Qualcomm

About: Qualcomm is a company organization based out in Farnborough, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Wireless & Signal. The organization has 19408 authors who have published 38405 publications receiving 804693 citations. The organization is also known as: Qualcomm Incorporated & Qualcomm, Inc..

Base station synchronization for handover in a hybrid GSM/CDMA network

Abstract: A mobile wireless telecommunications system includes base stations (30) of a first type operating according to a first air interface, and base stations (36) of a second type operating according to a second air interface. Methods and apparatus are provided for handing over a mobile station (40) in the system from a first base station (30), which is of the first type, to a second base station (36), which is of the second type. A communications link is established over the first air interface between the mobile station (40) and the first base station (30). Data is received from the mobile station (40) responsive to a signal received by the mobile station (40) over the second air interface from the second base station (36), substantially without breaking the communications link with the first base station. The mobile station (40) is handed over from the first (30) to the second base station (36) responsive to the data received therefrom.

Transmitters for wireless power transmission

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to wireless power transfer. A wireless power transmitter includes a transmit antenna configured as a resonant tank including a loop inductor and an antenna capacitance. The transmitter further includes an amplifier configured to drive the transmit antenna and a matching circuit operably coupled between the transmit antenna and the amplifier. The transmitter also includes a capacitor integrating the antenna capacitance and a matching circuit capacitance.

Beamforming in mimo systems

Abstract: A beamforming method comprises transmitting a training sequence from a transmitter array employing a set of beamforming vectors from a beamforming codebook. A receive array employs a combining codebook to acquire channel state information from the received transmissions, and estimates a preferred beamforming vector and a preferred combining vector. At least the preferred beamforming vector (and, optionally, the preferred combining vector) is transmitted back to the transmitter array.

Wireless power and data transfer for electronic devices

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to wireless power. A wireless charging device may comprise a charging region configured for placement of one or more chargeable devices. The charging device may further include at least one transmit antenna configured for transmitting wireless power within the charging region. Furthermore, the charging device is configured to exchange data between at least one chargeable device of the one or more chargeable devices.

Rate control for multi-channel communication systems

Abstract: Techniques to determine a set of rates for a set of data streams to be transmitted in a multi-channel communication system A group of transmission channels to be used for each data stream is initially identified An equivalent system for each group is then defined to have an AWGN (or flat) channel and a spectral efficiency equal to the average spectral efficiency of the transmission channels in the group (216) A metric for each group is then derived based on the associated equivalent system, eg, set to the SNR needed by the equivalent system to support the average spectral efficiency (218) A rate for each data stream is then determined based on the metric associated with the data stream The rate is deemed to be supported by the communication system if the SNR required to support the data rate by the communication system is less than or equal to the metric (226)