Patents by Inventor Derek Hilborn

Derek Hilborn 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: 20190098527
    Abstract: Random distributions of elements in a power schedule can be used to reduce interference in wireless communication networks with multiple transmitters. A random power schedule may be implemented by determining a first random power schedule for a first base station, wherein the first random power schedule is an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) schedule that associates a random distribution of a plurality of power levels with a corresponding plurality of time and frequency resources, assigning transmissions from the first base station to a plurality of mobile devices to the plurality of time and frequency resources, and transmitting data to the plurality of mobile devices at the respective plurality of power levels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Derek HILBORN, David J. RYAN
  • Patent number: 9078190
    Abstract: Wireless networks are becoming increasingly heterogeneous in terms of the processing capabilities of network users' receiving equipment. According to embodiments of the innovation, in a communications network comprising a plurality of receivers with different data reception rate capabilities, data frames targeted to respective receivers may be transmitted to the receivers in accordance with the respective data reception rate capabilities of the receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Jose Rodriguez-Sanchez, Eamonn Gormley, Derek Hilborn
  • Publication number: 20140153495
    Abstract: Wireless networks are becoming increasingly heterogeneous in terms of the processing capabilities of network users' receiving equipment. According to embodiments of the innovation, in a communications network comprising a plurality of receivers with different data reception rate capabilities, data frames targeted to respective receivers may be transmitted to the receivers in accordance with the respective data reception rate capabilities of the receivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Jose Rodriguez-Sanchez, Eamonn Gormley, Derek Hilborn
  • Patent number: 8681623
    Abstract: Wireless networks are becoming increasingly heterogeneous in terms of the processing capabilities of network users' receiving equipment. According to embodiments of the innovation, in a communications network comprising a plurality of receivers with different data reception rate capabilities, data frames targeted to respective receivers may be transmitted to the receivers in accordance with the respective data reception rate capabilities of the receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Jose Rodriguez-Sanchez, Eamonn Gormley, Derek Hilborn
  • Publication number: 20130229917
    Abstract: Wireless networks are becoming increasingly heterogeneous in terms of the processing capabilities of network users' receiving equipment. According to embodiments of the innovation, in a communications network comprising a plurality of receivers with different data reception rate capabilities, data frames targeted to respective receivers may be transmitted to the receivers in accordance with the respective data reception rate capabilities of the receivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Jose Rodriguez-Sanchez, Eamonn Gormley, Derek Hilborn
  • Patent number: 8441928
    Abstract: Wireless networks are becoming increasingly heterogeneous in terms of the processing capabilities of network users' receiving equipment. According to embodiments of the innovation, in a communications network comprising a plurality of receivers with different data reception rate capabilities, data frames targeted to respective receivers may be transmitted to the receivers in accordance with the respective data reception rate capabilities of the receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Jose Rodriguez-Sanchez, Derek Hilborn, Eamonn Gormley
  • Patent number: 8379574
    Abstract: A networked computing system capable of mitigating interference amongst neighboring base stations. The networked computing system includes multiple base stations, user equipment, a network resource controller, and a data communications network facilitating data communications amongst all network devices. A serving base station is configured to acquire interference metrics from its local user equipment and then generate an aggregate representation from the acquired interference metrics. The network resource controller is configured to acquire the aggregate representation, determine an interference reduction associated with a neighbor base station for each of the user equipment serviced by the serving base station, determine a power schedule for the first base station based on the aggregate representation and the determined interference reduction, and then modify a power schedule for the neighbor base station based on the determined interference reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Eden Rock Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Derek Hilborn
  • Publication number: 20110235598
