Patents by Inventor Brian Alexander

Brian Alexander 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: 11665691
    Abstract: Communicating in a wireless telecommunications system comprising a communications device and one or more infrastructure equipment, wherein the communications device is configured to communicate with the infrastructure equipment via a first wireless access interface in accordance with a first radio access technology (RAT) and to communicate with the infrastructure equipment via a second wireless access interface in accordance with a second RAT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Brian Alexander Martin, Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20230149922
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are cell processing systems, devices, and methods thereof. A system for cell processing may comprise a plurality of instruments each independently configured to perform one or more cell processing operations upon a cartridge, and a robot capable of moving the cartridge between each of the plurality of instruments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Bharat S. THAKKAR, Fabian GERLINGHAUS, Brian Alexander PESCH
  • Patent number: 11652543
    Abstract: A controller is configured to control a first of plural relay nodes to transmit signals representing data to one of communications terminals received from a base station or to receive signals representing data from a communications terminal for transmission to the base station, wherein, upon first predetermined conditions being met, to control a second of the plurality of relay nodes to transmit signals representing the data to the communications terminal received from the base station or to receive signals representing the data from the communications terminal for transmission to the base station, and to control the communications terminal to transmit a first signal representing at least a first part of the data to the first relay node for transmission to the base station, and to transmit a second signal representing at least a second part of the data to the second relay node for transmission to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hideji Wakabayashi, Brian Alexander Martin, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11653390
    Abstract: A method of transmitting data in a telecommunications system comprising a terminal transmitting a first random access request message to the base station in accordance with the first random access procedure for transmitting the data to the base station, the first random access request message comprising at least part of the data and a first preamble; and upon determination that the use of the first random access procedure has been unsuccessful, the terminal transmitting a second random access request message to the base station in accordance with the second random access procedure for transmitting the data to the base station, the second random access request message comprising a second preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Yuxin Wei, Anders Berggren, Vivek Sharma, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20230143876
    Abstract: A terminal device for use in a wireless telecommunications system comprises a transceiver to perform wireless communication with a base station and to obtain system information defining communication parameters from system information data received from that base station; system information storage; and a controller to detect whether the system information storage already holds at least some of the system information applicable to a newly communicating base station and to control the transceiver to obtain any portions of the system information not already held by the terminal device, in which: the system information comprises a plurality of system information blocks; and the controller is configured to detect parts of a system information block stored by the system information storage which are applicable to the newly communicating base station and to obtain other parts of that system information block as a partial system information block from the newly communicating base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Alexander MARTIN, Hideji WAKABAYASHI
  • Patent number: 11646825
    Abstract: A transmitting node operating with a mobile communications system comprises transmitter circuitry configured to transmit signals representing protocol data units formed from one or more service data units via a wireless access interface of the mobile communications system to a receiving node of the mobile communications system according to an automatic repeat request process, receiver circuitry configured to receive signals from the receiving node via the wireless access interface, controller circuitry configured to control the transmitter circuitry to transmit the signals and to control the receiver circuitry to receive the signals, and a buffer configured to store data conveyed by or representing the protocol data units for transmission to the receiving node according to the automatic repeat request process, wherein each of the protocol data units has a sequence number defining their position in a predetermined order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Vivek Sharma
  • Publication number: 20230128738
    Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device including a transceiver; and a controller configured to control the transceiver to exchange data with the wireless telecommunications network using one of a first communications service and a second communications service, the first communications service being associated with a first quality of service for exchanging data and the second communications service being associated with a second quality of service for exchanging data. The controller is configured to control the transceiver to establish one of a first set of radio connection states with the wireless telecommunications network and one of a second set of radio connection states with the wireless telecommunications network, and control the transceiver to establish the radio connection state of the first communications service independently of the radio connection state of the second communications service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Brian Alexander MARTIN
  • Publication number: 20230123361
    Abstract: A communications device acting as a rely device is configured to transmit a buffer status report message indicating that the buffer is storing data received from the infrastructure equipment for transmission to a remote communications device, when predetermined conditions are satisfied or a trigger event occurs so that the transmission of the data to the remote communications device can make more efficient use of communications resources to transmit the data or the remote communications device receives the data when the remote communications device is in a state in which it should receive the data, for example when not in a reduced power state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Brian Alexander MARTIN, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA, Chrysovalantis KOSTA
  • Patent number: 11632825
    Abstract: A base station for transmitting system related information in a mobile telecommunications network. The base station is configured to transmit system information for the cell provided by the base station and to broadcast a version synchronisation signal, wherein the version synchronisation signal provides version information regarding the current version of the system information for the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Brian Alexander Martin, Basuki Priyanto, Nafiseh Mazloum
  • Patent number: 11624189
    Abstract: A roof system comprising a roof substrate, a first membrane including first and second opposed planar surfaces, and a second membrane including opposed first and second planar surfaces, where said second membrane is adhered to said roof substrate through an adhesive disposed on said roof-substrate contacting portion of the first membrane, and where said second membrane is adhered to said first membrane through said adhesive disposed on a lap portion of said second membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Holcim Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Jiansheng Tang, Michael J. Hubbard, Joseph Kalwara, Carl E. Watkins, Jr., Brian Alexander, Todd D. Taykowski, Joseph R. Carr
