Patents by Inventor Dan Wellington

Dan Wellington 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: 20170251377
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining a neighbor tier relationship between first and second cells in a wireless communications network that includes a plurality of cell sites includes establishing respective cell site shapes for the plurality of cell sites including the first and second cells, each shape representing a coverage area of a corresponding cell site, establishing cell shapes for the cells of the plurality of cell sites, determining a tier relationship between the first and second cells based on a number of cell polygons between the first and second cells, and storing the tier relationship in a memory. The tier relationship may be used to support various cellular activities such as ANR and reuse code disambiguation routines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Eamonn GORMLEY, Dan WELLINGTON
  • Patent number: 9699717
    Abstract: Systems and methods for resolving identification code ambiguities in wireless access networks are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods access an identification code associated with a cell in a wireless access network that is detected by a mobile device, determine a probability score for candidate cells that are assigned the identification code in the wireless access network, the probability score based on a likelihood that a candidate cell is a cell in the wireless access network associated with the identification code detected by the mobile device, and select one of the candidate cells as an origination cell of the identification code detected by the mobile device based on the determined probability scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventor: Dan Wellington
  • Patent number: 9692552
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, methods, and manufactures for performing link adaptation in a communications system are described. The methods may employ an error rate table that has a channel condition value dimension and a transmission parameter dimension. The elements of the error rate table include expected error rates for data transmitted at various channel conditions according to various transmission parameters. Also, the various transmission parameters may each be associated with a data transmission rate. For a given channel condition value, the methods may determine expected throughputs for each of the transmission parameters according to the associated expected error rates and data transmission rates. A transmission parameter may be selected according to the expected throughputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Dan Wellington
  • Patent number: 9591535
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically modifying neighbor lists for cells within telecommunications networks and/or modifying neighbor lists based on determined radio frequency coupling between cells are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods access a neighbor list associated with a target cell or associated with one or more neighbor cells of the target cell within a network, apply one or more dynamic optimization rule sets to the target cell, and modify a neighbor list associated with the target cell or with neighbor cells to the target cell based on the applied rule sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY
    Inventors: Stephan McLaughlin, Dan Wellington
  • Publication number: 20160192284
    Abstract: Systems and methods for resolving identification code ambiguities in wireless access networks are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods access an identification code associated with a cell in a wireless access network that is detected by a mobile device, determine a probability score for candidate cells that are assigned the identification code in the wireless access network, the probability score based on a likelihood that a candidate cell is a cell in the wireless access network associated with the identification code detected by the mobile device, and select one of the candidate cells as an origination cell of the identification code detected by the mobile device based on the determined probability scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventor: Dan WELLINGTON
  • Patent number: 9338783
    Abstract: Systems and methods for allocating reuse codes to cells in a communication network are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods select a target cell from a group of cells in a telecommunication network, determine one or more reuse code exclusion zones associated with allocating scrambling codes to the selected target cell, and allocate a scrambling code to the selected target cell based on the determined one or more reuse code exclusion zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OY
    Inventor: Dan Wellington
  • Patent number: 9319979
    Abstract: Systems and methods for resolving identification code ambiguities in wireless access networks are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods access an identification code associated with a cell in a wireless access network that is detected by a mobile device, determine a probability score for candidate cells that are assigned the identification code in the wireless access network, the probability score based on a likelihood that a candidate cell is a cell in the wireless access network associated with the identification code detected by the mobile device, and select one of the candidate cells as an origination cell of the identification code detected by the mobile device based on the determined probability scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks OY
    Inventor: Dan Wellington
  • Publication number: 20150208418
    Abstract: Systems and methods for allocating reuse codes to cells in a communication network are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods select a target cell from a group of cells in a telecommunication network, determine one or more reuse code exclusion zones associated with allocating scrambling codes to the selected target cell, and allocate a scrambling code to the selected target cell based on the determined one or more reuse code exclusion zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventor: Dan WELLINGTON
  • Publication number: 20150208300
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically modifying neighbor lists for cells within telecommunications networks and/or modifying neighbor lists based on determined radio frequency coupling between cells are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods access a neighbor list associated with a target cell or associated with one or more neighbor cells of the target cell within a network, apply one or more dynamic optimization rule sets to the target cell, and modify a neighbor list associated with the target cell or with neighbor cells to the target cell based on the applied rule sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Stephan MCLAUGHLIN, Dan WELLINGTON
  • Publication number: 20150208299
