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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2000

Filed:

Apr. 06, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Saul B Gelfand, Lafayette, IN (US);

Ian J Fevrier, West Lafayett, IN (US);

Michael P Fitz, Worthington, OH (US);

Assignee:

Purdue Research Foundation, West Lafayette, IN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B / ; H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
375233 ; 375348 ;
Abstract

Equalization techniques are disclosed to reduce intersymbol interference of a received signal. Intersymbol interference is reduced by feedforward filtering and adjusting the input to the feedforward filter with feedback. This approach facilitates the removal of intersymbol interference from sparse signal portions before sparseness is undermined by other equalization procedures. Also, multiplication operations may be reduced and limited multiplier resources more effectively allocated by applying a threshold test to various multiplier coefficients associated with the equalization technique.


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