Patents by Inventor Carl Bernard Olson

Carl Bernard Olson 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).

  • Method for prioritizing a communication in a wireless communication system
    Patent number: 6389287
    Abstract: A wireless communication system receives (402) a communication specifying a portable subscriber unit (122) for which the communication is intended, and further indicating an originator location at which an originator of the communication is positioned. The system determines (404) a recipient location at which the portable subscriber unit is positioned. The system then calculates (406) a distance between the originator location and the recipient location, and routes (412) the communication to the portable subscriber unit when the distance meets a distance criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Dwight Randall Smith, Thomas Casey Hill, Slim Souissi, Carl Bernard Olson
  • Method and apparatus in a two-way wireless communication system for detection and deferred reporting of a communication difficulty
    Patent number: 6298233
    Abstract: A portable subscriber unit (122) provides (402) communications for a user, and monitors (404) a parameter indicative of communication quality during the communications. The portable subscriber unit compares (406) the parameter with a predetermined threshold; and when the communication quality deteriorates (408) such that the parameter reaches the predetermined threshold, the portable subscriber unit determines (412) geographic coordinates corresponding to the location at which the communication difficulty occurred, and adds (414) a communication difficulty report identifying the parameter and the geographic coordinates to a record of communication difficulty reports stored in the portable subscriber unit. When the portable subscriber unit receives (502) a request for the record of communication difficulty reports from a fixed portion (102) of a two-way wireless communication system, the portable subscriber unit communicates (504) the record of communication difficulty reports to the fixed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Slim Souissi, Thomas Casey Hill, Jheroen Pieter Dorenbosch, Carl Bernard Olson
  • Method and apparatus in a wireless communication system for creating a learning function
    Patent number: 6263209
    Abstract: A wireless communication system conducts (402) communications between a fixed portion (102) of the wireless communication system and a portable subscriber unit (122) carried by a user; and records (404) a relevant aspect of the communications, thereby producing recorded information. The system determines (405) a current time of day and a current position of the user and makes (406) a comparison of the recorded information with the current time of day and the current position of the user to determine whether an alert is necessary, and generates (412) the alert when the comparison determines the alert is necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: John Douglas Reed, Robert Louis Breeden, Dwight Randall Smith, Thomas Casey Hill, Slim Souissi, Carl Bernard Olson
  • Method for prioritizing a communication in a wireless communication system
    Patent number: 6198931
    Abstract: A wireless communication system receives (402) a communication specifying a portable subscriber unit (122) for which the communication is intended, and further indicating an originator location at which an originator of the communication is positioned. The system determines (404) a recipient location at which the portable subscriber unit is positioned. The system then calculates (406) a distance between the originator location and the recipient location, and routes (412) the communication to the portable subscriber unit when the distance meets a distance criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2001
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Dwight Randall Smith, Thomas Casey Hill, Slim Souissi, Carl Bernard Olson