| SIERRA WIRELESS Patent applications |
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| 20120111606 | ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT COMPRISING A TRANSFER FACE ON WHICH CONTACT PADS ARE LAID OUT - An electronic circuit includes a transfer face and a plurality of contact pads. The pads include a first set of pads of a first type in a central zone at the center of the transfer face; second sets of pads of the first type on an end portion of a diagonal of the transfer face; third sets of pads of a second type on a median portion of a diagonal of the transfer face; fourth sets of pads of a third type in a lateral zone demarcated by the central zone and two semi-diagonals joined by one side of the transfer face. Each pad of the first type has a greater surface area on the transfer face than each pad of the second type, and each pad of the second type has a greater surface area than each pad of the third type. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120042191 | Method For Managing the Execution of a Software Architecture of a Radiocommunication Circuit With Constant Processor Frequency, Corresponding Computer Program Product and Circuit - A method for managing execution by a processor of a software architecture included in a radiocommunication circuit is provided. The software architecture includes a radiocommunication software stack and at least one client application. The has the following steps, for a given frequency of the processor: a) obtaining a first computing power associated with the stack; b) obtaining a second computing power associated with the at least one client application; c) computing the sum of the first and second computing powers; d) comparing the sum with a predetermined threshold; e) detecting, based on the result of the comparison step, that the second computing power is insufficient for the processor to execute the at least one client application; and f) in the case of positive detection, restraining at least one functionality of the stack. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20110312323 | METHOD OF LOCATING A RADIOCOMMUNICATION DEVICE, CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, STORAGE MEANS AND RADIOCOMMUNICATION MODULE - A method is provided for locating a radiocommunication device in a radiocommunication network comprising a plurality of distinct geographical cells. The device comprises a radiocommunication module allowing reception of radiocommunication carriers. Each carrier is associated with a cell of the network and is defined by a frequency and a cell identifier. The module performs the following steps: obtaining initialization information comprising a predetermined list of N | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110292786 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING A TERMINAL WITH A FREQUENCY OF A RADIO-COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK, CORRESPONDING COMPUTER SOFTWARE PRODUCT, STORAGE MEANS AND TERMINAL - A method and apparatus are provided for synchronizing a terminal with a frequency from an ordered initial sequence of frequencies of a radio-communications network. An available power spectrum associates to each frequency of the initial sequence a power value representing the power with which the frequency is received by the terminal. At least one first range of consecutive frequencies is determined within the initial sequence, having a power variation below a first predetermined threshold. The terminal attempts at least one first synchronization with a frequency of the first range. If each first synchronization fails, the terminal obtains a modified sequence by modifying the position of the frequency or frequencies of the at least one first range of the initial sequence or by eliminating the at least one first range. The terminal then attempts a second synchronization with at least one of the frequencies of the modified sequence. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110194259 | DEVICE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SHIELDING AND DISSIPATION OF HEAT RELEASED BY AN ELECTRONIC COMPONENT, AND CORRESPONDING ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT - A device is provided for electromagnetic shielding an electronic component and for dissipating heat generated by the component. The component includes a package designed to be fastened to a first face of a printed circuit, called a rear face, by a heat sink, the heat sink passing through the rear face of the printed circuit and emerging on a second face of the printed circuit, called a front face. The device includes a metal structure mounted on the front face of the printed circuit and defining an electromagnetic shielding enclosure. The metal structure having a first heat discharge opening lying approximately opposite the heat sink. The device further includes at least one thermal connector, a first end of which is fastened to the metal structure and a second end of which is fastened to the heat sink and/or to the front face of the printed circuit near the heat sink. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110176625 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OBTAINING AT LEAST ONE CALIBRATION FREQUENCY FOR CALIBRATING A TRANSMISSION CHAIN, CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT AND CORRESPONDING STORAGE DEVICE - A method is provided for obtaining a calibration frequency for calibrating a transmission chain that can transmit information signals on a frequency band comprising a plurality of channels. The chain includes an amplifier that can be configured according to at least one gain configuration. The method includes: obtaining an output power value of the amplifier; obtaining a frequency dispersion, based on the power value; detecting whether a constraint linked to said frequency dispersion is satisfied; and if the constraint is not satisfied, then obtaining a current frequency subband and a calibration frequency for said current frequency subband. