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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175523 | Compact low loss high frequency switch with improved linearity performance A switch element includes a switch device having a drain, a source and a plurality of gates, and at least one additional interconnect located between the plurality of gates, the additional interconnect operative to establish a constant potential between the at least... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8121537 | Apparatus and method for uplink channel sounding in a wireless communication system An uplink channel sounding apparatus and method in a wireless communication system are provided, in which in an MS, a baseband MODEM generates as many channel sounding signals as the MS has antennas and outputs the channel sounding signals to an antenna switch. The ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8116675 | Method and apparatus for handover based on dynamic beamforming scheme A method and apparatus for handover based on a dynamic beamforming scheme, which is adapted to a mobile communication system including a mobile node and a base station, is provided. The apparatus includes a mobile profile information processor configured to process ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8099043 | Transmit channel in wideband high frequency wireless system using multiple transmit antenna, and method thereof Disclosed are a transmitting device and receiving device for selecting a transmit channel in a wideband high frequency wireless system using a plurality of transmit antennas, and a method thereof. According to the method of selecting a transmit channel, data is tran... | 01/17/2012 |
| 7907894 | System and method for enabling ultra small aperture communication antenna using spectral replication and coherent frequency and phase combining A system for enabling use of ultra-small aperture terminals in satellite communications is provided. The system comprises a transmitter configured to receive an input signal having information, a bandwidth, and an amplitude, replicate the input signal into two or mo... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7877058 | Compact low loss high frequency switch with improved linearity performance A switch element includes a switch device having a drain, a source and a plurality of gates, and at least one additional interconnect located between the plurality of gates, the additional interconnect operative to establish a constant potential between the at least... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7831202 | Satellite communications systems and methods using substantially co-located feeder link antennas A satellite communications system includes a plurality of feeder link antennas, a primary satellite, and an auxiliary satellite. The feeder link antennas are substantially co-located relative to one another. The primary satellite is configured to receive information... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7720437 | Zero-order energy smart antenna and repeater The invention is a new device that will improve the radio link quality for low power wireless devices. An example application is for low power, miniaturized wireless sensor nodes that are statically deployed in a slowly varying environment or that have limited mobil... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7706748 | Methods of ground based beamforming and on-board frequency translation and related systems Methods are provided to operate a communications system including a satellite and a satellite gateway. In particular, a feeder link may be provided between the satellite and the satellite gateway over a feeder link frequency band for communication of information bet... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7627286 | Beamforming systems and methods Systems and methods of convergence beamforming are disclosed. One method embodiment, among others, comprises receiving N data streams from at least N+1 antennas, where N is an integer greater than 1; determining signal characteristics of each received data stream; a... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7627285 | Satellite communications systems and methods with distributed and/or centralized architecture including ground-based beam forming A space-based component (SBC) of a communications system includes a service link subsystem including a plurality of service link antenna elements configured to provide service links with radioterminals and a feeder link subsystem configured to provide respective fee... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7418067 | Processing diversity signals at a mobile device using phase adjustments Processing diversity signals includes receiving diversity signals at a number of antennas. The diversity signals have communicated information, and the antennas are associated with channel paths. A phase of at least one diversity signal is adjusted. The diversity si... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7406311 | Method and apparatus for selectively operating satellites in tundra orbits A satellite system provides geosynchronous satellites in elliptical orbits in respective elliptical orbital planes separated by 120 degrees. The satellites traverse a common figure-eight ground track comprising northern and southern loops. The satellites are control... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7403715 | Free space optical bus A free space optical bus system and method are provided for connecting two units of circuitry across a free space gap. A first unit of circuitry includes a multiplexer that combines a plurality of bus signals to obtain an electronic combined signal and a laser that ... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7395028 | Switching apparatus and satellite antenna switching apparatus A satellite antenna switching apparatus has LNB ports to which LNBs are connected, receiver ports to which receivers that exchange signals with the LNBs are connected, cascade ports to which another switching apparatus is cascade-connected, and impedance circuits th... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7389086 | Adaptive array antenna controller An adaptive array antenna controller is disclosed that adaptively controls weighting coefficients of multiple antenna elements of an array antenna based on a digital signal outputted from an analog-to-digital converter receiving a weighted analog signal received fro... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7386308 | In-building radio frequency communications system with automatic failover recovery An improved in-building radio frequency communications system with automatic failover recovery comprising a primary external antenna and at least one ancillary external antenna, each antenna directed to a primary transmission tower and to at least one ancillary tran... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7382840 | RF signal processing in multi-antenna systems A method for antenna subset selection by joint processing in RF and baseband in a multi-antenna systems. Lt input data streams are generated in a transmitter for either diversity transmission or multiplexing transmission. These streams are modulated to RF... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7373172 | Multi-protocol interchip interface An interface between radios supporting different air interfaces is disclosed that avoids some of the costs and disadvantages associated with inter-radio interfaces in the prior art. The present invention enables the needed coordination across multiple wireless proto... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369511 | Communication method, communication apparatus, and communication system A method for exchanging channel information between a transmitter and a receiver each including antennas. A request frame including a first preamble, second preamble, and channel information feedback request is transmitted to the receiver, wherein the first preamble... