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: 11765687
    Abstract: A method of communicating data between a radio network infrastructure and a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications network. The method comprises establishing at a radio network infrastructure element there is data available for communication between the radio network infrastructure and the terminal device and transmitting a paging message for the terminal device from the radio network infrastructure element. The paging message comprises an indication of an identifier for the terminal device and an indication of a network allocated resource for use in subsequently communicating the data between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device. In response to receiving the paging message the terminal device transmits to the radio network infrastructure element a paging response indicating the terminal device received the paging message, after which the data is communicated between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device using the network allocated resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignees: SONY GROUP CORPORATION, SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Yuxin Wei, Vivek Sharma, Shinichiro Tsuda, Hideji Wakabayashi, Anders Berggren
  • Publication number: 20230284034
    Abstract: A terminal device and network infrastructure equipment communicate in accordance with a first radio access technology on a primary cell supporting a primary component carrier on radio resources within a first frequency band and a secondary cell supporting a secondary component carrier on radio resources within a second frequency band. The terminal device is also operable to use radio resources within the second frequency band for communicating in accordance with a second radio access technology, e.g. Wi-Fi. The network infrastructure equipment establishes a configuration of radio resources within the second frequency band for use by the terminal device for communications with the network infrastructure equipment in accordance with the first radio access technology and communicates an indication of this to the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventor: Brian Alexander MARTIN
  • Patent number: 11751110
    Abstract: Methods are provided for communicating in a mobile network, the mobile network comprising a plurality of infrastructure equipment, each providing wireless connectivity within at least one cell, and a device configured to communicate wirelessly with at least a first of the infrastructure equipment in control of a first cell. In some embodiments, the method comprises determining, at the device, whether a second cell under control of a second of the infrastructure equipment is connected to a first core network operating in accordance with a first protocol or both of the first core network and a second core network operating in accordance with a second protocol, and transmitting, by the device, an automatic neighbour relation report to the first infrastructure equipment, a report comprising an indication of whether the second cell is connected to the first core network or both of the first core network and the second core network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Brian Alexander Martin, Shinichiro Tsuda, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Patent number: 11751266
    Abstract: A communications device for use in a mobile communications network, the mobile communications network comprising one or more other infrastructure equipment, the infrastructure equipment and other infrastructure equipment each providing wireless connectivity within at least one cell, wherein the communications device includes transmitter circuitry configured to transmit signals to the infrastructure equipment, receiver circuitry configured to receive signals from the infrastructure equipment, and controller circuitry configured to control the transmitter circuitry and the receiver circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Brian Alexander Martin, Shinichiro Tsuda, Hideji Wakabayashi
  • Publication number: 20230276314
    Abstract: The present technique provides a first terminal device for exchanging signals with a wireless telecommunications network and a plurality of second terminal devices, the first terminal device configured to exchange signals with each of the plurality of second terminal devices, when the first terminal device provides a local cell for providing wireless connectivity for the plurality of second terminal devices, and to exchange signals with one or more infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network, and receive, from each of the plurality of second terminal devices served by the first terminal device when providing the local cell, suitability information indicative of the suitability of each of one or more other terminal devices or infrastructure equipment of the wireless telecommunications network to exchange signals with that second terminal device to provide for that second terminal devices another local cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA, Brian Alexander MARTIN
  • Publication number: 20230276406
    Abstract: A method of paging a terminal, by a base station and via a relay node, wherein the terminal is configured to communicate with the base station via the relay node. The method comprises notifying the relay node of a paging identifier for identifying the terminal at least in paging messages; and the base station transmitting a paging message for the terminal. The paging message comprises the paging identifier; the paging message is transmitted at a paging time for a destination identifier; and the method further comprises the relay node monitoring the paging time for the destination identifier for paging messages comprising the paging identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Alexander MARTIN, Yuxin WEI, Vivek SHARMA
  • Publication number: 20230276444
    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: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Horng WONG, Martin Warwick BEALE, Brian Alexander MARTIN, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20230274523
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to the association of concurrent tracks using graph crossings. Signal beams may be employed to scan paths across an object such that sensors separately detect signals from the signal beams reflected by the object. Crossing points may be determined based on a plurality of trajectories that intersect each other during the scan of the object. Graphs may be generated based on the portion of trajectories and the crossing points such that each edge in the graphs corresponds to a crossing point and such that each node in the one or more graphs corresponds to a trajectory. The graphs may be compared to determine one or more matched graphs that may share a common topology. Common trajectories may be determined based on the matched graphs such that each common trajectory may be associated with a same path across the object and a separate sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventor: Brian Alexander Paden
  • Patent number: 11739651
