Patents by Inventor John Noneman

John Noneman 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: 8054811
    Abstract: In a packet data transmission and reception system, a media access control (MAC) message is broadcast by a base station to a plurality of mobile stations. The MAC message contains packet data transmission scheduling information which allows the base station to preemptively control mobile station access to traffic channels in order to maximize the efficiency of packet data transmissions and allow scheduling consideration including priority access, quality of service and maximum bytes per transfer. The MAC message consists of a control frame structure, which comprises scheduling parameters including MAC IDs fields, activity fields, and a field representing the number of free traffic channels in a cell. These parameters enable multiple mobile stations to share, in a time multiplexed fashion, traffic channels for packet data transmission on CDMA based mobile communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Zhi-Chun Honkasalo, Pasi Liimatainen, Sona Kapadia, John Noneman
  • Publication number: 20080219198
    Abstract: In a packet data transmission and reception system, a media access control (MAC) message is broadcast by a base station to a plurality of mobile stations. The MAC message contains packet data transmission scheduling information which allows the base station to preemptively control mobile station access to traffic channels in order to maximize the efficiency of packet data transmissions and allow scheduling consideration including priority access, quality of service and maximum bytes per transfer. The MAC message consists of a control frame structure, which comprises scheduling parameters including MAC IDs fields, activity fields, and a field representing the number of free traffic channels in a cell. These parameters enable multiple mobile stations to share, in a time multiplexed fashion, traffic channels for packet data transmission on CDMA based mobile communication systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Inventors: Zhi-Chun Honkasalo, Pasi Liimatainen, Sona Kapadia, John Noneman
  • Patent number: 7376110
    Abstract: In a packet data transmission and reception system, a media access control (MAC) message is broadcast by a base station to a plurality of mobile stations. The MAC message contains packet data transmission scheduling information which allows the base station to preemptively control mobile station access to traffic channels in order to maximize the efficiency of packet data transmissions and allow scheduling consideration including priority access, quality of service and maximum bytes per transfer. The MAC message consists of a control frame structure, which comprises scheduling parameters including MAC IDs fields, activity fields, and a field representing the number of free traffic channels in a cell. These parameters enable multiple mobile stations to share, in a time multiplexed fashion, traffic channels for packet data transmission on CDMA based mobile communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Zhi-Chun Honkasalo, Pasi Liimatainen, Sona Kapadia, John Noneman
  • Patent number: 6735185
    Abstract: Increased data rate transmission in the reverse traffic channel is obtained by modifying a core reverse CDMA traffic channel signal generator and modulator by creating a plurality of parallel pathways, each of which includes a Walsh modulator and a modulo-2 adder which direct-sequence spreads the modulated data using one of a plurality of modified long codes. The DS-spread data signals from each of the parallel pathways are summed and split to the I and Q channels for PN code spreading. The long code variations are obtained by varying one or more bits of the IS-95 standard public long code mask or private long code mask, specifically, one or more bits of the most significant bit (MSB) string of the public long code mask (bits M41 through M32). Generally, each variable bit provides two possible code channels—one Fundamental Code Channel and 2b−1 Supplemental Code Channels, where b is the number of bits that can be varied within the long code mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd
    Inventor: John Noneman
  • Publication number: 20030210674
    Abstract: In a packet data transmission and reception system, a media access control (MAC) message is broadcast by a base station to a plurality of mobile stations. The MAC message contains packet data transmission scheduling information which allows the base station to preemptively control mobile station access to traffic channels in order to maximize the efficiency of packet data transmissions and allow scheduling consideration including priority access, quality of service and maximum bytes per transfer. The MAC message consists of a control frame structure, which comprises scheduling parameters including MAC IDs fields, activity fields, and a field representing the number of free traffic channels in a cell. These parameters enable multiple mobile stations to share, in a time multiplexed fashion, traffic channels for packet data transmission on CDMA based mobile communication systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Publication date: November 13, 2003
    Inventors: Zhi-Chun Honkasalo, Pasi Liimatainen, Sona Kapadia, John Noneman
  • Patent number: 6584089
    Abstract: In a packet data transmission and reception system a media access control (MAC) message is broadcast by a base station to a plurality of mobile stations. The MAC message contains packet data transmission scheduling information which allows the base station to preemptively control mobile station access to traffic channels in order to maximize the efficiency of packet data transmissions and allow scheduling consideration including priority access, quality of service and maximum bytes per transfer. The MAC message consists of a control frame structure which comprises scheduling parameters including MAC IDs fields, activity fields, and a field representing the number of free traffic channels in a cell. These parameters enable multiple mobile stations to share, in a time multiplexed fashion, traffic channels for packet data transmission on CDMA based mobile communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2003
