Patents by Inventor Frederick W. Price
Frederick W. Price 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: 20240081859Abstract: Surgical hub systems are disclosed. A surgical hub system comprises a surgical hub configured to communicably couple to a modular device comprising a sensor configured to detect data associated with the modular device and a device processor. The surgical hub comprises a hub processor, a hub memory coupled to the hub processor. The surgical hub system also comprises a distributed control system executable at least in part by each of the device processor and the hub processor. The distributed control system is configured to: receive the data detected by the sensor; determine control adjustments for the modular device according to the data; and control the modular device according to the control adjustments. When in a first mode, the distributed control system is executed by both the hub processor and the device processor. In a second mode, the distributed control system is executed solely by the device processor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Daniel W. Price, Jason L. Harris, David C. Yates
-
Patent number: 11918302Abstract: An interactive control unit is disclosed. The interactive control unit includes an interactive touchscreen display, an interface configured to couple the control unit to a surgical hub, a processor, and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive input commands from the interactive touchscreen display located inside a sterile field and transmit the input commands to the surgical hub to control devices coupled to the surgical hub located outside the sterile field.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Jeffrey D. Messerly, Peter K. Shires, Monica L. Z. Rivard, Cory G. Kimball, David C. Yates, Jeffrey L. Aldridge, Daniel W. Price, William B. Weisenburgh, II, Jason L. Harris, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jerome R. Morgan
-
Publication number: 20180227048Abstract: A method of simplifying the encoding of a predetermined number of bits of data into frames including adding error coding bits so that a ratio of the frame length times the baud rate of the frame times he bit packing ratio of the data divided the total bits of data is always an integer. The method may also convolutionally encode the bits of data so that the same equation is also always an integer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2018Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: Israel Jay Klein, Kenneth L. Stanwood, Steve Pullmann, Frederick W. Price, Rami Hadar, Eli Arviv, David Gazelle, Sheldon Gilbert
-
Patent number: 9935705Abstract: A method of simplifying the encoding of a predetermined number of bits of data into frames including adding error coding bits so that a ratio of the frame length times the baud rate of the frame times he bit packing ratio of the data divided the total bits of data is always an integer. The method may also convolutionally encode the bits of data so that the same equation is also always an integer.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2015Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: WI-LAN INC.Inventors: Israel Jay Klein, Kenneth L. Stanwood, Steve Pollmann, Frederick W. Price, Rami Hadar, Eli Arviv, David Gazelle, Sheldon Gilbert
-
Publication number: 20150365162Abstract: A method of simplifying the encoding of a predetermined number of bits of data into frames including adding error coding bits so that a ratio of the frame length times the baud rate of the frame times he bit packing ratio of the data divided the total bits of data is always an integer. The method may also convolutionally encode the bits of data so that the same equation is also always an integer.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: Israel Jay Klein, Kenneth L. Stanwood, Steve Pollmann, Frederick W. Price, Rami Hadar, Eli Arviv, David Gazelle, Sheldon Gilbert
-
Patent number: 9007897Abstract: A method of simplifying the encoding of a predetermined number of bits of data into frames including adding error coding bits so that a ratio of the frame length times the baud rate of the frame times the bit packing ratio of the data divided the total bits of data is always an integer. The method may also convolutionally encode the bits of data so that the same equation is also always an integer.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2010Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Wi-Lan, Inc.Inventors: Israel Jay Klein, Kenneth L. Stanwood, Steve Pollmann, Frederick W. Price, Rami Hadar, Eli Arviv, David Gazelle, Sheldon Gilbert
-
