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Intel Receives Patent for Techniques to Provide Channel Quality Indicator in Wireless Networks

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Intel, a renowned technology giant, has been assigned a patent (7,924,809) developed by Hujun Yin, Roshni Srinivasan, and Sassan Ahmadi for techniques to provide a channel quality indicator in wireless networks. The patent abstract states that techniques are described to allocate distributed and/or contiguous basic resource blocks to users by specifying a codebook index and parent node. Furthermore, the patent explains how to flexibly set the number of sub-channels over which a subscriber station indicates a channel quality indicator to a base station. This innovative approach enables the representation of sub-channels as nodes and grouping them to include a parent node and child nodes.

Key Takeaways:

  • The techniques developed by Intel allow for simultaneous support of distributed and contiguous sub-carrier allocation in the same sub-frame or time zone.
  • The patent application, filed on Nov. 22, 2006 (11/562,498), describes methods to flexibly set the number of sub-channels for channel quality indicator indication.
  • The techniques enable the use of a codebook to specify the number of sub-channels and parent nodes to indicate channel quality indicators.
  • The patent abstract states that allocation can be done by specifying a codebook index and parent node to allocate distributed and/or contiguous basic resource blocks to users.
  • The techniques described can be used in wireless networks to provide a channel quality indicator.

The techniques described in the patent can be applied in wireless networks to provide a channel quality indicator, enhancing the efficiency and performance of wireless communication systems. This innovation has the potential to improve the quality of service in wireless networks, particularly in scenarios where multiple users are accessing the network simultaneously.

Statistics:

  • Patent number: 7,924,809
  • Application filing date: Nov. 22, 2006
  • Number of sub-channels: flexible
  • Patent publication date: April 16 (no source for exact date mentioned)

Sources:

  • "Patent Full-Text and Image Database (PTO)" - U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=272&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&s1=20110412.PD.&s2=%28CA.ASST.%29&co1=AND&p=6&OS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/CA&RS=ISD/04/12/2011+AND+AS/CA)

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