Patents by Inventor James Startup

James Startup 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: 12273134
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for a wakeup receiver operation is described. The apparatus may include a splitter that splits a received signal into a first component signal and a second component signal. The signal may include a code sequence, where each symbol of a plurality of symbols of the code sequences includes one of a set of sub-sequences. The apparatus may delay the first component signal and multiply the first component signal with the delayed first component signal and delay the second component signal and multiply the second component signal with the delayed second component signal to generate a first and second output. The apparatus may also determine a representation of the code sequence based on a sequence of levels of the first output and the second output over the plurality of symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: ViaSat, Inc.
    Inventors: James Startup, Jeremy Pruitt
  • Publication number: 20230125861
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for a wakeup receiver operation is described. The apparatus may include a splitter that splits a received signal into a first component signal and a second component signal. The signal may include a code sequence, where each symbol of a plurality of symbols of the code sequences includes one of a set of sub-sequences. The apparatus may delay the first component signal and multiply the first component signal with the delayed first component signal and delay the second component signal and multiply the second component signal with the delayed second component signal to generate a first and second output. The apparatus may also determine a representation of the code sequence based on a sequence of levels of the first output and the second output over the plurality of symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: James Startup, Jeremy Pruitt
  • Publication number: 20230045476
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for a wakeup receiver operation is described. A receiver may include a conversion circuit that converts an RF signal to a baseband signal, where the baseband signal comprise a set of symbols received at a symbol rate. The receiver may include an analog-to-digital converter that converts the baseband signal to samples at a sample rate greater than the symbol rate. The receiver may include a set of correlators, each correlator of the set may receive a respective subset of the samples of the baseband signal and generate a respective output. The receiver may include a compare circuit that receives the respective outputs from the set of correlators and compares the respective outputs with a threshold, where the compare circuit also generates a wakeup command based at least in part on at least one output of the respective outputs satisfying the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: James Startup, Jeremy Pruitt
  • Patent number: 6847622
    Abstract: A communication system provides multiple wireless services, each potentially having a different information bit rate. A transmitter (400, FIG. 4) encodes (504, FIG. 5) relatively low rate data (430, FIG. 4) using code division multiple access (CDMA). The resulting spread data stream(s) (436, FIG. 4) are multiplexed and modulated (506, 508, FIG. 5) along with relatively high information rate, non-encoded data streams (440, FIG. 4) using a time division multiple access/frequency division multiple access (TDMA/FDMA) protocol. In other embodiments, the methods and apparatus of the present invention can be used in a CDMA only system, or in a system using a time division multiplexing/FDMA and time division multiplexing/CDMA. In one embodiment, the spread data streams are transmitted in timeslots (211-214, FIG. 2) and frequencies (201-204, FIG. 2) that are interspersed between timeslots and frequencies used for the high rate data. A receiver (600, FIG. 6) performs complementary demodulation (704, FIG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2005
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Peter Emmons, Jr., James Startup, Robert Anthony Peters