a frequency reuse factor K, which... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8005133 | Displaying eye-diagram and digital diagnostic data using network analyzers Methods and apparatuses for displaying information for analyzing a signal transmitted in a communication system. The method can include displaying digital diagnostic data received from a monitoring interface of a transceiver. An eye-diagram for the signal is also di... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7995647 | Apparatus and method for evaluating propagation path conditions A measurement indicator, “transfer efficiency,” is provided for evaluating conditions of propagation paths of wireless communication systems having a plurality of transmitting and receiving antennas. Transfer functions of signal paths are calculated from data of... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7965764 | Simultaneous physical and protocol layer analysis A method and apparatus for capturing an analog waveform on a serial bus. The method comprises the steps of designating a predetermined digital data sequence, decoding a serial data signal carried on a serial data bus, and comparing the decoded serial data signal to ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7961780 | Generated set top calibration patterns in manufacturing Included are systems and methods for performing an internal operations test to a set top terminal (STT). At least one embodiment of a method includes creating a test pattern for testing video functionality of the STT, sending the created test pattern to a digital en... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7903726 | Signal receiving apparatus and signal power prediction method thereof A signal receiving apparatus includes an indicating unit, a receiving, a system unit which comprises a plurality of electronic components to provide signal processing, a storing unit to store information related to a noise level, and a controlling unit to estimate a... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7801206 | Encoded serial data bit error detector An encoded serial data bit error analyzer captures the actual waveform of an encoded serial data stream associated with a bit error so that a user may readily validate the cause of the bit error. An encoded serial data stream decoder in the analyzer is modified to p... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7756199 | Simultaneous physical and protocol layer analysis A method and apparatus for capturing an analog waveform on a serial bus. The method comprises the steps of designating a predetermined digital data sequence, decoding a serial data signal carried on a serial data bus, and comparing the decoded serial data signal to ... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7646805 | Digital broadcasting receiving terminal with reception quality indicator A terminal for receiving digital broadcast signals includes signal receiving components for receiving a digital broadcast signal, and a first error rate detection unit for detecting a first bit error rate (BER) of the digital broadcast signal before the digital broa... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7602843 | Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving channel quality information in a communication system An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving channel quality information (CQI) in a communication system having a frame including subchannels corresponding to the same frequency reuse factor or different frequency reuse factors. A base station (BS) allocates a... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7443912 | Method and system for displaying the amplitude distortions of a transmission channel In order to display the amplitude distortions of a transmission channel, the amplitude distribution of a measurement signal of a known amplitude distribution is measured at the output of the transmission channel. Based on a given multitude of amplitude measured valu... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7403560 | Simultaneous physical and protocol layer analysis A method and apparatus for capturing an analog waveform on a serial bus. The method comprises the steps of designating a predetermined digital data sequence, decoding a serial data signal carried on a serial data bus, and comparing the decoded serial data signal to ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7400988 | Periodic jitter (PJ) measurement methodology Methodologies are disclosed for analyzing periodic jitter is a signal pattern using a continuous time interval analyzer. Sampled signal patterns may be correlated using time interval error calculations to determine start and stop sequences within sampled blocks of s... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7394843 | Spread spectrum verification circuit A method for verifying a spread spectrum function and a spread spectrum verification circuit are provided. Comparing an output frequency of the spread spectrum function with a reference frequency for the spread spectrum function tests an upper bound of the spread sp... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7356067 | Spread spectrum verification circuit A method for verifying a spread spectrum function and a spread spectrum verification circuit are provided. Comparing an output frequency of the spread spectrum function with a reference frequency for the spread spectrum function tests an upper bound of the spread sp... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7333537 | System for monitoring the quality of a communications channel with mirror receivers A system is presented that monitors the quality of a communications channel with mirror receivers. A first receiver and a second receiver, coupled in parallel with the first receiver, receive a data signal transmitted over the communications channel. The second rece... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7333567 | Digital detector utilizable in providing closed-loop gain control in a transmitter A digital detector processes at least one received digital signal to generate a squared signal, encodes the squared signal, applies first and second portions of the encoded signal to a multiplier and a look-up element, respectively, and processes outputs of the mult... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7315574 | System and method for generating a jittered test signal A multi-speed jittered signal generator (216, 400) that generates a full-speed jittered signal (404) by scaling a low-speed jittered signal (420) using a frequency scaler (428). The low-speed jittered signal is created by injecting a modu... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7305028 | Methods and system for equalizing data A method for equalizing data and systems utilizing the method. The method of this invention for equalizing (by shortening the channel response) data includes minimizing a function of the data and a number of equalizer characteristic parameters, where the function ut... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7292656 | Signal pulse detection scheme for use in real-time spectrum analysis A spectrum analysis engine (SAGE) that comprises a spectrum analyzer component, a signal detector component, a universal signal synchronizer component and a snapshot buffer component. The spectrum analyzer component generates data representing a real-time spectrogra... