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Motorola US TETRA Patents & Expiration - All by 2014
Motorola US TETRA Patents & Expiration - All by 2014
Assigning voice call to a control slot 5239678 11/21/1991 8/24/1993 11/21/2011 [possibly not used in terminals?]
Multi-Channel TDM Communication System Slot Phase Correction 5241544 11/1/1991 8/31/1993 11/1/2011 Applicable only to TEDS (TETRA 2)
Quadrature Amplitude Modulation Synchronization Method 5343499 1/9/1992 8/30/1994 1/9/2012 Applicable only to TEDS (TETRA 2)
Peak to Average Power Ratio Reduction Methodology for QAM Communication Systems 5381449 11/1/1991 1/10/1995 1/10/2012 Applicable only to TEDS (TETRA 2)
Method for Providing and Selecting Amongst Multiple Date Rates in a Time Division Multiplexed System 5533004 11/7/1994 7/2/1996 11/7/2014 Applicable only to TEDS (TETRA 2)
Communication Signal Having a Time-Domain Pilot Component 5519730 10/28/1991 5/21/1996 5/21/2013 Applicable only to TEDS (TETRA 2)
Scalable Pattern Methodology For Multicarrier Communications Systems 6424678 8/1/2000 7/23/2002 8/1/2020 Applicable only to TEDS (TETRA 2)
Slot Format and Method for Increasing Random Opportunities in a Wireless Communication System 7088734 3/27/2001 10/3/2002 3/27/2021 Applicable only to TEDS (TETRA 2)
Encryption Synchronization Combined with Encryption Key Identification 5185796 5/30/1991 2/9/1993 5/30/2011 See Note 1 below
Notes
1. Whether this patent is essential to various TETRA products is not noted here, but it is potentially applicable at minimum to some products.
2. TEDS (TETRA 2) is an addition to TETRA not yet substantially deployed. It uses two or more channels to achieve higher speed data, up to 100's kbs. It requires the spectrum to achieve this.
Conclusions
1. By the later part of 2014, no Motorola US patent will remain valid with regard to TETRA (1 or 2) products.
2. "Narrowband" requirement in the US for entities holdings certain VHF and higher channels to move to 12.5 kHz (or more narrow) channels, on actual or effective basis, is early 2013.
The FCC accepts 4-slot TDMA, which provides 6.25-kHz effective channels, as meeting this narrowband requirement. (So does NTIA, for Federal agencies.)
3. Entities moving from old 25-kHz channel equipment to narroband equipment may use TETRA from the start without patent infringment, in ways the undersinged has explained, and that
a US Court may address, if appropriate in some cases. Or, they may commence with MPT1327 using base stations that support MPT and TETRA, and migrate to TETRA. The MPT
terminals will communicat with the TETRA terminals via the infrastructure.
These patents claimed applicability to TETRA can be confirmed in the ESTI communications with Motorola posted at www.tetra-us.us