Patents by Inventor Steven Hall

Steven Hall 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: 8081929
    Abstract: Methods and systems for optimal frequency planning for an integrated communication system with multiple receivers may include adjusting a center frequency of a low IF signal to reduce interference by a second order interference signal. The center frequency may be adjusted to avoid high power portions of the second order interference signal. The interference level corresponding to a center frequency may be determined by, for example, a SNR of the low IF signal, or by determining a BER for the low IF signal. The center frequency of the low IF signal may be dynamically adjusted to keep second order interference level at an acceptable level. Adjusting the center frequency of the low IF signal may also comprise keeping the low IF signal from being blocked by a DC component of the second order interference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Brima Ibrahim, Alireza Zolfaghari, Steven Hall, Kambiz Shoarinejad, Bojko Marholev
  • Publication number: 20110223906
    Abstract: In a cellular wireless system, power thresholds used for determining whether or not to add or drop servers held in a set of servers, such as an active set, for serving a user equipment are determined on the basis of the motion of the respective user equipment. A lower threshold may be used with respect to the adding or dropping of a given server to or from a set of servers for serving a fast moving user equipment than would be used for the same server with respect to its adding or dropping to or from a set of servers for serving a slow moving user equipment, while maintaining a given quality of service. As a result, the average number of servers held in sets is reduced in a typical network that comprises a plurality of user equipments moving at different speeds, compared to a situation in which the threshold is set irrespective of the motion of a user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2011
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: NORTEL NETWORKS LIMITED
    Inventors: Steven Hall, Steven Baines, David Bevan, Andrew Jeffries
  • Publication number: 20110181482
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to an antenna structure and are particularly suited to array antennas. Conventionally, an antenna of the cavity-backed slot-radiating type comprises a slot formed in an end of an electrically conductive enclosure, which slot may be energised by a radiating element in registration with the slot. A feed network may connect to the radiating element via a transmission line formed by a conductive track on a feed layer located between the enclosure and an electrically conductive cover. A slot is formed in the section of the cover that covers the end of the cavity in which a slot is formed, such that the two slots are of substantially the same size and shape. A problem with this structure is that the cavity is difficult to mould in one piece and it can be difficult to achieve alignment of respective slots; as a result it is relatively costly to manufacture. Also, it is difficult to insert dielectric material into the enclosure to adjust the performance parameters of the antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Inventors: David Adams, Andrew Urquhart, William Waddoup, Dean Kitchener, Steven Hall, Simon Gale
  • Publication number: 20110167349
    Abstract: A system providing a user interface to annotate different items in a media production system such as in a digital non-linear post production system. Parts of the production, such as clips, frames and layers, that have an associated annotation are provided with a visual annotation marker. The annotation marker can use shape, color or animation to convey source, urgency, status or other information. Annotations can be text, freehand drawing, audio, or other. Annotations can be automatically generated. Annotations can be compiled into records, searched and transferred. A state of an application program can be stored and transferred to a remote system. The remote system attempts to recreate the original state of the application program. If the remote system is unable to do so, an image of the state of the application program is obtained, instead. Assignment of control to various functions of an application program is achieved by associating a function (i.e.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Sukendeep Samra, Mark A. van den Bergen, Steven Hall, Jason Peterson, Stephen Dyson
  • Patent number: 7953413
    Abstract: In a cellular wireless system, power thresholds used for determining whether or not to add or drop servers held in a set of servers, such as an active set, for serving a user equipment are determined on the basis of the motion of the respective user equipment. A lower threshold may be used with respect to the adding or dropping of a given server to or from a set of servers for serving a fast moving user equipment than would be used for the same server with respect to its adding or dropping to or from a set of servers for serving a slow moving user equipment, while maintaining a given quality of service. As a result, the average number of servers held in sets is reduced in a typical network that comprises a plurality of user equipments moving at different speeds, compared to a situation in which the threshold is set irrespective of the motion of a user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Steven Hall, Steven Baines, David Bevan, Andrew Jeffries
  • Patent number: 7930418
    Abstract: A system providing a user interface to annotate different items in a media production system such as in a digital non-linear post production system. Parts of the production, such as clips, frames and layers, that have an associated annotation are provided with a visual annotation marker. The annotation marker can use shape, color or animation to convey source, urgency, status or other information. Annotations can be text, freehand drawing, audio, or other. Annotations can be automatically generated. Annotations can be compiled into records, searched and transferred. A state of an application program can be stored and transferred to a remote system. The remote system attempts to recreate the original state of the application program. If the remote system is unable to do so, an image of the state of the application program is obtained, instead. Assignment of control to various functions of an application program is achieved by associating a function (i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Sukendeep Samra, Mark A. van den Bergen, Steven Hall, Jason Peterson, Stephen Dyson
