Method and apparatus for using position location to direct narrow beam antennas

    公开(公告)号:AU1669902A

    公开(公告)日:2002-05-27

    申请号:AU1669902

    申请日:2001-11-16

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: A novel mobile unit which communicates with a new and advantageous base station. The mobile unit includes a system for generation of position information and a transceiver for transmitting the position information. In the preferred embodiment, the transceiver is a CDMA system and the system for generating position information includes an arrangement for receiving a GPS signal. In the preferred embodiment, a GPS assisted arrangement is employed which is adapted to receive a signal from an airborne platform as well as from a satellite based platform. The inventive base station is adapted to receive position information from a remote unit and provide a received position signal in response thereto. The novel base station is further equipped with a mechanism for directing a beam in response to the received position signal. In the illustrative embodiment, the mechanism for directing the beam is a smart antenna system including an antenna array and a beamforming network for driving the array to output the directed beam.

    Predistortion technique for high power amplifiers

    公开(公告)号:AU4718199A

    公开(公告)日:2000-01-17

    申请号:AU4718199

    申请日:1999-06-24

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: A predistortion technique for high power amplifiers includes an adaptive predistortion algorithm that operates independently of data samples to write a set of complex gain values, or predistortion parameters, to a lookup table. The algorithm may be processor-driven. The gain values are taken from the lookup table and multiplied by a complex digital baseband waveform. The gain values may first be subjected to interpolation. The downconverted output of the amplifier is measured to gauge the efficacy of the predistortion. Based on the effect of the predistortion upon the ratio of in-band power to out-of-band power, decisions are made on the set of predistortion parameters for the next iteration of the algorithm. The algorithm runs continuously, perturbing parameters and adapting the predistortion functions accordingly in an effort to continually reflect instantaneous amplitude-modulation and phase-modulation relationships that may change over time with temperature variation or component aging.

    Method and apparatus for using position location to direct narrow beam antennas

    公开(公告)号:AU2002216699B2

    公开(公告)日:2006-08-17

    申请号:AU2002216699

    申请日:2001-11-16

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: A novel mobile unit which communicates with a new and advantageous base station. The mobile unit includes a system for generation of position information and a transceiver for transmitting the position information. In the preferred embodiment, the transceiver is a CDMA system and the system for generating position information includes an arrangement for receiving a GPS signal. In the preferred embodiment, a GPS assisted arrangement is employed which is adapted to receive a signal from an airborne platform as well as from a satellite based platform. The inventive base station is adapted to receive position information from a remote unit and provide a received position signal in response thereto. The novel base station is further equipped with a mechanism for directing a beam in response to the received position signal. In the illustrative embodiment, the mechanism for directing the beam is a smart antenna system including an antenna array and a beamforming network for driving the array to output the directed beam.

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    公开(公告)号:BR0115402A

    公开(公告)日:2006-05-09

    申请号:BR0115402

    申请日:2001-11-16

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: A novel mobile unit which communicates with a new and advantageous base station. The mobile unit includes a system for generation of position information and a transceiver for transmitting the position information. In the preferred embodiment, the transceiver is a CDMA system and the system for generating position information includes an arrangement for receiving a GPS signal. In the preferred embodiment, a GPS assisted arrangement is employed which is adapted to receive a signal from an airborne platform as well as from a satellite based platform. The inventive base station is adapted to receive position information from a remote unit and provide a received position signal in response thereto. The novel base station is further equipped with a mechanism for directing a beam in response to the received position signal. In the illustrative embodiment, the mechanism for directing the beam is a smart antenna system including an antenna array and a beamforming network for driving the array to output the directed beam.

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    公开(公告)号:AT375665T

    公开(公告)日:2007-10-15

    申请号:AT00944637

    申请日:2000-06-09

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: A Wireless Code Division Multiple Access method and apparatus for determining the transmitted rate of a voice/data signal from a mobile station to a Base Station. Variable rate vocoders transmit voice at one of several predetermined frame rates. The receiver determines the transmitted rate based on one of several frame parameters. One of the parameters is received frame energy. The received frame energy is measured over the length of the relevant portion of the frame. Energy is measured over the half of the frame that can only contain energy if a full rate frame is sent. If the energy measured exceeds a threshold, then full rate is indicated. Else, energy is measured over the fourth of a frame that can only contain energy if a half rate frame is sent. If the energy exceeds a threshold, then half rate is indicated. The procedure is repeated for quarter and eighth rates.

