Patents by Inventor James Earl

James Earl 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).

  • System and Method for Semi-Persistent and Dynamic Scheduling and Discontinuous Reception Control
    Publication number: 20180146427
    Abstract: Methods of combining semi-persistent resource allocation and dynamic resource allocation are provided. Packets, such as VoIP packets, are transmitted on the uplink and downlink using respective semi-persistent resources. For each mobile device, awake periods and sleep periods are defined. The semi-persistent resources are aligned with the awake periods so that most of the time the mobile device can turn off its wireless access radio during the sleep periods. In addition, signalling to request, and to allocate, resources for additional packets are transmitted during the awake periods, and the resources allocated for the additional packets are within the awake windows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Zhijun Cai, James Earl Womack
  • Method and System for Dynamic Ack/Nack Repitition for Robust Downlink Mac PDU Transmission in LTE
    Publication number: 20180131495
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for dynamic acknowledgement repetition for a downlink medium access control packet data unit transmission ‘MAC PDU’ requiring multiple acknowledgements, the method having the steps of: receiving the downlink MAC PDU requiring multiple acknowledgements; and utilizing a differentiating factor and acknowledgement scheme, sending the multiple acknowledgements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Takashi Suzuki, Zhijun Cai, James Earl Womack
  • Storage chest
    Patent number: 9936806
    Abstract: A storage chest has a base, a plurality of rails coupled to the base, and a side panel at each side coupled to the base between the rails. The base further includes a front panel coupled to the base between the side panel, a rear panel coupled to the base on a side opposite the front panel and between the side panels, and a cover movably coupled to the storage chest and configured to move from a closed position fully extending over the storage chest and substantially parallel to and opposite the base to an open position exposing an interior of the storage chest. The side, front, and rear panels and rails define openings providing access from an area exterior to the storage chest to the interior of the storage chest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Inventor: James Earl Taylor, Jr.
  • Method and system for data-driven, variable-rate, channel quality indicator for LTE non-real-time bursty traffic
    Patent number: 9941997
    Abstract: A method and system, in a long term evolution architecture utilizing adaptive modulation and coding requiring periodic channel quality indication reports, the method having the steps of: waiting for an idle channel indication; and upon detection of the idle channel indication, decreasing the rate of periodic channel quality indication reports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Zhijun Cai, James Earl Womack
  • Roof runoff water control system
    Patent number: 9926684
    Abstract: Roof runoff water control systems for a building with gutters and a downspout and buildings without gutters. Both systems employ a swale in the ground that is lined with rock filled bags that are opened and laid overlapped end-to-end. For the downspout, a closed bag filled with rock is placed under the downspout with open bags filled with rock laid overlapped end-to-end in the swale and overlapped downstream from the closed bag. For a building without gutters and having a drip line in the ground, open bags filled with rock are laid overlapped end-to-end in the swale. The swale and the open bags are aligned with the drip line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: R & J East, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Neal Alfred Hawkinson, James Earl Hawkinson
  • Minimally invasive spinal fusion system and method
    Patent number: 9924989
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are minimally invasive systems and method for stabilizing the spine, while preserving a degree of spinal flexion and extension of the spine at the level of the stabilized vertebrae postoperatively. The systems and methods can include an expandable anchor and rod that span an intervertebral disc. The anchor can have interstices, and ends in two adjacent vertebral bodies. The system can also include a volume of bone cement media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: ZYNFUSION, LLC
    Inventor: James Earl Dix
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING A COMPARTMENTALIZED TIRE SEALANT STRIP
    Publication number: 20180079264
    Abstract: A method for making a compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10 has the steps of co-extruding a barrier strip 9 of non-sealant elastomeric material with a plurality of projecting linear extending walls 9c and a sealant strip 11 wherein the sealant strip 11 is formed on one side of the barrier strip 9 filling the space between the plurality of projecting walls 9c to form a plurality of linearly extending rows of sealant 11 across the transverse width of the co-extrusion to form the compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10. The step of co-extruding may further include the step of: forming the projecting walls 9c on an inclined angle relative to a plane perpendicular to the width of the assembly 10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Michael Charles Ruegg, Ernest Wilford Looman, Donald Edward Helle, Patrick David Marks, Thomas Roy Fuhrig, Joseph Alan Incavo, James Earl Koerner, Terrence Lee Parsons, Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Warren James Busch, Timothy Patrick Lovell
  • System and method for relay node selection
    Patent number: 9923628
    Abstract: A method for recommending a relay node to which a user agent attaches. The method includes recommending the relay node based on a relay node selection rank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Earl Womack, Yi Yu, Zhijun Cai
  • Strand, cable bolt and its installation
    Patent number: 9909419
    Abstract: A strand (20) for a cable bolt (14) comprises a plurality of metallic elongated members (22, 24) twisted together. At least one of the elongated members has a corrosion resistant coating (54) and surface deformation, so as to improve the bodig efficiency and the anchorage of the strand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignees: NV BEKAERT SA, MINOVA INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Stijn Defossez, David Aspinwall, Stephen Tadolini, James Earl
  • OPTIMISED SUBCUTANEOUS THERAPEUTIC AGENTS
    Publication number: 20180036229
