Patents by Inventor Colin D. Frank

Colin D. Frank 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).

  • Publication number: 20190141643
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for uplink power control. One method includes: operating a network entity with multiple antenna arrays; determining a first closed-loop power control process for a first set of uplink beam patterns based on a first antenna array of the multiple antenna arrays, wherein at least one receive beam pattern of the first antenna array is used to receive a first uplink transmission using at least one uplink beam pattern; determining a second closed-loop power control process for a second set of uplink beam patterns based on a second antenna array of the multiple antenna arrays, wherein the second antenna array is different from the first antenna array; and indicating to the device in a configuration message the first closed-loop power control process and the second closed-loop power control process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Ebrahim MolavianJazi, Vijay Nangia, Hyejung Jung, Colin D. Frank, Robert T. Love, Ravi Kuchibhotla, Hossein Bagheri
  • Publication number: 20190104477
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for uplink power control. One method includes: receiving a message that configures a set of resources that each includes a downlink resource or an uplink sounding resource and is associated with an uplink transmission beam pattern; receiving scheduling information for an uplink transmission that is associated with a resource of the set of resources; determining an uplink transmission beam pattern associated with the resource; determining a configured maximum output power for the uplink transmission beam pattern that is based on an antenna array property associated with the uplink transmission beam pattern; determining a transmit power for the uplink transmission based on the configured maximum output power; and performing the uplink transmission using the uplink transmission beam pattern based on the transmit power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Ebrahim MolavianJazi, Vijay Nangia, Hyejung Jung, Colin D. Frank, Robert T. Love, Ravi Kuchibhotla, Hossein Bagheri
  • Patent number: 10123345
    Abstract: A wireless terminal that supports operation on a first wireless technology and operation on a second wireless technology performs a first set of measurements on a received signal on first operating frequency of the first wireless technology, wherein the first set of measurements are performed during time periods that overlap time periods during which the wireless terminal transmits signals of the second wireless technology. The terminal also performs interference avoidance to avoid interference from transmissions of signals of the second wireless technology to reception of signals of the first wireless technology if the first set of measurements indicates interference due to transmission of signals of the second wireless technology by the wireless terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Murali Narasimha, Vijay Nangia, Colin D. Frank, Hyejung Jung
  • Patent number: 9794802
    Abstract: A method in a wireless communication terminal includes receiving an aggregated carrier including a first component carrier and a second component carrier, determining a level of interference from a signal received on the first component carrier to a signal on the second component carrier based on a signal characteristic of the first component carrier and a signal characteristic of the second component carrier, and providing signal interference information to a serving base station if the determined interference level satisfies a condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Sandeep H. Krishnamurthy, Colin D. Frank
  • Patent number: 9642038
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for offloading of communication traffic from a cellular network to a Wireless Local Area Network (“WLAN”). According to various implementations, a wireless device determines a time period during which a wireless channel of the WLAN is busy. This first time period may include multiple channel-busy periods separated by periods during which the channel is not busy. The wireless device determines a second time period that represents interframe spacings associated with the first time period. The wireless device determines a modified channel utilization for the wireless channel based on the first time period and on the second time period. The wireless device reports the modified channel utilization to the cellular network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Murali Narasimha, Colin D. Frank, Sandeep H. Krishnamruthy
  • Patent number: 9538478
    Abstract: The present disclosure sets forth multiple embodiments of the invention. Among those embodiments is a method for determining a maximum power reduction of an uplink signal. The uplink signal is transmitted on a carrier that has a range of frequencies. Frequencies outside of the carrier frequency range include adjacent channel regions. Resource blocks of the carrier that have been allocated for use by to transmit the uplink signal are identified. A power spectral density is determined based on the identified resource blocks. A metric that is based on a third order convolution of the power spectral density function is determined. A maximum power reduction for the adjacent channel regions is also determined based on the metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Colin D. Frank, Tyler A. Brown, Sandeep H. Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 9491641
