Patents by Inventor Philip C. Blum

Philip C. Blum 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).

  • Communication equipment, transcoder device and method for processing frames associated with a plurality of wireless protocols
    Patent number: 7155255
    Abstract: To address the need for an apparatus and method for transcoding among multiple wireless protocols, the present invention provides a framework for more generalized transcoding. A voice processing resource (e.g., 105) of a transcoder (101) receives the dynamic transcoding attributes (e.g., 201–207) for a frame and then transcodes that frame according to the requirements of the transcoding attributes. These dynamic attributes may contain information such as the wireless protocol involved, the frame type, the source type, the sequence number, the delivery timing requirements, and the delivery mode of subsequent frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip C. Blum, Michael W. Bychowsky, Esteban Yepez, III
  • Communication equipment, transcoder device and method for processing frames associated with a plurality of wireless protocols
    Publication number: 20030083102
    Abstract: To address the need for an apparatus and method for transcoding among multiple wireless protocols, the present invention provides a framework for more generalized transcoding. A voice processing resource (e.g., 105) of a transcoder (101) receives the dynamic transcoding attributes (e.g., 201-207) for a frame and then transcodes that frame according to the requirements of the transcoding attributes. These dynamic attributes may contain information such as the wireless protocol involved, the frame type, the source type, the sequence number, the delivery timing requirements, and the delivery mode of subsequent frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2001
    Publication date: May 1, 2003
    Inventors: Philip C. Blum, Michael W. Bychowsky, Esteban Yepez
  • Communication device and method for determining the signal quality of communication resources in a communication system
    Patent number: 6553017
    Abstract: A communication device (100) receives a first portion of an information packet via a primary communication resource (102). During a time period otherwise allocated for receiving a second portion of the information packet, the communication device (100) determines the signal quality of one or more other communication resources. The communication device then requests retransmission of the second portion of the information packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip C. Blum, Douglas A. Lenz, J. Christopher Stanaway