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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:
Jun. 12, 2012

Filed:

Jan. 09, 2009
Applicants:

Gerhard Bauch, Munich, DE;

Marc Kuhn, Zurich, CH;

Armin Wittneben, Niederrohrdorf, CH;

Jian Zhao, Zurich, CH;

Inventors:

Gerhard Bauch, Munich, DE;

Marc Kuhn, Zurich, CH;

Armin Wittneben, Niederrohrdorf, CH;

Jian Zhao, Zurich, CH;

Assignee:

NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 3/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An apparatus for estimating a wireless radio channel between a first terminal and a relay station, the apparatus including a receiver for receiving a signal including a superposition of previously transmitted first information from the first terminal and second information from a second terminal, the second terminal also communicating with the relay station, a storage for storing the previously transmitted first information, and a channel calculator for calculating the wireless radio channel using the received signal and the stored first information as pilot information for the received signal.


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