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7277685 | Automatic gain control of multiple antenna OFDM receiver A method includes amplifying the plurality of received signals, generating a plurality of time domain samples of the amplified signals with at least an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), determining at least a candidate power according to root-mean-square (RMS) powe... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7269151 | System and method for spectrum management of a shared frequency band A system and method for managing the spectrum utilization of a frequency band that is shared, both in frequency and time, by multiple devices. At one or more devices operating in the frequency band, pulses associated with signals occurring in the frequency band are ... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7254191 | System and method for real-time spectrum analysis in a radio device A real-time spectrum analysis engine (SAGE) that comprises a spectrum analyzer component, a signal detector component, a universal signal synchronizer component and a snapshot buffer component. The spectrum analyzer component generates data representing a real-time ... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254755 | On-chip receiver sensitivity test mechanism An on-chip receiver sensitivity test mechanism for use in an integrated RF transmitter wherein the transmitter and the receiver share the same oscillator. The mechanism obviates the need to use expensive RF signal generator test equipment with built-in modulation ca... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251225 | Signal splitting method for limiting peak power in a CDMA system The invention is a method for limiting the peak transmit power in a CDMA communication system. At least one of first and second high transmit power regions are separated into a plurality of high transmit power subregions. The high transmit power subregions of the pl... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7230984 | Methods and system for equalizing data in multicarrier receiver systems A method for equalizing data and systems utilizing the method. The method of this invention for equalizing (by shortening the channel response) data includes minimizing a function of the data and a number of equalizer characteristic parameters, where the function ut... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7224725 | Method for determining coefficients of an equalizer and apparatus for determining the same A method for estimating a phase response for an upstream area in a channel is based on an extrapolation and, following forcible distortion of an amplitude response, coefficients of a time domain equalizer and coefficients of a channel target circuit are determined u... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7224752 | System and method for real-time spectrum analysis in a communication device A spectrum analysis engine (SAGE) that comprises a spectrum analyzer component, a signal detector component, a universal signal synchronizer component and a snapshot buffer component. The spectrum analyzer component generates data representing a real-time spectrogra... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7221704 | All digital implementation of clock spectrum spreading (dither) for low power/die area A digital circuit configured to spread a clock train spectrum includes a clock configured to generate the clock train, and a variable divider configured to divide the frequency of the clock train by a temporally-varying-divider value to modulate the clock train and ... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7206549 | System and method for testing wireless devices The present invention disclose a system and method for testing wireless devices, by which two wireless device-under-test (DUTs) is enabled to transmit and receive signal from each other such that the two DUTs can be test simultaneously for achieving the objects of r... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203472 | Method and apparatus providing calibration technique for RF performance tuning A method is disclosed for operating a RF receiver of a communications equipment, as is circuitry for implementing the method. The method includes, while operating under the control of a data processor of the communications equipment, generating a calibration signal;... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7197282 | Mobile station loop-back signal processing Processing of loop-back information returned by one or more mobile stations that are served by a wireless communication network permits the network to compensate its transmit signals for increased transmission efficiency and reduced signal interference at the mobile... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7184777 | Server and multiple sensor system for monitoring activity in a shared radio frequency band An intelligent spectrum management (ISM) system and method are provided that includes sophisticated features to detect, classify, and locate sources of RF activity. The system comprises one or more sensors positioned at various locations in a region where activity i... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7177369 | Multipath communication methods and apparatuses Methods, apparatuses and systems are provided for identifying at least one multipath transmission delay within a reverse path data signal, determining at least one forward path pre-equalization parameter based on the transmission delay, and modifying a forward path ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177375 | Limit detector with hysteresis A method and apparatus for processing a signal is presented. An accumulator receives an input signal and generates an accumulated value. A hysteresis controller sets an adjustable upper and lower limit. The upper and lower limits are compared with the accumulated va... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177364 | System, decoder and method for transmitting, receiving and decoding high-speed digital data signals with reduced electromagnetic emissions A digital communications system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter is capable of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) encoding each bit of at least one n-bit digital signal into at least one QAM signal and thereafter transmitting the QAM signals... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7170929 | Digital signal transmission system and method of displaying transmission condition in digital signal transmission system A digital signal transmission system using a digital modulation system comprising a digital signal transmitter having a first digital signal processing unit and a digital signal receiver receiving a digital signal from the transmitter, wherein the digital signal rec... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7167683 | Bad frame indicator for radio telephone receivers A method for identifying a bad GSM speed frame and simultaneously maintaining a frame erasure rate below a specified value. The method is based upon a joint use of four signal quality metrics: (1) frame CRC parity check; (2) estimated burst signal-to-noise ratio; (3... | 01/23/2007 |
