Patents by Inventor Darren McNamara
Darren McNamara 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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Publication number: 20170041110Abstract: A method of allocating transmission resources in an OFDM wireless telecommunication system arranged to communicate data using a plurality of OFDM sub-carriers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2016Publication date: February 9, 2017Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Darren McNamara, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
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Publication number: 20170019900Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mobile communications system and method for communicating data to and/or from mobile communications devices. The method includes receiving, by a mobile terminal, a signal on a downlink from a base station, detecting a virtual carrier on the downlink, and receiving downlink communications via the virtual carrier, wherein the virtual carrier is configured to provide a first set of resource elements within first frequency resources that are within and smaller than second frequency resources that are used by a host carrier to provide a second set of resource elements, wherein the virtual carrier is provided in the first frequency resources in a first sub-frame, wherein the virtual carrier is provided in third frequency resources in a second sub-frame after the first sub-frame, and wherein the third frequency resources are within and smaller than the first frequency resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Darren MCNAMARA, Andrew LILLIE, Peter DARWOOD, Martin BEALE
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Patent number: 9549398Abstract: A mobile communications system for communicating data to/from mobile units, including: one or more base stations to communicate data to/from the mobile units; first and second groups of one or more mobile units to communicate with the one or more base stations via respective first and second carriers. The base stations can provide, on the first carrier, common information for at least one mobile unit in the first group and for at least one mobile unit in the second group. The base stations can provide allocation information in the first and second carriers, the allocation information including an indication of the location of the common information within the first carrier. At least one mobile unit in the second group is configured, upon reception of the allocation information in the second carrier, to access the common information provided by the one or more base stations in the first carrier.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2012Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Peter Darwood, Darren McNamara
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Patent number: 9516633Abstract: A method allocating transmission resources in an OFDM wireless telecommunication system configured to communicate data using plural OFDM sub-carriers. The method allocates transmission resources provided by a first group of the plural OFDM sub-carriers within a first frequency band to terminals of first type; allocates transmission resources provided by a second group of the plural OFDM sub-carriers within a second frequency band to terminals of second type, the second group being smaller than the first group and the second frequency band selected from within the first frequency band; transmits control information including resource allocation information for terminals of the first type over a first bandwidth corresponding to the combined first and second groups of OFDM sub-carriers; and then transmits control information including resource allocation information for terminals of the second type over a second bandwidth corresponding to the second group of OFDM sub-carriers.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2012Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Darren Mcnamara, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
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Patent number: 9509457Abstract: A method of communicating data in a wireless telecommunications system between plural base stations and plural terminal devices using plural Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex, OFDM, sub-carriers spanning a first frequency bandwidth. The method includes: communicating data between a first base station and a first terminal device using a first OFDM sub-carrier group distributed across the first frequency bandwidth, communicating data between a second base station, geographically separated from the first base station, and a second terminal device using a second OFDM sub-carrier group distributed across a second frequency bandwidth, the second frequency bandwidth being smaller than and within the first frequency bandwidth; and communicating control-plane data between the first base station and the first terminal device using a combination of the first and second groups of the OFDM sub-carriers.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2012Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Martin Beale, Peter Darwood, Darren McNamara, Yuichi Morioka, Atsushi Yoshizawa
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Patent number: 9480065Abstract: A mobile communications system for communicating data to and/or from mobile communications devices. The mobile communications system comprises one or more base stations, each of which includes a transmitter and a receiver operable to provide a wireless access interface for communicating data to and/or from the mobile communications devices, the wireless access interface providing on a downlink a host carrier, the host carrier providing a plurality of resource elements across a first frequency range for communicating data; and a first and second mobile communications devices. The wireless access interface provided by the base stations is arranged to provide a virtual carrier, the virtual carrier providing one or more resource elements within a second frequency range which is within and smaller than the first frequency range, and the second mobile communications device is operable, upon detection of the virtual carrier, to receive downlink communications via the virtual carrier.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2012Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Darren McNamara, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
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Patent number: 9432160Abstract: A method of communicating data in a wireless telecommunications system between plural base stations and plural terminal devices using plural Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex, OFDM, sub-carriers spanning a first frequency bandwidth. The method includes: communicating data between a first base station and a first terminal device using a first group of the OFDM sub-carriers distributed across the first frequency bandwidth, communicating data between a second base station, geographically separated from the first base station, and a second terminal device using a second group of the OFDM sub-carriers distributed across a second frequency bandwidth, and communicating control-plane data between the first base station and the first terminal device using a combination of the first and second groups of the OFDM sub-carriers.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2012Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Peter Darwood, Martin Beale, Darren McNamara, Atsushi Yoshizawa, Yuichi Morioka
