Patents by Inventor Julie Stuart

Julie Stuart 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: 8369490
    Abstract: A circuit for a telephone such as a mobile radiotelephone. The circuit has a memory for storing phonebook items and for storing group attributes associated with phonebook items, a connection to a radiotelephone receiver for receiving telephone calls and calling party identifications, and a controller for selecting the disposition of received calls. An operating mode is selected (45) from a plurality of operating modes, e.g. “Personal”, “emergency”, “personal-plus-emergency”, “all calls”, “no calls”, etc. A received calling party identification is compared (42) with a phonebook item, and a disposition for a received call (46, 47, 48, 49) is selected dependent on a group attribute for that phonebook item and a present operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Julie Stuart
  • Patent number: 8208946
    Abstract: A subscriber unit, for a cellular communication system, is arranged to store data representing a message to be transmitted together with data representing specified conditions associated with the transmission of the message. The subscriber unit responds to the specified conditions being met by transmitting the message. The specified conditions may be dictated by the network or by the user of the subscriber unit or by a combination of the two, and include time, date, location, and network loading.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Alan Andrew Smith, Julie Stuart, legal representative, Devan Parekh, Simon Staddon
  • Patent number: 7953451
    Abstract: A method and system of transferring messages from a message source to a mobile station in a cellular system comprises assigning to each message a priority characteristic before the message is transmitted to mobile station. The message is then transmitted together with the assigned priority characteristic, depending on the priority characteristic. The priority characteristic is examined at the mobile station and the message is processed at the mobile station depending on the priority characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2011
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Alan Andrew Smith, Julie Stuart, legal representative
  • Patent number: 7925690
    Abstract: A circuit for a telephone, having a data store for storing user data including telephone numbers and associated data, and sorting means (46) for sorting the user data for display. The sorting means sorts the user data according to frequency of use (e.g. frequency of calls received and frequency of connections requested) of the telephone numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alan Andrew Smith, Julie Stuart, legal representative, Simon Staddon
  • Patent number: 7825706
    Abstract: There is provided a phase locked loop, PLL, that sets gain automatically. The PLL comprises a frequency discriminator for providing a first signal that represents the difference between a first frequency and a second frequency. The PLL also comprises a comparator coupled to the frequency discriminator for receiving the first signal and providing a second signal based on information from the first signal. The second signal is representative of a gain setting for the phase locked loop to set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Alan Andrew Smith, Julie Stuart, legal representative, Mark V. Harris
  • Patent number: 7561645
    Abstract: A plural-mode receiver 10 is able to receive signals from a first communication system (e.g. WCDMA) or signals from a second, different communication system e.g. GSM). The receiver 10 comprises a first receiver chain 13, 15,17,19 for receiving signals of the first communication system and a second receiver chain 12, 14, 16, 18 for receiving signals of the second communication system. A reference oscillator 24 is arranged to generate a reference signal for the first receiver chain and the second receiver chain. The receiver also comprises a controller 22 for controlling the reference oscillator 24 so that the oscillator 24 oscillates at frequencies related to signals of the first communication system or signals of the second communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Julie Stuart, legal representative, Alan Andrew Smith
  • Patent number: 7545881
    Abstract: A method and a power control device moving the resynchronisation point within the guard period to coincide with a calculated reduction in the RF PA power level such that the spurious frequency products are attenuated as much as possible and moved to be as central as possible within the guard period such that neither the previous burst nor the next burst are affected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Julie Stuart, legal representative, Zhi-Zhong Yu, Alan Andrew Smith
  • Patent number: 7386375
    Abstract: A reformer fuel feed stream in fuel cell power system is catalytically reacted into a reformate stream for a fuel cell stack by adjusting fuel supply throughput according to a predefined throughput ramp when a time derivative and the current demand for the fuel cell deviates from zero by more than an acceleration threshold value. The fuel cell power system is of special value when deployed on a vehicle where the load command is derived from the accelerator pedal of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Martin M Hoch, Julie A Stuart
  • Publication number: 20080123829
    Abstract: A circuit for a telephone, having a data store for storing user data including telephone numbers and associated data, and sorting means (46) for sorting the user data for display. The sorting means sorts the user data according to frequency of use (e.g. frequency of calls received and frequency of connections requested) of the telephone numbers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Inventors: Alan Andrew Smith, Simon Staddon, Julie Stuart
  • Publication number: 20080020786
    Abstract: A subscriber unit, for a cellular communication system, is arranged to store data representing a message to be transmitted together with data representing specified conditions associated with the transmission of the message. The subscriber unit responds to the specified conditions being met by transmitting the message. The specified conditions may be dictated by the network or by the user of the subscriber unit or by a combination of the two, and include time, date, location, and network loading.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventors: Alan Andrew Smith, Julie Stuart, Devan Parekh, Simon Staddon
