Patents by Inventor Jack Thomas Matheney
Jack Thomas Matheney 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: 9998402Abstract: Embodiments may be disclosed herein that provide systems, devices, and methods of operating a Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) network. One such embodiment is a method comprising: aggregating packets, including at least control packets and acknowledgement packets, with other packets.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Jack Thomas Matheney, Jeffrey Scott Ford, Albert L. Garrett
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Patent number: 9742620Abstract: Embodiments may be disclosed herein that provide systems, devices, and methods of operating a Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) network. One such embodiment is a method comprising: designating a selected MoCA device as a network controller; and logically partitioning, into virtual MoCA networks, a predetermined bandwidth reserved for the MoCA network by sending, from the network controller one or more beacons containing virtual network information.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2013Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Albert L. Garrett, Jeffrey Scott Ford, Jack Thomas Matheney
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Patent number: 9729917Abstract: An enhanced multimedia over coax alliance (MoCA) implementation having a single Receive (Rx) physical (Phy) module that is arranged to receive data via one of at least two Rx radio frequency (RF) modules, which are arranged to be in communication with a coaxial cable, and at least two transmit (Tx) Phy modules respectively arranged to be in communication with two Tx RF modules, which are also arranged to be in communication with the coaxial cable.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Ford, Jack Thomas Matheney, Leo Montreuil
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Patent number: 9106435Abstract: Embodiments may be disclosed herein that provide systems, devices, and methods of operating a Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) network. One such embodiment is a method comprising: dedicating a portion of a MAP cycle prior to a MAP packet to reservation requests and small data packets; and dedicating a portion of the MAP cycle after the MAP packet to data traffic.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2009Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Jack Thomas Matheney, Jeffrey Scott Ford, Albert L. Garrett
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Publication number: 20150020123Abstract: An enhanced multimedia over coax alliance (MoCA) implementation having a single Receive (Rx) physical (Phy) module that is arranged to receive data via one of at least two Rx radio frequency (RF) modules, which are arranged to be in communication with a coaxial cable, and at least two transmit (Tx) Phy modules respectively arranged to be in communication with two Tx RF modules, which are also arranged to be in communication with the coaxial cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Ford, Jack Thomas Matheney, Leo Montreuil
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Publication number: 20140348175Abstract: Embodiments may be disclosed herein that provide systems, devices, and methods of operating a Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) network. One such embodiment is a method comprising: aggregating packets, including at least control packets and acknowledgement packets, with other packets.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2014Publication date: November 27, 2014Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Jack Thomas Matheney, Jeffrey Scott Ford, Albert L. Garrett
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Patent number: 8850509Abstract: An enhanced multimedia over coax alliance (MoCA) implementation having a single Receive (Rx) physical (Phy) module that is arranged to receive data via one of at least two Rx radio frequency (RF) modules, which are arranged to be in communication with a coaxial cable, and at least two transmit (Tx) Phy modules respectively arranged to be in communication with two Tx RF modules, which are also arranged to be in communication with the coaxial cable.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2008Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Ford, Jack Thomas Matheney, Leo Montreuil
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Patent number: 8804516Abstract: Embodiments may be disclosed herein that provide systems, devices, and methods of operating a Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) network. One such embodiment is a method comprising: aggregating packets, including at least control packets and acknowledgement packets, with other packets.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2009Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Jack Thomas Matheney, Jeffrey Scott Ford, Albert L. Garrett
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Publication number: 20130283348Abstract: Embodiments may be disclosed herein that provide systems, devices, and methods of operating a Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) network. One such embodiment is a method comprising: designating a selected MoCA device as a network controller; and logically partitioning, into virtual MoCA networks, a predetermined bandwidth reserved for the MoCA network by sending, from the network controller one or more beacons containing virtual network information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Inventors: Albert L. Garrett, Jeffrey Scott Ford, Jack Thomas Matheney
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Patent number: 8547833Abstract: A method can include calculating an indication of signal quality for a communications channel based on a message from a node over a communications channel of a network. The calculated indication of signal quality can be adjusted based on a prior indication of signal quality to provide an adjusted indication of signal quality. Bitloading for the communications channel can be determined based on the adjusted indication of signal quality.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2011Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Albert L. Garrett, Jack Thomas Matheney
