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20110293601 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF REPERFUSION INJURY AND TISSUE DAMAGE - The present invention provides compounds and methods for the treatment and prophylaxis of ischemia reperfusion injury. In particular the invention provides compounds which function to suppress Toll-like Receptor 2 biological function or expression. | 12-01-2011 |
20120141466 | COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR TREATMENT OF REPERFUSION INJURY AND TISSUE DAMAGE - The present invention provides compounds and methods for the treatment and prophylaxis of ischemia reperfusion injury. In particular the invention provides compounds which function to suppress Toll-like Receptor 2 biological function or expression. | 06-07-2012 |
20130274448 | METHOD FOR PREVENTING MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION-RELATED COMPLICATIONS - The present invention is concerned with treatment, prevention, or prevention of progression of myocardial infarction or adverse cardiac remodeling related conditions such as heart failure, aneurysm formation and remote myocardial fibrosis by administering a binding member such as, for example, a neutralizing antibody, binding to fibronectin-EDA, in particular the EDA domain of fibronectin-EDA to a subject in need thereof. | 10-17-2013 |
20150111224 | BIOMARKERS FOR ADVERSE CARDIAC REMODELING - The present invention provides for certain biomarkers for adverse cardiac remodeling. The biomarkers have predictive value in assessing the risk of a subject developing heart failure and other conditions related to adverse cardiac remodeling, as well as diagnosing adverse cardiac remodeling, and determining response to therapy addressing adverse cardiac remodeling. | 04-23-2015 |
20150218263 | METHOD FOR PREVENTING MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION-RELATED COMPLICATIONS - The present invention is concerned with treatment, prevention, or prevention of progression of myocardial infarction or adverse cardiac remodeling related conditions such as heart failure, aneurysm formation and remote myocardial fibrosis by administering a binding member such as, for example, a neutralizing antibody, binding to fibronectin-EDA, in particular the EDA domain of fibronectin-EDA to a subject in need thereof. | 08-06-2015 |
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20100241422 | SYNCHRONIZING A CHANNEL CODEC AND VOCODER OF A MOBILE STATION - In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for maintaining a vocoder and channel codec in substantial synchronization. The method may include receiving a configuration message that includes rate information and an effective radio block identifier at a mobile station, coding a current radio block via a vocoder and channel codec, configuring an encoding portion of the vocoder and channel codec with the rate information after performing the coding, and then coding the effective radio block using the rate information. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 09-23-2010 |
20150124914 | Spur Cancellation Systems and Related Methods - Spur cancellation systems and related methods are disclosed for radio frequency (RF) receivers and other implementations. Disclosed embodiments effectively remove spurs caused by digital clock signals or other spur sources by determining which spurs will fall within a channel selected to be tuned, utilizing a spur cancellation module to generate a cancellation signal, and subtracting this cancellation signal from the digital information. The cancellation signal can be initially generated with a known frequency and estimated values for unknown spur parameters, such as amplitude and phase. Digital feedback signals are then used to adjust the spur parameters. If the spur frequency is not known precisely, digital feedback signals can also be used to adjust the frequency of the cancellation signal. Where multiple receive paths are provided within a multi-receiver system, multiple spur cancellation modules can be used to remove spurs generated by digital clocks within each of the receive paths. | 05-07-2015 |
20150126128 | Die-To-Die Communication Links For Receiver Integrated Circuit Dies And Related Methods - Die-to-die communication links for receiver integrated circuit dies within multi-die systems and related methods are disclosed for radio frequency (RF) receivers. The disclosed embodiments provide die-to-die communication links that allow for direct communication of operating parameters between receiver integrated circuit dies and other integrated circuit dies within a multi-die system so that the operation of receive path circuitry can be adjusted without requiring intervention from an external host processor integrated circuit. A variety of operating parameter information can be communicated through the die-to-die communication links so that the integrated circuit dies can quickly adjust to changing signal conditions without requiring intervention by the external host processor integrated circuit. | 05-07-2015 |
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20100226356 | METHOD FOR ITERATIVE INTERFERENCE CANCELLATION FOR CO-CHANNEL MULTI-CARRIER AND NARROWBAND SYSTEMS - In a co-channel deployment of narrowband and multi-carrier technologies (e.g., a femtocell and a macrocell), a method provides cancelling of interference which treats the co-channel signals as desired signals and enhances each of them iteratively. At each iteration, each signal is demodulated and regenerated based on symbol decisions already made and a predetermined channel impulse response. To estimate the other (interfering) co-channel signal, the regenerated signal is subtracted from the aggregate signal. Simulations have shown that a method of the present invention can provide fundamental improvement in the performances of both interfering systems in as few as two iterations. The fundamental performance gain that can be obtained outweigh the required computational burden. | 09-09-2010 |
