Patents by Inventor Charles Louis Alain Brianson

Charles Louis Alain Brianson 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 and apparatus for effecting channel acquisition
    Patent number: 6023230
    Abstract: Methods of and corresponding apparatus for scheduling messages on an operating channel (223) in a selective messaging system (200) for a messaging unit (235) include scheduling a first message, including a channel priority indication (511), addressed to the selective messaging unit on a first channel, and then scheduling a second message for the selective messaging unit on a second channel (225) selected as an alternative operating channel. Analogously at the selective messaging unit a method of selecting an operating channel includes monitoring the first channel for a message addressed to the selective messaging unit; detecting as part of the message the indication; and responsive thereto discontinuing monitoring the first channel and then scan for the second channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Jheroen Pieter Dorenbosch, Terence Edward Sumner, Charles Louis Alain Brianson