    Abstract: A nozzle ring for a radial turbine includes a disc-shaped main body having a central opening for passing a shaft therethrough. Additionally, the nozzle ring includes guide vanes disposed circumferentially in a radially outer portion on a first surface of the main body. Two or more bores are provided in a radially inner portion of the main body. Further, a groove is provided in the first surface of the main body, the groove connecting at least two of the two or more bores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Turbo Systems Switzerland Ltd
    Inventors: Brian Alexander, Elmar Gröschel, Bernhard Klein
  • Patent number: 11743796
    Abstract: A method is performed in a first infrastructure equipment for a handover of a wireless device from the first infrastructure equipment as a source to a second infrastructure equipment as a target. The method comprises maintaining a mapping between a plurality of packet bearers and a data radio bearer for the wireless device, each of the plurality of packet bearers being configured to provide a specified quality of service, determining that the wireless device should handover from the first infrastructure equipment to the second infrastructure equipment, determining that the second infrastructure equipment does not support the mapping of the plurality of packet bearers to the data radio bearer, and providing an indication of a mapping of the plurality of packet bearers for the second infrastructure equipment after handover to one of a core network equipment and the second infrastructure equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Brian Alexander Martin, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Publication number: 20230269784
    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: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Alexander MARTIN, Yuxin WEI, Anders BERGGREN, Vivek SHARMA, Hideji WAKABAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20230268991
    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: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Hideji WAKABAYASHI, Brian Alexander MARTIN, Shinichiro TSUDA
  • Publication number: 20230265474
    Abstract: Variants of Squalene Hopene Cyclase (SHC) isolated from Gluconobacter morbifer are provided as is a method for using the variant G. morbifer SHC to biocatalytically convert homofarnesol to ambrox.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Lyndsey Jane Bannon, Daniel Fernando Andrade Ribeiro Dourado, David Andrew Lipscomb, Peter Brian Alexander McIntyre, Stefan Mix, Thomas Shaw Shaw Moody, Derek Quinn, Paul Daniel Jones, Anubhav P.S. Narula
  • Patent number: 11737000
    Abstract: A terminal device includes receiver circuitry that receives parameter data from a base station in a cellular wireless telecommunication network. The terminal device also includes a storage device that stores an identifier that uniquely identifies the terminal device, and control circuitry that controls the terminal device. The control circuitry controls the terminal device, when operating in an idle mode, to perform cell reselection using at least one cell reselection parameter derived from the received parameter data and the stored unique identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Brian Alexander Martin
  • Patent number: 11736907
    Abstract: A terminal device for use in a wireless telecommunications network, the terminal device comprising receiver circuitry and control circuitry, wherein the control circuitry is configured to: control the receiver circuitry to receive a first signal indicating that a warning notification message is to be transmitted by infrastructure equipment of the network using a multicast or broadcast transmission; in response to the reception of the first signal, control the receiver circuitry to receive a second signal transmitted by infrastructure equipment of the network using predetermined communication resources, the second signal comprising information for the terminal device to use to determine communication resources for the multicast or broadcast transmission of the warning notification message; determine the communication resources for the multicast or broadcast transmission of the warning notification message using the information comprised in the second signal; control the receiver circuitry to receive the warnin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Group Corporation
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Brian Alexander Martin, Shinichiro Tsuda, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shin Horng Wong
  • Patent number: 11736174
    Abstract: A method of transmitting data to a communications device from a wireless communications network comprising one or more infrastructure equipment, the method comprises configuring one or more of the infrastructure equipment for transmitting one or more candidate beams of signals which can be used to transmit the data to the communications device from each of one or more cells of the wireless communications device formed by the infrastructure equipment. Each of the candidate beams is configured with a different directional bias with respect to a location of the one or more cells from which the signals of the candidate beam can be received when transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Brian Alexander Martin, Vivek Sharma
  • Publication number: 20230247505
    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: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicants: Sony Group Corporation, Sony Mobile Communications Inc.
    Inventors: Yuxin WEI, Brian Alexander MARTIN, Anders BERGGREN, Lars NORD
  • Patent number: 11716785
    Abstract: A terminal device for use with a wireless telecommunications system, the terminal device comprising: a transmitter; a receiver configured to receive a measurement radio signal from each of one or more potential relay nodes of the wireless telecommunications system, each measurement radio signal being transmitted using the same predetermined radio frequency band and identifying the one of the potential relay nodes from which it is transmitted; and a controller configured: to measure a characteristic of each received measurement radio signal, and based on each received measurement radio signal and its measured characteristic, to determine a suitable one of the one or more potential relay nodes for acting as a relay node for relaying the further radio signal between the terminal device and the infrastructure equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Martin, Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale, Hiromasa Uchiyama, Hideji Wakabayashi, Shinichiro Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11706816
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising circuitry configured to perform a Random Access procedure that is based on one or more access control parameters that are specific for a predefined coverage level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Vivek Sharma, Brian Alexander Martin, Shin Horng Wong, Martin Warwick Beale
  • Patent number: 11701654
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Cellares Corporation
    Inventors: Vladimir Azersky, Fabian Gerlinghaus, Daniele Malleo, Brian Alexander Pesch, Bharat S. Thakkar, Wilson Wai Toy