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Examiner: Bayard, Emmanuel


Primary examiner statistics: 683 patents; average approval time: 683 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 230 patents; average approval time: 1049 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
8111737 Bidirectional digital communication circuit and a bidirectional d...
8107568 Coupling channel noise canceling circuit
8107565 Automatic gain control (AGC) for OFDM-based transmission in a wir...
8098775 Data processing apparatus, data processing method and program
8098759 Radio transmitting device and radio transmitting method
8098723 Receiver employing non-pilot reference channels for equalizing a ...
8094699 Methods and systems for demodulating a multiuser signal using cha...
8094741 Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication metho...
8094705 Fast SERDES I/O characterization
8090012 Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving channel quality i...
8085845 Method and apparatus for encoding hybrid intra-inter coded blocks
8085846 Method and apparatus for decoding hybrid intra-inter coded blocks
8077814 Preamble acquisition without second order timing loops
8077764 16-state adaptive noise predictive maximum-likelihood detection s...
8073048 Method and apparatus for minimizing number of reference pictures ...
8068568 Method and system for a sliding window phase estimator for wideba...
8064540 Amplitude modulator
8064545 Device and method for determining a constellation of a quadrature...
8059704 Near-end crosstalk noise minimization and power reduction for dig...
8054877 Constellation recovery for quadrature amplitude modulation
8050369 System and method of receiving and processing multicommunication ...
8050343 Wireless communication methods and receivers for receiving and pr...
8045602 Transceiver apparatus and method having ethernet-over-power and p...
8036257 Method of determining at least one transmit mode parameter for a ...
8036323 Method and system for decoding single antenna interference cancel...
8031821 Digitally assisted power reduction technique for IQ pipeline ADCs...
8031822 Communication apparatus
8027412 Apparatus and method for detecting frame boundary in wireless com...
8027376 Method and system for measuring IQ path mismatch
8023556 Autonomously generating ramp profiles in a transceiver
8023607 Frequency synchronization method and apparatus
8023601 Weight generation method for multi-antenna communication systems ...
8014441 Communication channel establishing method, communication system, ...
8009758 Apparatus and method for channel-interleaving and channel-deinter...
8009770 Decoder for 4QAM-NR and method thereof
8009783 Synchronous digital data transmission interface
8000399 Adaptive joint channel estimation and data demodulation for OFDM ...
8000422 Apparatus and method for detecting signal in multiple-input multi...
7995677 Apparatus and method for detecting signal by maximum likelihood
7991084 Apparatus, method and computer program product for detecting non-...

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
6639951 Digital demodulator
6636549 Method for calculating phase shift coefficients of an M sequence
6625223 Method and apparatus for encoding, transmitting and decoding digi...
6625209 Short synchronization time data modem
6618450 Receiving apparatus and receiving method
6606350 Pulse transmission receiver with higher-order time derivative pul...
6603818 Pulse transmission transceiver architecture for low power communi...
6587498 Leveling out of interference in a mobile network using a hopping ...
6580761 Coding technique in discrete multi-tone (DMT) based communication...
6563890 Maximum a posteriori probability decoding method and apparatus
6560274 Transceiver
6560277 Distinguishing between final coding of received signals in a PCM ...
6529559 Reduced soft output information packet selection
6526110 Embedded RAM based digital signal processor
6522695 Transmitting device for transmitting a digital information signal...
6510185 Single chip CMOS transmitter/receiver
6507619 Decoding system and method for digital communications
6504870 Broadcast encoding system and method
6501790 Method and apparatus for providing high speed modem replay using ...
6498823 Variable rate modulator
6498821 Space diversity method and system for broadband wireless access
6498817 Circuit for processing data signals
6496531 Method and system for controlling forward transmit power in a wir...
6493403 Asynchronous timing for interpolated timing recovery
6487241 Method and apparatus employing cutback probe
6480535 Generating multi-channel outputs simultaneously in a receiver usi...
6480557 Portable GPS-receiver for a personal safety system
6473452 Method and apparatus for digital correlation
6470045 Communication protocol between a transceiver unit and transponder...
6463103 Frame-based sign inversion method and system for spectral shaping...
6463096 MAC protocol employing multiple data rates
6459721 Spread spectrum receiving apparatus
6449319 Receiver with a clock signal generator
6445730 Multicarrier transmission system with low power sleep mode and ra...
6445726 Direct conversion radio receiver using combined down-converting a...
6445752 Apparatus and method for phase tracking in a demodulator
6442195 Multiple low speed sigma-delta analog front ends for full impleme...
6434202 Method and apparatus for forming pulse shaped signals
6426978 Digital communication systems and methods for differential and/or...
6426972 Reduced complexity equalizer for multi mode signaling
 
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