Patents by Inventor Eamonn Gormley

Eamonn Gormley 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).

  • Systems and methods for coordinating the scheduling of beamformed data to reduce interference
    Patent number: 9504018
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for coordinating the scheduling of beamformed data to reduce interference in a wireless system. A first optimum phase adjustment is determined to increase the gain of an intended signal at a mobile device. A second optimum phase adjustment is determined to decrease the gain of interfering signals received at the mobile device. Using a phase adjustment map, a transmission is scheduled at a base station within wireless resources using the first optimum phase adjustment, at the same time an interfering base station is transmitting at the second optimum phase adjustment angle. Thus, signal strength is greatly improved while interference is greatly reduced, improving the efficiency of the wireless system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Eamonn Gormley, Chaz Immendorf
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20160295426
    Abstract: Fixed and variable phase transmissions can be used to reduce interference in a wireless communications system. Timing and location information can be provided over existing infrastructure in a building. Managed restoration of networks includes phasing-in network elements over time. Network elements may be aligned to a reference time source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Eamonn GORMLEY, David James RYAN, Jeffrey Paul HARRANG
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
    Publication number: 20160286425
    Abstract: Wireless network performance may be improved by combined phase and power coordinated scheduling, usage-aware interference mitigation scheduling, estimating interference in a power scheduled network, coordinating transmission power levels using thresholds, and locally generated pseudorandom power schedules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Eamonn GORMLEY, David James RYAN, Derek Stephen HILBORN, Jeffrey Paul HARRANG, Adrian YIP
  • Method for tracking and utilizing operational run time of a network element
    Patent number: 9451482
    Abstract: Techniques for normalizing a performance metric in a wireless communication network include collecting operation data of a network element over a plurality of data collection time periods, determining operational run time of the network element based on the operation data, calculating a normalization value based on the operational run time, and normalizing the performance metric for the network element using the normalization value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OY
    Inventors: David James Ryan, Eamonn Gormley
  • Cooperative interference subtraction scheme
    Patent number: 9439078
    Abstract: A cooperative interference subtraction scheme includes receiving a first baseband signal including an interference signal at a first base station, receiving a second baseband signal including the interference signal at a second base station, calculating a channel translation parameter based on the first baseband signal and the second baseband signal, receiving a signal including a user equipment (UE) transmission at the first base station during a first time slot, and subtracting interference from the signal including the UE transmission using the channel translation parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Spectrum Effect, Inc.
    Inventors: Rekha Menon, Eamonn Gormley, Chaz Immendorf
  • Neighbor cell interference estimation
    Patent number: 9392477
    Abstract: A system for estimating interference on a cellular network includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium with computer executable instructions stored thereon. The computer executable instructions perform the following method when executed by the processor: causing the processor to receive from a user equipment, first information indicating a strength of a signal received at the user equipment from an interfering base station; causing the processor to receive second information indicating an airlink utilization of the interfering base station; and causing the processor to process the first information and the second information according to an estimation function to produce an interference estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OY
    Inventors: Eamonn Gormley, Adrian Yip
  • Method and system for intelligent jamming signal generation
    Patent number: 9356727
    Abstract: Detecting and jamming a wireless network using an intelligent jammer comprises determining that a signal source is an unlicensed signal source, synchronizing the intelligent jammer with the unlicensed signal source, determining a time and a frequency of a protocol signal associated with the unlicensed signal source, and transmitting a jamming signal according to the time and the frequency of the protocol signal. A system for detecting and jamming a wireless network comprises a first intelligent jammer, and an Intelligent Detection and Jamming Server (IDJS) coupled to the first intelligent jammer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Spectrum Effect Inc.
    Inventors: Chaz Immendorf, Jungnam Yun, Eamonn Gormley
  • Wireless multi-site capacity coordination
    Patent number: 9313792
    Abstract: Wireless multi-site capacity coordination includes calculating a total interference impact metric for a reference cell, determining a distribution of power resources for the reference cell and a plurality of neighboring cells, and allocating the power resources to sub-bands for the reference cell and the plurality of neighboring cells. Calculating the total interference impact metric may include determining a number of resources assigned to a reference cell within time period T, and calculating user equipment (UE) interference metrics for each UE attached to each of a plurality of neighboring cells which have UE which experience interference from the reference cell attached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Eamonn Gormley, Chaz Immendorf, Tim Treptow
  • Method and system for measuring availability in a communications network
    Patent number: 9306817
    Abstract: In a system for availability metrics for customer premises equipment (CPE), CPE includes a non-volatile memory and a timer. Service availability interruption events and time stamps associated with the events are recorded in the non-volatile memory and transmitted to a computing device, which calculates availability metrics based on the interruption events and time stamps from the non-volatile memory of the CPE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OY
    Inventor: Eamonn Gormley
  • Method and system for automatic neighbor relations in multi-vendor heterogeneous network
    Patent number: 9301223
    Abstract: A method includes comparing a vendor of a base station of the source cell to a vendor of the a base station of the target cell, when the vendor of the base station of the source cell is different from the vendor of the base station of the target cell, determining a second cell identifier used by the vendor of the base station of the target cell to identify the target cell, comparing the second cell identifier to a first cell identifier used by a vendor of the source base station to identify the target cell, and replacing one of the first and second cell identifiers with the other of the first and second cell identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OY
    Inventors: Jungnam Yun, Eamonn Gormley
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPECTRUM SHARING