20110312317 | INTER-CARRIER INTERFERENCE MANAGEMENT IN DEDICATED CHANNEL FEMTOCELL NETWORKS - In one embodiment, a method of mitigating uplink inter-carrier interference (ICI) from macrocell mobile stations at a dedicated channel femtocell base station is provided that includes: determining a timing offset for a femtocell uplink symbol timing that reduces the ICI based upon an expected spatial distribution for the macrocell mobile stations with respect to the femtocell base station; communicating the timing offset to at least one femtocell mobile station; and at the femtocell base station, receiving an uplink symbol transmission from the at least one femtocell mobile station according to the timing offset. | 12-22-2011 |
20130129017 | EDGE WINDOWING OF OFDM BASED SYSTEMS - Various methods and systems are provided for edge windowing of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems. In one example, among others, a method includes obtaining an edge windowing portion by reducing a cyclic prefix size for a quantity of edge subcarriers in an OFDM symbol and reducing side lobes by applying a windowing function to the edge subcarriers. In another example, a device includes a separator capable of dividing subcarriers of an OFDM symbol into first and second subcarrier groups, a first CP adder capable of obtaining a windowing portion by adjusting a cyclic prefix size of the first subcarrier group, and a first windower capable of reducing side lobes by applying a windowing function to the first subcarrier group. In another example, a method includes determining a RMS delay spread of a mobile station and scheduling a subcarrier based at least in part upon the RMS delay spread. | 05-23-2013 |
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20120103960 | DISC WITH A HEATABLE, OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT SENSOR ARRAY - A pane having a heatable, optically transparent sensor array comprising at least: a) a pane, b) at least one optically transparent sensor array on the surface of the pane, c) at least one heatable film which is fitted to the optically transparent sensor array, comprising: c1) a support film, c2) a heatable coating, printed conductors, meshes and/or heating wires on the support film, d) at least one electrical contact-making means, which is fitted to the heatable coating and/or to the heating wires, and e) encapsulation, which is fitted to the optically transparent sensor array and to the heatable film, and a sensor which is fitted in the encapsulation. | 05-03-2012 |
20120119104 | PANE WITH OPTICALLY TRANSPARENT SENSOR FIELD - A pane having an optically transparent sensor field is described, comprising: at least one panel; at least one optically transparent sensor field on the pane; at least one hydrophilic coating applied on the optically transparent sensor field; and at least one encapsulation applied to the optically transparent sensor field and at least one sensor applied in the encapsulation. | 05-17-2012 |
20150202719 | COATED PANE HAVING AREAS IN WHICH THE COATING IS PARTIALLY REMOVED - A coated pane having a communication window, having: a. a base pane, b. a coating containing metal, c. a first grid plane and a second grid plane within the coating containing metal, wherein the first grid plane and the second grid plane have areas in which the coating is removed, in form of grid lines arranged in the manner of a mesh, the grid lines in the first grid plane on at least one long side transition into an open comb structure having teeth and the grid lines in the second grid plane on at least one long side transition into a closed comb structure, wherein the first grid plane is connected by means of at least one tooth of the open comb structure to the closed comb structure of the second grid plane. | 07-23-2015 |
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20140031049 | Cloud-based Radio Access Network for Small Cells - A wireless communications system is disclosed. The system comprises a baseband processing unit (BBU) pool including one or more baseband processing units (BBUs), and a plurality of remote radio heads (RRHs) connected to the BBU pool through a front-haul network, wherein the wireless communications system has a plurality of sectors, each of which includes one or more small cells, each of which is deployed by one of the plurality of RRHs, wherein a BBUs is mapped to two or more RRHs in a sector in a one-to-many configuration, and a BBU is mapped to a single RRH in a sector in a one-to-one configuration, and wherein a combination of the one-to-one configuration and the one-to-many configuration is applied to each sector. Other systems, apparatuses, and methods also are disclosed. | 01-30-2014 |
20150092558 | Exploiting Cell dormancy and Load Balancing in LTE HetNets - At a coarse time-scale, at the start of each frame the choice of TPs to be made active and users to associate with the active TPs are determined by solving an optimization problem. The inputs to the optimization problem are averaged slowly varying metrics that are relevant for a period longer than the backhaul latency. At a the fine time-scale, in each slot each active TP independently does scheduling over the set of users associated with it, without any coordination with any of the other active TPs, based on fast changing information, such as instantaneous rate or SINR estimates. | 04-02-2015 |
