Patents by Inventor James Randolph Winter Lepp

James Randolph Winter Lepp 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).

  • COMMUNICATING IN A NARROWBAND CHANNEL
    Publication number: 20190110227
    Abstract: In some examples, a wireless device transmits a narrowband downlink frame in a narrowband channel, the narrowband downlink frame comprising a beacon frame that is transmitted periodically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Method and system for dedicated short range communication with traffic offload
    Patent number: 10257682
    Abstract: A method at a computing device for dedicated short range communication with traffic offload, the method including utilizing a radio in a communications subsystem on the computing device for a first category of communications; determining, at the computing device, that a trigger condition has been met; and splitting operation of the radio in the communications subsystem of the computing device, the splitting comprising utilizing a first portion of the radio for the first category of communications and a second portion of the radio for a second category of communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A PROXY VEHICULAR INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM STATION
    Publication number: 20190096243
    Abstract: A method at a computing device for the computing device to act as an intelligent transportation system (ITS) station for a vehicle, the method including detecting that the computing device is proximate to the vehicle; determining whether ITS messages are being sent on behalf of the vehicle; and if the determining finds ITS messages are not being sent on behalf of the vehicle, the computing device acting as the ITS station for the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Ian Christopher Dummond Doig, Stephen John Barrett, Nicholas Patrick Alfano, James Randolph Winter Lepp, Roland Emlyn Williams
  • PRE-ASSOCIATION DISCOVERY OF SERVICES
    Publication number: 20190082020
    Abstract: A network node of a wireless local area network (WLAN) filters, based on at least one policy, information about services available via the network node. The network node sends, to a wireless device as part of a pre-association discovery operation of the wireless device, the filtered information about the services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann
  • Method and apparatus for vulnerable road user alert
    Patent number: 10229598
    Abstract: A method at a portable sensor apparatus for detecting an approaching vehicle, the method including detecting, using at least one detector at the sensor apparatus, signal energy of a signal from the approaching vehicle; analyzing the signal energy using a processor at the sensor apparatus to determine that an alarm should be triggered; and based on the analyzing, causing the alarm from an alert mechanism on the sensor apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Ian Christopher Drummond Doig, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • Method and System for Load Balancing of Sensors
    Publication number: 20190075025
    Abstract: A method for balancing sensors within a sensor system, the method including receiving, at a gateway, data from a plurality of sensors, each of the plurality of sensors being connected to one of a plurality of sensor modules or the gateway; determining, at the gateway, that a signal strength from a first sensor falls below a threshold, the first sensor being one of the plurality of sensors; and based on the determining, allocating the first sensor to connect to a different one of the plurality of sensor modules, or to the gateway if connected to one of the plurality of sensor modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR BATTERY LIFE IMPROVEMENT FOR LOW POWER DEVICES IN WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20190059050
    Abstract: A method at a sensor module within a sensor system for communicating with a gateway, the method including storing a timing profile for communications with the gateway; waking a radio core of the sensor module at a threshold time prior to a beacon signal being expected from the gateway; sampling a channel for the beacon signal at the radio core; if the beacon signal is detected: waking a processor on the sensor module; exchanging communication with the gateway; and powering down the processor and radio core upon completion of the exchanging communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Mahendra Fuleshwar Prasad, Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann, Jesse William Bennett, Scott Leonard Dill, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SENSOR MONITORING AND ANALYSIS
    Publication number: 20190033172
    Abstract: A method for monitoring performance of at least one component on a moving platform, the method including receiving sensor data for the at least one component, along with supplemental data, at a processing node; and processing the sensor data, the processing using the supplemental data to filter the sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Roland Emlyn WILLIAMS, James Randolph Winter LEPP, Stephen McCANN
  • Network policy configuration
    Patent number: 10171304
    Abstract: In some examples, a configurator device maps a configuration attribute received from a wireless device to a credential attribute, the credential attribute to be mapped to a network policy. The configurator device sends the credential attribute to the wireless device, the credential attribute useable by the wireless device to access an access point (AP), and useable by the AP to obtain the network policy to apply to a communication of the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann
  • Pre-association discovery of services
    Patent number: 10148769
    Abstract: A network node of a wireless local area network (WLAN) filters, based on at least one policy, information about services available via the network node. The network node sends, to a wireless device as part of a pre-association discovery operation of the wireless device, the filtered information about the services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann
  • Communicating in a second channel while ceasing transmission in a first channel
    Patent number: 10149209
    Abstract: In some examples, a wireless device receives, from an access point (AP), information indicating that the wireless device is to cease transmission in a first channel. In response to the information, the wireless device communicates with the AP in a second channel that is a subset of the first channel, during a time interval in which the wireless device is to cease transmission in the first channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEDICATED SHORT RANGE COMMUNICATION WITH TRAFFIC OFFLOAD
