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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 25, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Steven Mollenkopf, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Qualcomm, Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/700 ; H04B 7/185 ; H04L 2/720 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/700 ; H04B 7/185 ; H04L 2/720 ;
Abstract
A system and method for estimating the power of a signal. The signal is compared to and separated into a plurality of ranges. Each range is assigned a particular output value. The output values approximate the square of the input signal based on known characteristics of the input signal. A low pass filter is used to average a plurality of the output values.