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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2003
Applicants:
Alexandre Malette, Chicago, IL (US);
John P. Oliver, Chicago, IL (US);
Inventors:
Alexandre Malette, Chicago, IL (US);
John P. Oliver, Chicago, IL (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 27/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method in a wireless communications device, for example, 3Generation (3G) Universal Mobile Telephone System (UMTS) user equipment, including estimating () noise power of a signal, estimating signal power () of the signal, estimating a signal to noise ratio () based on the estimated noise power and the estimated signal power, and at least partially unbiasing () the estimated signal to noise ratio based on the interval over which the noise power is averaged.