Patents by Inventor Andrew BLANKSBY

Andrew BLANKSBY 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).

  • Publication number: 20190116062
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for providing device(s) with additional processing time to process a packet received wirelessly while still meeting the legacy SIFS time constraint. The additional processing time may be achieved by adding, by a device transmitting the packet, padding and/or a packet extension to the last symbol of the packet. The additional processing time provided to the device(s) advantageously reduces the amount of extra hardware that would normally be added to meet the SIFS time constraint. The amount of padding and/or packet extension to be added to the last symbol is balanced to minimize the complexity of the device(s) against the reduction in system efficiency incurred by the device(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Andrew BLANKSBY, Matthias KORB, Ron PORAT, Dignus-Jan MOELKER
  • Patent number: 10216567
    Abstract: Various aspects of systems for generating parity bits for encoding based on a portion of a generator matrix are disclosed. In one aspect, a generator matrix includes a sub-block including a first set of elements circularly shifted from an identity matrix by a first amount, and a second set of elements circularly shifted from the identity matrix by a second amount. Bit permutation circuitry generates first bits according to input bits and the first amount. Each of the first bits is provided as input to a corresponding XOR device of XOR devices. Each of a set of storage registers stores an output of the corresponding XOR device. The bit permutation circuitry generates second bits according to the input bits and the second amount. The XOR devices perform bit-wise XOR operations on the stored outputs and the generated second bits, to provide a portion of the parity bits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
    Inventor: Andrew Blanksby
  • Patent number: 10148460
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for providing device(s) with additional processing time to process a packet received wirelessly while still meeting the legacy SIFS time constraint. The additional processing time may be achieved by adding, by a device transmitting the packet, padding and/or a packet extension to the last symbol of the packet. The additional processing time provided to the device(s) advantageously reduces the amount of extra hardware that would normally be added to meet the SIFS time constraint. The amount of padding and/or packet extension to be added to the last symbol is balanced to minimize the complexity of the device(s) against the reduction in system efficiency incurred by the device(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Blanksby, Matthias Korb, Ron Porat, Dignus-Jan Moelker
  • Publication number: 20180123832
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for providing device(s) with additional processing time to process a packet received wirelessly while still meeting the legacy SIFS time constraint. The additional processing time may be achieved by adding, by a device transmitting the packet, padding and/or a packet extension to the last symbol of the packet. The additional processing time provided to the device(s) advantageously reduces the amount of extra hardware that would normally be added to meet the SIFS time constraint. The amount of padding and/or packet extension to be added to the last symbol is balanced to minimize the complexity of the device(s) against the reduction in system efficiency incurred by the device(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrew BLANKSBY, Matthias Korb, Ron Porat, Dignus-Jan Moelker
  • Patent number: 9860082
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for providing device(s) with additional processing time to process a packet received wirelessly while still meeting the legacy SIFS time constraint. The additional processing time may be achieved by adding, by a device transmitting the packet, padding and/or a packet extension to the last symbol of the packet. The additional processing time provided to the device(s) advantageously reduces the amount of extra hardware that would normally be added to meet the SIFS time constraint. The amount of padding and/or packet extension to be added to the last symbol is balanced to minimize the complexity of the device(s) against the reduction in system efficiency incurred by the device(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrew Blanksby, Matthias Korb, Ron Porat, Dignus-Jan Moelker
  • Patent number: 9769865
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for opportunistic data transfer (ODT) are provided. ODT improves network coverage, reliability and/or efficiency by permitting data transfer consumers and network access providers to take advantage of communication opportunities that may be mutually beneficial. Fixed and mobile, personal or business, wired or wireless devices, may participate as ODT network operators, providers and/or consumers. ODT participants may be motivated to participate, for example, to reduce battery consumption and improve network coverage, reduce network congestion and interference. A phone, for example, may be enabled to send data to an Internet destination by ODT in lieu of a cellular network in particular circumstances, such as cellular network unavailability, with less costly data transfer and/or less battery power consumption. ODTs may be ad hoc or preauthorized and may be tracked, accounted, and compensated for, such as according to ODT service terms selected by each provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrew Blanksby, David Garrett, Matthias Korb
  • Publication number: 20160365873
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to an apparatus and method for decoding non-binary LDPC codes over non-associative finite division near rings. A non-associative finite division near ring is a type of algebraic structure that includes a finite set of elements on which the operations of addition and multiplication are defined. The operation of addition is commutative, associative, and closed, and may have an additive identity for all elements in the finite set. The operation of multiplication is closed but not commutative or associative, and has a multiplicative inverse but not a multiplicative identity for all elements in the finite set. The two operations of addition and multiplication may be related by the distributive property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Matthias KORB, Andrew Blanksby
  • Publication number: 20160353489
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for opportunistic data transfer (ODT) are provided. ODT improves network coverage, reliability and/or efficiency by permitting data transfer consumers and network access providers to take advantage of communication opportunities that may be mutually beneficial. Fixed and mobile, personal or business, wired or wireless devices, may participate as ODT network operators, providers and/or consumers. ODT participants may be motivated to participate, for example, to reduce battery consumption and improve network coverage, reduce network congestion and interference. A phone, for example, may be enabled to send data to an Internet destination by ODT in lieu of a cellular network in particular circumstances, such as cellular network unavailability, with less costly data transfer and/or less battery power consumption. ODTs may be ad hoc or preauthorized and may be tracked, accounted, and compensated for, such as according to ODT service terms selected by each provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Andrew Blanksby, David Garrett, Matthias Korb
  • Publication number: 20160227437
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for providing device(s) with additional processing time to process a packet received wirelessly while still meeting the legacy SIFS time constraint. The additional processing time may be achieved by adding, by a device transmitting the packet, padding and/or a packet extension to the last symbol of the packet. The additional processing time provided to the device(s) advantageously reduces the amount of extra hardware that would normally be added to meet the SIFS time constraint. The amount of padding and/or packet extension to be added to the last symbol is balanced to minimize the complexity of the device(s) against the reduction in system efficiency incurred by the device(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Andrew Blanksby, Matthias Korb, Ron Porat, Dignus-Jan Moelker
  • Publication number: 20150333775
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for decoding a polar encoded codeword using a frozen bit pattern determined based on a frozen bit pattern derived for a trellis decoder with a different routing structure between each of a plurality of processing stages. The frozen bit pattern can be determined based on the frozen bit pattern derived for the trellis decoder with the different routing structure between each of the plurality of processing stages such that a belief propagation decoder that uses a plurality of time-multiplexed processing elements with a fixed routing interconnect can still achieve a high decoding performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2014
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Matthias KORB, Andrew BLANKSBY, Youn Sung PARK