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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7978137 | Performance and power management in direction of arrival determination by utilizing sensor information A system for enhancing the performance of a wireless communication device (WCD) while executing a direction of arrival (DoA) estimation. The performance may be improved through device management, and may include the collection of information from one or more sensors... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7719469 | Device and method for position measurement by means of linear doppler shifts generated A position determination method including a step of transmitting a periodic signal having a carrier frequency, a step of sequentially receiving the periodic signal having the carrier frequency at various locations using at least one antenna, and a step of determinin... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7548202 | Doppler radio direction finding antenna A radio direction finding antenna is disclosed. A dielectric material is configured to rotate about an axis of rotation. The dielectric material has a first conductive surface. A radiating element or array of radiating elements are disposed within the dielectric mat... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548201 | Method and system for automatically analyzing and modifying cable television signal leak information Provided are a system and method for modifying detected radio frequency (RF) leak information in a cable television system. In one example, the method includes identifying a leak location and a leak magnitude in the cable television system using a detection system. ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7548203 | Performance and power management in direction of arrival determination by utilizing sensor information A system for enhancing the performance of a wireless communication device (WCD) while executing a direction of arrival (DoA) estimation. The performance may be improved through device management, and may include the collection of information from one or more sensors... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7414581 | Method for improved signal to noise ratio estimation A method for estimating signal/noise ratio is provided. The method comprises calculating a first signal/noise ratio (SNR) estimate using a technique with a first response time, calculating a second SNR estimate using a technique with a second, slower response time, ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409226 | Use of doppler direction finding to improve signal link performance in a wireless communication environment A rotating antenna is used in a wireless system to impart a phase onto a received signal by electronically moving the effective receiving antenna location along a circular path such that the modulation phase angle indicates the bearing of the radio transmission and ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7365679 | Positioning apparatus, control method of positioning apparatus, control program for positioning apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium having control program for positioning apparatus recorded therein A positioning apparatus that measures a current position by using measurement basis codes carried on satellite waves from a plurality of positioning satellites includes: a first phase error information generating unit that generates first phase error information ind... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7360124 | Autonomous network fault detection and management system The invention provides an autonomous geo-referenced fault data detection, storage and management system and method for transmission line network such as cable distribution networks, based on an application server architecture, wherein autonomous means automatic and ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358897 | Apparatus, methods and computer program products for GPS signal acquisition using an adaptive search engine A GPS receiver includes a digital signal processor (DSP) configured to receive a carrier-modulated signal and to provide an adaptive GPS search engine operative to search the carrier-modulated signal for GPS signals over a variable number of carrier timing hypothese... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7324837 | Base station apparatus of which installation is facilitated Even if random connection to eight connectors at a base station is established when eight antennas are connected to the base station, a connection relation optimal for reception with a diversity system or with adaptive array processing can subsequently be establishe... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321776 | Estimating GPS time at cellular terminals based on timing of information from base stations and satellites A mobile terminal generates an estimate of GPS time. The mobile terminal includes a cellular receiver, a GPS receiver, and a processor. The cellular receiver is configured to receive communication signals from cells in a wireless communication system. The GPS receiv... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7313401 | Positioning system using packet radio to determine position and to obtain information relative to a position A positioning system includes the ability to receive GPS signals and to receive and transmit packet radio signals. The positioning system receives GPS transmissions to determine its pseudo position. The positioning system also receives differential corrections relat... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7301992 | Multipath processing for GPS receivers A GPS receiver system determines the presence of trackable signals at code delays less than the prompt delay being tracked for a particular, signal and changes the prompt delay to correspond to the smallest code delay having a trackable signal. Trackable signals at ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302267 | Apparatus and method for estimating a velocity of a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system A Base Station (BS) apparatus for estimating a velocity of a Mobile Station (MS) in a mobile communication system includes a channel estimator for performing channel estimation according to a velocity band, receiving a wireless channel signal from the MS, and perfor... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295808 | Method of and system for calibrating a repeater A method of and system for calibrating a repeater in a wireless communications system are provided. The one or more calibration parameters for the repeater are derived from (a) time measurements derived from one or more signals relayed by the repeater and received a... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295633 | Triple multiplexing spread spectrum receiver A GPS car navigation system derives GPS position update information from motion of the car along the actual track. Turns along the track are detected when they actually occur and are compared with the predicted turns so that the time and position at the actual turn ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7251491 | System of and method for using position, velocity, or direction of motion estimates to support handover decisions A method of and system for supporting a handover decision in a wireless communication system is described. An estimate of the position, velocity or direction of motion of a subscriber station is obtained. The estimate, or information derived there-from, is then used... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7231197 | Angle rate interferometer and passive ranger A receiver includes a processor and an RF bridge. The RF bridge is coupled to the processor to receive a reference signal from the processor. The RF bridge includes first and second frequency converters coupled to respective first and second antennas. The RF bridge ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7218277 | Antenna failure detection The present invention provides an apparatus, method, and computer-executable program for detecting antenna failures in directional antennas. In particular, the present invention compares a bearing calculated from received positional data concerning a target to the b... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7196668 | Wireless communication system of notebook computer having antenna array module A wireless communication system of a notebook computer includes a first antenna, an antenna array module and a wireless local area network (WLAN) module. The antenna array module includes a plurality of second antennas and a plurality of connectors electrically conn... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7193561 | Phase controlled antennae for data transmission between mobile devices In a phase-controlled antenna array for mobile devices, in particular designed for flying device, groups of controllable passive antenna elements are arranged in concentric circles around an active central antenna element. The arrangement of additional similar plana... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7158078 | Positioning of mobile wireless terminal An apparatus for determining a position of a mobile wireless station comprises means for determining the position of the mobile wireless station in accordance with a position of a first reference wireless station, a position of a second reference wireless station, a... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7136629 | Radio device, radio device calibration system, calibration method, and calibration program An adaptive array radio apparatus (1010) includes an A/D converter (1200.1–1200.n) receiving respective signals from an array antenna for conversion into a digital signal from an analog signal, a down sampling device (1210.1–1210.n... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7109920 | Moving platform position determination system and method A system and method for determining a position of a moving platform are provided. The method includes transmitting a carrier signal from one of the moving platform and a stationary platform, receiving a received signal at the other of the moving and stationary platf... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106251 | Receiver in a position-finding system and method for position-finding with increased sensitivity The invention relates to a receiver in a position-finding system, having a calculation unit for calculating a statistical value from a received signal, and a detector unit for comparing the statistical value with a threshold value and for determining whether the sig... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7095984 | Base station apparatus and direction-of-arrival estimating method Signals including a plurality of components representing a phase rotation between antenna elements by combining signals, which have arrived through each path of a first to an m-th paths, for every antenna are generated in RAKE combining sections 104-1 ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7082155 | Reception level measuring system A reception level measuring system in which a base station in a code division multiple access (CDMA) mobile communication system measures a reception level of a signal from a mobile station. The reception level measuring system has an approximate-line estimating dev... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7079025 | Reconfigurable geolocation system A portable reconfigurable geolocation system is provided. The system includes a portable user node and one or more portable pseudolite nodes in communication one another and with the user node. Each of the user nodes and pseudolite nodes includes a transmitter that ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7072631 | Mobile communication terminal and method of calibrating frequency in the same A mobile communication terminal includes (a) a first unit for calibrating a frequency, (b) a global positioning system (GPS) module, and (c) a processor which electrically connects the first unit and the global positioning system module to each other. The first unit... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069034 | Systems and methods for reduced forward link power control delay A communication system includes a mobile terminal and a base station. The mobile terminal estimates signal quality of a forward link during a first power control group period and determines a power control bit based on the estimated signal quality. The mobile termin... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7058399 | Search window delay tracking in code division multiple access communication systems The present invention provides a search window delay tracking procedure for use in a multipath search processor of a CDMA radio receiver. A channel impulse response is estimated for a received signal containing plural paths, each path having a corresponding path del... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054717 | Robotic wash cell using recycled pure water The present invention pertains to a robotic wash cell including a six-axis robotic arm and end effector equipped with nozzles that spray unheated, solvent free, pure water at high-pressure to clean or debur objects by maintaining the nozzles in close proximity and s... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7023905 | Correlation and demodulation circuit for a receiver for signals modulated by a specific code The correlation and demodulation circuit (6) in particular for a pseudo-random code radio-frequency signal receiver (1) includes a correlation stage (7) connected to a microprocessor (12) in particular for configuring the correlation stag... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7006040 | Steerable antenna and receiver interface for terrestrial broadcast Antennas with steerable antenna patterns and techniques for using such antennas are described. In accordance with the invention, antenna patterns with one or more NULLs are used. Through the use of digital control signals the antenna pattern is steered so that a sou... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006838 | System and method for locating sources of unknown wireless radio signals A system and method for determining the location of a source (target device) of a wireless radio signal of an unknown or arbitrary type for which a signal correlator is not known or available. The target device's signal is received at a plurality of known locations ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6972708 | GPS receiver with electronic warfare receiver front end A global position system radio receiver achieved through use of an electronic warfare receiver, and particularly one of the electronic warfare receiver output frequency channels, as a front-end signal processor for the global position system receiver. Electronic war... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6967615 | Phase center measurement of electronic warfare antennas using GPS signals An electronic warfare apparatus for determining the location of for example a ground based source of electromagnetic radiation from a platform such as an aircraft. Location is determined using angle of arrival based vector determinations provided by signal differenc... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965754 | Satellite positioning system receiver with reference oscillator circuit and methods therefor A method in a location enabled mobile wireless receiver having an oscillator, including determining a change in cellular network based frequency error of the oscillator (250), based on a difference (230) between a cellular network based frequency error... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6961545 | Method and system for providing antenna diversity An antenna switch diversity algorithm, and systems and methods to provide antenna diversity by implementing the algorithm in, for example, an IEEE 802.11a compliant environment, are presented. In accordance with the algorithm, one antenna of at least two antennas is... | 11/01/2005 |