  • Publication number: 20100126425
    Abstract: Structures constructed from an artificial material facilitate the setting and growing of oysters, other mollusks, and other organisms for the purposes of food production, artificial reefs/breakwaters, and the like. The artificial material is a composite that acts as both an attractant and nutrient environment for mollusks and other aquatic organisms. The binder for the composite material includes both cement and an organic material. The organic material is selected to attract and feed the aquatic organisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventors: Tyler Ortego, Robert Beine, Steven Hall, Matthew Campbell
  • Publication number: 20100120362
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention may comprise managing operations of BLE interfaces and/or other radio interfaces in a wireless device to mitigate interference to communication via the BLE interfaces by the other radio interfaces. Operating parameters may be communicated between the BLE interfaces and the other radio interfaces to enable mitigating the interference to the BLE interfaces, and at least some of the BLE interfaces and/or the other radio interfaces may be configured based on the communicated operating parameters. The operating parameters may comprise adaptive frequency hopping (AFH) maps that may be adjusted to prevent use of common and/or used channels. The communication device may detect energy associated with BLE communication via scan of all or some of channels used for BLE communication. BLE communication may be predicted based on monitoring of frequency bands used during BLE communication, and/or monitoring of events that may trigger and/or occur during BLE communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: John S. Walley, Brima Babatunde Ibrahim, Steven Hall, Prasanna Desai, Yuan Zhuang
  • Publication number: 20100091745
    Abstract: In a wireless network comprising access points deployed within a designated zone of coverage, the radio frequency field strength resulting from radiation from the access points is optimised as a function of location by means of control of the transmission power and/or radiation pattern of the access points in response to measurements from sensors at defined locations that measure received signal power, the received power being related to radio frequency field strength. Sensors may be deployed within the designated zone of coverage, at the edge of the zone and/or outside the zone and optimisation of the transmission parameters of the access points in terms of transmission power and/or radiation pattern is carried out taking into account the location of the sensors in addition to the received power at the sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: Nortel Networks, Limited
    Inventors: David Bevan, Andrew Jeffries, Simon Gale, Steven Hall
  • Publication number: 20100046498
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for sleep mode signaling for a multi-standard system with Bluetooth are provided. In this regard, a first communication system that communicates utilizing TDM may generate a synchronization signal that is communicatively coupled to a second communication system that communicates utilizing TDM. The first communication system may determine one or more timeslots during which it may be inactive. The first communication system may control, based on the determination, an amount of time that the synchronization signal is in one or more states. The second communication system may receive the synchronization signal from the first communication system. The second communication system may determine timeslots during which the first communication system may be inactive based on an amount of time that the synchronization signal is in one or more states. The second communication system may transmit and/or receive at times that are scheduled based on the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventor: Steven Hall
  • Publication number: 20100046496
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for Bluetooth connection setup in a multi-standard multi-radio communication system are provided. In this regard, a Bluetooth system may be operable to determine whether a coexistent time division multiplexing communication system is receiving signals and to control the types of packets it transmits based on the determination. While the coexistent time division multiplexing communication system is receiving signals, the Bluetooth system may be limited to transmission of Bluetooth packets that enable establishment of a Bluetooth connection. For example the Bluetooth system may be limited to sending ID packets in response to page packets and FHS packets and/or may be limited to sending FHS packets. Also, the Bluetooth system may refrain from transmitting packets while the Bluetooth system is connected as a piconet master and while the time division multiplexing communication system is receiving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Inventor: Steven Hall
  • Publication number: 20090312010
    Abstract: WiMAX and Bluetooth coexistence may be enabled in a wireless device that comprises collocated WIMAX subsystem and Bluetooth subsystem. Concurrent WiMAX and Bluetooth communications may be carried on via the wireless device to the extent that WiMAX communication is unaffected by the Bluetooth communications. Scheduling of Bluetooth communications may be performed to optimize Bluetooth communication while avoiding potential collision with the WiMAX communication. The Bluetooth communication scheduling may allow Bluetooth messaging transmission during active WiMAX uplink slots and/or inactive WiMAX slots, Bluetooth messaging reception during active WiMAX downlink slots and/or inactive WiMAX slots, and/or no Bluetooth transmission during active WiMAX downlink slots. Clock signals utilized in the WiMAX subsystem and the Bluetooth subsystem may be synchronized to ensure that Bluetooth communication is aligned with the WiMAX frames.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventor: Steven Hall
