Patents by Inventor Elliott H. Drucker
Elliott H. Drucker 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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Patent number: 11006398Abstract: Technologies and implementations for wireless communication in a wireless network including transmitting downlink information on a first frequency channel to Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) User Equipments (UEs), transmitting downlink information on a second frequency channel during downlink portions of Time Domain Duplex (TDD) frame periods of the second frequency channel to TDD UEs, wherein the second frequency channel is the same as the frequency channel on which the FDD UEs are configured to transmit, and controlling uplink transmissions from the FDD UEs to occur only during uplink portions of TDD frame periods of the second frequency channel.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLCInventor: Elliott H. Drucker
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Publication number: 20190342876Abstract: Technologies and implementations for wireless communication in a wireless network including transmitting downlink information on a first frequency channel to Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) User Equipments (UEs), transmitting downlink information on a second frequency channel during downlink portions of Time Domain Duplex (TDD) frame periods of the second frequency channel to TDD UEs, wherein the second frequency channel is the same as the frequency channel on which the FDD UEs are configured to transmit, and controlling uplink transmissions from the FDD UEs to occur only during uplink portions of TDD frame periods of the second frequency channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Applicant: Empire Technology Development LLCInventor: Elliott H. DRUCKER
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Patent number: 10334575Abstract: Technologies and implementations for wireless communication in a wireless network including transmitting downlink information on a first frequency channel to Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) User Equipments (UEs), transmitting downlink information on a second frequency channel during downlink portions of Time Domain Duplex (TDD) frame periods of the second frequency channel to TDD UEs, wherein the second frequency channel is the same as the frequency channel on which the FDD UEs are configured to transmit, and controlling uplink transmissions from the FDD UEs to occur only during uplink portions of TDD frame periods of the second frequency channel.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2018Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLCInventor: Elliott H. Drucker
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Publication number: 20180132231Abstract: Technologies and implementations for wireless communication in a wireless network including transmitting downlink information on a first frequency channel to Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) User Equipments (UEs), transmitting downlink information on a second frequency channel during downlink portions of Time Domain Duplex (TDD) frame periods of the second frequency channel to TDD UEs, wherein the second frequency channel is the same as the frequency channel on which the FDD UEs are configured to transmit, and controlling uplink transmissions from the FDD UEs to occur only during uplink portions of TDD frame periods of the second frequency channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2018Publication date: May 10, 2018Applicant: Empire Technology Development LLCInventor: Elliott H. DRUCKER
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Patent number: 9867168Abstract: Technologies and implementations for wireless communication in a wireless network including transmitting downlink information on a first frequency channel to Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) User Equipments (UEs), transmitting downlink information on a second frequency channel during downlink portions of Time Domain Duplex (TDD) frame periods of the second frequency channel to TDD UEs, wherein the second frequency channel is the same as the frequency channel on which the FDD UEs are configured to transmit, and controlling uplink transmissions from the FDD UEs to occur only during uplink portions of TDD frame periods of the second frequency channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2013Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLCInventor: Elliott H. Drucker
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Publication number: 20160057746Abstract: Technologies and implementations for wireless communication in a wireless network including transmitting downlink information on a first frequency channel to Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) User Equipments (UEs), transmitting downlink information on a second frequency channel during downlink portions of Time Domain Duplex (TDD) frame periods of the second frequency channel to TDD UEs, wherein the second frequency channel is the same as the frequency channel on which the FDD UEs are configured to transmit, and controlling uplink transmissions from the FDD UEs to occur only during uplink portions of TDD frame periods of the second frequency channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2013Publication date: February 25, 2016Applicant: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLCInventor: Elliott H. DRUCKER
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Patent number: 9214977Abstract: Technologies are described for reliably constraining a maximum transmission power of a mobile communication device such as a cellular phone so that RF radiation associated with that transmission and incident to a head of the device's user can be held at or below predetermined “safe” levels. Upon determining an operational or communication mode of the mobile communication device where it is likely to be held against or very near the user's head, its maximum transmit power may be reduced until the near-head operation is completed. The reduction may be to a fixed maximum level or may be adjusted to allow for a maximum amount of radiated energy over a period of time. The reduction may also take into account adjustment factors such as frequency band, modulation, antenna gain, and similar factors.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2011Date of Patent: December 15, 2015Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLCInventor: Elliott H. Drucker
