Patents by Inventor Brandon Allen

Brandon Allen 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: 10123224
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for defending against false semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) activation detection and/or missed SPS release. According to certain aspects, a user equipment (UE) may detect one or more conditions for a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) activation or release are met based on a downlink transmission, generate one or more metrics related to downlink transmission, and determine a valid SPS activation or release has occurred if the one or more metrics satisfy one or more criteria. According to certain aspects, a UE may determine a valid semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) activation has occurred, detect a number of PDSCH CRC failures, and implicitly declare an SPS release based on the detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vasanth Kumar Ramkumar, Dominique Francois Bressanelli, Brandon Allen Burdge, Deepak Krishnamoorthi, Kevin Shaokwan Wang, Srinivasan Rajagopalan
  • Patent number: 9656910
    Abstract: Methods of forming a glass article are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of forming a glass article includes translating a pulsed laser beam on a glass substrate sheet to form a laser damage region between a first surface and a second surface of the glass substrate sheet. The method further includes applying an etchant solution to the glass substrate sheet to remove a portion of the glass substrate sheet about the laser damage region. The method may further include strengthening the glass substrate sheet by an ion-exchange strengthening process, and coating the glass substrate sheet with an acid-resistant coating. Also disclosed are methods where the laser damage region has an initial geometry that changes to a desired geometry following the reforming of the glass substrate sheet such that the initial geometry of the laser damage region compensates for the bending of the glass substrate sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Brandon Allen Bazemore, Jeffrey Alan Decker, Jiangwei Feng, Diane Kimberlie Guilfoyle, Daniel Ralph Harvey, Yuhui Jin, Laurent Joubaud, Xavier Gerard Lafosse, Alexander Mikhailovich Streltsov, Ljerka Ukrainczyk
  • Publication number: 20170065900
    Abstract: A modular semi-rigid body construction toy containing a plurality of articulation and accessory attachments to a base body made solely out of a flexible semi-rigid foam material. The toy's base body and accessories contain internally molded geometry to achieve movement and articulation between the accessory pieces and the toy's main body. The model also contains connecting links made out of the same flexible foam connect multiple flexible base bodies to create larger articulated flexible toy systems. The modular semi-rigid body construction is built with accurate aesthetic appearances representative of real-world structures, models, and machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventor: James Brandon Allen
  • Publication number: 20160368308
    Abstract: A decorated glass-ceramic article, including: at least three different gloss contrast regions having at least three gloss levels having a relative gloss difference of at least 20 units when measured at from at least one incidence angle of: 20 degrees, 60 degrees, or 85 degrees. Also disclosed is a method of decorating a surface to have one or more contrast levels on at least a portion of the surface of an original substrate, as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Brandon Allen Bazemore, Matthew John Dejneka, Matthew Wade Fenton, Yuhui Jin, Charlene Marie Smith
  • Publication number: 20160251259
    Abstract: A method for increasing the tactile feel of a glass-ceramic article includes (a) performing a first etching of a surface of the glass-ceramic article with a first etchant to create a plurality of features on the surface, wherein the first etchant comprises hydrofluoric acid and an inorganic fluoride salt, and the plurality of features comprises protrusions and recesses and (b) performing a second etching of the surface with a second etchant different from the first etchant to enlarge a distance between adjacent features of a same type, wherein the second etching occurs after the first etching, after the second etching an average distance between adjacent features of a same type is in a range from 0.5 ?m to 20 ?m and a density of features of the same type is in a range from 9,000 to 25,000 features/mm2, and a tactile feel of the surface after the second etching is greater than the tactile feel of the surface before the first etching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Brandon Allen Bazemore, Jun Hou, Yuhui Jin, Eungsik Park, Tammy Lynn Petriwsky
  • Patent number: 9408221
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) reporting after resumption of Long Term Evolution (LTE) after a temporary suspension. In certain aspects, in order to minimize performance penalty to LTE on resumption after an LTE tune away for example to service a different Radio Access Technology, information available from before the LTE tune away may be used in addition to one or more additional parameters for determining how to perform LTE CQI calculation/update after tuning back to LTE. In certain aspects, a decision regarding whether a User Equipment (UE) reports a CQI based on channel conditions before the LTE tune away or reports a CQI based on channel conditions after tuning back to LTE may be based on a value of the Doppler estimate, a time duration of the LTE tune away, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shengshan Cui, Brandon Allen Burdge, Shivratna Giri Srinivasan, Brian Clarke Banister, Supratik Bhattacharjee, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Publication number: 20160152516
