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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8112046 | Wearable one way transfer device A wearable, one-way transfer device component for use in a communications system that includes a first device coupled to a first communication network that receives and compiles global positioning data corresponding to the physical location of one or more objects, a... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107895 | Independent power consumption management in a MIMO transceiver and method for use therewith An integrated circuit (IC) includes a multi-input multi-output transceiver system that includes a plurality of RF transceivers. Each RF transceiver includes an RF transmitter that transmits a transmit signal at a selected transmit power, based on a transmit power co... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103224 | Method and apparatus for the integration of a high efficiency power amplifier with an integrated transceiver for wireless communication An integrated transceiver for wireless applications has both a frequency determining means and a power amplifier. A transmission filter suppresses unwanted spurious outputs in an integrated circuit before a power amplifier stage amplifies and transmits the desired s... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095082 | Dual band radio frequency transmitter A transmitter includes a transformer and a transformer tuning circuit. The transformer transforms a differential radio frequency (RF) signal to a single-ended RF signal. The transformer tuning circuit tunes the transformer to permit the transmitter to transmit the s... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8090328 | Voice, data and RF integrated circuit with off-chip power amplifier and methods for use therewith An RFIC includes an RF transmitter, that generates an RF signal to a power amplifier module that operates a selected one of a plurality of power amplifiers, based one or more control signals. A processing module generates the control signals based on a selected one ... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8081934 | Configurable frequency band elimination for powerline network A communication device for use in adapting an appliance to a computer network consistent with certain embodiments has a data transmitter that receives data to be transmitted and generates output signals carrying the data at a plurality of carrier frequencies. A user... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078122 | Interface between digital and analog circuits Circuitry that generates an interface signal between a first and a second integrated circuit (IC). The circuitry includes a reference circuit that provides a reference signal, an interface circuit, and a circuit element. The interface circuit is implemented on the f... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8068793 | Method and system for enhancing efficiency by modulating power amplifier gain Aspects of a method and system for enhancing efficiency by modulating power amplifier (PA) gain are presented. Aspects of the system may comprise a PA gain modulator that enables modification of an amplitude of a digital baseband signal. A baseband processor may ena... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8055212 | Transmitter phase shift determination and compensation A wireless communication transmitter is configured to determine transmitter phase shift, and correspondingly includes a derivation circuit, one or more slope polarity tracking circuits, and a phase shift computation circuit. The derivation circuit derives a referenc... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045937 | Digital phase feedback for determining phase distortion A feedback loop is used to determine phase distortion created in a signal by directly extracting the phase distortion information from a feedback signal using original frequency modulation information. ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045936 | Receiver for receiving embedding OFDM in an CDMA systems Systems and methods of combining OFDM and CDMA signals are provided. An OFDM packet data channel is overlaid over CDMA transmissions. The channel is scheduled slotwise between multiple users. In some embodiments, there is a CDMA packet data channel which is schedule... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8045935 | High data rate transmitter and receiver A high-speed transmitter and receiver are provided. In one embodiment, a transmitter comprises a baseband processor structured to receive data and to convert the data into a multiplicity of high and low signal values, with each high and low signal value having a fir... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8023905 | Method for embedding OFDM in CDMA systems Systems and methods of combining OFDM and CDMA signals are provided. An OFDM packet data channel is overlaid over CDMA transmissions. The channel is scheduled slotwise between multiple users. In some embodiments, there is a CDMA packet data channel which is schedule... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8023904 | Methods and apparatus for transmitting information between a basestation and multiple mobile stations Methods and apparatus for scheduling mobile stations (MSs) to download data to and/or to control the rate of downloading to an MS from a base station (BS) as a function of downlink channel condition information are described. Artificial channel variations, which can... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8019290 | Two-step channel selection for wireless transmitter front-ends A reconfigurable multimode transmitter is disclosed, operating in accordance with a two-step channel selection. The first step provides for a fine channel selection and upconversion of a desired channel to either positive or negative IF. The second step is a coarse ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8010059 | Transmit power management for a communication device and method for use therewith An RF integrated circuit (IC) includes a processing module that determines a selected one of the plurality of power modes based on current use characteristics of at least one application, and generates a power mode signal based on the selected one of the plurality o... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7983631 | Voice, data and RF integrated circuit with multiple modulation modes and methods for use therewith A radio frequency (RF) transmitter includes a modulation controller that generates a modulation control signal having either a first value or a second value. A driver generates an RF signal based on an upconverted signal, wherein the driver modulates the upconverted... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7983630 | Digital IF wireless transmitter, RF modulator, and RF modulating method Provided are a digital IF wireless transmitter, an RF modulator, and an RF modulating method. A digital IF wireless transmitter includes an IF up-converting unit up-converting a baseband I signal and a baseband Q signal on the basis of a first IF, a first operating ... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7974589 | High-speed data transmitters Data transmitter embodiments are provided which are particularly useful as interface devices for accurate and reliable transmittal of data from high-speed data system devices such as analog-to-digital converters. Transmitter embodiments have been found to provide ex... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7962107 | Transmission device In a transmission device including an RF power amplifier with less number of terminals for monitoring an input/output signal of the RF power amplifier, there are provided with an input signal detector detecting the input signal; an output signal detector detecting t... