Patents by Inventor John Rinderknecht

John Rinderknecht 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: 7248877
    Abstract: A multiple access wireless communications architecture provides selective, simultaneous communications with wireless devices located in different sections of a spatial area around a communications apparatus referred to as “sectors”. This includes communications between wireless devices in a single sector, between wireless devices in different sectors and between wireless devices and a wired network or wireless backhaul network. The wireless communications architecture generally includes two or more wireless antenna arrangements that are each configured to provide communications with wireless devices located in a particular sector. Each wireless antenna arrangement is further configured to determine whether signals are being communicated on a communications channel before transmitting on the communications channel. This may be implemented, for example, using a carrier sense or energy detection mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2007
    Assignee: Bandspeed, Inc.
    Inventors: Efstratios Skafidas, Ben Jones, Antonio Torrini, John Jack Morton, Eric Crawford, Mike Gibson, William John Rinderknecht, Mark William Benson, Neil Patrick Kelly, Nestor Fesas, Michael Casey Luther, Blaine Kohl
  • Publication number: 20040102222
    Abstract: A multiple access wireless communications architecture provides selective, simultaneous communications with wireless devices located in different sections of a spatial area around a communications apparatus referred to as “sectors”. This includes communications between wireless devices in a single sector, between wireless devices in different sectors and between wireless devices and a wired network or wireless backhaul network. The wireless communications architecture generally includes two or more wireless antenna arrangements that are each configured to provide communications with wireless devices located in a particular sector. Each wireless antenna arrangement is further configured to determine whether signals are being communicated on a communications channel before transmitting on the communications channel. This may be implemented, for example, using a carrier sense or energy detection mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2003
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Inventors: Efstratios Skafidas, Ben Jones, Antonio Torrini, John Jack Morton, Eric Crawford, Mike Gibson, William John Rinderknecht, Mark William Benson, Neil Patrick Kelly, Nestor Fesas, Michael Casey Luther, Blaine Kohl
  • Patent number: 6667708
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for generating a code sequence. A code-generation instruction is received from memory. One or more control signals are determined based on the code-generation instruction. A code sequence is generated based on the control signals, a current state input, and a mask input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Schooler, David P. Gurney, Yun Kim, William John Rinderknecht, Zhuan Ye, Benson Chau
  • Publication number: 20030122697
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for generating a code sequence. A code-generation instruction is received from memory. One or more control signals are determined based on the code-generation instruction. A code sequence is generated based on the control signals, a current state input, and a mask input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2001
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventors: Anthony Schooler, David P. Gurney, Yun Kim, William John Rinderknecht, Zhuan Ye, Benson Chau
  • Patent number: 6411232
    Abstract: A converter continuously converts an input signal (110) to an output signal (112) even during correction and compensation. A primary converter (124) converts the signal along a forward primary path (104). A feedback converter (140) along a feedback path (106) outputs a feedback signal (116). A reference device (136) employs reference indicator (134) to provide a digital reference signal (135). A selection device (132) passes the digital reference signal (135) to an element (204) of the feedback converter (140) for outputting reference portion (208) of the feedback signal (116). The passing of the digital reference signal (135) to the element (204) is contemporaneous with the converting of the input signal (110) to the output signal (112). The evaluator (142) determines a conversion characteristic of the element (204) by employing a characteristic of the reference indicator (134).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew R. Miller, Craig Petrie, John Rinderknecht
  • Patent number: 6115727
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of filtering at least one set of data comprises determining a subset of Q data elements of a set of L data elements (12), and determining a filtered value based upon the subset of Q data elements (14). Each of the subset of Q data elements is greater than at most a first predetermined number of the L data elements and greater than or equal to at least a second predetermined number of the L data elements other than itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Schooler, David Kang, W. John Rinderknecht
  • Patent number: 5905393
    Abstract: An unbuffered flip-flop includes feedback control circuitry providing adaptive control of the internal node during the transfer and latching phases of the flip-flop to prevent back-writing. A complementary pair of transmission gates controlled by the output node are included in the feedback path between an output buffer and a feedback buffer. As noise voltage variations and spikes alter the voltage on the output node, the charge transmittance of the transmission gates is weakened or shut off, thereby preventing the incorrect logic state from being driven by the feedback buffer through to the input of the flip-flop's output buffer and causing back writing. Because the transmission gate transistors are complementary, one transistor or the other will be operating in a transmissive state for each of the bi-stable states of the output buffer during static operation of the flip-flop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: William John Rinderknecht, Lawrence Edwin Connell