    Abstract: A networked computing system capable of mitigating interference amongst neighboring base stations. The networked computing system includes multiple base stations, user equipment, a network resource controller, and a data communications network facilitating data communications amongst all network devices. A serving base station is configured to acquire interference metrics from its local user equipment and then generate an aggregate representation from the acquired interference metrics. The network resource controller is configured to acquire the aggregate representation, determine an interference reduction associated with a neighbor base station for each of the user equipment serviced by the serving base station, determine a power schedule for the first base station based on the aggregate representation and the determined interference reduction, and then modify a power schedule for the neighbor base station based on the determined interference reduction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: EDEN ROCK COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Derek Hilborn
  • Publication number: 20100265822
    Abstract: Wireless networks are becoming increasingly heterogeneous in terms of the processing capabilities of network users' receiving equipment. According to embodiments of the innovation, in a communications network comprising a plurality of receivers with different data reception rate capabilities, data frames targeted to respective receivers may be transmitted to the receivers in accordance with the respective data reception rate capabilities of the receivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Publication date: October 21, 2010
    Applicant: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Jose Rodriguez-Sanchez, Derek Hilborn, Eamonn Gormley
  • Patent number: 7773520
    Abstract: Wireless networks are becoming increasingly heterogeneous in terms of the processing capabilities of network users' receiving equipment. According to embodiments of the invention, in a communications network comprising a plurality of receivers with different data reception rate capabilities, data frames targeted to respective receivers may be transmitted to the receivers in accordance with the respective data reception rate capabilities of the receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II, LLC
    Inventors: Jose Rodriguez-Sanchez, Derek Hilborn, Eamonn Gormley
  • Publication number: 20090245181
    Abstract: Wireless networks are becoming increasingly heterogeneous in terms of the processing capabilities of network users' receiving equipment. According to embodiments of the invention, in a communications network comprising a plurality of receivers with different data reception rate capabilities, data frames targeted to respective receivers may be transmitted to the receivers in accordance with the respective data reception rate capabilities of the receivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2009
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventors: Jose Rodriguez-Sanchez, Derek Hilborn, Eamonn Gormley
  • Patent number: 7554912
    Abstract: Wireless networks are becoming increasingly heterogeneous in terms of the processing capabilities of network users' receiving equipment. According to embodiments of the invention, in a communications network comprising a plurality of receivers with different data reception rate capabilities, data frames targeted to respective receivers may be transmitted to the receivers in accordance with the respective data reception rate capabilities of the receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Jose Rodriguez-Sanchez, Derek Hilborn, Eamonn Gormley
  • Publication number: 20070153688
    Abstract: Wireless networks are becoming increasingly heterogeneous in terms of the processing capabilities of network users' receiving equipment. According to embodiments of the invention, in a communications network comprising a plurality of receivers with different data reception rate capabilities, data frames targeted to respective receivers may be transmitted to the receivers in accordance with the respective data reception rate capabilities of the receivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2007
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Inventors: Jose Rodriguez-Sanchez, Derek Hilborn, Eamonn Gormley
  • Patent number: 7230922
    Abstract: Wireless networks are becoming increasingly heterogeneous in terms of the processing capabilities of network users' receiving equipment. According to embodiments of the invention, in a communications network comprising a plurality of receivers with different data reception rate capabilities, data frames targeted to respective receivers may be transmitted to the receivers in accordance with the respective data reception rate capabilities of the receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2007
    Assignee: Cingular Wireless II, LLC
    Inventors: Jose Rodriguez-Sanchez, Derek Hilborn, Eamonn Gormley
  • Patent number: 6097773
    Abstract: Co-channel interference in an AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone System) receiver, having at least two diversity paths each for producing a received signal, is reduced by determining weights for combining the received signals in dependence upon the received signals and a reference signal, combining the received signals in accordance with the determined weights to produce a combined received signal, demodulating the combined received signal, and producing the reference signal by amplitude limiting the combined received signal or modulating the demodulated signal or a signal derived from the demodulated signal, so that the reference signal is produced from the combined received signal with amplitude variations reduced and with frequency variations of the desired signal substantially maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Alan J. A. Carter, Derek Hilborn, Norman P. Secord