    Abstract: Methods of forming a glass article are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of forming a glass article includes translating a pulsed laser beam on a glass substrate sheet to form a laser damage region between a first surface and a second surface of the glass substrate sheet. The method further includes applying an etchant solution to the glass substrate sheet to remove a portion of the glass substrate sheet about the laser damage region. The method may further include strengthening the glass substrate sheet by an ion-exchange strengthening process, and coating the glass substrate sheet with an acid-resistant coating. Also disclosed are methods where the laser damage region has an initial geometry that changes to a desired geometry following the reforming of the glass substrate sheet such that the initial geometry of the laser damage region compensates for the bending of the glass substrate sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Brandon Allen Bazemore, Jeffrey Alan Decker, Jiangwei Feng, Diane Kimberlie Guilfoyle, Daniel Ralph Harvey, Yuhui Jin, Laurent Joubaud, Xavier Gerard Lafosse, Alexander Mikhailovich Streltsov, Ljerka Ukrainczyk
  • Patent number: 9301161
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining available downlink bandwidth are described. The described aspects may include estimating an available link capacity of a cell for a user equipment. The described aspects may include estimating an available fraction of cell resources for the user equipment. The described aspects may include estimating available bandwidth of the cell for the user equipment as a function of the estimated available link capacity and the estimated available fraction of cell resources. Available bandwidth may be estimated for a cell in a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) system when the user equipment is in an idle mode and/or a connected mode. Available bandwidth may be estimated for a cell in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system when the user equipment is in an idle mode and/or a connected mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Pavan Kumar Vitthaladevuni, Arnaud Meylan, Sharad Deepak Sambhwani, Brandon Allen Burdge, Sridhar Ramanujam, Siddharth Mohan
  • Publication number: 20150098341
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for defending against false semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) activation detection and/or missed SPS release. According to certain aspects, a user equipment (UE) may detect one or more conditions for a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) activation or release are met based on a downlink transmission, generate one or more metrics related to downlink transmission, and determine a valid SPS activation or release has occurred if the one or more metrics satisfy one or more criteria. According to certain aspects, a UE may determine a valid semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) activation has occurred, detect a number of PDSCH CRC failures, and implicitly declare an SPS release based on the detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventors: Vasanth Kumar RAMKUMAR, Dominique Francois BRESSANELLI, Brandon Allen BURDGE, Deepak KRISHNAMOORTHI, Kevin Shaokwan WANG, Srinivasan RAJAGOPALAN
  • Publication number: 20140029455
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for determining available downlink bandwidth are described. The described aspects may include estimating an available link capacity of a cell for a user equipment. The described aspects may include estimating an available fraction of cell resources for the user equipment. The described aspects may include estimating available bandwidth of the cell for the user equipment as a function of the estimated available link capacity and the estimated available fraction of cell resources. Available bandwidth may be estimated for a cell in a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) system when the user equipment is in an idle mode and/or a connected mode. Available bandwidth may be estimated for a cell in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system when the user equipment is in an idle mode and/or a connected mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Pavan Kumar VITTHALADEVUNI, Arnaud MEYLAN, Sharad Deepak SAMBHWANI, Brandon Allen BURDGE, Sridhar RAMANUJAM, Siddharth MOHAN
  • Publication number: 20130272218
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) reporting after resumption of Long Term Evolution (LTE) after a temporary suspension. In certain aspects, in order to minimize performance penalty to LTE on resumption after an LTE tune away for example to service a different Radio Access Technology, information available from before the LTE tune away may be used in addition to one or more additional parameters for determining how to perform LTE CQI calculation/update after tuning back to LTE. In certain aspects, a decision regarding whether a User Equipment (UE) reports a CQI based on channel conditions before the LTE tune away or reports a CQI based on channel conditions after tuning back to LTE may be based on a value of the Doppler estimate, a time duration of the LTE tune away, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shengshan Cui, Brandon Allen Burdge, Shivratna Giri Srinivasan, Brian Clarke Banister, Supratik Bhattacharjee, Raghu Narayan Challa
  • Patent number: 6744891
    Abstract: A method and system for delivering data over a communication network which ensures-proper payment of royalties while preserving free access to data for purposes such as browsing or research. An exemplary method in accordance with the present invention includes the steps of providing a partially-degraded version of the data over the network, without payment of a royalty fee, to a customer at a user terminal connected to the network; and providing a higher quality version of the data to the customer over the network if the customer is entitled to receive the higher quality version. The determination as to whether the customer is so entitled may be made by, for example, determining if a royalty fee payment has been received. The partially-degraded version of the data is substantially recognizable when displayed, printed, played, run or otherwise utilized by the customer at the user terminal, and may be generated by, for example, deleting or encrypting a portion of the undegraded data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathon Brandon Allen
