Receiver based saturation estimator
AssigneeEfficient Channel Coding, Inc.
InventorWilliam H. Thesling
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Abstract
A processor-implemented method of estimating the saturation level of a transmitter from a transmitted communication signal received from the transmitter comprises generating a received data signal from the transmitted communication signal received from the transmitter, generating a transmitted data signal from the received data signal that corresponds to the actual data signal generated at the transmitter, comparing the transmitted data signal to the received data signal, and estimating the saturation level of the transmitter based on the comparison of the transmitted data signal to the received data signal.
Claims36
A processor-implemented method of estimating the saturation level of a transmitter from a transmitted communication signal received from the transmitter, comprising:
- filtering the transmitted communication signal to generate a received symbol sequence;
- decoding the received symbol sequence to recover data;
- determining if the data is error free;
- if the data is error free, then:
- generating a transmitted symbol sequence;
- comparing the transmitted symbol sequence to the received symbol sequence;
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- estimating the saturation level of the transmitter based on the comparison of the transmitted symbol sequence to the received symbol sequence.
A processor-implemented method of estimating the saturation level of a transmitter from a transmitted communication signal received from the transmitter, comprising:
- generating a received data signal from the transmitted communication signal received from the transmitter;
- generating a transmitted data signal from the received data signal that corresponds to the actual data signal generated at the transmitter;
- comparing the transmitted data signal to the received data signal;
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- estimating the saturation level of the transmitter based on the comparison of the transmitted data signal to the received data signal.
A receiver-based saturation estimator for estimating the saturation level of a transmitter from a transmitted communication signal received from the transmitter, comprising:
- means for generating a received data signal from the transmitted communication signal received from the transmitter;
- means for generating a transmitted data signal from the received data signal that corresponds to an actual data signal generated at the transmitter;
- means for comparing the transmitted data signal to the received data signal;
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- means for estimating the saturation level of the transmitter based on the comparison of the transmitted data signal to the received data signal.
A receiver-based saturation estimator, comprising:
- a first receiver processor operable to receive a transmitted communication signal from a transmitter and generate a received data signal from the transmitted communication signal received from the transmitter;
- a transmit data processor operable to generate a transmitted data signal from the received data signal that corresponds to the actual data signal generated at the transmitter;
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- a saturation estimator processor operable to compare the transmitted data signal to the received data signal and estimate the saturation level of the transmitter based on the comparison of the transmitted data signal to the received data signal.
A processor data signal for adjusting a transmitter transmission power level and embodied in a carrier wave, comprising a transmitter instruction operable to cause the transmitter to increase the transmission power level if a saturation level of the transmitter is determined to be below a threshold, wherein the saturation level of the transmitter has been determined at a receiver system, the determination based on a modulation characteristic of a transmitted communication signal received at the receiver system from the transmitter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.