Patents by Inventor Brian Martin GAFFNEY

Brian Martin GAFFNEY 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: 11736267
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, relates to a signal sending device, a signal receiving device, a symbol timing synchronization method, and a system, and resolves a problem that complexity of symbol timing synchronization performed by a terminal with relatively low crystal oscillator accuracy is high. In a receiving device, a receiving module receives a synchronization signal including a first signal and a second signal. The first signal includes N1 generalized ZC sequences, and the second signal includes N2 generalized ZC sequences. The second signal is used to distinguish different cells or different cell groups. There are at least two generalized ZC sequences with different root indexes in (N1+N2) generalized ZC sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tong Ji, Yiling Wu, Guangwei Yu, Robert William Young, Brian Martin Gaffney
  • Publication number: 20200295915
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of wireless communications technologies, relates to a signal sending device, a signal receiving device, a symbol timing synchronization method, and a system, and resolves a problem that complexity of symbol timing synchronization performed by a terminal with relatively low crystal oscillator accuracy is high. In a receiving device, a receiving module receives a synchronization signal including a first signal and a second signal. The first signal includes N1 generalized ZC sequences, and the second signal includes N2 generalized ZC sequences. The second signal is used to distinguish different cells or different cell groups. There are at least two generalized ZC sequences with different root indexes in (N1+N2) generalized ZC sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Tong JI, Yiling WU, Guangwei YU, Robert William YOUNG, Brian Martin GAFFNEY
  • Patent number: 10693624
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of wireless communications technologies. In a receiving device, a receiving module receives a synchronization signal including a first signal and a second signal. The first signal includes N1 generalized ZC sequences, and the second signal includes N2 generalized ZC sequences. The second signal is used to distinguish different cells or different cell groups. There are at least two generalized ZC sequences with different root indexes in (N1+N2) generalized ZC sequences. A processing module performs a first sliding correlation operation and a second sliding correlation operation on the synchronization signal, and performs symbol timing synchronization according to a relationship between a sliding correlation peak generated when a sliding correlation is performed on the N1 generalized ZC sequences and a sliding correlation peak generated when a sliding correlation is performed on the N2 generalized ZC sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tong Ji, Yiling Wu, Guangwei Yu, Robert William Young, Brian Martin Gaffney
  • Patent number: 10154492
    Abstract: A method for allocating bandwidth to communication according to a first communication protocol, the method comprising identifying bandwidth that is allocated to a communication channel for communication according to a second communication protocol and which forms a guard band of the communication channel and allocating the identified bandwidth to communication according to the first communication protocol, said allocation being performed non-uniformly across the identified bandwidth such that an allocation of a first portion of the identified bandwidth, which is located closer to a communication according to the second communication protocol than a second portion of the identified bandwidth, is constrained to a greater extent than an allocation of the second portion of the identified bandwidth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Robert Young, Brian Martin Gaffney, Benedict Peters
  • Publication number: 20180248680
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of wireless communications technologies. In a receiving device, a receiving module receives a synchronization signal including a first signal and a second signal. The first signal includes N1 generalized ZC sequences, and the second signal includes N2 generalized ZC sequences. The second signal is used to distinguish different cells or different cell groups. There are at least two generalized ZC sequences with different root indexes in (N1+N2) generalized ZC sequences. A processing module performs a first sliding correlation operation and a second sliding correlation operation on the synchronization signal, and performs symbol timing synchronization according to a relationship between a sliding correlation peak generated when a sliding correlation is performed on the N1 generalized ZC sequences and a sliding correlation peak generated when a sliding correlation is performed on the N2 generalized ZC sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Tong JI, Yiling WU, Guangwei YU, Robert William YOUNG, Brian Martin GAFFNEY
  • Publication number: 20160315657
    Abstract: A communication apparatus for transmitting data in such a way as to minimise interference with a communication, comprising multiple series of data blocks modulating a set of orthogonal frequencies, that is received using a Fourier transform having the length of a data block, the apparatus comprising an alignment unit configured to identify the set of orthogonal frequencies and timings of the data blocks, a pulse train generator configured to generate a pulse train comprising the data, in which the pulses are aligned with the data blocks and a communication unit configured to process the pulse train with a pulse shape and a carrier frequency that are compatible with the identified frequencies and timings of the data blocks to generate a signal that is substantially circulant with respect to the data blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventor: Brian Martin GAFFNEY
  • Publication number: 20160198471
    Abstract: A method for allocating bandwidth to communication according to a first communication protocol, the method comprising identifying bandwidth that is allocated to a communication channel for communication according to a second communication protocol and which forms a guard band of the communication channel and allocating the identified bandwidth to communication according to the first communication protocol, said allocation being performed non-uniformly across the identified bandwidth such that an allocation of a first portion of the identified bandwidth, which is located closer to a communication according to the second communication protocol than a second portion of the identified bandwidth, is constrained to a greater extent than an allocation of the second portion of the identified bandwidth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Robert YOUNG, Brian Martin GAFFNEY, Benedict PETERS