Patents by Inventor Bryan K. Petch
Bryan K. Petch 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).
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Patent number: 6947469Abstract: A simple and flexible over-air protocol for use with a mobile telephone system, having hand-held telephones in a microcell or other type of cellular communication system. A method in which user stations communicate with one or more base stations to place and receive telephone calls, in which the user stations are provided a secure voice or data link and have the ability to handoff calls between base stations while such calls are in progress. Each base station has a set of “air channels” to which it transmits in sequence. The air channels supported by each base station are called that base station's “polling loop”. A user station receives general polling information on an unoccupied air channel, transmits responsive information to the base station, and awaits acknowledgment from the base station. Each base station may therefore simultaneously maintain communication with as many user stations as there are air channels in its polling loop.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2002Date of Patent: September 20, 2005Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Gary B. Anderson, Bryan K. Petch, Peter O. Peterson, Ryan N. Jensen, Sherman Gavette
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Patent number: 6621813Abstract: A method of synchronizing a base station and a remote station is presented. The base station is communicatively coupled with the remote station and a reference network. The base station clock signal is compared with a reference clock signal derived from the reference network and adjusted accordingly. The adjusted base station clock signal is then used to generate timing information in the form of a preamble, which is periodically transmitted from the base station over a wireless communication network to the remote station where a clock signal is generated. The remote station compares the clock signal with the timing information and adjusts the clock signal accordingly. This is done without reference to an external clock.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2001Date of Patent: September 16, 2003Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Bryan K. Petch, Charles L. Lindsay, Ryan N. Jensen
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Patent number: 6532365Abstract: A simple and flexible over-air protocol for use with a mobile telephone system, having hand-held telephones in a microcell or other type of cellular communication system. A method in which user stations communicate with one or more base stations to place and receive telephone calls, in which the user stations are provided a secure voice or data link and have the ability to handoff calls between base stations while such calls are in progress. Each base station has a set of “air channels” to which it transmits in sequence. The air channels supported by each base station are called that base station'a “polling loop”. A user station receives general polling information on an unoccupied air channel, transmits responsive information to the base station, and awaits acknowledgment from the base station. Each base station may therefore simultaneously maintain communication with as many user stations as there are air channels in its polling loop.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2000Date of Patent: March 11, 2003Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Gary B. Anderson, Ryan N. Jensen, Bryan K. Petch, Peter O. Peterson
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Publication number: 20020196840Abstract: A simple and flexible over-air protocol for use with a mobile telephone system, having hand-held telephones in a microcell or other type of cellular communication system. A method in which user stations communicate with one or more base stations to place and receive telephone calls, in which the user stations are provided a secure voice or data link and have the ability to handoff calls between base stations while such calls are in progress. Each base station has a set of “air channels” to which it transmits in sequence. The air channels supported by each base station are called that base station's “polling loop”. A user station receives general polling information on an unoccupied air channel, transmits responsive information to the base station, and awaits acknowledgment from the base station. Each base station may therefore simultaneously maintain communication with as many user stations as there are air channels in its polling loop.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2002Publication date: December 26, 2002Inventors: Gary B. Anderson, Bryan K. Petch, Peter O. Peterson, Ryan N. Jensen, Sherman Gavette
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Patent number: 6161013Abstract: A simple and flexible over-the-air communication system is provided in which user stations communicate with one or more base stations to place and receive telephone calls, in which the user stations are provided a secure voice or data link and have the ability to handoff calls between base stations while such calls are in progress. A user station receives general polling information on an unoccupied air channel, transmits responsive information to the base station and awaits acknowledgment from the base station. Each base station may therefore simultaneously maintain communication with as many user stations as there are air channels in its polling loop.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1996Date of Patent: December 12, 2000Assignee: Omnipoint CorporationInventors: Gary B. Anderson, Bryan K. Petch, Peter O. Peterson, Ryan N. Jensen, Sherman Gavette
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Patent number: 6112080Abstract: A simple and flexible over-air protocol for use with a mobile telephone system, having hand-held telephones in a microcell or other type of cellular communication system. A method in which user stations communicate with one or more base stations to place and receive telephone calls, in which the user stations are provided a secure voice or data link and have the ability to handoff calls between base stations while such calls are in progress. Each base station has a set of "air channels" to which it transmits in sequence. The air channels supported by each base station are called that base station's "polling loop". A user station receives general polling information on an unoccupied air channel, transmits responsive information to the base station, and awaits acknowledgment from the base station. Each base station may therefore simultaneously maintain communication with as many user stations as there are air channels in its polling loop.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 1996Date of Patent: August 29, 2000Assignee: Omnipoint CorporationInventors: Gary B. Anderson, Ryan N. Jensen, Bryan K. Petch, Peter O. Peterson
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Patent number: 6088590Abstract: A simple and flexible over-air protocol for use with a mobile telephone system, having hand-held telephones in a microcell or other type of cellular communication system. A method in which user stations communicate with one or more base stations to place and receive telephone calls, in which the user stations are provided a secure voice or data link and have the ability to handoff calls between base stations while such calls are in progress. Each base station has a set of "air channels" to which it transmits in sequence. The air channels supported by each base station are called that base station's "polling loop". A user station receives general polling information on an unoccupied air channel, transmits responsive information to the base station, and awaits acknowledgment from the base station. Each base station may therefore simultaneously maintain communication with as many user stations as there are air channels in its polling loop.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1994Date of Patent: July 11, 2000Assignee: Omnipoint CorporationInventors: Gary B. Anderson, Bryan K. Petch, Peter O. Peterson, Ryan N. Jensen, Sherman Gavette
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Patent number: 5787076Abstract: A simple and flexible over-air protocol for use with a mobile telephone system, having hand-held telephones in a microcell or other type of cellular communication system. A method in which user stations communicate with one or more base stations to place and receive telephone calls, in which the user stations are provided a secure voice or data link and have the ability to handoff calls between base stations while such calls are in progress. Each base station has a set of "air channels" to which it transmits in sequence. The air channels supported by each base station are called that base station's "polling loop". A user station receives general polling information on an unoccupied air channel, transmits responsive information to the base station, and awaits acknowledgment from the base station. Each base station may therefore simultaneously maintain communication with as many user stations as there are air channels in its polling loop.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 1997Date of Patent: July 28, 1998Assignee: Omnipoint CorporationInventors: Gary B. Anderson, Ryan N. Jensen, Bryan K. Petch, Peter O. Peterson
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Patent number: 5781593Abstract: In a communication network, a synchronized over-the-air (OTA) time slot of a base station's polling loop is acquired by a remote station seeking to initiate contact with that base station, such that periodic voice frames may thereafter be transmitted at known intervals between respective radio interfaces of the remote and base stations. A vocoder in the respective remote station is then synchronized to the established remote station OTA slot timing and a vocoder associated with the respective base station is separately synchronized to the established base station OTA slot timing, wherein each respective vocoder transmits and receives voice frames across full-duplex serial interface to and from its radio interface including a locally generated synchronization ("sync") pattern appended in front of a selected number of coded (i.e., compressed) bearer information and control bytes.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1996Date of Patent: July 14, 1998Assignee: Omnipoint CorporationInventors: Bryan K. Petch, Charles L. Lindsay