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7369810 | Satellite transponder architecture with integral redundancy and beam selection capabilities A transponder system that integrates redundancy and beam selection capabilities is disclosed. The transponder system comprises an amplifier network having a plurality of amplifiers; an antenna network, comprising a plurality of antennae; an output switching network,... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366463 | Military UHF and commercial Geo-mobile system combination for radio signal relay A radio signal relay device such as satellite is used to cover several relatively small geographical regions with relatively narrow beams as well as a relatively large geographical region with a single beam. This relatively wide beam permits legacy equipment to be u... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366608 | G.P.S. management system A management system using Global Positioning System receivers for tracking remote units from a central office and quickly and conveniently determining if those remote units have varied from a set of predetermined parameters of operation. The system also includes pro... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356306 | Method and apparatus for code division switching of communication signals by trunk coding A method provides for trunk group satellite switching using a code division multiple access (CDMA) scheme. The method includes receiving inbound satellite beams carrying individually encoded user signals including a plurality of inbound trunk groups, processing and ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7324475 | Radio communication apparatus and method In a radio communication apparatus having a plurality of transmitting and receiving functions that enable simultaneous signal transmission and reception, an arbitrary number of transmitting and receiving functions are assigned to another radio communication apparatu... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324056 | Broadband communication system for mobile users in a satellite-based network A satellite-based communications system operating at high data rates includes a plurality of satellites each having uplink and downlink antennas for transmitting and receiving a plurality of signals utilizing a plurality of spot beams to and from a plurality of cove... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324469 | Satellite distributed high speed internet access A satellite distributed high-speed Internet “Hotspot” enables wireless and hardwired, satellite distributed Internet access for anyone with a PC or other web-ready device (wireless ready or cabled) and a valid credit card or prepaid coupon. The Hotspots can be l... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317916 | Stratospheric-based communication system for mobile users using additional phased array elements for interference rejection A communication system has a stratospheric platform with a payload controller and a phased array antenna having a plurality of main array elements for generating a plurality of communication beams and a plurality of auxiliary elements for canceling interference betw... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310497 | Radio communication repeater The invention proposes a repeater designed for indoor transmissions. The useful frequency band is split into two frequency bands and the repeater amplifies the signals from one of the bands and translates them to the other band. The transposition of frequency bands ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308286 | Multi-dimensional joint searcher and channel estimators A wireless communication receiver (20) comprises an antenna structure (22) and a joint searcher and channel estimator (24). The antenna structure acquires dimensionally differentiated signals which are concurrently utilized by the joint searcher... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305211 | Satellite communications system using multiple earth stations A satellite communications system uses multiple ground stations and one or more satellites for communicating between mobile subscribers and a land-based communications network, such as the PSTN or the Internet. Multiple ground stations geographically dispersed minim... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302226 | Combined fixed satellite service and mobile platform satellite service communication system A communication system for a mobile platform satellite service (MPSS) system includes a receiver subsystem (RS) and a transmitter subsystem (TS). A satellite transponder is in communication with the RS and the TS of the mobile platform. A satellite service ground st... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302023 | Application of multipath combiner and equalizer in a multi-channel direct sequence spread spectrum communication system A receiver subsystem in a multi-channel direct sequence spread spectrum system consists of a signal register, a multipath detector, a multipath combiner, a decision-feedback equalizer, a multi-channel detector, and a multi-channel signal regenerator. First, the mult... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295831 | Method and system for wireless intrusion detection prevention and security management A method and system for wireless intrusion detection, prevention and security management. The method and system provides autonomous wireless intrusion detection and prevention, with minimal or no operator intervention. The method and system integrates a physical lay... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295806 | Using directional antennas to enhance wireless mesh networks The principles of the present invention provide for using directional antennas to adaptively communicate in a wireless mesh network. A number of infrastructure components are included in a wireless mesh network environment. Each infrastructure component includes an ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292547 | Device and method for nodal multiple access into communications channels A nodal division multiple access technique for multiple access to a communications channel such as a satellite transponder. The present invention provides multiple access into a communications channel where each accessing site utilizes one signal from a composite am... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292643 | MIMO TCM with constellation rotation and coordinate swapping At the transmitting end of a multi-input multi-output communication system having at least two transmit antennas and Mr receive antennas, each symbol of a symbol coset is first arranged so that distinct symbols have distinct real and imaginary components ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7283783 | Method and system for broadcasting via phase-shift keying modulation with multiple transmit antennas A method of broadcasting multi-layered information in a multi-antenna broadcasting system can include identifying at least a first and second layer of information to be transmitted. The first layer of information can be encoded for transmission using a first unitary... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274759 | Antenna switching based on a preamble MSE metric An apparatus and method for improving the signal reception of a digital wireless receiver comprises a processing circuit for processing the preamble information of incoming signals, wherein a first predetermined portion of the preamble information is applied to a fi... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7270304 | Isolating positioning boom for instrument platform A positioning boom disposed between a space-based observatory platform and its instrument payload provides thermal and dynamic isolation as well as fine pointing and momentum control. The inventive system isolates a sensitive payload from a warm, dynamically noisy s... | 09/18/2007 |
