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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7444154 | Nuisance cell phone locator This invention covers the use of multiple internal antennas to locate a nuisance cell phone which is being inappropriately operated. For a largely 1-dimensional layout like an airplane, an embodiment teaches the location being done by using differential timing teach... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7440785 | Method and apparatus for enhancing link range in a wireless network using self-configurable antenna Embodiments of the invention facilitate providing wireless links with longer link ranges and/or better suppression of interference than can be provided by the integrated antennas of a typical wireless network node. While, in some cases, it is possible to install int... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7352086 | Switching circuit, switching module and method of controlling the switching circuit A switching circuit includes switching transistors connected to one of an input terminal and an output terminal of the switching circuit, and a control bias supply circuit that supplies a control bias for cutting off all the switching transistors to the switching tr... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343183 | Portable wireless unit A portable wireless apparatus having a first parasitic element disposed in the front case of a first casing and made longer than the electrical length of an antenna, and a second parasitic element disposed in the back case of the first casing and made shorter than t... | 03/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7295825 | Diversity antenna arrangement A diversity antenna arrangement to reduce cost and the number of switching operations between different antennas includes an antenna changeover switch for switching between antennas, and an evaluation circuit for evaluating reception quality of a signal derived from... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7236808 | Vertical dynamic beam-forming A wireless communication system for transmitting and receiving wireless communications using at least one beam is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of WTRUs, at least one beam-forming antenna, and at least one radio network controller (RNC). The antenna is... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7218902 | Antenna for communication with a satellite A telecommunication system uses a satellite antenna showing on the horizontal plane, a sufficiently narrow radiation lobe to discriminate two adjacent satellites and showing on the vertical plane, a sufficiently narrow vertical lobe to ensure an adequate gain, but s... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7200375 | Radio receiver system A radio receiver system having a plurality of receiving antennas and a plurality of receivers is described in which antenna signals of a multiplicity of the plurality of receiving antennas are fed to each of the plurality of receivers. The plurality of receiving ant... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7190974 | Shared antenna control A scheme for sharing antenna control pins in a wireless communications device implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit is described. By providing a routing circuit for coupling the antenna control signal to the appropriate transceiver circuitry in a multi-tra... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7181253 | Dual-wing folder radio telephone A dual-wing folder radio telephone is provided. The dual-wing folder radio telephone includes a lower housing, a middle housing, and an upper housing that are connected to a hinge axis. The lower housing has hinge arms formed in one end thereof. Further, the lower h... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7107085 | Mobile communication terminal, communication method and program A mobile communication terminal having adaptive array antennas is provided that is capable of transmitting signals to an intended base station without interfering other devices, even when a reception error occurs. The mobile communication terminal basically performs... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7089037 | System and method for improving capacity gain while maintaining call performance in a wireless communications system A system and method for maximizing throughput in a telecommunications system is disclosed. The system includes an antenna system using fixed narrow beams that transmits and allows improved capacity gain to be realized without degrading call performance. The system c... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7079867 | Semi-blind transmit antenna array device using feedback information and method thereof in a mobile communication system There is provided a transmit antenna array device with at least two antennas and a method thereof in which a transmission beam is appropriately formed based on a weight vector to be transmitted to a specific mobile station in a mobile communication system. For this ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7076228 | Interference reduction for multiple signals The present invention reduces the degradation in performance of one or more radio signals that are co-transmitted with a first radio signal from the same transmitting antenna in the same frequency channel and received by the same antenna due to multipath or other sh... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6975834 | Multi-band wireless communication device and method The present invention relates to a wireless communication device, such as a transponder, that has a plurality of antennas for multi-frequency usage. The wireless communication device comprises a control system, communication electronics, memory, and the aforemention... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6799026 | Handset diversity in wireless communications system A diversity reception handset includes a receiver for receiving pilot and plural increments of traffic sent from a base station within a service area of a wireless communications network. The handset includes at least two antennas, a switch for switching a receiver ... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6728307 | Adaptive antenna transmit array with reduced CDMA pilot channel set An adaptive transmit antenna array having a reduced pilot set is disclosed. The adaptive transmit antenna array utilizes a decision-directed mechanism for the estimation of maximal ratio combining (MRC) weights to be used at a receiver rather than requiring a user-s... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6694154 | Method and apparatus for performing beam searching in a radio communication system A radio communication system includes a base station having a directional antenna for generating a plurality of beams. A first set of the beams is used to receive signals which are decoded at the base station. A second set of the beams is used for interro... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6640112 | Repeating method for a wireless communication system and apparatus thereof A repeating method for a wireless communication system which provides time and space diversities, and an apparatus thereof are disclosed. The method of repeating a forward link communication signal for a wireless communication system includes the steps of... