Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100266063 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE TRANSMIT DIVERSITY USING SYMMETRIC PHASE DIFFERENCE - Communication is performed for a first communication device having a set of antenna elements. A quality-indication signal is received from a second communication device (e.g., a basestation). A complex weighting is calculated based on the quality-indication signal. A pre-transmission signal is modified based on the complex transmit diversity weighting to produce a set of modified-pre-transmission signals, wherein the modifications are symmetric by making approximately half the magnitude of the transmit diversity modification to one signal in a first direction, and approximately half the magnitude of the transmit diversity modification to the other signal in a second direction, opposite the first direction. Each modified pre-transmission signal from the set of modified-pre-transmission signals is uniquely associated with an antenna element from the set of antenna elements. The set of modified-pre-transmission signals is sent from the set of antenna elements to produce a transmitted signal. | 10-21-2010 |
20110059706 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING FOR SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE CONTROL - A system may include a modifiable mobile device having at least two antennas coupled to fractional amplifiers, with returned power detectors. A beamformer unit provides adaptive beam shaping pattern, and a baseband processor provides beam pattern requirements, wherein the beamformer unit modifies the beam pattern requirements with return loss sampling information to shape the adaptive beam pattern so that a transmitted beam pattern minimizes transmitted power reflected back to the mobile device. A method may include regularly measuring a return power level, if output power is greater than a specific absorption rate level, comparing the return power level to a first threshold, else implementing mobile transmit diversity (MTD), and repeating. If the return power level is greater than the first threshold, implementing a MTD combined with reflection-based beamforming that modifies beam pattern requirements of the mobile device with return loss sampling information to create an adaptive beam pattern. | 03-10-2011 |
20110268201 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL PROBE INITIALIZATION USING TRANSMIT DIVERSITY - Embodiments of the present invention may separately utilize transmit paths of a mobile transmit diversity device to initialize communication with a base station over a random access channel, particularly where the transmit paths have power amplifiers with different characteristics, e.g., different power amplification. | 11-03-2011 |
20120208467 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS USING MULTIPLE FEEDBACKS FOR UPLINK CLOSED-LOOP BEAMFORMING - A method, apparatus, and system for transmitting and controlling uplink diversity signals in a mobile communication device. While in a soft handoff situation, a mobile communications device may receive a phase feedback signal from a non-serving base station. The mobile device may calculate a modified phase parameter based on the phase feedback signal from the non-serving base station in order to minimize interference with the non-serving base station, for example, by calculating a modified value of a phase difference in a direction opposite to the direction desired by the non-serving base station. In some embodiments of the invention, the mobile device may determine whether to calculate the modified phase parameter in a direction opposite to the direction indicated by the phase feedback signal of the non-serving base station based on a comparison of power feedback signals received from the non-serving and serving base stations. | 08-16-2012 |
20120314612 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE TRANSMIT DIVERSITY USING SYMMETRIC PHASE DIFFERENCE - Communication is performed for a first communication device having a set of antenna elements. A quality-indication signal is received from a second communication device (e.g., a basestation). A complex weighting is calculated based on the quality-indication signal. A pre-transmission signal is modified based on the complex transmit diversity weighting to produce a set of modified-pre-transmission signals, wherein the modifications are symmetric by making approximately half the magnitude of the transmit diversity modification to one signal in a first direction, and approximately half the magnitude of the transmit diversity modification to the other signal in a second direction, opposite the first direction. Each modified pre-transmission signal from the set of modified-pre-transmission signals is uniquely associated with an antenna element from the set of antenna elements. The set of modified-pre-transmission signals is sent from the set of antenna elements to produce a transmitted signal. | 12-13-2012 |
20130271322 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING FOR SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE CONTROL - A system may include a modifiable mobile device having at least two antennas coupled to fractional amplifiers, with returned power detectors. A beamformer unit provides adaptive beam shaping pattern, and a baseband processor provides beam pattern requirements, wherein the beamformer unit modifies the beam pattern requirements with return loss sampling information to shape the adaptive beam pattern so that a transmitted beam pattern minimizes transmitted power reflected back to the mobile device. A method may include regularly measuring a return power level, if output power is greater than a specific absorption rate level, comparing the return power level to a first threshold, else implementing mobile transmit diversity (MTD), and repeating. If the return power level is greater than the first threshold, implementing a MTD combined with reflection-based beamforming that modifies beam pattern requirements of the mobile device with return loss sampling information to create an adaptive beam pattern. | 10-17-2013 |