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7953377 | WCDMA transmit architecture Wideband-Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) transmit architecture. A baseband digital processing module operates cooperatively with an analog signal processing module to effectuate highly adjustable and highly accurate gain adjustment in accordance with transmit... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7949313 | Direct conversion device with compensation means for a transmission path of a wireless communication equipment A conversion device (CD) is dedicated to conversion of baseband analog I/Q input signals into RF signals in a transmitting path of a wireless communication equipment. This device (CD) comprises i) first (PP1) and second (PP2) processing paths each comp... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945221 | Transmitter device with quasi-constant LO leakage, for wireless communication equipment with a direct conversion architecture A transmitter device for wireless communication equipment, comprises at least one path (P1) comprising i) a low-pass filter (LPF 1+, LPF1−) for filtering differential signals and applying a chosen first attenuation to each of them to decrease ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7945220 | LINC power transmitter A linear amplification with nonlinear components (LINC) power transmitter is provided. The LINC power transmitter includes a digital signal processing unit which controls the LINC power transmitter; a frequency modulation unit which modulates or converts a digital s... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7917098 | Configurable frequency band elimination for powerline network A communication device for use in adapting an appliance to a computer network consistent with certain embodiments has a data transmitter that receives data to be transmitted and generates output signals carrying the data at a plurality of carrier frequencies. A user... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7899413 | Radio apparatus A control unit, in cooperation with an interface (IF) unit, a modulation unit and a baseband processing unit, produces a packet signal composed of a plurality of streams. While using as a reference a first known signal assigned to one of the plurality of streams and... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7894780 | Method and system for a linearized transmitter including a power amplifier Various aspect of a system for a linearized transmitter including a power amplifier may include at least one transconductance amplifier that enables generation of a single analog quadrature signal. Transmitter mixers may enable generation of a plurality of upconvert... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7885616 | Method and system for coordinating necessary radio transmission events with unrelated opportunistic events to optimize battery life and network resources A method and apparatus for sending an event from user equipment operating in a mobile network, the method comprising the steps of: monitoring whether an unrelated opportunistic event has occurred; and sending said event with said unrelated opportunistic event. ... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885617 | Base station, radio line control station, and radio communication method A base station (10) according to the present invention includes: a plurality of amplifiers (15a, 15b) configured to amplify radio frequency signals; a plurality of antennas (16a, 16b) configured to trans... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7865152 | RF waveform modulation apparatus and method The disclosed system, device and method for a signal modulation apparatus generally includes a first signal generator suitably configured to generate a first continuous wave radio frequency (RF) signal, and a second signal generator suitably configured to generate a... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7848715 | Circuit and method Implementations related to circuits including an oscillator and a switch-mode DC/DC converter are presented herein. ... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7848714 | Radio frequency circuit apparatus and radio frequency module A radio frequency circuit apparatus and a radio frequency module which permit alleviation of the PA efficiency drop and are compatible with both a MIMO system and a conventional system are to be provided. They are provided with a plurality of power amplifiers for am... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7796958 | Transmitter and transmitting method thereof in wireless communication system A transmitter and a transmitting method of a wireless communication system are provided. The transmitter transmits RF signals using an outphasing scheme of converting one analog IF NC-EMS into two analog C-EMSs. In the transmitter, a baseband processor generates a b... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7787834 | Voice, data and RF integrated circuit with off-chip power amplifier and methods for use therewith A voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes an RF transmitter, that generates an RF signal to a power amplifier module. A memory module stores a least one application as a plurality of operational instructions, the at least one application having a pluralit... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7787835 | Radio receiver and radio transmitter A radio receiver includes an aerial wire that receives a radio signal in which a transmission signal is superimposed on a carrier, a voltage-controlled oscillator that oscillates a local oscillation signal, a frequency multiplier, a demodulation circuit that demodul... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7787833 | Broadband transmitter A broadband transmitter includes a modulator and circuits for translating and conditioning the modulated signal to produce a modulated, analog signal at a predetermined frequency. A low-linearity power amplifier amplifies the analog signal at a predetermined frequen... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7783268 | Transmitter and transmitting method thereof in wireless communication system A transmitter and a transmitting method of a wireless communication system are provided. The transmitter transmits RF signals using an outphasing scheme of converting one analog IF NC-EMS into two analog C-EMSs. In the transmitter, a baseband processor generates a b... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7783267 | Modifying a signal in response to quality indicator availability Communicating a signal includes establishing a quality indicator at a first communication device that has antenna elements. The quality indicator indicates the quality of communication links between the first communication device and a second communication device. A... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7773959 | Quadrature radio frequency amplifier output network The present invention provides a quadrature RF amplifier output network that includes a quadrature RF combiner and impedance transformation circuitry. The output network is coupled between a quadrature RF amplifier and an antenna, or other downstream circuitry to op... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7764934 | RF transceiver incorporating dual-use PLL frequency synthesizer A frequency synthesizer for use in a transmitter operates to receive outbound transmit data and to modulate the outbound transmit data to produce a modulated RF signal. The modulated RF signal can then be amplified to produce an outbound RF signal. ... | 07/27/2010 |
