Abstract:
A cell search is continuously performed with respect to an active base station and peripheral base station which are objects, when a path from the active base station cannot be detected as a result of path search in a wake-up period in a standby state. Subsequently, an error of a reception frequency is detected based on the path detected by the cell search, and the reception frequency of a receiver is corrected so as to decrease the detected frequency error.
Abstract:
A GPS receiver can periodically obtain range data without degrading the performance such as positioning sensitivity and positioning speed and conserve energy consumption. Supplied with IF data from a frequency conversion section 4, a synchronization hold section (6) acquires synchronization of a carrier frequency and phase synchronization of a C/A code, holds the acquired state, and obtains necessary information such as range data. When range data is obtained, a switch (23) is turned off to stop supplying the power to the synchronization hold section (6). A control section (7) executes a positioning operation using the obtained range data and the like, finds and outputs positioning information indicative of a current position. Thereafter, the switch (23) is turned on to restart the synchronization hold section (6). In this manner, control is provided to repeatedly start and stop the synchronization hold section (6).
Abstract:
In a dual mode Bluetooth/wireless mobile unit, the next sleep mode Bluetooth wakeup time is rescheduled to synchronize with any upcoming idle mode wireless wakeup time that will otherwise precede the Bluetooth wakeup time. The Bluetooth clock is advanced, or other reconfiguration made to the Bluetooth module, as appropriate to prevent the scanning frequency from changing during a sleep mode Bluetooth wakeup/scanning interval commencing at the resynchronized Bluetooth wakeup time.
Abstract:
In a receiver having at least two fingers, the fingers tracking at least one path of a multipath channel, a method includes the steps of forming a finger block of at least two of the two fingers and jointly tracking the fingers of said finger block. The step of jointly tracking includes the steps of generating direction metrics of each of a set of possible directions of joint movement of the fingers of the finger block, selecting one of the direction metrics according to a predetermined criterion, and moving the fingers of the finger block in the directions indicated by the selected direction metric.
Abstract:
Techniques to process data sporadically transmitted at designated times in a wireless communication system, such as paging indicator (PI) bits on the quick paging channel in cdma2000. These techniques support a sleep cycle that may start at virtually anytime and having a sleep duration selected based on a fine time increment. The increment is selected such that the finger processors and symbol combiner of a rake receiver may be easily moved to the proper positions upon waking up from a sleep. Techniques are also provided to align the symbol combiner timing to that of a particular multipath in the received signal, if necessary. With these techniques, a terminal may perform a sleep between a pair of assigned PI bits and may wake up and process a single PI bit.
Abstract:
The present invention is an improved method and circuit for reducing the amount of time a mobile receiver spends in the active phase of a slot in a communications system utilizing a slotted paging mechanism. The invention allows the awake time to be configured for the minimum interval needed to demodulate the paging channel messages of interest. The invention includes a means to adjust the timing reference of the fingers to compensate for a sleep duration not an integral multiple of the PN sequence period, and a means to adjust the deinterleaver frame reference timing to compensate for a sleep duration not an integral multiple of the frame interval, and a means to initialize the frequency tracking, gain scaling, and DC bias loops, if any, of the analog receiver chain to minimize the time needed to re-lock these loops.
Abstract:
In a CDMA receiver for intermittently receiving a spread spectrum received signal using a despreading code and comprising a high-resolution time reference generating section and a low-resolution time reference generating section, a state control section puts, for substantially a reception operation stop time interval, the CDMA receiver into a cold standby state where the high-resolution time reference generating section does not operate while the low-resolution time reference generating section operates. On or immediately before a reception return time instant, the state control section puts the CDMA receiver into a hot standby state where the high-resolution time reference generating section operates.
Abstract:
Method for reducing power consumption in Bluetooth and CDMA modes of operation is disclosed. According to a disclosed embodiment, the time for a next scheduled CDMA wakeup process to be performed by a CDMA module is established. Thereafter, if the next CDMA wakeup process is scheduled to be performed before the next Bluetooth wakeup process, a Bluetooth wakeup process is synchronized to be performed by a Bluetooth module at the same time as the next CDMA wakeup process. Following, when the time arrives for the CDMA module to perform the next CDMA wakeup process, the Bluetooth module also performs the Bluetooth wakeup process.
Abstract:
In a dual mode Bluetooth/wireless mobile unit, the next sleep mode Bluetooth wakeup time is rescheduled to synchronize with any upcoming idle mode wireless wakeup time that will otherwise precede the Bluetooth wakeup time. The Bluetooth clock is advanced, or other reconfiguration made to the Bluetooth module, as appropriate to prevent the scanning frequency from changing during a sleep mode Bluetooth wakeup/scanning interval commencing at the resynchronized Bluetooth wakeup time.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a new type of rake receiver, namely, a multimode rake receiver, which may be included within either a mobile station or a base station, and which has dynamic pilot signal searching and multipath reception and combining capability, for CDMA, cdma2000, W-CDMA, or other mobile communication systems. The adaptive, multimode rake receiver includes a network interface, a plurality of adaptive multimode rake fingers, and a multimode processor. Each adaptive multimode rake finger and the multimode processor are responsive to first configuration information (a first mode signal) to configure for a path reception functional mode and are further responsive to second configuration information (a second mode signal) to configure for a searcher functional mode, providing the multimode rake receiver with acquisition, traffic, and idle modes. In the preferred embodiment, the multimode rake receiver is implemented using a new category of integrated circuitry for adaptive or reconfigurable computing, providing a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to an interconnection network, to form adaptive and reconfigurable multimode rake fingers and a multimode processor, for a plurality of different functional modes, including pilot signal searching and multipath reception and combination.