20130322561 | BEAMFORMER PHASE OPTIMIZATION FOR A MULTI-LAYER MIMO SYSTEM AUGMENTED BY RADIO DISTRIBUTION NETWORK - A system for selecting optimal phase combinations for RF beamformers in a MIMO hybrid receiving systems augmented by RF Distribution Network. The system addresses the issue of providing beamforming gains for a plurality of layers using one common set of weights for each beamformer. The specification may be based on channel estimation of all layers as viewed by all receiving antennas, and maximizing metrics that capture the total received power. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322574 | USING 3G/4G BASEBAND SIGNALS FOR TUNING BEAMFORMERS IN HYBRID MIMO RDN SYSTEMS - A hybrid MIMO RDN 3G/4G receiving system which include M antennas for N MIMO branches, wherein M>N is provided herein. Each branch has a beamformer so that each of the beamformers includes at least one combiner configured to combine signals coming from the antennas coupled to a respective beamformer into a combined signal. The system further includes a control module configured to tune at least one beamformer based on metrics derived by the baseband module. More specifically, the tuning of the beamformers is carried out, at least partially, using 3G/4G metrics that are generated but not usually reported in 3G/ | 12-05-2013 |
20130329820 | IMPLEMENTING TRANSMIT RDN ARCHITECTURES IN UPLINK MIMO SYSTEMS - A system for implementing a transmit uplink channel in MIMO RDN architecture is provided herein. The system includes a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) transmitting system that includes a MIMO baseband module having N branches; and a radio distribution network (RDN) connected to the MIMO receiving system. The RDN includes at least one beamformer, wherein each of the beamformers feeds K transmit antennas, so that a total number of transmit antennas in the system is M=N*K. At least some of the beamformers include passive splitters/combiners configured to split the signal coming from the transmitter into multiple signals which are weighted individually going to each transmit antenna. The baseband module is configured to repeatedly apply a “blind scanning” process to at least some of the transmit antennas, one at a time, so that performance of the tested transmit beam can be graded. | 12-12-2013 |
20140051377 | SETTING RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) BEAMFORMER ANTENNA WEIGHTS PER DATA-STREAM IN A MULTIPLE-INPUT-MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) SYSTEM - A system and a closed form method of optimizing a set of receive beamformers' weights, each feeding one of N multi-layer MIMO receiving system wherein the beamformers have a pool of M receive antennas wherein M is greater than N. Each beamformer is tuned to optimize one data stream, where selection of antennas per beamformer may be done out of a pool of antennas, and mapping of a given beamformer to a data stream is optimized per certain performance metrics | 02-20-2014 |
20140091968 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING FOR SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE CONTROL - A system may include a modifiable mobile device having at least two antennas coupled to fractional amplifiers, with returned power detectors. A beamformer unit provides adaptive beam shaping pattern, and a baseband processor provides beam pattern requirements, wherein the beamformer unit modifies the beam pattern requirements with return loss sampling information to shape the adaptive beam pattern so that a transmitted beam pattern minimizes transmitted power reflected back to the mobile device. A method may include regularly measuring a return power level, if output power is greater than a specific absorption rate level, comparing the return power level to a first threshold, else implementing mobile transmit diversity (MTD), and repeating. If the return power level is greater than the first threshold, implementing a MTD combined with reflection-based beamforming that modifies beam pattern requirements of the mobile device with return loss sampling information to create an adaptive beam pattern. | 04-03-2014 |
20140119469 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MOBILE TRANSMIT DIVERSITY USING SYMMETRIC PHASE DIFFERENCE - Communication is performed for a first communication device having a set of antenna elements. A quality-indication signal is received from a second communication device (e.g., a basestation). A complex weighting is calculated based on the quality-indication signal. A pre-transmission signal is modified based on the complex transmit diversity weighting to produce a set of modified-pre-transmission signals, wherein the modifications are symmetric by making approximately half the magnitude of the transmit diversity modification to one signal in a first direction, and approximately half the magnitude of the transmit diversity modification to the other signal in a second direction, opposite the first direction. Each modified pre-transmission signal from the set of modified-pre-transmission signals is uniquely associated with an antenna element from the set of antenna elements. The set of modified-pre-transmission signals is sent from the set of antenna elements to produce a transmitted signal. | 05-01-2014 |
20140233486 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RANDOM ACCESS CHANNEL PROBE INITIALIZATION USING TRANSMIT DIVERSITY - Embodiments of the present invention may separately utilize transmit paths of a mobile transmit diversity device to initialize communication with a base station over a random access channel, particularly where the transmit paths have power amplifiers with different characteristics, e.g., different power amplification. | 08-21-2014 |
20140293869 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CO-LOCATED AND CO-CHANNEL WI-FI ACCESS POINTS - A wireless communication system may include a first transceiver co-located with a second transceiver. The first and second transceivers may be configured to transmit data to at least one user equipment, according to a collision sense multiple access/collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) protocol. A processor may identify data transmission from the second transceiver and allow data transmission from the first transceiver simultaneously with data transmission from the second transceiver, on one frequency. | 10-02-2014 |