    Publication number: 20180324544
    Abstract: A method at a computing device for dedicated short range communication with traffic offload, the method including utilizing a radio in a communications subsystem on the computing device for a first category of communications; determining, at the computing device, that a trigger condition has been met; and splitting operation of the radio in the communications subsystem of the computing device, the splitting comprising utilizing a first portion of the radio for the first category of communications and a second portion of the radio for a second category of communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Stephen MCCANN, James Randolph Winter LEPP
  • ADDRESSES IN A WAKE-UP TRIGGER FRAME
    Publication number: 20180317172
    Abstract: A method for processing a wake-up trigger frame includes receiving, at a wake-up radio of a device and from an access point, a wake-up trigger frame, where the wake-up trigger frame includes a group receiver identity; and in response to determining that the device is associated with the group receiver identity, sending a signal to a primary radio of the device to turn on the primary radio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter LEPP, Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Stephen McCann
  • NETWORK POLICY CONFIGURATION
    Publication number: 20180316562
    Abstract: In some examples, a configurator device maps a configuration attribute received from a wireless device to a credential attribute, the credential attribute to be mapped to a network policy. The configurator device sends the credential attribute to the wireless device, the credential attribute useable by the wireless device to access an access point (AP), and useable by the AP to obtain the network policy to apply to a communication of the wireless device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann
  • ENCRYPTING DATA IN A PRE-ASSOCIATED STATE
    Publication number: 20180302219
    Abstract: In some examples, an access point (AP) receives, from a wireless device during a pre-associated state between the AP and the wireless device, a request, a first value, and an encrypted version of the first value. The AP sends, to the wireless device during the pre-associated state, an encrypted version of a second value relating to an encryption key that is based on the first value, and a response to the request, the response encrypted using the encryption key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • PEDESTRIAN SAFETY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20180262865
    Abstract: A method at a power-limited computing station for communicating in an intelligent transport system, the method including operating the computing station in one of a non-critical radio operating state and a safety-critical radio operating state; receiving a trigger at the computing station; determining whether the trigger should cause the computing station to transition a radio operating state; and if the trigger should cause the computing station to transition the radio operating state, changing the radio operating state to the other of the non-critical radio operating state and the safety-critical radio operating state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter LEPP, Stephen John BARRETT, Ian Christopher Drummond DOIG, Gordon Peter YOUNG, Michael Peter MONTEMURRO
  • Controlling transmission of a wireless device associated with multiple access points
    Patent number: 10075925
    Abstract: A device decides to not transmit over a first wireless link between a wireless device and a first access point (AP), in response to determining that the wireless device is communicating or is about to communicate over a second wireless link with a second AP, wherein the wireless device is concurrently associated with the first and second APs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Stephen John Barrett
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WAKEUP TRIGGER BY OUT-OF-BAND COMMUNICATION
    Publication number: 20180255422
    Abstract: A method at a wireless station for receiving an out-of-band wakeup trigger, the method including receiving, at the wireless station, a message from an access point, the message providing an indication that the access point supports out-of-band signaling; associating with the access point over a first radio technology; establishing a connection with the access point using a second radio technology; entering a sleep state for a radio using the first radio technology; and upon receiving a wakeup trigger over the connection using the second radio technology, waking up the radio for the first radio technology for communication with the access point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, James Randolph, Winter LEPP, Stephen MCCANN
  • Changing topology of wireless peer-to-peer group
    Patent number: 10051441
    Abstract: A device in a peer-to-peer (P2P) group has the role of group owner. A different device in the P2P group may take on the role of group owner without ending the P2P group and create a new P2P group. Multiple P2P groups may be merged into a single P2P group. A single P2P group may be split into multiple independent P2P groups, each with its own group owner. A group owner of a P2P group may notify the client devices in the P2P group that it is about to leave the P2P group. A client device in a P2P group may be appointed in a new role of backup group owner, to take on the role of group owner in the event of a departure of the group owner, thereby providing continuity. Techniques for maintaining upper layer continuity through changes in topology of P2P groups are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Mohammed Nawaf Smadi, Vytautas Robertas Kezys, Ghada Badawy, James Randolph Winter Lepp, Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann, David Philip Hole
  • Persistent network negotiation for peer to peer devices
    Patent number: 9942316
    Abstract: A device may communicate with a peer-to-peer (P2P) network prior to associating with that network. The communications prior to association may include information about whether the P2P network is persistent or non-persistent. The information may include a persistent group intent field that identifies whether a device would prefer to join a persistent P2P network and allows a P2P network to advertise whether it is persistent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp, David Philip Hole