    Techniques for adjusting parameters of a quick paging channel based on network load

    公开(公告)号:AU4169802A

    公开(公告)日:2002-06-03

    申请号:AU4169802

    申请日:2001-10-19

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: A wireless communication device performance, such as standby time, is improved by adaptively allocating surplus system resources to change quick paging channel parameters at the system, such a system being for example, a base station. Adaptively adjusting the quick paging channel parameters allows available base station resources to be allocated to the quick paging channel, thereby enabling the wireless communication device to demodulate the quick paging channel more reliably. Parameters such as the number of quick paging channels, the data rate used by the paging channel, and the quick paging channel transmit power level are weighed and adjusted.

    Sistema y procedimiento de control de distribución de energía de un circuito integrado

    公开(公告)号:ES2810015T3

    公开(公告)日:2021-03-08

    申请号:ES07761131

    申请日:2007-04-23

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: Un circuito integrado de administración de energía (102) que comprende: un primer pin (116) para suministrar energía a un primer dominio de energía (106) de un dispositivo de circuito integrado (104); un segundo pin (118) para suministrar energía a un segundo dominio de energía (108) del dispositivo de circuito integrado (104); un regulador de conmutación (110) acoplado al primer pin (116) para proporcionar una primera fuente de alimentación regulada al primer dominio de energía (106) y acoplado al segundo pin (118) para proporcionar una segunda fuente de alimentación regulada al segundo dominio de energía (108); una lógica (112) que comprende un controlador principal (210) acoplado al primer pin (116) y al segundo pin (118) para mantener el flujo de corriente al primer pin (116) mientras se reduce selectivamente el flujo de corriente al segundo pin (118)) durante un evento de baja potencia; un primer transistor (212) que incluye un primer terminal (232) conectado al primer pin (116), un terminal de control (234) acoplado al controlador principal (210) y un segundo terminal (236) conectado al segundo pin (118); un segundo transistor (302) dispuesto en paralelo con el primer transistor (212) que incluye un primer terminal (304) conectado al primer pin (116), un terminal de control (306) acoplado al terminal de control (234) del primer transistor (212), y un segundo terminal (306) conectado al segundo pin (118); y en donde el controlador principal (210) desactiva selectivamente el primer transistor (212) y el segundo transistor (302) para cortar el flujo de corriente al segundo pin (118) durante el evento de baja potencia.

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    公开(公告)号:BR0313696A

    公开(公告)日:2005-07-12

    申请号:BR0313696

    申请日:2003-08-28

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: A phase lock loop apparatus and method is disclosed. A typical apparatus includes a demodulator receiving a phase error signal from a comparator at a chip rate and providing a phase error update over a symbol period from the phase error signal wherein the chip rate is higher than the symbol rate. A phase discriminator produces a phase error output at the symbol rate from the phase error update based upon a signal modulation type. A loop filter produces one or more phase estimate parameters at a symbol rate from the phase error output and a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) extrapolates a phase reference at a chip rate from the one or more phase estimate parameters at a symbol rate. The comparator produces the phase error signal to the demodulator based upon the phase reference and an incoming signal.

    DECISION DIRECTED SUPPRESSED CARRIER SYMBOL-RATE PLL WITH PROGRAMMABLE PHASE DISCRIMINATOR AND CHIP-RATE PHASE EXTRAPOLATION

    公开(公告)号:AU2003268240A1

    公开(公告)日:2004-03-19

    申请号:AU2003268240

    申请日:2003-08-28

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: A phase lock loop apparatus and method is disclosed. A typical apparatus includes a demodulator receiving a phase error signal from a comparator at a chip rate and providing a phase error update over a symbol period from the phase error signal wherein the chip rate is higher than the symbol rate. A phase discriminator produces a phase error output at the symbol rate from the phase error update based upon a signal modulation type. A loop filter produces one or more phase estimate parameters at a symbol rate from the phase error output and a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) extrapolates a phase reference at a chip rate from the one or more phase estimate parameters at a symbol rate. The comparator produces the phase error signal to the demodulator based upon the phase reference and an incoming signal.

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    公开(公告)号:AT391360T

    公开(公告)日:2008-04-15

    申请号:AT00914732

    申请日:2000-02-24

    Applicant: QUALCOMM INC

    Abstract: In a remote unit receiver capable of demodulating a plurality of signal instances corresponding to a singe remote unit transmitted signal, a first instance of a signal is demodulated to produce a first set of energy values corresponding to a set of possible data values of the signal. A second instance of the signal is demodulated to produce a second set of energy values corresponding to the set of possible data values. The first and the second sets of energy values are then combined to determine a combined set of energy values. A first estimate of a most likely transmitted data value is determined based upon the combined set of energy values An energy level of the first instance is determined based upon the energy value within the first set of energy values corresponding to the first estimate of the most likely transmitted data value.

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