    Abstract: A method in a wireless communication terminal includes receiving an aggregated carrier including a first component carrier and a second component carrier, determining a level of interference from a signal received on the first component carrier to a signal on the second component carrier based on a signal characteristic of the first component carrier and a signal characteristic of the second component carrier, and providing signal interference information to a serving base station if the determined interference level satisfies a condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Sandeep H. Krishnamurthy, Colin D. Frank
  • Patent number: 9450694
    Abstract: A wireless communication terminal that has the self-interference due to the support of carrier aggregation, aggregating and jointly using two or more component carriers for transmission and reception, performs a first set of measurements on a received signal on a first operating frequency, wherein the first set of measurements are performed during which the wireless terminal transmits or receives signals on a second operating frequency. In an alternative embodiment, the wireless communication terminal changes the maximum transmit power limit on a first operating frequency on a per-slot basis to reduce the impact of harmonic or intermodulation distortion on a received signal at a second operating frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Hyejung Jung, Colin D. Frank, Sandeep H. Krishnamurthy, Vijay Nangia
  • Patent number: 9435876
    Abstract: A method, user communication device, and a base station are disclosed. A transceiver 302 may receive a serving transmission from a serving base station. A processor 304 may make a status determination of an autonomous muting status of a neighbor base station based on the serving transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Colin D. Frank, Sandeep H. Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 9401749
    Abstract: A wireless terminal is capable of receiving a pilot signal from a base station; and determining a precoding matrix as a linear combination of two matrices V1 and V2 based on the received pilot signal. In one implementation, the two matrices V1 and V2 are sub-matrices of a matrix U of a codebook, the linear combination is u:=(V1+?V2)/?{square root over (1+|?|2)} and ? is one of a real-valued number and a complex-valued number. The wireless terminal is also capable of transmitting a representation of at least a portion of the precoding matrix to the base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Sandeep H. Krishnamurthy, Tyler A. Brown, Colin D. Frank, Robert T. Love, Vijay Nangia
  • Patent number: 9392464
    Abstract: A broadband cellular network (BCN) provides a user equipment (UE) access to TVWS resources. The BCN authorizes the UE to access TVWS resources by conveying a mobile device identifier received from the UE, and a cell identifier associated with the UE's coverage area, to a Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-certified Database and receiving, from the Database, and storing an FCC ID associated with the UE and a set of available TVWS resources. The BCN then conveys, to the UE via a broadband cellular technology, a channel resource information element (CRIE) that includes the cell identifier and identifies the set of available TVWS resources. Subsequently, the BCN re-authorizes the UE to access TVWS resources based on the stored FCC ID and without re-conveying the mobile device identifier to the Database. The BCN further utilizes broadband cellular technology procedures to provide a “virtual” contact verification signal (VCVS) to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Kenneth A. Stewart, Colin D. Frank, Sandeep H. Krishnamurthy, Ravi Kuchibhotla, Robert T. Love, Ajit Nimbalker, Ravikiran Nory
  • Patent number: 9386543
    Abstract: This disclose sets forth methods and devices for calculation of uplink transmission power. An indication of a non-contiguous allocation of resource blocks for an uplink transmission is received. A first additional maximum power reduction (“A-MPR”) is determined based on a smallest contiguous allocation containing the non-contiguous allocation and an allocation correction factor. A second A-MPR is determined as a non-contiguous resource allocation A-MPR for the non-contiguous resource allocation. An uplink transmission power is calculated based on a lesser of the first A-MPR and the second A-MPR. The uplink transmission is performed based on the uplink transmission power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Jean-Aicard Fabien, Colin D. Frank
  • Patent number: 9350477
    Abstract: A wireless communication terminal that has the self-interference due to the support of carrier aggregation, aggregating and jointly using two or more component carriers for transmission and reception, performs a first set of measurements on a received signal on a first operating frequency, wherein the first set of measurements are performed during which the wireless terminal transmits or receives signals on a second operating frequency. In an alternative embodiment, the wireless communication terminal changes the maximum transmit power limit on a first operating frequency on a per-slot basis to reduce the impact of harmonic or intermodulation distortion on a received signal at a second operating frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Hyejung Jung, Colin D. Frank, Sandeep H. Krishnamurthy, Vijay Nangia
