Timothy A. Thomas
72Patents
20h-index
22Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: Mar 3, 1999 → Sep 28, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7139328B2 | Method and apparatus for closed loop data transmission | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 295 | Expired |
| US6141393A | Method and device for channel estimation, equalization, and interference suppression | Electricity | 246 | Expired |
| US6927728B2 | Method and apparatus for multi-antenna transmission | Electricity | 194 | Expired |
| US6765969B1 | Method and device for multi-user channel estimation | Electricity | 172 | Expired |
| US6834043B1 | Method and device for exploiting transmit diversity in time varying wireless communication systems | Electricity | 142 | Expired |
| US6826240B1 | Method and device for multi-user channel estimation | Electricity | 95 | Expired |
| US7221722B2 | Method and apparatus for reducing interference within a communication system | Electricity | 89 | Expired |
| US6987819B2 | Method and device for multiple input/multiple output transmit and receive weights for equal-rate data streams | Electricity | 86 | Expired |
| US6912195B2 | Frequency-domain MIMO processing method and system | Electricity | 82 | Expired |
| US6362781B1 | Method and device for adaptive antenna combining weights | Electricity | 78 | Expired |
| US6647078B1 | Method and device for multi-user frequency-domain channel estimation based on gradient optimization techniques | Electricity | 76 | Expired |
| US6504506B1 | Method and device for fixed in time adaptive antenna combining weights | Electricity | 72 | Expired |
| US7573805B2 | Data transmission and reception method and apparatus | Electricity | 57 | Active |
| US6885708B2 | Training prefix modulation method and receiver | Electricity | 39 | Expired |
| US6445342B1 | Method and device for multi-user frequency-domain channel estimation | Electricity | 27 | Expired |
| US7773535B2 | Method and apparatus for closed loop transmission | Electricity | 25 | Active |
| US7848438B2 | Method and apparatus for pilot signal transmission | Electricity | 24 | Active |
| US7656842B2 | Method and apparatus for MIMO transmission optimized for successive cancellation receivers | Electricity | 24 | Active |
| US7239659B2 | Method and apparatus for channel feedback | Electricity | 23 | Expired |
| US7218666B2 | Method and system for transmission and frequency domain equalization for wideband CDMA system | Electricity | 21 | Expired |
| US8345790B2 | Method and apparatus for transmission within a multi-carrier communication system | Electricity | 18 | Active |
| US9331767B1 | Translation of basis functions for feedback in a wireless network | Electricity | 18 | Active |
| US9425923B2 | Method, apparatus, computer program product, computer readable medium and system for fast feedback and response handling in wireless networks | Electricity | 17 | Active |
| US8126076B2 | Method and apparatus for transmission within a multi-carrier communication system | Electricity | 15 | Active |
| US8243678B2 | Hierarchical pilot structure in wireless communication systems | Electricity | 13 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.