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically modifying neighbor lists for cells within telecommunications networks and/or modifying neighbor lists based on determined radio frequency coupling between cells are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods access a neighbor list associated with a target cell or associated with one or more neighbor cells of the target cell within a network, apply one or more dynamic optimization rule sets to the target cell, and modify a neighbor list associated with the target cell or with neighbor cells to the target cell based on the applied rule sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Stephan MCLAUGHLIN, Dan WELLINGTON
  • Publication number: 20150208297
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically modifying neighbor lists for cells within telecommunications networks and/or modifying neighbor lists based on determined radio frequency coupling between cells are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods access a neighbor list associated with a target cell or associated with one or more neighbor cells of the target cell within a network, apply one or more dynamic optimization rule sets to the target cell, and modify a neighbor list associated with the target cell or with neighbor cells to the target cell based on the applied rule sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Stephan MCLAUGHLIN, Dan WELLINGTON
  • Publication number: 20150208298
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically modifying neighbor lists for cells within telecommunications networks and/or modifying neighbor lists based on determined radio frequency coupling between cells are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods access a neighbor list associated with a target cell or associated with one or more neighbor cells of the target cell within a network, apply one or more dynamic optimization rule sets to the target cell, and modify a neighbor list associated with the target cell or with neighbor cells to the target cell based on the applied rule sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Stephan MCLAUGHLIN, Dan WELLINGTON
  • Publication number: 20150208339
    Abstract: Systems and methods for resolving identification code ambiguities in wireless access networks are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods access an identification code associated with a cell in a wireless access network that is detected by a mobile device, determine a probability score for candidate cells that are assigned the identification code in the wireless access network, the probability score based on a likelihood that a candidate cell is a cell in the wireless access network associated with the identification code detected by the mobile device, and select one of the candidate cells as an origination cell of the identification code detected by the mobile device based on the determined probability scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventor: Dan WELLINGTON
  • Publication number: 20150003277
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, methods, and manufactures for performing link adaptation in a communications system are described. The methods may employ an error rate table that has a channel condition value dimension and a transmission parameter dimension. The elements of the error rate table include expected error rates for data transmitted at various channel conditions according to various transmission parameters. Also, the various transmission parameters may each be associated with a data transmission rate. For a given channel condition value, the methods may determine expected throughputs for each of the transmission parameters according to the associated expected error rates and data transmission rates. A transmission parameter may be selected according to the expected throughputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Dan Wellington
  • Patent number: 8838040
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, methods, and manufactures for performing link adaptation in a communications system are described. The methods may employ an error rate table that has a channel condition value dimension and a transmission parameter dimension. The elements of the error rate table include expected error rates for data transmitted at various channel conditions according to various transmission parameters. Also, the various transmission parameters may each be associated with a data transmission rate. For a given channel condition value, the methods may determine expected throughputs for each of the transmission parameters according to the associated expected error rates and data transmission rates. A transmission parameter may be selected according to the expected throughputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Dan Wellington
  • Publication number: 20130136022
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, methods, and manufactures for performing link adaptation in a communications system are described. The methods may employ an error rate table that has a channel condition value dimension and a transmission parameter dimension. The elements of the error rate table include expected error rates for data transmitted at various channel conditions according to various transmission parameters. Also, the various transmission parameters may each be associated with a data transmission rate. For a given channel condition value, the methods may determine expected throughputs for each of the transmission parameters according to the associated expected error rates and data transmission rates. A transmission parameter may be selected according to the expected throughputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Inventor: Dan Wellington
  • Patent number: 8340586
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, methods, and manufactures for performing link adaptation in a communications system are described. The methods may employ an error rate table that has a channel condition value dimension and a transmission parameter dimension. The elements of the error rate table include expected error rates for data transmitted at various channel conditions according to various transmission parameters. Also, the various transmission parameters may each be associated with a data transmission rate. For a given channel condition value, the methods may determine expected throughputs for each of the transmission parameters according to the associated expected error rates and data transmission rates. A transmission parameter may be selected according to the expected throughputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Dan Wellington
  • Publication number: 20100124887
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, methods, and manufactures for performing link adaptation in a communications system are described. The methods may employ an error rate table that has a channel condition value dimension and a transmission parameter dimension. The elements of the error rate table include expected error rates for data transmitted at various channel conditions according to various transmission parameters. Also, the various transmission parameters may each be associated with a data transmission rate. For a given channel condition value, the methods may determine expected throughputs for each of the transmission parameters according to the associated expected error rates and data transmission rates. A transmission parameter may be selected according to the expected throughputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Inventor: Dan Wellington