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6580915 | Aircraft internal EMI detection and location A circuit and method to locate a cellular phone or noisy laptop computer in an aircraft uses and antenna each in the front and back of the plane. Arrival time differences of cellular phone pulses are used to locate the offending phone. Three receivers are... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6546235 | System for cancelling distortion in an electronic circuit Generation of a compensation signal for canceling the distortion component of a distorted signal at an affected node, where the distortion component is caused by electro-magnetic coupling from a distortion-causing signal source. The distortion-causing sig... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6522896 | Antenna diversity base station for transmission of unidirectional channels and corresponding method of transmission of a unidirectional channel by a base station A base station of a radiocommunication system has at least two antennas and can select one of the antennas. It determines if a channel to transmit to at least one mobile station is unidirectional and switches from one antenna to another in accordance with... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6498939 | Wireless network An antenna network system comprises a server including a transmitter and an antenna, and a client including a receiver and a steerable antenna. There is also included a control path which is independently operable of the antennas for communicating control... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6473596 | Close proximity transmitter interference limiting A weaker signal receiving system inclusive of stronger nearby-sourced interference signal cancellation capability. Stronger interference signal cancellation is accomplished by actively canceling or subtracting from the received signal an intermediate sign... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6469621 | Tire monitor compatible with multiple data protocols A tire monitor for monitoring a characteristic of tires on a vehicle includes a circuit configured to receive a first wireless signal having tire characteristic data and a first wireless protocol. The circuit is further configured to receive a second wire... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6430421 | Adaptive radio system The invention relates to an adaptive radio system that includes a plurality of mobile stations and at least one base station. In the radio system, at least the base station includes a plurality of independent transmitting and receiving branches to transfe... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6336033 | Adaptive array antenna The outputs of antenna elements 111 to 11M of a wide directional pattern 12 are distributed by a distributor 13 to respective channel parts 141 to 14N, and in each channel part 14i (i=1, 2, . . . , N), its conne... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6226508 | Transmission diversity apparatus Outputs of A/D converters 110, 111, and 112 are input to correlation devices 117, 118, and 119. The correlation devices 117, 118, and 119 output ratios of these signals to an output signal of a modulator 116 for modulating an output of a switching device ... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6212406 | Method for providing angular diversity, and base station equipment A base station equipment for receiving and transmitting a signal of a desired user, which signal to be received may arrive at the equipment along several different paths with several different delays, and which equipment includes one or more antenna array... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6212368 | Measurement techniques for diversity and inter-frequency mobile assisted handoff (MAHO) Diversity and inter-frequency mobile-assisted handoff (MAHO) are achieved under continuous reception cellular access methods by using strategic timing and switching optimizations. Strategic timing is achieved by avoiding the non-reception of power control... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6188915 | Bootstrapped, piecewise-asymptotic directivity pattern control mechanism setting weighting coefficients of phased array antenna Weighting coefficients for a phased array antenna are iteratively refined to optimal values by a `bootstrapped` process that starts with a coarse set of weighting coefficients, to which received signals are subjected, to produce a first set of signal esti... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6073032 | Reception method and a receiver A receiver for receiving a signal of a desired user, which signal may arrive at the receiver along several different paths with several different delays, and which receiver has an antenna array consisting of several elements and one or more channel units ... | 06/06/2000 |
| 5937348 | Cordless communication system for a portable computer modem A cordless modem comprises a radio pair interfaced to a standard data/fax modem which allows a user of a personal computer to wirelessly connect to a telephone line. One end of the radio pair is a remote unit interfaced to the modem contained within the P... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5577265 | Antenna system for multipath diversity in an indoor microcellular communication system A system for mitigating the effect of fading in a digital communication system. Deep signal nulls occur when signals from multiple paths are precisely aligned in amplitude and phase canceling the signal at the receiving antenna and creating a fade. In an ... | 11/19/1996 |
| 5457812 | Radio test loop having common combiner cable connecting transmitters, spaced at nλ/2 therealong, with receivers, via frequency converter An arrangement for forming a radio test loop in a radio unit comprising several radio transmitters and radio receivers wherein each radio transmitter comprises a test signal output, which is adjustable during an operation of testing the radio transmitter,... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5437055 | Antenna system for multipath diversity in an indoor microcellular communication system A system for mitigating the effect of fading in a digital communication system. Deep signal nulls occur when signals from multiple paths are precisely aligned in amplitude and phase canceling the signal at the receiving antenna and creating a fade. In an ... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5321696 | Broadcasting of packets in an RF system An RF communication system contains a control module which communicates with a plurality of user modules that are each connected to at least one user device. The system provides a method for packet communications in which traditional destination addressed... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5280472 | CDMA microcellular telephone system and distributed antenna system therefor A code division multiple access (CDMA) communication system in which cellular techniques are utilized in a wireless Private Branch Exchange (PBX) environment. A microcellular arrangement is defined in which a base station communicates user information sig... | 01/18/1994 |
| 4395778 | Undesired signal canceller Apparatus for cancelling undesired signals for a radient energy receiver having first and second antennas which are spaced a distance apart and including a phase compensation circuit connected to one of the antennas and a variable phase shift circuit conn... | 07/26/1983 |
