Patents by Inventor Dianne Horn

Dianne Horn 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).

  • Managing searcher and tracker resources in a wireless communication device
    Patent number: 7099623
    Abstract: A Wireless Communication Device (WCD) includes multiple fingers that track one or more tracked transponder beams. Each tracked beam is from a respective tracked transponder. The WCD determines a tracked-beam searcher energy for each of the tracked beams, and an untracked-beam searcher energy for each of one or more untracked beams from each of the tracked transponders. The WCD attempts to determine a preferred one of the untracked beams that should become a tracked beam. This determination is made based on the tracked-beam and the untracked-beam searcher energies. The WCD assigns, or alternatively, reassigns, a finger to the preferred untracked beam when the attempt to determine a preferred untracked beam is successful. The transponders may be satellites or base stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: R. Nicholson Gibson, Jon J. Anderson, Dianne Horn, Francis M. Ngai, Glenn Salaman
  • Managing searcher and tracker resources in a wireless communication device
    Publication number: 20060003699
    Abstract: A Wireless Communication Device (WCD) includes multiple fingers that track one or more tracked transponder beams. Each tracked beam is from a respective tracked transponder. The WCD determines a tracked-beam searcher energy for each of the tracked beams, and an untracked-beam searcher energy for each of one or more untracked beams from each of the tracked transponders. The WCD attempts to determine a preferred one of the untracked beams that should become a tracked beam. This determination is made based on the tracked-beam and the untracked-beam searcher energies. The WCD assigns, or alternatively, reassigns, a finger to the preferred untracked beam when the attempt to determine a preferred untracked beam is successful. The transponders may be satellites or base stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: R. Gibson, Jon Anderson, Dianne Horn, Francis Ngai, Glenn Salaman
  • Managing searcher and tracker resources in a wireless communication device
    Publication number: 20040121728
    Abstract: A Wireless Communication Device (WCD) includes multiple fingers that track one or more tracked transponder beams. Each tracked beam is from a respective tracked transponder. The WCD determines a tracked-beam searcher energy for each of the tracked beams, and an untracked-beam searcher energy for each of one or more untracked beams from each of the tracked transponders. The WCD attempts to determine a preferred one of the untracked beams that should become a tracked beam. This determination is made based on the tracked-beam and the untracked-beam searcher energies. The WCD assigns, or alternatively, reassigns, a finger to the preferred untracked beam when the attempt to determine a preferred untracked beam is successful. The transponders may be satellites or base stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventors: R. Nicholson Gibson, Jon J. Anderson, Dianne Horn, Francis M. Ngai, Glenn Salaman