  • Publication number: 20060262879
    Abstract: A method and a power control device moving the resynchronisation point within the guard period to coincide with a calculated reduction in the RF PA power level such that the spurious frequency products are attenuated as much as possible and moved to be as central as possible within the guard period such that neither the previous burst nor the next burst are affected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2005
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventors: Alan Smith, Julie Stuart, Zhi-Zhong Yu
  • Publication number: 20060197562
    Abstract: There is provided a phase locked loop, PLL, that sets gain automatically. The PLL comprises a frequency discriminator for providing a first signal that represents the difference between a first frequency and a second frequency. The PLL also comprises a comparator coupled to the frequency discriminator for receiving the first signal and providing a second signal based on information from the first signal. The second signal is representative of a gain setting for the phase locked loop to set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2004
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Inventors: Alan Smith, Mark Harris, Julie Stuart
  • Publication number: 20060182248
    Abstract: A circuit for a telephone such as a mobile radiotelephone. The circuit has a memory for storing phonebook items and for storing group attributes associated with phonebook items, a connection to a radiotelephone receiver for receiving telephone calls and calling party identifications, and a controller for selecting the disposition of received calls. An operating mode is selected (45) from a plurality of operating modes, e.g. “Personal”, “emergency”, “personal-plus-emergency”, “all calls”, “no calls”, etc. A received calling party identification is compared (42) with a phonebook item, and a disposition for a received call (46, 47, 48, 49) is selected dependent on a group attribute for that phonebook item and a present opersting mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2004
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Inventors: Alan Smith, Julie Stuart
  • Publication number: 20060111141
    Abstract: A plural-mode receiver 10 is able to receive signals from a first communication system (e.g. WCDMA) or signals from a second, different communication system e.g. GSM). The receiver 10 comprises a first receiver chain 13, 15,17,19 for receiving signals of the first communication system and a second receiver chain 12, 14, 16, 18 for receiving signals of the second communication system. A reference oscillator 24 is arranged to generate a reference signal for the first receiver chain and the second receiver chain. The receiver also comprises a controller 22 for controlling the reference oscillator 24 so that the oscillator 24 oscillates at frequencies related to signals of the first communication system or signals of the second communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2003
    Publication date: May 25, 2006
    Inventors: Alan Smith, Julie Stuart
  • Publication number: 20060089128
    Abstract: A method and system of transferring messages from a message source to a mobile station in a cellular system comprises assigning to each message a priority characteristic before the message is transmitted to mobile station. The message is then transmitted together with the assigned priority characteristic, depending on the priority characteristic. The priority characteristic is examined at the mobile station and the message is processed at the mobile station depending on the priority characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Inventors: Alan Smith, Julie Stuart
  • Publication number: 20060052916
    Abstract: A reformer fuel feed stream in fuel cell power system is catalytically reacted into a reformate stream for a fuel cell stack by adjusting fuel supply throughput according to a predefined throughput ramp when a time derivative and the current demand for the fuel cell deviates from zero by more than an acceleration threshold value. The fuel cell power system is of special value when deployed on a vehicle where the load command is derived from the accelerator pedal of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2004
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Inventors: Martin Hoch, Julie Stuart
  • Patent number: 6755077
    Abstract: A diagnostic system and method identifies fuel injector failure in a fuel cell system including a fuel processor and a fuel source. A fuel injector supplies fuel from the fuel source to the fuel processor. A pressure sensor generates a pressure signal based on pressure between the fuel source and the fuel injector. A fuel injector diagnostic identifies fuel injector failure based on the pressure signal. The fuel injector diagnostic includes a moving window tracker that tracks the pressure signal over a moving window. The fuel injector diagnostic further includes a standard deviation or variance calculator that generates a standard deviation or variance based on the pressure signal in the moving window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce J. Clingerman, Donald H. Keskula, Julie A. Stuart
  • Publication number: 20030226399
    Abstract: A diagnostic system and method identifies fuel injector failure in a fuel cell system including a fuel processor and a fuel source. A fuel injector supplies fuel from the fuel source to the fuel processor. A pressure sensor generates a pressure signal based on pressure between the fuel source and the fuel injector. A fuel injector diagnostic identifies fuel injector failure based on the pressure signal. The fuel injector diagnostic includes a moving window tracker that tracks the pressure signal over a moving window. The fuel injector diagnostic further includes a standard deviation or variance calculator that generates a standard deviation or variance based on the pressure signal in the moving window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2002
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Inventors: Bruce J. Clingerman, Donald H. Keskula, Julie A. Stuart