    Publication number: 20150296386
    Abstract: A method for spectrum coexistence includes determining interference from a primary network to a secondary network that is independent from the primary network, determining transmission parameters for a network element of the secondary network that mitigate interference from the secondary network to the primary network, and transmitting signals from the network element according to the determined transmission parameters. The network element could be a base station or user equipment. Accordingly, a secondary network can coexist with a primary network even when the networks do not communicate with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Rekha MENON, Jungnam YUN, Eamonn GORMLEY
  • Wireless multi-site capacity coordination
    Patent number: 9161361
    Abstract: Wireless multi-site capacity coordination includes calculating a total interference impact metric for a reference cell, determining a distribution of power resources for the reference cell and a plurality of neighboring cells, and allocating the power resources to sub-bands for the reference cell and the plurality of neighboring cells. Determining a distribution of power resources includes determining power resources to assign to sub-bands and assigning the determined power resources to sub-bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Eden Rock Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Eamonn Gormley, Chaz Immendorf, Tim Treptow
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COEXISTENCE OF RADAR AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20150289265
    Abstract: A method for scheduling wireless transmissions in a wireless communications network in the presence of pulsed interference includes receiving pulsed interference information, determining transmission opportunities based on the pulsed interference information, and when a transmission time interval (TTI) is less than a time of an opportunity of the transmission opportunities, transmitting a wireless signal during the opportunity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Eamonn GORMLEY, Jungnam YUN, Rekha MENON
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COEXISTENCE OF RADAR AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20150215794
    Abstract: A method for coexistence with a pulsed interference source in a communications network includes identifying transmission time intervals (TTIs) that are affected by pulses from the pulsed interference source and changing a transmission parameter for the TTIs that are affected by pulses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Eamonn GORMLEY, Jungnam YUN, Rekha MENON
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LOCALIZING INTERFERENCE IN SPECTRUM CO-EXISTENCE NETWORK
    Publication number: 20150215949
    Abstract: A method for sharing spectrum between a primary user and a secondary user includes receiving a signal transmitted by the primary user at a first network equipment of the secondary user, determining a first attenuation coefficient for the first network equipment, estimating interference from the first network equipment at a receiver of the primary user, and adjusting parameters of the first network equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2014
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Eamonn GORMLEY, Rekha MENON, Jungnam YUN
  • System and method for data scrambling to reduce the crest factor in an OFDM waveform
    Patent number: 9088314
    Abstract: A method is provided for reducing the peak power level in a combination of orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) tones. The method is particularly effective when the information to be communicated is digital data consisting of long patterns of “1”s or “0”s. The digital data of the message is combined with a scrambling vector before the data is modulated. The randomization of data patterns, in turn, leads to a more random combination of OFDM tone amplitude being transmitted. The message is recovered at the receiver by removing the scrambling vector. An OFDM communication system using the above-described method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Salvador Garcia, Jr., Eamonn Gormley, Elliott Hoole
  • Real-time rate control mechanism for multi-rate data transmissions in wireless networks
    Patent number: 9078190
    Abstract: Wireless networks are becoming increasingly heterogeneous in terms of the processing capabilities of network users' receiving equipment. According to embodiments of the innovation, in a communications network comprising a plurality of receivers with different data reception rate capabilities, data frames targeted to respective receivers may be transmitted to the receivers in accordance with the respective data reception rate capabilities of the receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Jose Rodriguez-Sanchez, Eamonn Gormley, Derek Hilborn
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC NEIGHBOR RELATIONS IN MULTI-VENDOR HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK
    Publication number: 20150079990
    Abstract: A method includes comparing a vendor of a base station of the source cell to a vendor of the a base station of the target cell, when the vendor of the base station of the source cell is different from the vendor of the base station of the target cell, determining a second cell identifier used by the vendor of the base station of the target cell to identify the target cell, comparing the second cell identifier to a first cell identifier used by a vendor of the source base station to identify the target cell, and replacing one of the first and second cell identifiers with the other of the first and second cell identifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Jungnam YUN, Eamonn GORMLEY
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MULTI-PROCESS PRIORITY AND PARAMETER CONFLICT IN A SELF ORGANIZING NETWORK CONTROLLER
    Publication number: 20150052251
    Abstract: A method for managing multiple processes simultaneously in a communications network includes running a first application controlling a parameter of a network element, launching a second application, comparing a priority of the first application to a priority of the second application to determine a higher priority application and a lower priority application, determining a common parameter affected by the first application and the second application, writing data from the higher priority application to a current record, writing data from the lower priority application to a master record, and updating the common parameter based on the data written by the higher priority application to the current record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: EDEN ROCK COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: David James RYAN, Eamonn GORMLEY, Timothy TREPTOW
  • COOPERATIVE INTERFERENCE SUBTRACTION SCHEME
    Publication number: 20150016429
    Abstract: A cooperative interference subtraction scheme includes receiving a first baseband signal including an interference signal at a first base station, receiving a second baseband signal including the interference signal at a second base station, calculating a channel translation parameter based on the first baseband signal and the second baseband signal, receiving a signal including a user equipment (UE) transmission at the first base station during a first time slot, and subtracting interference from the signal including the UE transmission using the channel translation parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Applicant: EDEN ROCK COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Rekha MENON, Eamonn GORMLEY, Chaz IMMENDORF