Patent ID: 8615210
Filing Date: 2013-12-24
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
1. A method for power measurement for at least facilitating the identification of one of noise and interference energy in a field of a network, the method comprising: selecting between an active mode and a power measurement mode; decoding an input signal received from a transmit waveform received from the network configured to provide communications for one or more mobile devices if the active mode is selected; calculating a power measurement for the input signal by measuring signal energy in the time domain of the received transmit waveform if the power measurement mode is selected; and wherein said calculating comprises: filtering the input signal based on a predetermined frequency range corresponding to a predetermined channel and one or more adjacent channels to produce a filtered signal; removing undesired signals from the filtered signal to generate a compensated signal; controlling at least a portion of the gain of the compensated signal in an analog domain to produce a gain controlled signal; and calculating the power measurement for the predetermined channel and the one or more adjacent channels based on the gain controlled signal.