  • Publication number: 20160088569
    Abstract: The present disclosure sets forth multiple embodiments of the invention. Among those embodiments is a method for determining a maximum power reduction of an uplink signal. The uplink signal is transmitted on a carrier that has a range of frequencies. Frequencies outside of the carrier frequency range include adjacent channel regions. Resource blocks of the carrier that have been allocated for use by to transmit the uplink signal are identified. A power spectral density is determined based on the identified resource blocks. A metric that is based on a third order convolution of the power spectral density function is determined. A maximum power reduction for the adjacent channel regions is also determined based on the metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Colin D. Frank, Tyler A. Brown, Sandeep H. Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 9294179
    Abstract: A wireless communication device and a method therein includes estimating a channel for each of a plurality of transmit antenna ports using a reference symbol received from the corresponding antenna port, determining a composite channel estimate based on the estimated channels and based on a precoding matrix, and determining an updated composite channel estimate using the composite channel estimate and using a gain correction corresponding to the precoding matrix. The gain correction can be obtained over-the-air or computed at the wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Colin D. Frank, Tyler A. Brown, Sandeep H. Krishnamurthy
  • Patent number: 9220070
    Abstract: The present disclosure sets forth multiple embodiments of the invention. Among those embodiments is a method for determining a maximum power reduction of an uplink signal. The uplink signal is transmitted on a carrier that has a range of frequencies. Frequencies outside of the carrier frequency range include adjacent channel regions. Resource blocks of the carrier that have been allocated for use by to transmit the uplink signal are identified. A power spectral density is determined based on the identified resource blocks. A metric that is based on a third order convolution of the power spectral density function is determined. A maximum power reduction for the adjacent channel regions is also determined based on the metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Colin D. Frank, Tyler A. Brown, Sandeep H. Krishnamurthy
  • Publication number: 20150304962
    Abstract: This disclose sets forth methods and devices for calculation of uplink transmission power. An indication of a non-contiguous allocation of resource blocks for an uplink transmission is received. A first additional maximum power reduction (“A-MPR”) is determined based on a smallest contiguous allocation containing the non-contiguous allocation and an allocation correction factor. A second A-MPR is determined as a non-contiguous resource allocation A-MPR for the non-contiguous resource allocation. An uplink transmission power is calculated based on a lesser of the first A-MPR and the second A-MPR. The uplink transmission is performed based on the uplink transmission power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2014
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventors: Jean-Aicard Fabien, Colin D. Frank
  • Patent number: 9049680
    Abstract: A method in a wireless communication terminal including receiving a signal comprising at least a Positioning Reference Signal (PRS) transmission from a serving cell and a PRS transmission from a neighbor cell, estimating a signal quality metric (SQM) based on the PRS transmission from the neighbor cell, estimating a time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurement for the neighbor cell based on the PRS transmissions, determining if the estimated SQM satisfies a criterion, and sending a report to the serving cell that includes at least the estimated TDOA if the criterion is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Sandeep H. Krishnamurthy, Colin D. Frank
  • Patent number: 9025478
    Abstract: A wireless communication terminal that has the self-interference due to the support of carrier aggregation, aggregating and jointly using two or more component carriers for transmission and reception, performs a first set of measurements on a received signal on a first operating frequency, wherein the first set of measurements are performed during which the wireless terminal transmits or receives signals on a second operating frequency. In an alternative embodiment, the wireless communication terminal changes the maximum transmit power limit on a first operating frequency on a per-slot basis to reduce the impact of harmonic or intermodulation distortion on a received signal at a second operating frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Hyejung Jung, Colin D. Frank, Sandeep H. Krishnamurthy, Vijay Nangia
  • Publication number: 20150105107
    Abstract: A method, user communication device, and a base station are disclosed. A transceiver 302 may receive a serving transmission from a serving base station. A processor 304 may make a status determination of an autonomous muting status of a neighbor base station based on the serving transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Colin D. Frank, Sandeep H. Krishnamurthy