  • Patent number: 11627509
    Abstract: A wireless telecommunications system including a terminal device; first infrastructure equipment operable to communicate with the terminal device using a first radio access technology (RAT) and second infrastructure equipment operable to communicate with the terminal device using a second RAT. During a handover procedure for handover from the first infrastructure equipment as a source master infrastructure equipment to a third infrastructure equipment as a target master infrastructure equipment, the second infrastructure equipment is operable to communicate with the third infrastructure equipment using an interface associated with the second RAT so as to allow information necessary for completing the handover to be exchanged between the first infrastructure equipment and the third infrastructure equipment via the second infrastructure equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Yuxin Wei, Brian Alexander Martin, Anders Berggren, Lars Nord
  • Patent number: 11614685
    Abstract: Methods for patterning of multi-depth layers for the fabrication of optical devices are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes disposing a resist layer over a device layer disposed over a top surface of a substrate, the device layer having a first portion and a second portion, patterning the resist layer to form a first resist layer pattern having a plurality of first openings and a second resist layer pattern having a plurality of second openings, and etching exposed portions of the device layer defined by the plurality of first openings and the plurality of second openings, wherein the plurality of first openings are configured to form at least a portion of a plurality of first structures within the optical device, and the plurality of second openings are configured to form at least a portion of a plurality of second structures within the optical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Ludovic Godet, Chien-An Chen, Brian Alexander Cohen, Wayne McMillan, Ian Matthew McMackin
  • Patent number: 11608558
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to forming multi-depth films for the fabrication of optical devices. One embodiment includes disposing a base layer of a device material on a surface of a substrate. One or more mandrels of the device material are disposed on the base layer. The disposing the one or more mandrels includes positioning a mask over of the base layer. The device material is deposited with the mask positioned over the base layer to form an optical device having the base layer with a base layer depth and the one or more mandrels having a first mandrel depth and a second mandrel depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Karl J. Armstrong, Ludovic Godet, Brian Alexander Cohen, Wayne McMillan, James D. Strassner, Benjamin Riordon
  • Patent number: 11611924
    Abstract: A method of performing cell reselection by a wireless communications device comprises measuring a signal strength of radio signals received from a serving cell, determining whether the signal strength of the signals received from the serving cell is lower than a first predetermined signal strength threshold, if the signal strength is lower than the first predetermined signal strength threshold measuring a signal strength of a neighbor cell operating on the same frequency as the serving cell to generate signal strength measurements at a first rate, and in accordance with the signal strength measurements of the neighbor cell generated at the first rate determining whether to reselect to the neighbor cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Shin Horng Wong, Vivek Sharma, Martin Warwick Beale
  • Publication number: 20230084859
    Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system anchor base station for a mobile telecommunications system is described. The mobile telecommunications system has at least one anchor cell and at least one slave cell which is associated with the anchor cell. The anchor base station has a circuitry which is configured to transmit system information based on beam information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA, Brian Alexander MARTIN
  • Patent number: 11605132
    Abstract: A system for managing trading orders comprises a memory operable to store a first order associated with a particular trading product, wherein the first order is associated with a first price comprising a first root value. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to receive a second order associated with the particular trading product. The second order is associated with a second price; and the second price comprises a second root value and a particular fractional pip value. The processor is further operable to disclose the first root value and the second root value while suppressing the particular fractional pip value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: BGC PARTNERS, L.P.
    Inventors: Peter Bartko, John Robert Capuano, Michael Field, Frederick T. Gregson, Brian Alexander Weston
  • Patent number: 11582816
    Abstract: A communications device and method of communicating using a communications device is disclosed for performing device-to-device communications. The communications device is configured to determine in accordance with predetermined conditions whether the communications device is within a coverage area of a mobile communications network, and if the communications device is determined to be within the coverage area of the mobile communications network, to transmit or to receive signals via the wireless access interface to one or more other communications devices in accordance with device to device communications using communications resources of the wireless access interface allocated according to a first mode in which the mobile communications network performs resource allocation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Brian Alexander Martin
  • Patent number: 11582213
    Abstract: A method of operating a second network access node comprises configuring the second network access node to act as a secondary network access node for a dual connectivity mode for a terminal device in which a first network access node acts as a master network access node. The method further comprises establishing, while acting as a secondary network access node for the dual connectivity mode, that the second network access node should switch to acting as a master network access node, deriving a new master network access node security key for use by the second network access node when switched to acting as a master network access node for the dual connectivity mode, and configuring the second network access node to act a master network access node for the dual connectivity mode using the new master network access node security key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Martin Warwick Beale, Shin Horng Wong, Brian Alexander Martin
  • Publication number: 20230044059
    Abstract: A digital asset security device, includes an asset capture unit configured to electronically capture a digital asset, a processor configured to digitally sign the captured asset, a memory configured to store a digitally signed asset from the processor, and a hashing module in communication the asset capture unit, the processor, and the memory, and configured to provide a cryptographic hash to one or more of the captured asset and the digitally signed asset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Steven John Goeringer, Brian Alexander Scriber, Arianne Hinds, Michael Sprenger, Robert Michael Lund
  • Publication number: 20230041570
    Abstract: A communications device transmits data to a mobile communications network or receives data from a mobile communications network. The mobile communications network includes plural infrastructure equipment each providing a wireless access interface for the communications device. The wireless access interfaces may have a different frequency but operate in accordance with the same standard or may use different radio access technologies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Brian Alexander MARTIN