20140334312 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL CANCELLATION SCHEME WITH MULTI-BEAM - A method and system may include a plurality of collocated access points (APs), each coupled to, and operating independently with, a respective set of antennas, wherein the antennas are directional and oriented to create beams that cover different directions, for dividing a coverage of the APs into a plurality of subsectors, wherein the antennas further comprise transmit antennas and receive antennas separated from each other, wherein the APs operate with a limited number of channels, wherein two or more of the subsectors share a common channel, wherein the APs are configured to initiate a transmission by employing collision sense multiple access/collision avoidance (CSMA/CA), wherein the antennas are configured to enable simultaneous operation of each of the subsectors without impairing operation of the others, and wherein a radio frequency (RF) energy reception between the transmit antennas and the receive antennas is configured to prevent independent subsector operation because of the CSMA/CA. | 11-13-2014 |
20140341314 | IMPLEMENTING MULTI USER MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MU MIMO) BASE STATION USING SINGLE-USER (SU) MIMO CO-LOCATED BASE STATIONS - A system that implements multi user multiple inputs multiple outputs (MU MIMO) base station using a plurality of co-located single-user (SU) MIMO base stations is provided herein. The system may include a number N co-located single-user multiple input multiple output (SU-MIMO) bases stations each having a number K MIMO rank, wherein said N co-located SU-MIMO base stations are configured to share a common antennas array, operating over a common frequency band; a front-end MIMO processor connected to said N co-located SU-MIMO base stations and further coupleable to said common antennas array; and a back-end coordinator configured to collaboratively assist in optimizing operation of said N co-located SU-MIMO base stations, such that said N co-located SU-MIMO base stations and said front-end MIMO processor collaboratively implement a multi-user multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) base station capable of dynamically separating a coverage area into N*K spatial channels. | 11-20-2014 |
20140376671 | BEAMFORMER PHASE OPTIMIZATION FOR A MULTI-LAYER MIMO SYSTEM AUGMENTED BY RADIO DISTRIBUTION NETWORK - A system for selecting optimal phase combinations for RF beamformers in a MIMO hybrid receiving systems augmented by RF Distribution Network. The system addresses the issue of providing beamforming gains for a plurality of layers using one common set of weights for each beamformer. The specification may be based on channel estimation of all layers as viewed by all receiving antennas, and maximizing metrics that capture the total received power. | 12-25-2014 |
20150016438 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUS CO-CHANNEL ACCESS OF NEIGHBORING ACCESS POINTS - A system and method for overriding Carrier-Sense-Multiple-Access/Collision-Avoidance (CSMA/CA) and virtual carrier sense, without harming the traffic that occupies the channel is described herein. Further provided herein are measurements and qualifying criteria for performing the aforementioned channel sharing. The system and method may be based, for example, on opportunistic spatial isolation of nodes from each other and selectively implementing ultra-fast link adaptation. | 01-15-2015 |
20150050896 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS USING MULTIPLE FEEDBACKS FOR UPLINK CLOSED-LOOP BEAMFORMING - A method, apparatus, and system for transmitting and controlling uplink diversity signals in a mobile communication device. While in a soft handoff situation, a mobile communications device may receive a phase feedback signal from a non-serving base station. The mobile device may calculate a modified phase parameter based on the phase feedback signal from the non-serving base station in order to minimize interference with the non-serving base station, for example, by calculating a modified value of a phase difference in a direction opposite to the direction desired by the non-serving base station. In some embodiments of the invention, the mobile device may determine whether to calculate the modified phase parameter in a direction opposite to the direction indicated by the phase feedback signal of the non-serving base station based on a comparison of power feedback signals received from the non-serving and serving base stations. | 02-19-2015 |
20150071186 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COOPERATIVE SCHEDULING FOR CO-LOCATED ACCESS POINTS - Systems and methods of scheduling data for transmission from an access point “AP” to a station in a system of multiple co-located APs may include determining whether the station is also able to receive transmitted data from another of the multiple co-located APs. If the determining is negative the data is transmitted but if the determination is positive, the data may be transmitted only after ascertaining that exclusive permission to transmit the data to the station has been granted to the AP. | 03-12-2015 |
20150071270 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESSING AN OCCUPIED WI-FI CHANNEL BY A CLIENT USING A NULLING SCHEME - A method and system for overriding Carrier-Sense-Multiple-Access/Collision-Avoidance (CSMA/CA) without harming the traffic that occupies the channel are provided. The system and method may include for example detecting at a communication node having a plurality of antennas, a preamble transmitted by a co-channel neighboring node operating in compliance with IEEE 802.11 standard within a clear channel assessment (CCA) range of the communication node; and setting uplink transmit weights of the antennas of the communication node, to isolate the communication node from the neighboring node after the neighboring node has transmitted the preamble, to allow the communication node to access the co-channel, by keeping a transmitted signal level of the communication node as received by the neighboring node, below the CCA signal level at one or more of the antennas of said neighboring node. The system may for example implement the method in software running on a baseband processor. | 03-12-2015 |