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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:
Sep. 08, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 06, 2013
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

RaviKiran Gopalan, San Diego, CA (US);

James Y. Hurt, San Diego, CA (US);

Faramarz Sabouri, San Diego, CA (US);

Thinh Nguyen, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 5/0043 (2013.01); H04B 5/0075 (2013.01); H04B 5/0031 (2013.01); H04B 5/0037 (2013.01); H04B 5/0093 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication are included herein. An aspect of the subject matter described in the disclosure provides a device configured to detect a transmission. The device includes a receiver configured to receive an inductive communication signal having a center frequency. The device further includes an analog-to-digital converter configured to sample the signal at a rate higher than twice the center frequency. The device further includes one or more processors configured to digitally downconvert the signal. The processors are further configured to compare an energy of the downconverted signal to a detection threshold. The device further includes a transmitter configured to selectively transmit a communication based on the comparison.


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