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhi-Chun Honkasalo, Pasi Liimatainen, Sona Kapadia, John Noneman
  • Patent number: 6094426
    Abstract: In a packet data transmission and reception system a media access control (MAC) message is broadcast by a base station to a plurality of mobile stations. The MAC message contains packet data transmission scheduling information which allows the base station to preemptively control mobile station access to traffic channels in order to maximize the efficiency of packet data transmissions and allow scheduling consideration including priority access, quality of service and maximum bytes per transfer. The MAC message consists of a control frame structure which comprises scheduling parameters including MAC IDs fields, activity fields, and a field representing the number of free traffic channels in a cell. These parameters enable multiple mobile stations to share, in a time multiplexed fashion, traffic channels for packet data transmission on CDMA based mobile communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Limited
    Inventors: Zhi-Chun Honkasalo, Pasi Liimatainen, Sona Kapadia, John Noneman
  • Patent number: 6091717
    Abstract: In a packet data transmission and reception system a media access control (MAC) message is broadcast by a base station to a plurality of mobile stations. The MAC message contains packet data transmission scheduling information which allows the base station to preemptively control mobile station access to traffic channels in order to maximize the efficiency of packet data transmissions and allow scheduling consideration including priority access, quality of service and maximum bytes per transfer. The MAC message consists of a control frame structure which comprises scheduling parameters including MAC IDs fields, activity fields, and a field representing the number of free traffic channels in a cell. These parameters enable multiple mobile stations to share, in a time multiplexed fashion, traffic channels for packet data transmission on CDMA based mobile communication systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Limited
    Inventors: Zhi-Chun Honkasalo, Pasi Liimatainen, Sona Kapadia, John Noneman
  • Patent number: 6064663
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for varying the data transmission rate of a code division multiple access (CDMA) telecommunications system. The method and apparatus may be implemented into an existing system operating according to a standard designed for a base data transmission while utilizing the Walsh modulator length, the data transmission frame structure, the channel encoding scheme, or the I/Q modulation level of the existing system. Serial data is input to a transmitter/modulator at a data rate which is higher than the base data transmission rate. The serial data is received over a time period having a duration equal to the duration of the transmission frame and demultiplexed into a plurality of sets of input data. Each of the plurality of sets of input data is then processed in one of a plurality of subchannels using the system channel encoding and interleaving scheme to generate a plurality of sets of processed data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Limited
    Inventors: Zhi-Chun Honkasalo, John Noneman, Jussi Kahtava, Mika Laukkanen, Rodolfo Vadillo, Ari T. Hottinen
  • Patent number: 5887252
    Abstract: Multicast transmission for DS-CDMA cellular communication wherein a mobile station requests a multicast service by use of a service option and a base station transmits to the mobile station a long code mask and code channel needed to receive the multicast service. No reverse channel is used so that an unlimited number of terminals may receive the multicast service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Limited
    Inventor: John Noneman
  • Patent number: 5859843
    Abstract: A method and means of modifying the multi-rate high speed data CDMA system by increasing the physical layer data rate to n times the basic IS-95 rate, while not increasing the frame size proportionally to avoid the use of larger frames, and varying the data rate by changing the number of frames, N, transmitted during each period of T sec, using the relationship R=N.times.F/T, where R bps is the physical layer data rate, F bits is the physical layer frame size, and T sec is the frame period and the interleave depth. Using this approach, the data rate can be varied between F/T bps and N.times.F/T bps using the same set of allowed frame sizes. Further, a major frame of data is formed using a fixed number of minor frames in combination, which minor frames are full rate and simple fractions of a full rate, i.e., 1/2 rate, 1/4 rate, and 1/8 rate. A basic data rate is established which is the data rate that will use a single full rate frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 12, 1999
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventors: Zhi-Chun Honkasalo, John Noneman, Sona Kapadia
  • Patent number: 5708656
    Abstract: In a packet data transmission and reception system two inactivity time intervals are used along with a variable data rate including an idle rate, a default or intermediate rate, and a peak rate. When no packet data is available the data rate is reduced to an idle rate to free most of the system capacity used for communicating the packet transmissions. The packet data service connection is thus maintained and the idle rate transmission of idle packets allows the receiving end of the channel to stay synchronized with the transmitter. If the packet data transmission resumes before the first inactivity timer expires the transmission rate returns immediately to the peak rate. However, if the inactivity continues until the first inactivity timer expires, the data rate is preferably not immediately returned to the peak rate. The packet data service connection is instead maintained at the idle rate after the first inactivity timer expires. When the second inactivity timer expires the packet data service is released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Limited
    Inventors: John Noneman, Sona Kapadia, Zhi-Chun Honkasalo