    Abstract: Methods and dosage formulations are provided for subcutaneous administration in which therapeutic agents are modified to increase the hydrophilicity and molecular dimensions in relation to the native state of the therapeutic agent, in which the Cmax:Caverage ratio is lower than the Cmax:Caverage ratio of the agent when delivered intravenously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: Cantab Biopharmaceuticals Patents Limited
    Inventors: William HENRY, Richard WOLF-GARRAWAY, John Charles MAYO, Michael James EARL
  • System and method for semi-persistent and dynamic scheduling and discontinuous reception control
    Patent number: 9854522
    Abstract: Methods of combining semi-persistent resource allocation and dynamic resource allocation are provided. Packets, such as VoIP packets, are transmitted on the uplink and downlink using respective semi-persistent resources. For each mobile device, awake periods and sleep periods are defined. The semi-persistent resources are aligned with the awake periods so that most of the time the mobile device can turn off its wireless access radio during the sleep periods. In addition, signalling to request, and to allocate, resources for additional packets are transmitted during the awake periods, and the resources allocated for the additional packets are within the awake windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Zhijun Cai, James Earl Womack
  • Method and apparatus for making a compartmentalized tire sealant strip
    Patent number: 9844982
    Abstract: A method for making a compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10 has the steps of co-extruding a barrier strip 9 of non-sealant elastomeric material with a plurality of projecting linear extending walls 9c and a sealant strip 11 wherein the sealant strip 11 is formed on one side of the barrier strip 9 filling the space between the plurality of projecting walls 9c to form a plurality of linearly extending rows of sealant 11 across the transverse width of the co-extrusion to form the compartmentalized sealant strip and barrier assembly 10. The step of co-extruding may further include the step of: forming the projecting walls 9c on an inclined angle relative to a plane perpendicular to the width of the assembly 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2017
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Michael Charles Ruegg, Jr., Ernest Wilford Looman, Jr., Donald Edward Helle, Patrick David Marks, Thomas Roy Fuhrig, Joseph Alan Incavo, James Earl Koerner, Terrence Lee Parsons, Charles Kenneth Schmalix, Warren James Busch, Timothy Patrick Lovell
  • Method and apparatus for restricting user operations when applied to cards or windows
    Patent number: 9836190
    Abstract: A user interface that displays a number of cards or windows is described where a user can move the cards in a horizontal direction freely. When a card resides in a locked zone, as defined by a user, the card will be able to be manipulated in a vertical direction, while cards that reside in a regular zone will not be able to be moved vertically. In addition, only cards that are in the locked zone can be subjected to a user action such as cutting content from the card, pasting content to the card, enlarging the contents of the card, or shrinking the contents of the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Inventors: Jason Douglas Pickersgill, Gregory Gudorf, Kenneth Alan Rudman, Vasil Nadzakov, Andrew Yoon, Roger Yeh, Basil Badawiyeh, Genevieve Marie Pinvidic, Dana Shawn Forte, Dan Han Diep, Samir M. Ahmed, Lee Douglas Shartzer, John Frederick Bishop, James Earl Booth, Jr., Hao Chi Tran, Peter S. Lee, Mark Leroy Walker, David Pettigrew
  • System and Method for Uplink Timing Synchronization in Conjunction with Discontinuous Reception
    Publication number: 20170303198
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for providing uplink timing synchronization during DRX operation in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: James Earl Womack, Yi Yu, Zhijun Cai
  • System and Method for Uplink Timing Synchronization in Conjunction with Discontinuous Reception
    Publication number: 20170303335
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for providing uplink timing synchronization during DRX operation in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: James Earl Womack, Yi Yu, Zhijun Cai
  • System and Method for Uplink Timing Synchronization in Conjunction with Discontinuous Reception
    Publication number: 20170303200
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for providing uplink timing synchronization during DRX operation in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: James Earl Womack, Yi Yu, Zhijun Cai
  • System and Method for Uplink Timing Synchronization in Conjunction with Discontinuous Reception
    Publication number: 20170303197
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for providing uplink timing synchronization during DRX operation in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: James Earl Womack, Yi Yu, Zhijun Cai
  • System and Method for Uplink Timing Synchronization in Conjunction with Discontinuous Reception
    Publication number: 20170303199
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for providing uplink timing synchronization during DRX operation in a wireless communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: James Earl Womack, Yi Yu, Zhijun Cai
  • System and Method for Uplink Timing Synchronization in Conjunction with Discontinuous Reception
    Publication number: 20170288826
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling sounding reference signal transmission are provided; a user equipment starts transmitting the sounding reference signal in anticipation of uplink data transmission, and then discontinues transmitting the sounding reference signal after completion of uplink data transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Earl WOMACK, Zhijun Cai
  • Roof Runoff Water Control System
    Publication number: 20170233969
    Abstract: Roof runoff water control systems for a building with gutters and a downspout and buildings without gutters. Both systems employ a swale in the ground that is lined with rock filled bags that are opened and laid overlapped end-to-end. For the downspout, a closed bag filled with rock is placed under the downspout with open bags filled with rock laid overlapped end-to-end in the swale and overlapped downstream from the closed bag. For a building without gutters and having a drip line in the ground, open bags filled with rock are laid overlapped end-to-end in the swale. The swale and the open bags are aligned with the drip line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Robert Neal Alfred Hawkinson, James Earl Hawkinson