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Patent number: 8468223Abstract: Embodiments may be disclosed herein that provide systems, devices, and methods of operating a Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) network. One such embodiment is a method comprising: designating a selected MoCA device as a network controller; and logically partitioning, into virtual MoCA networks, a predetermined bandwidth reserved for the MoCA network by sending, from the network controller one or more beacons containing virtual network information.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2009Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Albert L. Garrett, Jeffrey Scott Ford, Jack Thomas Matheney
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Publication number: 20120287979Abstract: A method can include calculating an indication of signal quality for a communications channel based on a message from a node over a communications channel of a network. The calculated indication of signal quality can be adjusted based on a prior indication of signal quality to provide an adjusted indication of signal quality. Bitloading for the communications channel can be determined based on the adjusted indication of signal quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2011Publication date: November 15, 2012Inventors: ALBERT L. GARRETT, JACK THOMAS MATHENEY
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Publication number: 20100162329Abstract: An enhanced multimedia over coax alliance (MoCA) implementation having a single Receive (Rx) physical (Phy) module that is arranged to receive data via one of at least two Rx radio frequency (RF) modules, which are arranged to be in communication with a coaxial cable, and at least two transmit (Tx) Phy modules respectively arranged to be in communication with two Tx RF modules, which are also arranged to be in communication with the coaxial cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2008Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Ford, Jack Thomas Matheney, Leo Montreuil
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Publication number: 20100142540Abstract: Embodiments may be disclosed herein that provide systems, devices, and methods of operating a Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) network. One such embodiment is a method comprising: dedicating a portion of a MAP cycle prior to a MAP packet to reservation requests and small data packets; and dedicating a portion of the MAP cycle after the MAP packet to data traffic.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2009Publication date: June 10, 2010Inventors: Jack Thomas Matheney, Jeffrey Scott Ford, Albert L. Garrett
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Publication number: 20100142378Abstract: Embodiments may be disclosed herein that provide systems, devices, and methods of operating a Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) network. One such embodiment is a method comprising: aggregating packets, including at least control packets and acknowledgement packets, with other packets.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2009Publication date: June 10, 2010Inventors: Jack Thomas Matheney, Jeffrey Scott Ford, Albert L. Garrett
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Publication number: 20100146616Abstract: Embodiments may be disclosed herein that provide systems, devices, and methods of operating a Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) network. One such embodiment is a method comprising: designating a selected MoCA device as a network controller; and logically partitioning, into virtual MoCA networks, a predetermined bandwidth reserved for the MoCA network by sending, from the network controller one or more beacons containing virtual network information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2009Publication date: June 10, 2010Inventors: Albert L. Garrett, Jeffrey Scott Ford, Jack Thomas Matheney
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Patent number: 6529568Abstract: An impulse radio concurrently receives an impulse signal and interference. An interference sampler samples the interference before an expected time of arrival of an impulse in the impulse signal, to produce an interference nulling sample. Then, when the impulse arrives, a data sampler samples the impulse in the presence of the interference to produce a data sample including undesired interference energy. The anticipatory nulling sample is an estimate of the undesired interference energy captured in the subsequent data sample so that the nulling sample can be used to cancel the interference energy from the data sample. When the nulling sample precedes the data sample by an odd number of half cycle periods of the interference, the nulling sample is additively combined with the data sample to derive a corrected data sample, from which a portion of the interference energy is canceled.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2000Date of Patent: March 4, 2003Assignee: Time Domain CorporationInventors: James L. Richards, Vernon R. Brethour, Jack Thomas Matheney
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Patent number: 6483461Abstract: A system for locating of objects in a three-dimensional space comprises: (a) an impulse radio network including at least three reference impulse radio units and at least one mobile position indicating apparatus; position information relating the impulse radio units is recorded by at least one indicating impulse radio unit; the impulse radio units are in communication; and (b) an affixing structure for affixing a respective mobile position indicating apparatus with a respective object. A respective mobile position indicating apparatus transmits an impulse radio identifying signal that is received by a receiving impulse radio unit. An indicating impulse radio unit cooperates with the receiving impulse radio unit in using the identifying signal for developing coordinate information for locating the respective mobile position indicating apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2000Date of Patent: November 19, 2002Assignee: Time Domain CorporationInventors: Jack Thomas Matheney, Linda M. Lee, Donald David Mondul