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Publication number: 20130172039Abstract: Technologies are described for reliably constraining a maximum transmission power of a mobile communication device such as a cellular phone so that RF radiation associated with that transmission and incident to a head of the device's user can be held at or below predetermined “safe” levels. Upon determining an operational or communication mode of the mobile communication device where it is likely to be held against or very near the user's head, its maximum transmit power may be reduced until the near-head operation is completed. The reduction may be to a fixed maximum level or may be adjusted to allow for a maximum amount of radiated energy over a period of time. The reduction may also take into account adjustment factors such as frequency band, modulation, antenna gain, and similar factors.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2011Publication date: July 4, 2013Applicant: Empire Technology Development LLCInventor: Elliott H. Drucker
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Patent number: 6937870Abstract: A method and system for enabling automatic or semi-automatic interactive responses to electronic queries using audio-band coded data as the query medium and wireless data communications as the response medium. Typical applications include interactive broadcast advertising in which a coded data query is embedded in a broadcast audio channel and reproduced as an acoustic audio signal in a broadcast receiver. This acoustic signal is then detected by the microphone of a wireless telephone and decoded and processed by the electronic circuitry of said wireless telephone. Upon a pre-determined further action by the user, the decoded and processed query data causes the wireless telephone to transmit a pre-determined message. The pre-determined message includes information which instructs the serving wireless network to properly route the message so that it effectively provides a response to the original query.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2001Date of Patent: August 30, 2005Inventors: Elliott H. Drucker, Douglas C. Fleming, Martin Zivin
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Publication number: 20030069006Abstract: A method and system for enabling automatic or semi-automatic interactive responses to electronic queries using audio-band coded data as the query medium and wireless data communications as the response medium. Typical applications include interactive broadcast advertising in which a coded data query is embedded in a broadcast audio channel and reproduced as an acoustic audio signal in a broadcast receiver. This acoustic signal is then detected by the microphone of a wireless telephone and decoded and processed by the electronic circuitry of said wireless telephone. Upon a pre-determined further action by the user, the decoded and processed query data causes the wireless telephone to transmit a pre-determined message. The pre-determined message includes information which instructs the serving wireless network to properly route the message so that it effectively provides a response to the original query.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2001Publication date: April 10, 2003Inventors: Elliott H. Drucker, Douglas C. Fleming, Martin Zivin
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Patent number: 5563931Abstract: The emergency wireless telephone and system describes improved control and service offered in the conventional public telephone system as pertains to cellular telephone service.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 1994Date of Patent: October 8, 1996Assignee: SOS Wireless Communications & National Dispatch CenterInventors: Ronald D. Bishop, Vane P. Clayton, Michael H. Kreutzer, Elliott H. Drucker
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Patent number: 5511110Abstract: A cellular phone paging system that uses a frame oriented scheme to transmit and receive mobile unit pages with reduced delay is disclosed. Each mobile unit in the cellular phone network is assigned a paging slot within the frames on the forward control channel. If a plurality of pages are to be sent along the forward control channel and the pages are assigned to the same paging slot, the pages will be transmitted in successive paging slots beginning with the assigned slot rather than in the assigned slot in a series of sequential frames. In order to receive its pages, a mobile unit inspects its assigned paging slot and the next sequential paging slots if its assigned paging slot has been filled with a page request to another unit. The mobile unit continues to check sequential paging slots until it identifies a page to itself or identifies an empty slot.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1994Date of Patent: April 23, 1996Assignee: U S WEST, Inc.Inventor: Elliott H. Drucker
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Patent number: 5295180Abstract: A system for marking a plurality of zones within a cellular service area. One or more marker transmitters are disposed throughout a cellular area to transmit a zone identification signal that is independent of normal RF cellular coverage to a mobile or portable cellular receiver. Each zone identification signal is transmitted in a radio frequency coverage area that illuminates the zone to be identified and is constrained by a similar transmitter jamming the zone signal. The marker transmitters are programmed to transmit the zone identification signal during a predefined time slot so that more than one marker transmitter may simultaneously transmit the zone identification signal, thereby increasing the area in which the zone identification signal can be received by the mobile unit. In order to reduce the area in which a zone identification signal may be received by a mobile unit, the marker transmitters may transmit a jamming signal at the same time as the zone identification signal is transmitted.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 1992Date of Patent: March 15, 1994Assignee: U S West NewVector Group, Inc.Inventors: Dino J. Vendetti, Don H. Atherly, Ching Chuang, Elliott H. Drucker, Michael J. Dunn, Ronald E. Foerster, David G. Schoenmaker
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Patent number: 3946387Abstract: A method and apparatus for adjusting the modulation signal levels of overlapping beams which define along points of equal signal levels within the overlap a directional axis which in turn defines a desired navigation course for an airplane or similar maneuverable apparatus. At points offset from the directional axis, one or the other of the modulation signals will be greater in magnitude, depending on the direction of offset. The included angle between the two locus of points representing a predetermined difference in magnitude between the two modulating signals over the region between the landing field and the farthest reach of the beams defines the modulation course width for that particular difference in magnitude.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 1974Date of Patent: March 23, 1976Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Elliott H. Drucker