Inventor · Jackson, NJ, US

Yi Cai

33Patents
6h-index
31Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Feb 28, 2001 → Jan 6, 2020

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7398454B2 System and method for forward error correction decoding using soft information Electricity 46 Expired
US7016606B2 Error mitigation system using line coding for optical WDM communications Electricity 38 Expired
US7424651B2 Method and apparatus for decision threshold control in an optical signal receiver Electricity 14 Expired
US8295713B2 Dual stage carrier phase estimation in a coherent optical signal receiver Electricity 12 Active
US10090962B2 In-band signaling for reconfiguring software defined optics Electricity 7 Active
US8401402B2 Detection of data in signals with data pattern dependent signal distortion Electricity 6 Active
US7130030B2 System and method for rapidly achieving optimum dispersion in optical transmission systems Electricity 6 Expired
US8948612B2 System and method for generating soft decision reliability information from hard decisions in an optical signal receiver Electricity 6 Active
US8306418B2 Data pattern dependent distortion compensation in a coherent optical signal receiver Electricity 5 Active
US8401400B2 Detection of data in signals with data pattern dependent signal distortion Electricity 4 Active
US8340530B2 Local oscillator frequency offset compensation in a coherent optical signal receiver Electricity 4 Active
US7363553B2 System and method for adjusting soft decision thresholds in a soft-decision error correction system Electricity 4 Expired
US10135543B2 Clock recovery method, device and system and computer storage medium Electricity 3 Active
US9209900B2 Method and apparatus for digital polarization scrambling in coherent optical communication systems employing both transmit and receive digital signal processing Electricity 3 Active
US9329929B2 Soft maximum likelihood sequence estimation in digital communication Electricity 3 Active
US8958515B2 SerDes jitter tolerance BIST in production loopback testing with enhanced spread spectrum clock generation circuit Electricity 2 Active
US8805204B2 Generating higher-level quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) using a delay line interferometer and systems and methods incorporating same Electricity 2 Active
US8437644B2 Vestigial phase shift keying modulation and systems and methods incorporating same Electricity 2 Active
US8483574B2 Correlation-control QPSK transmitter Electricity 2 Active
US11070313B2 Staircase code decoding method and staircase code decoding apparatus Electricity 2 Active
US9755763B2 Adaptive post digital filter and inter-symbol interference equalizer for optical communication Electricity 1 Active
US9912414B2 Iterative post-equalization for coherent optical receivers Electricity 1 Active
US10027348B2 Turbo product coded modulation Electricity 1 Active
US8543882B2 Joint carrier phase estimation and forward error correction Electricity 1 Active
US10212010B2 Unequally spaced pulse amplitude modulation scheme Electricity 1 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.