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110117865 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING A TRANSMISSION LINE, AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER SOFTWARE PRODUCT, STORAGE MEDIUM AND CALIBRATION DEVICE - A method and apparatus are provided for calibrating an information-signal transmission line that includes elements for generating a control signal and transmitting information signals controlled by the control signals, and an amplifier of the information signals. The amplifier can be configured according to at least a first gain configuration associated with a first gain value, and a second gain configuration associated with a second gain value. The method includes obtaining, for each of the first and second gain configurations, first and second sets of initial values of the control signal, that correspond to first and second sets of measured power that overlap, and selecting, for each power-recovery setpoint value to which corresponds a first measured-power value of the first set and a second measured-power value of the second set, from the first and second calibrated values of the control signal, the calibrated value that meets a predetermined criterion. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110051613 | METHOD FOR DETECTING THE CENTRAL FREQUENCY OF AT LEAST ONE CARRIER IN A WIDE-BAND DOWNLINK, AND CORRESPONDING COMPUTER SOFTWARE PRODUCT, STORAGE DEVICE AND MOBILE APPARATUS - A method is provided for detecting, using a mobile apparatus, the central frequency of at least one carrier of a wide-band downlink of a communication channel associated with a frequency band, wherein the at least one carrier belongs to the frequency band. The method includes a first step of measuring the value of an indicator representative of a power received by the mobile apparatus for a plurality of frequencies evenly spaced in the frequency band in order to obtain a spectrum of values of the indicator on the frequency band. The method includes a second phase of analyzing the spectrum of the indicator, which includes recognizing the shape of the at least one carrier in the indicator spectrum, and detecting the central frequency of the at least one carrier. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110021159 | DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING THE OPERATION OF A RADIOCOMMUNICATION ELECTRONIC MODULE, AND CORRESPONDING ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT - A device is provided for controlling operation of a radiocommunication electronic module using a control signal. The device includes a circuit for switching the control signal between a high logic state and a low logic state or vice versa, and a circuit for controlling the switching circuit. The control circuit generates a control signal. The module includes an activation input receiving the control signal. The control circuit includes: a first input receiving a first signal representative of a supply voltage; and a second input receiving a second signal from the module. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20100122263 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGING THE USE OF A PROCESSOR BY SEVERAL APPLICATIONS, CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEANS - A method of managing processor usage time includes: associating each application with a slice of the processor time and with a first or second class; and managing the processor time as a function of the processor time slices and classes. The processor time slice associated with an application of the first class is reserved for the application even if the application does not use it fully. An application of the second class has priority for using the processor during its associated time slice, wherein if part of the associated time slice is not used by the application, the unused part may be used by another application of the second class, the application being able to use more than its associated time slice by using an unused part of a time slice associated with another application of the second class or a part of a time slice associated with no application. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100099400 | METHODS FOR TRANSMITTING AND MANAGING VOICE FRAMES, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, MEANS OF STORAGE AND CORRESPONDING DEVICES - A method of transmitting voice frames, via a transmission channel reserved for voice data, by a transmitting terminal generating voice frames using a voice signal is proposed. Such a method includes steps of: obtaining non-voice data; selecting voice data from the voice frame according to configuration data obtained beforehand relative to the transmission of non-voice data on the reserved channel; constructing of a degraded voice frame by replacing selected voice data with non-voice data; transmitting the degraded voice frame via the reserved channel to a receiving terminal. On the receiving terminal side, a method of managing voice frames coming from the transmitting terminal is proposed including the steps of: detecting a non-voice data header included in the voice frame; extracting, from the voice frame, of non-voice data, according to configuration data read in the header; transmitting of extracted non-voice data to a processor of non-voice data. | 04-22-2010 |
