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).

  • Patent number: 11006398
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Elliott H. Drucker
  • Publication number: 20190342876
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Elliott H. DRUCKER
  • Patent number: 10334575
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Elliott H. Drucker
  • Publication number: 20180132231
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Elliott H. DRUCKER
  • Patent number: 9867168
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventor: Elliott H. Drucker
  • Publication number: 20160057746
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: EMPIRE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT LLC
    Inventor: Elliott H. DRUCKER
  • Patent number: 9214977
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Elliott H. Drucker
  • Publication number: 20130172039
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: Empire Technology Development LLC
    Inventor: Elliott H. Drucker
  • Patent number: 6937870
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Inventors: Elliott H. Drucker, Douglas C. Fleming, Martin Zivin
  • Publication number: 20030069006
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2001
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Inventors: Elliott H. Drucker, Douglas C. Fleming, Martin Zivin
  • Patent number: 5563931
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 8, 1996
    Assignee: SOS Wireless Communications & National Dispatch Center
    Inventors: Ronald D. Bishop, Vane P. Clayton, Michael H. Kreutzer, Elliott H. Drucker
  • Patent number: 5511110
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 23, 1996
    Assignee: U S WEST, Inc.
    Inventor: Elliott H. Drucker
  • Patent number: 5295180
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 3946387
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1976
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Elliott H. Drucker