20150117370 | Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission and Reception (CoMP) with Non-Ideal Backhaul (NIB) - A wireless communications method implemented in a transmission point (TP) used in a mobile communications system is disclosed. The wireless communications method includes receiving, from a user equipment (UE), short-term channel state information (short-term CSI), processing the short-term CSI, and transmitting, to another TP, the processed short-term CSI. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed. | 04-30-2015 |
20150117562 | Coordinated Multi-Point Transmission and Reception (CoMP) with Non-Ideal Backhaul (NIB) - A wireless communications method implemented in a transmission point (TP) used in a mobile communications system is disclosed. The wireless communications method includes receiving, from another TP, short-term channel state information (short-term CSI), and processing the short-term CSI. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed. | 04-30-2015 |
20150163716 | INTELLIGENT WIFI-OFFLOADING FOR NEXT-GENERATION MOBILE NETWORKS - A system for traffic management between a WiFi network and an LTE network that includes a network interface assignment module for determining from an operator side of the WiFi network and the LTE network a set of WiFi Access Points (APs) and LTE base stations for each user that provides a least a highest quality of experience for each of the users using input strength for all users to potential WiFi access points and LTE base stations. The system may further include an interface switching service (ISS) module that includes a control logic and a network HTTP proxy for delivering network switching instructions to devices of users. The control logic receiving instructions from the NIA module and sending signal to the devices of the users to switch from WIFI and LTE networks through the LTE network based upon signal strength of the users. | 06-11-2015 |
20150208256 | Enhanced Interference Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks - We show that for any given muting fraction, a more constrained version of the problem of interest can be optimally solved in an efficient manner. In addition, the obtained solution is also a near-optimal solution for the original problem (for the given muting ratio). This allows us provide an algorithm that offers a good solution to the original problem with a tractable complexity. We also derive a lower complexity greedy that offers good performance and a certain worst-case performance guarantee. Simulations over an example LTE HetNet topology reveal the superior performance of the proposed algorithms and underscore the benefits of jointly exploiting partial muting of the macro and load balancing. | 07-23-2015 |
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20110170524 | LOCATING ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNAL SOURCES - There is disclosed a method of estimating the location of a plurality of electromagnetic signal sources, comprising: scanning at a first plurality of locations to generate signal source position data, the signal source position data representing estimates of the position of at least one of said signal sources; scanning at a second plurality of locations using a signal detection system to generate signal detection data, the signal detection data relating to signals received at the second plurality of locations from the signal sources; processing the signal source position data in dependence on the signal detection data to correct estimation errors in the signal source position data; and outputting the processed signal source position data. | 07-14-2011 |
20120116677 | ASSISTED POSITIONING SYSTEMS - A position determining unit has an assistance data processing and relaying module (software client) ( | 05-10-2012 |
20140106779 | LOCATING ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNAL SOURCES - There is disclosed a method of estimating the location of a plurality of electromagnetic signal sources, comprising: scanning at a first plurality of locations to generate signal source position data, the signal source position data representing estimates of the position of at least one of said signal sources; scanning at a second plurality of locations using a signal detection system to generate signal detection data, the signal detection data relating to signals received at the second plurality of locations from the signal sources; processing the signal source position data in dependence on the signal detection data to correct estimation errors in the signal source position data; and outputting the processed signal source position data. | 04-17-2014 |
20140243015 | METHOD OF ESTIMATING THE POSITION OF A USER DEVICE - Data concerning the strength of signals received from electromagnetic signal sources within a building is obtained at a plurality of points. Instead of storing the raw data for use in positioning, the data for each electromagnetic signal source is fitted to a function of received signal strength with distance from the electromagnetic signal source. This data is then used to estimate the position of a user device. The advantage of the invention is that the amount of data which requires to be stored is significantly reduced. | 08-28-2014 |