  • Publication number: 20090302966
    Abstract: Methods and systems for optimal frequency planning for an integrated communication system with multiple receivers may include adjusting a center frequency of a low IF signal to reduce interference by a second order interference signal. The center frequency may be adjusted to avoid high power portions of the second order interference signal. The interference level corresponding to a center frequency may be determined by, for example, a SNR of the low IF signal, or by determining a BER for the low IF signal. The center frequency of the low IF signal may be dynamically adjusted to keep second order interference level at an acceptable level. Adjusting the center frequency of the low IF signal may also comprise keeping the low IF signal from being blocked by a DC component of the second order interference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Inventors: Brima Ibrahim, Alireza Zofaghari, Steven Hall, Kambiz Shoarinejad, Bojko Marholev
  • Patent number: 7561526
    Abstract: A communications network comprises a plurality of linked nodes between a source and a destination. At each node the state of the network and its links are measured and stored with advertisements from other links. The node also performs a routing algorithm to define the instantaneously best path to the destination for the current network state. The routing algorithm responds to a plurality of metrics, including costs of links, and may use fuzzy logic which derives a fuzzy cost for candidate paths to derive a least fuzzy cost path to be followed. Traffic is shared between a path which is determined to be the best, at the current point in time, and a path which has previously been determined as the best path. The network can be a network which carries mobile cellular traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: James M Naden, Christopher J Reed, Steven Hall, Andrew P Winsor
  • Publication number: 20090163212
    Abstract: In a cellular wireless system, power thresholds used for determining whether or not to add or drop servers held in a set of servers, such as an active set, for serving a user equipment are determined on the basis of the motion of the respective user equipment. A lower threshold may be used with respect to the adding or dropping of a given server to or from a set of servers for serving a fast moving user equipment than would be used for the same server with respect to its adding or dropping to or from a set of servers for serving a slow moving user equipment, while maintaining a given quality of service. As a result, the average number of servers held in sets is reduced in a typical network that comprises a plurality of user equipments moving at different speeds, compared to a situation in which the threshold is set irrespective of the motion of a user equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Applicant: NORTEL NETWORKS LIMITED
    Inventors: Steven Hall, Steven Baines, David Bevan, Andrew Jeffries
  • Publication number: 20080076800
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of Formula I wherein A, Q1, Q2, Q3, R3, R4, R5, RO, m, and p are as defined herein. Compounds of Formula I are useful in the treatment of diseases and/or conditions related to cell proliferation, such as cancer, inflammation, arthritis, angiogenesis, or the like. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of the invention and methods of treating the aforementioned conditions using such compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventors: Kenneth Huang, Thomas Barta, Emilie Smith, Steven Hall, James Veal
  • Patent number: 7334026
    Abstract: A system providing a user interface to annotate different items in a media production system such as in a digital non-linear post production system. Parts of the production, such as clips, frames and layers, that have an associated annotation are provided with a visual annotation marker. The annotation marker can use shape, color or animation to convey source, urgency, status or other information. Annotations can be text, freehand drawing, audio, or other. Annotations can be automatically generated. Annotations can be compiled into records, searched and transferred. A state of an application program can be stored and transferred to a remote system. The remote system attempts to recreate the original state of the application program. If the remote system is unable to do so, an image of the state of the application program is obtained, instead. Assignment of control to various functions of an application program is achieved by associating a function (i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sukendeep Samra, Mark A. van den Bergen, Steven Hall, Jason Peterson, Stephen Dyson
  • Publication number: 20070207984
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of Formula (I), wherein Q1, Q2, RN, R1, R2, R5, R6, R7, R8, X1, X2, X4, and Y are as defined herein. Compounds of Formula (I) are useful in the treatment of diseases and/or conditions related to cell proliferation, such as cancer, inflammation, arthritis, angiogenesis, or the like. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of the invention and methods of treating the aforementioned conditions using such compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Inventors: Kenneth Huang, Jeron Eaves, James Veal, Steven Hall, Thomas Barta, Gunnar Hanson
  • Publication number: 20070107663
    Abstract: Structures constructed from an artificial material facilitate the setting and growing of oysters, other mollusks, and other organisms for the purposes of food production, artificial reefs/breakwaters, and the like. The artificial material is a composite that acts as both an attractant and nutrient environment for mollusks and other aquatic organisms. The binder for the composite material includes both cement and an organic material. The organic material is selected to attract and feed the aquatic organisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Inventors: Tyler Ortego, Robert Beine, Steven Hall, Matthew Campbell
  • Patent number: D567657
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Crown Packaging Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason John Hall, David Steven Hall