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Publication number: 20160205691Abstract: A mobile communications system for communicating data to and/or from mobile units, the system comprising one or more base stations arranged to communicate data to or from the mobile units via a wireless access interface within one or more frequency bands, and one or more of the base stations is arranged to provide a plurality of logically separate carriers for transmitting data to mobile units, wherein each of the logically separate carriers comprises physical communications resources within the one or more frequency bands of the wireless access interface; a first group of one or more mobile units arranged to communicate with the one or more base stations via at least a first carrier of the plurality of carriers; and a second group of one or more mobile units arranged to communicate with the one or more base stations via at least a second carrier of the plurality of carriers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2016Publication date: July 14, 2016Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Peter DARWOOD, Darren MCNAMARA
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Patent number: 9380569Abstract: A mobile communications network for communicating data to/from mobile terminals, including a wireless access interface that provides a shared channel for communicating data to or from the mobile terminals, the shared channel divided in time into different units of communications resource. The mobile communications network is configured to form super-frames including plural units of communications resource of the shared channel, to allocate each of the mobile terminals in one or more of groups, and to transmit control information providing for each of the mobile terminals in each of the groups of mobile terminals a short identification number in association with an identification number allocated to the mobile terminal by the mobile communications network, the short identification number for use in allocating the units of communications resource to each of the mobile terminals in one of the groups for one of the super-frames.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2012Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Darren McNamara, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
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Publication number: 20160182197Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system including mobile terminals of first type and second type configured to transmit uplink data to a network over a radio interface using plural sub-carriers. The mobile terminals of first type configured to transmit uplink data on a first group of the sub-carriers over a first bandwidth and the mobile terminals of second type configured to transmit uplink data on a second group of the sub-carriers within the first group of sub-carrier over a second bandwidth smaller than the first bandwidth. The mobile terminals of first type transmit random access request messages to a base station of the network requesting uplink radio resources on a first random access channel. The mobile terminals of second type transmit random access request messages to the base station of the network requesting uplink radio resources on a second random access channel on sub-carriers within the second sub-carrier group.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2016Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Darren MCNAMARA, Andrew Lillie, Peter DARWOOD, Martin BEALE
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Patent number: 9326280Abstract: A mobile communications system for communicating data to/from mobile units, including: one or more base stations to communicate data to/from the mobile units; first and second groups of one or more mobile units to communicate with the one or more base stations via respective first and second carriers. The base stations can provide, on the first carrier, common information for at least one mobile unit in the first group and for at least one mobile unit in the second group. The base stations can provide allocation information in the first and second carriers, the allocation information including an indication of the location of the common information within the first carrier. At least one mobile unit in the second group is configured, upon reception of the allocation information in the second carrier, to access the common information provided by the one or more base stations in the first carrier.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2012Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Peter Darwood, Darren McNamara
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Patent number: 9307559Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system including mobile terminals of first type and second type configured to transmit uplink data to a network over a radio interface using plural sub-carriers. The mobile terminals of first type configured to transmit uplink data on a first group of the sub-carriers over a first bandwidth and the mobile terminals of second type configured to transmit uplink data on a second group of the sub-carriers within the first group of sub-carrier over a second bandwidth smaller than the first bandwidth. The mobile terminals of first type transmit random access request messages to a base station of the network requesting uplink radio resources on a first random access channel. The mobile terminals of second type transmit random access request messages to the base station of the network requesting uplink radio resources on a second random access channel on sub-carriers within the second sub-carrier group.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2012Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Darren McNamara, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
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Publication number: 20150264690Abstract: A network element for use in a mobile communications system and a method of using a network element for communicating data to/from mobile communications devices in a mobile communications system. The network element can provide a wireless access interface for communicating data to/from the mobile communications devices, the wireless access interface including: on a downlink a host carrier, the host carrier providing plural resource elements across a first frequency range; transmit data for a first group of mobile communications devices, wherein the data is distributed within the plural resource elements across the first frequency range; a virtual carrier via the wireless access interface, the virtual carrier providing one or more resource elements within a second frequency range which is within and smaller than the first frequency range; and transmit data for a second group of mobile communications devices via the virtual carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2015Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Darren MCNAMARA, Andrew LILLIE, Peter DARWOOD, Martin BEALE
