Patents by Inventor Brian Banister

Brian Banister 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: 10999886
    Abstract: Various aspects related to techniques for harmonization between common reference signal (CRS) and demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) based transmission modes (TMs) in unlicensed spectrum are described. In one aspect, a downlink/uplink (DL/UL) subframe configuration may be signaled for each subframe. Information provided by the DL/UL subframe configuration may indicate whether the respective downlink subframe is a single-frequency network (MBSFN) subframe (associated with DM-RS-based TM) or a non-MBSFN subframe (associated with CRS-based TM). In another aspect, periodic as well as aperiodic channel state information (CSI) reporting requests may be supported. In yet another aspect, discontinued reception (DRX) wake ups for unlicensed carriers may be explicitly or implicitly indicated to a user equipment (UE) via a carrier in a licensed spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Gaal, Srinivas Yerramalli, Durga Prasad Malladi, Yongbin Wei, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Brian Banister, Michael Lee McCloud, Tao Luo, Supratik Bhattacharjee, Chengjin Zhang, Ravi Teja Sukhavasi
  • Patent number: 10728080
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A transmitter, such as a user equipment and/or a base station, may perform polar coding to encode bits. The polar coding may be associated with a plurality of component channels associated with a polar code length. The transmitter may interleave the encoded bits. The transmitter may map the interleaved encoded bits to a modulation symbol. The interleaving and mapping of each encoded bit may be based on an asymmetry of a polar code construction. The transmitter may transmit the interleaved encoded bits based on the mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hari Sankar, Jing Jiang, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Brian Banister
  • Patent number: 10582517
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to wireless communication systems configured to utilize a shared spectrum between two or more network operators. Coexistence between the different network operators on the shared spectrum may be provided by reserving resources for exclusive use by each of the network operators within a period of time that is variable based on the number of network operators. Non-exclusive use of resources may further be granted to one or more network operators in accordance with network operator priorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Juan Montojo, Durga Prasad Malladi, Brian Banister, Alexei Gorokhov
  • Patent number: 10469203
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication between a first wireless device and a second wireless device are described. A second wireless device may determine that a channel condition satisfies at least one channel condition threshold. The second wireless device may identify, based on the determination, a time-interleaved transmission scheme for block(s) of encoded information. The second wireless device may transmit the block(s) of encoded information to a first wireless device in accordance with at least the time-interleaved transmission scheme. In some instances, the first wireless device may determine that the channel condition satisfies the at least one channel condition threshold and send a message to the second wireless device in order to trigger the use of the time-interleaved transmission scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Hari Sankar, Jae Won Yoo, June Namgoong, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Jing Jiang, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Brian Banister, Thomas Wilborn
  • Patent number: 10219300
    Abstract: Techniques for reservation coordination on a shared communication medium are disclosed. An access point, for example, may contend for access to a communication medium, and transmit a channel reservation message in accordance with a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) to reserve the communication medium for a transmission opportunity (TXOP) duration based on the contending. The access point may then transmit, during the reserved TXOP duration, a reservation coordination signal in accordance with a second RAT to convey reservation coordination information associated with the reserved TXOP duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alexei Gorokhov, Peter Gaal, Nachiappan Valliappan, Chirag Patel, Ahmed Sadek, Brian Banister, Tao Luo, Tamer Kadous
  • Publication number: 20180317045
    Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to positioning techniques that can be used in a wireless communications network. For example, assistance data that includes predicted contents associated with messages that multiple neighboring nodes are configured to transmit at a synchronized time may be encoded and correlated with a signal received at one or more receive antennas on a user device. The correlation may be used to estimate a channel response from one or more transmit antennas at a current node that transmitted the signal to the one or more receive antennas on the user device, whereby an estimated time of arrival from the current node can be computed based at least in part on the estimated channel response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: Jordan Cookman, Jie Wu, Brian Banister, Yongle Wu
  • Patent number: 10039120
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to wireless communication systems configured to utilize a shared spectrum between two or more network operators. Coexistence between the different network operators on the shared spectrum may be provided by reserving resources for exclusive use by each of the network operators within a period of time that is variable based on the number of network operators. Non-exclusive use of resources may further be granted to one or more network operators in accordance with network operator priorities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Juan Montojo, Durga Prasad Malladi, Brian Banister, Alexei Gorokhov
  • Publication number: 20180131467
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication between a first wireless device and a second wireless device are described. A second wireless device may determine that a channel condition satisfies at least one channel condition threshold. The second wireless device may identify, based on the determination, a time-interleaved transmission scheme for block(s) of encoded information. The second wireless device may transmit the block(s) of encoded information to a first wireless device in accordance with at least the time-interleaved transmission scheme. In some instances, the first wireless device may determine that the channel condition satisfies the at least one channel condition threshold and send a message to the second wireless device in order to trigger the use of the time-interleaved transmission scheme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Hari Sankar, Jae Won Yoo, June Namgoong, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Jing Jiang, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Brian Banister, Thomas Wilborn
  • Publication number: 20180115979
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to wireless communication systems configured to utilize a shared spectrum between two or more network operators. Coexistence between the different network operators on the shared spectrum may be provided by reserving resources for exclusive use by each of the network operators within a period of time that is variable based on the number of network operators. Non-exclusive use of resources may further be granted to one or more network operators in accordance with network operator priorities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Juan Montojo, Durga Prasad Malladi, Brian Banister, Alexei Gorokhov
  • Publication number: 20170338996
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A transmitter, such as a user equipment and/or a base station, may perform polar coding to encode bits. The polar coding may be associated with a plurality of component channels associated with a polar code length. The transmitter may interleave the encoded bits. The transmitter may map the interleaved encoded bits to a modulation symbol. The interleaving and mapping of each encoded bit may be based on an asymmetry of a polar code construction. The transmitter may transmit the interleaved encoded bits based on the mapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Hari Sankar, Jing Jiang, Alexei Yurievitch Gorokhov, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Brian Banister
  • Patent number: 8913647
    Abstract: A method of receiving and reassembling non-sequential meta-data information embedded within an original burst carrier signal that receives multiple composite burst carrier signals each with an original burst carrier signal and a meta-carrier signal, wherein the meta-carrier signal occupies at least a portion of a bandwidth of the original burst carrier signal and includes one or more bits of meta-data information of a meta-data message about the original burst carrier signal that is non-contiguous in reference to a temporal order in which the meta-data information is received, detecting a DSSS spreading sequence and extracting the meta-carrier signals from the composite burst carrier signals, determining a phase progression of the meta-carrier signals based on a PRN spreading code, and reassembling the one or more bits of meta-data information from each meta-carrier signal into a sequential order after an entire meta-data message is received and extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Comtech EF Data Corp.
    Inventors: Michael Beeler, Frederick Morris, Cris Mamaril, Jeffery Harig, Richard Hollingsworth Cannon, Brian Banister
  • Publication number: 20140226696
    Abstract: A method of embedding and transmitting a meta-data message in an original burst carrier signal for message reassembly comprising spreading a meta-carrier signal using a Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) spreading code having a Pseudo-Random Noise (PRN) spreading code sequence, the meta-carrier signal comprising one or more bits of meta-data information about the original burst carrier signal, lowering a power spectral density of the meta-carrier signal using the PRN spreading code such that interference with the original signal is reduced, combining the original burst carrier and the meta-carrier signals using a modulator such that a composite burst carrier signal results wherein the meta-carrier signal occupies at least a portion of a bandwidth of the original carrier, and transmitting the composite burst carrier using a transmitter over a telecommunications channel in which only one burst carrier signal is expected to be present within a predetermined frequency bandwidth at a point in time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: Comtech EF Data Corp.
    Inventors: Michael Beeler, Frederick Morris, Cris Mamaril, Jeffery Harig, Richard Hollingsworth Cannon, Brian Banister
  • Patent number: 8781426
    Abstract: Techniques for controlling operation of control loops in a receiver are described. The operation of at least one control loop is modified in conjunction with a change in operating state, which may correspond to a change in linearity state, gain state, operating frequency, antenna configuration, etc. A change in linearity state may occur when jammers are detected and may cause bias current of analog circuit blocks to be adjusted. The at least one control loop to be modified may include a DC loop, an AGC loop, etc. The operation of a control loop may be modified by disabling the control loop or changing its time constant prior to changing operating state, waiting a predetermined amount of time to allow the receiver to settle, and enabling the control loop or restoring its time constant after waiting the predetermined amount of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven C. Ciccarelli, Brian Banister, Brian George, Soon-Seng Lau, Prasad Gudem, Arun Raghupathy
  • Patent number: 8726138
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for decoding of tailbiting convolutional codes (TBCC) are disclosed. The proposed modified maximum-likelihood TBCC decoding technique preserves error correction performance of optimal maximum-likelihood based TBCC decoding, while the computational complexity is substantially decreased since a reduced number of decoding states has been evaluated. Compare to other sub-optimal TBCC decoding algorithms, modified maximum-likelihood TBCC decoding achieves improved packet error rate performance with similar computational complexity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ju Won Park, Brian Banister, Je Woo Kim, Jong Hyeon Park, Matthias Brehler, Remi Gurski, Tae Chang
  • Patent number: 8699545
    Abstract: A method of embedding and transmitting a meta-data message in an original burst carrier signal for message reassembly comprising spreading a meta-carrier signal using a Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) spreading code having a Pseudo-Random Noise (PRN) spreading code sequence, the meta-carrier signal comprising one or more bits of meta-data information about the original burst carrier signal, lowering a power spectral density of the meta-carrier signal using the PRN spreading code such that interference with the original signal is reduced, combining the original burst carrier and the meta-carrier signals using a modulator such that a composite burst carrier signal results wherein the meta-carrier signal occupies at least a portion of a bandwidth of the original carrier, and transmitting the composite burst carrier using a transmitter over a telecommunications channel in which only one burst carrier signal is expected to be present within a predetermined frequency bandwidth at a point in time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Comtech EF Data Corp.
    Inventors: Michael Beeler, Frederick Morris, Cris Mamaril, Jeffery Harig, Richard Hollingsworth Cannon, Brian Banister
  • Publication number: 20120127001
    Abstract: A method for assigning codes to Huffman trees and repairing invalid Huffman trees is disclosed using a calculated delta and moving nodes within the Huffman tree by adjusting their encode register entries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: COMTECH EF DATA CORP.
    Inventors: Patrick A. Owsley, Brian Banister, Jason Franklin
  • Patent number: 8106797
    Abstract: A method for assigning codes to Huffman trees and repairing invalid Huffman trees is disclosed using a calculated delta and moving nodes within the Huffman tree by adjusting their encode register entries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Comtech EF Data Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick A. Owsley, Brian Banister, Jason Franklin
  • Patent number: 8046532
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting matching strings in a string of characters utilizing content addressable memory using primary and secondary matches is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Comtech EF Data Corp.
    Inventors: Patrick A. Owsley, Nathan Hungerford, Seth Sjoholm, Ed Coulter, Jason Franklin, Brian Banister, Tom Hansen
  • Patent number: 8028125
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting matching strings in a string of characters utilizing content addressable memory is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Comtech EF Data Corp.
    Inventors: Patrick A. Owsley, Brian Banister, Tom Hansen, Jason Franklin, Nathan Hungerford, Seth Sjoholm, Ed Coulter
  • Patent number: 7764205
    Abstract: A method and system for decompressing dynamic Huffman coded bit streams is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Comtech AHA Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick A. Owsley, Brian Banister, Jason Franklin, Ed Coulter, Seth Sjoholm, Nathan Hungerford