20140243025 | POSITIONING METHOD - There is disclosed a method of estimating the position of a user device ( | 08-28-2014 |
20140351556 | METHODS FOR OPERATING AND CONFIGURING A RECONFIGURABLE PROCESSOR - The invention provides a method of compiling computer program instructions for implementation on a reconfigurable processor comprising a plurality of operational cells, each operational cell being connectable to and disconnectable from one or more of the other operational cells via a programmable interconnect, the method comprising: a routing step in which one or more signal processing paths are determined for performing one or more signal processing operations defined by the computer program instructions, each signal processing path comprising two or more of the operational cells connected via the programmable interconnect, the said signal processing paths being capable of implementation on the said operational cells and the said interconnect of the reconfigurable processor to perform the said one or more signal processing operations; and a post-routing step performed subsequent to the routing step in which an extended signal processing path is determined by extending one of the said signal processing paths determined in the routing step such that a critical path of the extended signal processing path is longer than a longest critical path of the signal processing paths determined in the routing step. | 11-27-2014 |
20140361947 | ANTENNA ELEMENT & ANTENNA DEVICE COMPRISING SUCH ELEMENTS - An antenna element ( | 12-11-2014 |
20140365488 | POSITIONING SYSTEM - There is disclosed a method of managing a database of positioning data, the positioning data including electromagnetic signal source data for use by a positioning system, and the method comprising: receiving signal data relating to signals received from a plurality of electromagnetic signal sources; associating an appropriate one of a plurality of zone identifiers with each of the electromagnetic signal sources, each zone identifier being associated with a respective geographical zone; selecting a subset of the plurality of electromagnetic signal sources in dependence on their associated zone identifiers; processing the signal data relating to the subset of the plurality of electromagnetic signal sources to compute position estimates of the electromagnetic signal sources; and updating the database of electromagnetic signal source data in dependence on the computed position estimates. | 12-11-2014 |
20140379476 | METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS - The invention provides a method of outputting location specific data to a user interface of a mobile device, the method comprising: obtaining data representing one or more activity patterns associated with the mobile device; selecting a location specific data portion from one or more location specific data portions responsive to a determination that the data representing one or more of the one or more activity patterns meet one or more relevance criteria associated with the said location specific data portion; and outputting to the user interface data from the selected location specific data portion or data associated with the selected location specific data portion. | 12-25-2014 |
20150119071 | METHOD OF ESTIMATING THE POSITION OF A USER DEVICE USING RADIO BEACONS AND RADIO BEACONS ADAPTED TO FACILITATE THE METHODS OF THE INVENTION - Disclosed is the estimation of the position of a user device ( | 04-30-2015 |
20150189467 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING POSITION - A method of estimating the position of a user device is provided. The user device is initially in electronic communication with a positioning system controller through a communication network. The method comprises determining that a user device meets one or more proximity criteria with respect to an offline region where electronic communication between the user device and the positioning system controller, through the communication network, is expected to meet one or more failure criteria. Responsive thereto and in advance of the user device entering the said offline region, the positioning system controller transmitting local positioning data to the user device, the local positioning data comprising data concerning electromagnetic signal sources in the said offline region. The user device subsequently estimates its position whilst it is within the offline region by measuring signal data from a plurality of electromagnetic signal sources and processing the measured signal data and the local positioning data. The method may be used by, for example, a smartphone to estimate its position. | 07-02-2015 |
20150195810 | METHOD OF ESTIMATING POSITION OF USER DEVICE - The invention provides a method of estimating the position of a user device carried by a user, the method comprising: providing an initial position of the user device; measuring a vertical acceleration of the user device, thereby generating vertical acceleration data; measuring an orientation of the user device, thereby generat ing principal direction data; processing the vertical acceleration data to detect one or more steps taken by the user, and subsequently validating the detection of one or more of said one or more steps; generating one or more motion vectors in respect of the validated steps taken by the user using the principal direction data; and estimating an updated position of the user device by combining the motion vector(s) with the initial position. The method may be used by, for example, a smartphone to estimate its position, particularly where other positioning systems are unavailable. | 07-09-2015 |