Patents by Inventor Kelley Block

Kelley Block 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).

  • System and method for reducing a forced neighbor cell procedure
    Publication number: 20070117566
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method (300, 500) and system (112) for reducing a forced neighbor cell procedure. The method can include the steps of—in a mobile unit (112) on a communications channel (400, 600)—monitoring (312, 512) one or more neighbor cell parameters and performing (314, 514) a neighbor cell measurement in a selectively generated opportunity in the communications channel to reduce the possibility that the mobile unit will enter a forced neighbor cell measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2005
    Publication date: May 24, 2007
    Inventors: Jean Khawand, Philip Schentrup, Todd Russell, Kelley Block