Patents by Inventor Eric Bouton

Eric Bouton 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).

  • Methods and systems of paging in cellular networks
    Patent number: 10194416
    Abstract: A paging procedure of a mobile telecommunications system is modified to page a terminal using all the transceiver node cells in the coverage area allocated to the terminal that operate in the frequency bands indicated by frequency band capability data for the terminal, but not using the transceiver node cells in the coverage area allocated to the terminal that operate only in other ones of the frequency bands. In one embodiment a control entity is operable to initiate an initial paging procedure by paging based on the characteristic of the terminal obtained by the control entity, and to initiate a subsequent paging procedure if no paging response is received from the terminal. In another embodiment, coverage area allocation means allocates each of the transceiver node cells to one or more of the coverage areas in dependence upon on which of the frequency bands the cell is capable of communicating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: VODAFONE IP LICENSING LIMITED
    Inventors: Christopher David Pudney, Eric Bouton, Alexej Kulakov
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF PAGING IN CELLULAR NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20160050643
    Abstract: A paging procedure of a mobile telecommunications system is modified to page a terminal using all the transceiver node cells in the coverage area allocated to the terminal that operate in the frequency bands indicated by frequency band capability data for the terminal, but not using the transceiver node cells in the coverage area allocated to the terminal that operate only in other ones of the frequency bands. In one embodiment a control entity is operable to initiate an initial paging procedure by paging based on the characteristic of the terminal obtained by the control entity, and to initiate a subsequent paging procedure if no paging response is received from the terminal. In another embodiment, coverage area allocation means allocates each of the transceiver node cells to one or more of the coverage areas in dependence upon on which of the frequency bands the cell is capable of communicating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Christopher David Pudney, Eric Bouton, Alexej Kulakov