Patent number: 8199779Abstract: Apparatus, system and method for synchronizing one or more clocks across a communication link. A slave clock may be synchronized to a master clock by means of a synchronization signal sent from the master to the slave clock side of the link. The synchronization signal may be an expected signal pattern sent at intervals expected by the slave side. The slave clock may correlate received signals with a representation of the expected synchronization signal to produce a correlation sample sequence at a first sample rate which is related as n times the slave clock rate. The synchronization signal receipt time indicated by the correlation sample sequence may be refined by interpolating the correlation sample sequence around a best correlation sample to locate a best interpolation at an interpolation resolution smaller than the sample resolution. The best interpolation may in turn be further refined by estimating between interpolator outputs adjacent to the best interpolation output.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2011Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Wi-LAN, Inc.Inventors: Pranesh Sinha, Sharon Akler, Yair Bourlas, Timothy Leo Gallagher, Sheldon L. Gilbert, Stephen C. Pollmann, Frederick W. Price, Blaine C. Readler, John Wiss, Eli Arviv
-
Patent number: 8130640Abstract: A method of simplifying the encoding of a predetermined number of bits of data into frames including adding error coding bits so that a ratio of the frame length times the baud rate of the frame times he bit packing ratio of the data divided the total bits of data is always an integer. The method may also convolutionally encode the bits of data so that the same equation is also always an integer.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2009Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Wi-LAN, Inc.Inventors: Israel Jay Klein, Kenneth L. Stanwood, Steve Pollmann, Frederick W. Price, Rami Hadar, Eli Arviv, David Gazelle, Sheldon Gilbert
-
Publication number: 20110122981Abstract: Apparatus, system and method for synchronizing one or more clocks across a communication link. A slave clock may be synchronized to a master clock by means of a synchronization signal sent from the master to the slave clock side of the link. The synchronization signal may be an expected signal pattern sent at intervals expected by the slave side. The slave clock may correlate received signals with a representation of the expected synchronization signal to produce a correlation sample sequence at a first sample rate which is related as n times the slave clock rate. The synchronization signal receipt time indicated by the correlation sample sequence may be refined by interpolating the correlation sample sequence around a best correlation sample to locate a best interpolation at an interpolation resolution smaller than the sample resolution. The best interpolation may in turn be further refined by estimating between interpolator outputs adjacent to the best interpolation output.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2011Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: WI-LAN, INC.Inventors: Pranesh Sinha, Sharon Akler, Yair Bourlas, Timothy Leo Gallagher, Sheldon L. Gilbert, Stephen C. Pollmann, Frederick W. Price, Blaine C. Readler, John Wiss, Eli Arviv
-
Patent number: 7907640Abstract: A slave clock may be synchronized to a master clock by means of a synchronization signal sent from the master to the slave clock side of the link. The synchronization signal may be an expected signal pattern sent at intervals expected by the slave side. The slave clock may correlate received signals with a representation of the expected synchronization signal to produce a correlation sample sequence at a first sample rate which is related as n times the slave clock rate. A best interpolation may in turn be further refined by estimating between interpolator outputs adjacent to the best interpolation output. The synchronization signal receipt time thus determined is compared to the expected time based upon the slave clock, which is adjusted until the times match. The best interpolation may in turn be further refined by estimating between interpolator outputs adjacent to the best interpolation output.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2009Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Wi-LAN, Inc.Inventors: Pranesh Sinha, Sharon Akler, Yair Bourlas, Timothy Leo Gallagher, Sheldon L. Gilbert, Stephen C. Pollmann, Frederick W. Price, Blaine C. Readler, John Wiss, Eli Arviv
-
Publication number: 20100323733Abstract: A method of simplifying the encoding of a predetermined number of bits of data into frames including adding error coding bits so that a ratio of the frame length times the baud rate of the frame times the bit packing ratio of the data divided the total bits of data is always an integer. The method may also convolutionally encode the bits of data so that the same equation is also always an integer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2010Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: WI-LAN, INC.Inventors: Israel Jay Klein, Kenneth L. Stanwood, Steve Pollmann, Frederick W. Price, Rami Hadar, Eli Arviv, David Gazelle, Sheldon Gilbert
-
Publication number: 20090279652Abstract: Apparatus, system and method for synchronizing one or more clocks across a communication link. A slave clock may be synchronized to a master clock by means of a synchronization signal sent from the master to the slave clock side of the link. The synchronization signal may be an expected signal pattern sent at intervals expected by the slave side. The slave clock may correlate received signals with a representation of the expected synchronization signal to produce a correlation sample sequence at a first sample rate which is related as n times the slave clock rate. The synchronization signal receipt time indicated by the correlation sample sequence may be refined by interpolating the correlation sample sequence around a best correlation sample to locate a best interpolation at an interpolation resolution smaller than the sample resolution. The best interpolation may in turn be further refined by estimating between interpolator outputs adjacent to the best interpolation output.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2009Publication date: November 12, 2009Applicant: WI-LAN, INC.Inventors: Pranesh Sinha, Sharon Akler, Yair Bourlas, Timothy Leo Gallagher, Sheldon L. Gilbert, Stephen C. Pollmann, Frederick W. Price, Blaine C. Readler, John Wiss, Eli Arviv
-
Patent number: 7583705Abstract: One or more clocks are synchronized across a communication link using a synchronization signal sent from a master to a slave clock. The synchronization signal may be an expected signal pattern sent at intervals expected by the slave. The slave clock may correlate received signals with a representation of the expected synchronization signal to produce a correlation sample sequence at a first sample rate. The synchronization signal receipt time is compared to the expected time and the slave clock is adjusted until the times match. Master and slave clocks synchronized across the communication link constitute a noncommon clock which may be compared on each side of the link to secondary independent clocks. The secondary independent clocks may be separately synchronized by adjusting one to have the same difference from its local noncommon clock as the secondary clock on the other side of the link has from its local noncommon clock.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2005Date of Patent: September 1, 2009Assignee: Wi-LAN, Inc.Inventors: Pranesh Sinha, Sharon Akler, Yair Bourlas, Timothy Leo Gallagher, Sheldon L. Gilbert, Stephen C. Pollmann, Frederick W. Price, Blaine C. Readler, John Wiss, Eli Arviv
-
Publication number: 20090161623Abstract: A method of simplifying the encoding of a predetermined number of bits of data into frames including adding error coding bits so that a ratio of the frame length times the baud rate of the frame times he bit packing ratio of the data divided the total bits of data is always an integer. The method may also convolutionally encode the bits of data so that the same equation is also always an integer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2009Publication date: June 25, 2009Applicant: Wi-LAN, Inc.Inventors: Israel Jay Klein, Kenneth L. Stanwood, Steve Pollmann, Frederick W. Price, Rami Hadar, Eli Arviv, David Gazelle, Sheldon Gilbert
-
Patent number: 7519023Abstract: The present invention is a method of simplifying the encoding of a predetermined number of bits of data into frames. The method adds error coding bits so that a ratio of the frame length times the baud rate of the frame times the bit packing ratio of the data divided the total bits of data is always an integer. The method may also convolutionally encode the bits of data so that the same equation is also always an integer.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2004Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: Wi-LAN, Inc.Inventors: Israel Jay Klein, Kenneth L. Stanwood, Steve Pollmann, Frederick W. Price, Rami Hadar, Eli Arviv, David Gazelle, Sheldon Gilbert
-
Patent number: 7177598Abstract: Base stations having potentially interfering terminal stations that are geographically located on the same or similar diagonal or Line of Sight (relative to the base station) operate on a first set of time frames (e.g., “even” time frames). Similarly, base stations having potentially interfering terminal stations that are not geographically located on the same or similar diagonals operate on a second set of time frames (e.g., “odd” time frames). By alternating in their use of the even and odd frames, the potential for co-channel interference between terminal stations is minimized. Systems and methods are disclosed which reduce co-channel and adjacent channel interference between terminal stations of different cells as well as adjacent channel interference between terminal stations of adjacent cells. The methods and systems so described can be used during the deployment or expansion of a communication system in a region.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2001Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: Wi-LAN, Inc.Inventors: Israel Jay Klein, Sheldon L. Gilbert, Kenneth L. Stanwood, Jacques Behar, David Gazelle, Frederick W. Price
-
Patent number: 6944188Abstract: Apparatus, system and method for synchronizing one or more clocks across a communication link. A slave clock may be synchronized to a master clock by means of a synchronization signal sent from the master to the slave clock side of the link. The synchronization signal may be an expected signal pattern sent at intervals expected by the slave side. The slave clock may correlate received signals with a representation of the expected synchronization signal to produce a correlation sample sequence at a first sample rate which is related as n times the slave clock rate. The synchronization signal receipt time indicated by the correlation sample sequence may be refined by interpolating the correlation sample sequence around a best correlation sample to locate a best interpolation at an interpolation resolution smaller than the sample resolution. The best interpolation may in turn be further refined by estimating between interpolator outputs adjacent to the best interpolation output.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2001Date of Patent: September 13, 2005Assignee: Wi-Lan, Inc.Inventors: Pranesh Sinha, Sharon Akler, Yair Bourlas, Timothy Leo Gallagher, Sheldon L. Gilbert, Stephen C. Pollmann, Frederick W. Price, Blaine C. Readler, John Wiss, Ell Arviv
-
Patent number: 6804211Abstract: A method of assigning downlink time slots to receive units where the units may generate data using different modulation schemes. The method preferably assigns the downlink time slots as a function of the complexity of modulation schemes employed by the units. Further, the method preferably assigns the time slots from the least complex modulation scheme to the most complex scheme. The method may further assign uplink time slots to transmit units where the transmit units may generate data using different modulation schemes. The method preferably assigns the uplink time slots as a function of the complexity of modulation schemes employed by the uplink units. Further, the method preferably assigns the uplink time slots from the least complex modulation scheme to the most complex scheme. In other embodiments, the downlink time slots are assigned as a function of the bit per symbol rate employed by the receive units, preferably from the lowest bit per symbol rate to the highest bit per symbol rate.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1999Date of Patent: October 12, 2004Assignee: Wi-Lan Inc.Inventors: Israel Jay Klein, Kenneth L. Stanwood, Steve Pollmann, Frederick W. Price, Rami Hadar, Eli Arviv, David Gazelle, Sheldon Gilbert
-
Patent number: 6597733Abstract: A system and method for enhancing the performance of an equalizer in a modem. Multiple techniques are disclosed which improve the modem performance. A first technique uses stored parameters for each burst from each remote site to demodulate a received data stream. A second technique compensates for the gain droop caused by storing parameters across each burst. A third technique minimizes errors caused by adapting the equalizer coefficients for each data burst by analyzing the SN ratio and error rate of the received burst. A fourth technique improves the convergence of the equalizer by using a two-part preamble, whereby both parts are transmitted using different modulation techniques. A fifth technique is provided which performs a soft reset of the modem without performing a complete reset of the modem. A sixth technique determines a modem adaptation factor based on the expected modulation type of an incoming burst transmission.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2001Date of Patent: July 22, 2003Assignee: Ensemble Communications, Inc.Inventors: Stephen C. Pollmann, Eli Arviv, Jacques Behar, Timothy L. Gallagher, David Gazelle, Frederick W. Price
-
Patent number: RE42021Abstract: A system and method for enhancing the performance of an equalizer in a modem. Multiple techniques are disclosed which improve the modem performance. A first technique uses stored parameters for each burst from each remote site to demodulate a received data stream. A second technique compensates for the gain droop caused by storing parameters across each burst. A third technique minimizes errors caused by adapting the equalizer coefficients for each data burst by analyzing the SN ratio and error rate of the received burst. A fourth technique improves the convergence of the equalizer by using a two-part preamble, whereby both parts are transmitted using different modulation techniques. A fifth technique is provided which performs a soft reset of the modem without performing a complete reset of the modem. A sixth technique determines a modem adaptation factor based on the expected modulation type of an incoming burst transmission.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2005Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Inventors: Stephen C. Pollmann, Eli Arviv, Jacques Behar, Timothy L. Gallagher, David Gazelle, Frederick W. Price