Patents by Inventor Dennis Michael Feenaghty

Dennis Michael Feenaghty has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8639240
    Abstract: Embodiments describe manufacturing, programming, testing, and servicing of wireless computing devices utilizing their embedded wireless technology. An embodiment method ensures that the wireless computing devices are successfully programmed in the event a disruption to the manufacturing, programming, testing and servicing process flow occurs. The method includes retrieving a last known location of the wireless device before the disruption event and comparing the last known location with the location of the wireless of the wireless device after the disruption event. A wireless device may be returned to the last known location before the disruption event if there is a difference in locations. The programming at the last known location before the disruption event occurred may be successfully completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Christopher Mark Romine, Dennis Michael Feenaghty, Joseph Patrick Burke, Sanjay K Jha, Samir S Soliman
  • Patent number: 8385869
    Abstract: A self-test prediction system predicts the impact that a host device has on an embedded wireless device's receiver performance by recording the wireless device's received power. No carrier or pilot signal is necessary to predict the impact. The wireless device's embedded receiver monitors its own received power (e.g., RSSI) from any type of radiated noise from the host device. For receivers that do not provide RSS referenced to absolute power, an external reference tone can be used in order to scale the measured receiver carrier to noise or signal to noise data to an absolute power. The increase in measured received power on the wireless device's receiver correlates to the impact the host device will have on the embedded wireless device's receiver sensitivity performance, providing a faster approach with less external equipment than current approaches that use external equipment to simulate the wireless device's forward link signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Dennis Michael Feenaghty, Christopher Bryan Bowman, Gregory Alan Breit, Paul Guckian
  • Publication number: 20120276887
    Abstract: Embodiments describe manufacturing, programming, testing, and servicing of wireless computing devices utilizing their embedded wireless technology. An embodiment method ensures that the wireless computing devices are successfully programmed in the event a disruption to the manufacturing, programming, testing and servicing process flow occurs. The method includes retrieving a last known location of the wireless device before the disruption event and comparing the last known location with the location of the wireless of the wireless device after the disruption event. A wireless device may be returned to the last known location before the disruption event if there is a difference in locations. The programming at the last known location before the disruption event occurred may be successfully completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Christopher Mark Romine, Dennis Michael Feenaghty, Joseph Patrick Burke, Sanjay K. Jha, Samir S. Soliman
  • Patent number: 7925253
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus, processors and computer-readable media include a radiated testing module that executes a predetermined radiated performance test on a wireless device. The test dictates various performance-related parameters to measure and log at each of a plurality of predetermined positions. Further, the wireless device receives synchronization information operable to enable synchronization between the logged measurements and each of the positions. The synchronized log allows the wireless device, or another apparatus, to determine a radiated performance characteristic based on a predetermined analysis protocol. Further, the described embodiments allow for the determination of several radiated performance characteristics in a single test, using a single, unaltered wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gregory Alan Breit, Dennis Michael Feenaghty
  • Publication number: 20090318103
    Abstract: A self-test prediction system predicts the impact that a host device has on an embedded wireless device's receiver performance by recording the wireless device's received power. No carrier or pilot signal is necessary to predict the impact. The wireless device's embedded receiver monitors its own received power (e.g., RSSI) from any type of radiated noise from the host device. For receivers that do not provide RSS referenced to absolute power, an external reference tone can be used in order to scale the measured receiver carrier to noise or signal to noise data to an absolute power. The increase in measured received power on the wireless device's receiver correlates to the impact the host device will have on the embedded wireless device's receiver sensitivity performance, providing a faster approach with less external equipment than current approaches that use external equipment to simulate the wireless device's forward link signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Dennis Michael Feenaghty, Christopher Bryan Bowman, Gregory Alan Breit, Paul Guckian
  • Publication number: 20080129615
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatus, processors and computer-readable media include a radiated testing module that executes a predetermined radiated performance test on a wireless device. The test dictates various performance-related parameters to measure and log at each of a plurality of predetermined positions. Further, the wireless device receives synchronization information operable to enable synchronization between the logged measurements and each of the positions. The synchronized log allows the wireless device, or another apparatus, to determine a radiated performance characteristic based on a predetermined analysis protocol. Further, the described embodiments allow for the determination of several radiated performance characteristics in a single test, using a single, unaltered wireless device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Gregory Alan Breit, Dennis Michael Feenaghty