  • Patent number: 6041316
    Abstract: A method and system for delivering data over a communication network which ensures proper payment of royalties while preserving free access to data for purposes such as browsing or research. An exemplary method in accordance with the present invention includes the steps of providing a partially-degraded version of the data over the network, without payment of a royalty fee, to a customer at a user terminal connected to the network; and providing a higher quality version of the data to the customer over the network if the customer is entitled to receive the higher quality version. The determination as to whether the customer is so entitled may be made by, for example, determining if a royalty fee payment has been received. The partially-degraded version of the data is substantially recognizable when displayed, printed, played, run or otherwise utilized by the customer at the user terminal, and may be generated by, for example, deleting or encrypting a portion of the undegraded data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathon Brandon Allen
  • Patent number: 5848172
    Abstract: A monolithic second order gradient (SOG) microphone structure employs acoustic transmission lines wherein the acoustic phase delay along each of the acoustic transmission lines is in direct proportion to the length of each of the acoustic transmission lines and, where this is effected by the use of an acoustic impedance element placed within each acoustic transmission line that has an acoustic impedance related to the acoustic impedance of the associated acoustic transmission line. In one embodiment, the acoustic impedance element has a specific acoustic impedance substantially matched to the specific acoustic characteristic resistance of the acoustic transmission line. Various embodiments may utilize acoustic or electrical subtraction of the signals in the acoustic transmission lines to realize the desired directional sound pickup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Brandon Allen, John Charles Baumhauer, Jr., James Edward West
  • Patent number: 5737389
    Abstract: A "loudness balance" procedure is used to determine the amount of dynamic range for syllabic compression loss in an individual's cochlea. In particular, an individual is asked to adjust a set of tone volumes, which are played to them, until the tone volumes sound equally loud. Based on the adjustments performed by the individual, a compression ratio is determined for that individual over at least one frequency band. The determined compression ratio is then subsequently used by a telecommunications system to provide an individual-specific sound enhancement in a telephone call. As a result, the individual-specific sound enhancement particularly compensates for an amount of hearing loss unique to that individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: AT&T Corp.
    Inventor: Jonathan Brandon Allen
  • Patent number: 5699479
    Abstract: A new technique for the determination of the masking effect of an audio signal is employed to provide transparent compression of an audio signal at greatly reduced bit rates. The new technique employs the results of recent research into the psycho-physics of noise masking in the human auditory system. This research suggests that noise masking is a function of the uncertainty in loudness as perceived by the brain. Measures of loudness uncertainty are employed to form noise masking thresholds for use in the compression of audio signals. These measures are employed in an illustrative subband, analysis-by-synthesis framework. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, provisional encodings of the audio signal are performed to determine the encoding which achieves a loudness differential, between the original and coded audio signal, which is less than (but not too far below) the loudness uncertainty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Brandon Allen, Sean Matthew Dorward, James David Johnston, Mark R. Sydorenko
  • Patent number: 5682463
    Abstract: A new technique for the determination of the masking effect of an audio signal is employed to provide transparent compression of an audio signal at greatly reduced bit rates. The new technique employs the results of recent research into the psycho-physics of noise masking in the human auditory system. This research suggests that noise masking is a function of the uncertainty in loudness as perceived by the brain. Measures of loudness uncertainty are employed to determine the degree to which audio signals are "tone-like" (or "noise-like"). The degree of tone-likeness, referred to as "tonality," is used to determine masking thresholds for use in the compression of audio signals. Tonality, computed in accordance with the present invention, is used in conventional and new arrangements to achieve compression of audio signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Brandon Allen, Deepen Sinha, Mark R. Sydorenko
  • Patent number: 4066842
    Abstract: Room reverberation and other uncorrelated signal sources characteristic of monaural systems are removed, in accordance with the principles of this invention, by employing two microphones at the sound source and by manipulating the signals of the two microphones to develop a single nonreverberant signal. Both early echoes and late echoes in the signal received by each microphone are removed by manipulating the signals of the two microphones in the frequency domain. Corresponding frequency samples of the two signals are co-phased and added and the magnitude of each resulting frequency sample is modified in accordance with the computed cross-correlation between the corresponding frequency samples. The modified frequency samples are combined and transformed to form the nonreverberant or correlated signal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1978
    Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated
    Inventor: Jont Brandon Allen
  • Patent number: D558486
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2008
    Inventors: Rick Tu Hoang, Tony Vu Lam, Brandon Allen Caicedo, Gustavo Caicedo