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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:
Nov. 15, 2016

Filed:

May. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kapil Bhattad, San Diego, CA (US);

Ke Liu, San Diego, CA (US);

Tao Luo, San Diego, CA (US);

Yongbin Wei, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03H 7/30 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 24/02 (2009.01); H04L 27/26 (2006.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H03G 1/02 (2006.01); H04L 25/02 (2006.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/02 (2013.01); H03G 1/02 (2013.01); H04L 5/0053 (2013.01); H04L 25/0202 (2013.01); H04L 27/2601 (2013.01); H04W 84/045 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and apparatuses are provided that include selecting reference signal (RS) or other tones to utilize in estimating a channel for decoding one or more channels. Where the RS tones are interfered by other base stations, interference cancelation can be performed over the RS tones. Since interference can vary over the tones, interference cancelation can yield RS tones of varying quality. Thus, a quality of each of the RS tones can be determined, and at least a subset of the RS tones can be selected for estimating a channel. Additionally or alternatively, the RS tones can be weighted or otherwise classified for performing channel estimation using the RS tones.


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