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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2001
Applicants:
William Mcfarland, Los Altos, CA (US);
Teresa H. Meng, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Paul J. Husted, Los Altos, CA (US);
John S. Thomson, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
William McFarland, Los Altos, CA (US);
Teresa H. Meng, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Paul J. Husted, Los Altos, CA (US);
John S. Thomson, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Atheros Communications, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 27/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention provides a method of and an apparatus for changing the gain of a receive path amplifier during the middle of a packet transmission, and particularly changing the gain during a guard interval between a symbol with encoding bits disposed therein and a subsequent data symbol encoded in a manner corresponding to the encoding bits.