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Patent number: 9071396Abstract: A network element for use in a mobile communications system and a method of using a network element for communicating data to/from mobile communications devices in a mobile communications system. The network element can provide a wireless access interface for communicating data to/from the mobile communications devices, the wireless access interface including: on a downlink a host carrier, the host carrier providing plural resource elements across a first frequency range; transmit data for a first group of mobile communications devices, wherein the data is distributed within the plural resource elements across the first frequency range; a virtual carrier via the wireless access interface, the virtual carrier providing one or more resource elements within a second frequency range which is within and smaller than the first frequency range; and transmit data for a second group of mobile communications devices via the virtual carrier.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2012Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Darren McNamara, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
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Publication number: 20140341175Abstract: A method of communicating data in a wireless telecommunications system between plural base stations and plural terminal devices using plural Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex, OFDM, sub-carriers spanning a first frequency bandwidth. The method includes: communicating data between a first base station and a first terminal device using a first OFDM sub-carrier group distributed across the first frequency bandwidth, communicating data between a second base station, geographically separated from the first base station, and a second terminal device using a second OFDM sub-carrier group distributed across a second frequency bandwidth, the second frequency bandwidth being smaller than and within the first frequency bandwidth; and communicating control-plane data between the first base station and the first terminal device using a combination of the first and second groups of the OFDM sub-carriers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2012Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Martin Beale, Peter Darwood, Darren McNamara, Yuichi Morioka, Atsushi Yoshizawa
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Publication number: 20140194133Abstract: A method of communicating data in a wireless telecommunications system between plural base stations and plural terminal devices using plural Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex, OFDM, sub-carriers spanning a first frequency bandwidth. The method includes: communicating data between a first base station and a first terminal device using a first group of the OFDM sub-carriers distributed across the first frequency bandwidth, communicating data between a second base station, geographically separated from the first base station, and a second terminal device using a second group of the OFDM sub-carriers distributed across a second frequency bandwidth, and communicating control-plane data between the first base station and the first terminal device using a combination of the first and second groups of the OFDM sub-carriers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2012Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Peter Darwood, Martin Beale, Darren Mcnamara, Atsushi Yoshizawa, Yuichi Morioka
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Publication number: 20140119315Abstract: A mobile communications unit for communicating data to and/or from base stations, the unit configured to communicate data with one or more base stations via a wireless access interface provided by the one or more base stations; configured to receive transmissions from the one or more base stations via at least one carrier, wherein carriers are logically separate sets of physical resources within a frequency range, the resources of a carrier providing a communication channel; and configured, upon reception of allocation information including an indication of a location of common information within a first carrier, to access the common information in the first carrier, wherein the allocation information is provided in a second carrier and the common information is for at least one mobile unit using the first carrier and for at least one mobile unit using a second carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Peter Darwood, Darren McNamara
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Publication number: 20140112285Abstract: A mobile communications system for communicating data to/from mobile units, including: one or more base stations to communicate data to/from the mobile units; first and second groups of one or more mobile units to communicate with the one or more base stations via respective first and second carriers. The base stations can provide, on the first carrier, common information for at least one mobile unit in the first group and for at least one mobile unit in the second group. The base stations can provide allocation information in the first and second carriers, the allocation information including an indication of the location of the common information within the first carrier. At least one mobile unit in the second group is configured, upon reception of the allocation information in the second carrier, to access the common information provided by the one or more base stations in the first carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2012Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Peter Darwood, Darren McNamara
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Publication number: 20140036878Abstract: A mobile communications network for communicating data to/from mobile terminals, including a wireless access interface that provides a shared channel for communicating data to or from the mobile terminals, the shared channel divided in time into different units of communications resource. The mobile communications network is configured to form super-frames including plural units of communications resource of the shared channel, to allocate each of the mobile terminals in one or more of groups, and to transmit control information providing for each of the mobile terminals in each of the groups of mobile terminals a short identification number in association with an identification number allocated to the mobile terminal by the mobile communications network, the short identification number for use in allocating the units of communications resource to each of the mobile terminals in one of the groups for one of the super-frames.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2012Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Darren McNamara, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
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Publication number: 20140036821Abstract: A method allocating transmission resources in an OFDM wireless telecommunication system configured to communicate data using plural OFDM sub-carriers. The method allocates transmission resources provided by a first group of the plural OFDM sub-carriers within a first frequency band to terminals of first type; allocates transmission resources provided by a second group of the plural OFDM sub-carriers within a second frequency band to terminals of second type, the second group being smaller than the first group and the second frequency band selected from within the first frequency band; transmits control information including resource allocation information for terminals of the first type over a first bandwidth corresponding to the combined first and second groups of OFDM sub-carriers; and then transmits control information including resource allocation information for terminals of the second type over a second bandwidth corresponding to the second group of OFDM sub-carriers.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2012Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Darren Mcnamara, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale