Patents by Inventor Glenn A. Salaman

Glenn A. Salaman 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: 8589715
    Abstract: A method and system for correcting timing errors due to thermal changes within a portable computing device are disclosed. The system and method may include calculating an estimate of frequency for a first clock compared to a second clock. The first clock may comprise a crystal oscillator while the second clock comprises a system clock. Next, a sleep state may be calculated for a hardware device, such as radio access technology (“RAT”) module, based on the estimate of frequency for the first clock. An error in the frequency of the first clock that may occur during the sleep state of the hardware device may be calculated. Subsequently, a magnitude of time that corresponds to an actual length of the sleep state relative to the second clock may be calculated so that an internal clock of the hardware devices may be synchronized with the second clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Troy R. Curtiss, Vamsee K. Somavarapu, Glenn A. Salaman, Stanley Tsai, Gregory R. Lie
  • Patent number: 8437730
    Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to adaptive quality of service for a wireless communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jon J. Anderson, Francis M. Ngai, Glenn A. Salaman
  • Publication number: 20120290866
    Abstract: A method and system for correcting timing errors due to thermal changes within a portable computing device are disclosed. The system and method may include calculating an estimate of frequency for a first clock compared to a second clock. The first clock may comprise a crystal oscillator while the second clock comprises a system clock. Next, a sleep state may be calculated for a hardware device, such as radio access technology (“RAT”) module, based on the estimate of frequency for the first clock. An error in the frequency of the first clock that may occur during the sleep state of the hardware device may be calculated. Subsequently, a magnitude of time that corresponds to an actual length of the sleep state relative to the second clock may be calculated so that an internal clock of the hardware devices may be synchronized with the second clock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2011
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Inventors: Troy R. CURTISS, Vamsee K. SOMAVARAPU, Glenn A. SALAMAN, Stanley TSAI, Gregory R. LIE
  • Publication number: 20110294456
    Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to adaptive quality of service for a wireless communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jon J. Anderson, Francis M. Ngai, Glenn A. Salaman
  • Publication number: 20110217969
    Abstract: A mobile communication device with multiple subscriptions includes a single baseband-radio frequency (BB-RF) resource chain. A first identity module, such as a subscriber identity module (SIM), a second identity module (e.g., a second SIM), and a controller are communicatively coupled to the single BB-RF resource chain. The first identity module is associated with a first subscription, and the second identity module is associated with a second subscription. The controller may be configured to arbitrate access to the single BB-RF resource chain to perform a first activity that corresponds to the first subscription or a second activity that corresponds to the second subscription. For example, the controller may interrupt a data session processed by the single BB-RF resource chain in response to receiving information indicating that a voice call is to be processed by the single BB-RF resource chain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2011
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael K. Spartz, Rajiv R. Nambiar, Way-Shing Lee, Glenn A. Salaman, Francis M. Ngai, Reza Shahidi
  • Patent number: 7657261
    Abstract: One aspect of the invention provides a system, apparatus and method that allow a wireless communication device to intelligently search for and select a communication cell based on a system identifier (SID) and network identifier (NID) order of preference rather than just pilot signal strength. Generally, a mobile device scans a frequency channel associated with the highest preferred SID/NID for pilot signals at different PN offsets. The cell associated with the strongest pilot signal detected is queried to determine whether it belongs to the SID/NID sought. If the selected PN offset belongs to a cell associated with the SID/NID sought then it is used for communications. Otherwise, the SID/NID identification process is repeated for the next strongest PN offset detected on the same frequency channel. If no pilot signals meeting these criteria are found in the frequency channel, the next highest preferred SID/NID is selected and the process is repeated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rotem Cooper, Glenn Salaman, James A. Hutchison, Robbin D. Hughes, Vanitha Aravamudhan
  • Patent number: 7558226
    Abstract: A Wireless Communication Device (WCD) inter-operates with a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) communication system. The WCD operates in an idle mode wherein the WCD transitions between a sleep state to conserve power and an awake state to receive one or more paging signals. The WCD attempts to reacquire a first pilot signal associated with a first paging signal that was previously being demodulated, and a second pilot signal that was previously being tracked. The WCD performs a handoff from the first paging signal to a second paging signal associated with the second pilot signal when the attempt to reacquire the first pilot signal fails and the attempt to reacquire the second pilot signal is successful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Jon J. Anderson, Francis Ngai, Glenn Salaman, Nicholson R. Gibson
  • Publication number: 20070191005
    Abstract: One aspect of the invention provides a system, apparatus and method that allow a wireless communication device to intelligently search for and select a communication cell based on a system identifier (SID) and network identifier (NID) order of preference rather than just pilot signal strength. Generally, a mobile device scans a frequency channel associated with the highest preferred SID/NID for pilot signals at different PN offsets. The cell associated with the strongest pilot signal detected is queried to determine whether it belongs to the SID/NID sought. If the selected PN offset belongs to a cell associated with the SID/NID sought then it is used for communications. Otherwise, the SID/NID identification process is repeated for the next strongest PN offset detected on the same frequency channel. If no pilot signals meeting these criteria are found in the frequency channel, the next highest preferred SID/NID is selected and the process is repeated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Publication date: August 16, 2007
    Inventors: Rotem Cooper, Glenn Salaman, James Hutchison, Robbin Hughes, Vanitha Aravamudhan
  • 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
  • Patent number: 6992618
    Abstract: A wireless remote unit performs SPS acquisition interleaved with receiving paging information over a wireless slotted paging channel and receiving data packets over a wireless data communication system. The remote unit tunes to a pilot channel, synchronizes to an internal clock of the wireless remote unit with a pilot signal transmitted over the pilot channel; and starts a search for SPS satellites after completing synchronization with the internal clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Ashok Bhatia, Paul R. Johnson, Abhay Joshi, Arthur Neufeld, Arie Rahmat, Borislav Ristic, Mark C. Roh, Glenn Salaman
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20040183723
    Abstract: A wireless remote unit performs SPS acquisition interleaved with receiving paging information over a wireless slotted paging channel and receiving data packets over a wireless data communication system. The remote unit tunes to a pilot channel, synchronizes to an internal clock of the wireless remote unit with a pilot signal transmitted over the pilot channel; and starts a search for SPS satellites after completing synchronization with the internal clock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Ashok Bhatia, Paul R. Johnson, Abhay Joshi, Arthur Neufeld, Arie Rahmat, Borislav Ristic, Mark C. Roh, Glenn Salaman
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20030103479
    Abstract: A Wireless Communication Device (WCD) inter-operates with a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) communication system. The WCD operates in an idle mode wherein the WCD transitions between a sleep state to conserve power and an awake state to receive one or more paging signals. The WCD attempts to reacquire a first pilot signal associated with a first paging signal that was previously being demodulated, and a second pilot signal that was previously being tracked. The WCD performs a handoff from the first paging signal to a second paging signal associated with the second pilot signal when the attempt to reacquire the first pilot signal fails and the attempt to reacquire the second pilot signal is successful.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2002
    Publication date: June 5, 2003
    Inventors: Jon J. Anderson, Francis Ngai, Glenn Salaman, R. Nicholson Gibson