Patents by Inventor Eric Albert Bouton

Eric Albert Bouton 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).

  • Methods and systems of paging in cellular networks
    Patent number: 10856255
    Abstract: A paging procedure of a mobile telecommunications system is modified to page a terminal using all the transceiver node cells in the coverage area allocated to the terminal that operate in the frequency bands indicated by frequency band capability data for the terminal, but not using the transceiver node cells in the coverage area allocated to the terminal that operate only in other ones of the frequency bands. In one embodiment a control entity is operable to initiate an initial paging procedure by paging based on the characteristic of the terminal obtained by the control entity, and to initiate a subsequent paging procedure if no paging response is received from the terminal. In another embodiment, coverage area allocation means allocates each of the transceiver node cells to one or more of the coverage areas in dependence upon on which of the frequency bands the cell is capable of communicating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: VODAFONE IP LICENSING LIMITED
    Inventors: Christopher David Pudney, Eric Albert Bouton, Alexej Kulakov
  • Arrangement for choosing transceiver nodes in a mobile telecommunications network
    Patent number: 10743261
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunications network includes a mobile telecommunications device (1), a plurality of transceiver nodes (5), and control means (21) operable to choose at least one of the transceiver nodes for use by the mobile telecommunications device for uplink communications and to choose at least one of the transceiver nodes for use by the mobile telecommunications device for downlink communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Vodafone IP Licensing Limited
    Inventors: Federico Boccardi, Ilaria Thibault, Hisham Elshaer, Eric Albert Bouton
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF PAGING IN CELLULAR NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20190261311
    Abstract: A paging procedure of a mobile telecommunications system is modified to page a terminal using all the transceiver node cells in the coverage area allocated to the terminal that operate in the frequency bands indicated by frequency band capability data for the terminal, but not using the transceiver node cells in the coverage area allocated to the terminal that operate only in other ones of the frequency bands. In one embodiment a control entity is operable to initiate an initial paging procedure by paging based on the characteristic of the terminal obtained by the control entity, and to initiate a subsequent paging procedure if no paging response is received from the terminal. In another embodiment, coverage area allocation means allocates each of the transceiver node cells to one or more of the coverage areas in dependence upon on which of the frequency bands the cell is capable of communicating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Christopher David PUDNEY, Eric Albert Bouton, Alexej Kulakov