Patents by Inventor Kenneth Kearney

Kenneth Kearney 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).

  • Publication number: 20240007960
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for changing cell range coverage are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include circuitry configured to transmit subframes of radio frames using a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), where the subframes are divided into first and second sets. The circuitry may include a first power control loop utilized for the first set of subframes and a second power control loop utilized for the second set of subframes. The first power control loop may set transmission power levels for transmission over the PUSCH for the first set of subframes, and the second power control loop may set transmission power levels for transmission over the PUSCH for the second set of subframes. The circuitry may be configured with a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for a first eNodeB and a second PUCCH for a second eNodeB to simultaneously communicate with the first and the second eNodeBs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Philip J. Pietraski, Carl Wang, Stephen E. Terry, Samian Kaur, Yingxue K. Li, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Kenneth Kearney, Douglas R. Castor
  • Patent number: 11716693
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for changing cell range coverage are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include circuitry configured to transmit subframes of radio frames using a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), where the subframes are divided into first and second sets. The circuitry may include a first power control loop utilized for the first set of subframes and a second power control loop utilized for the second set of subframes. The first power control loop may set transmission power levels for transmission over the PUSCH for the first set of subframes, and the second power control loop may set transmission power levels for transmission over the PUSCH for the second set of subframes. The circuitry may be configured with a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for a first eNodeB and a second PUCCH for a second eNodeB to simultaneously communicate with the first and the second eNodeBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Pietraski, Carl Wang, Stephen E. Terry, Samian Kaur, Yingxue Li, Janet Stern-Berkowitz, Kenneth Kearney, Douglas Castor
  • Publication number: 20220272640
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for changing cell range coverage are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include circuitry configured to transmit subframes of radio frames using a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), where the subframes are divided into first and second sets. The circuitry may include a first power control loop utilized for the first set of subframes and a second power control loop utilized for the second set of subframes. The first power control loop may set transmission power levels for transmission over the PUSCH for the first set of subframes, and the second power control loop may set transmission power levels for transmission over the PUSCH for the second set of subframes. The circuitry may be configured with a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for a first eNodeB and a second PUCCH for a second eNodeB to simultaneously communicate with the first and the second eNodeBs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Philip Pietraski, Carl Wang, Stephen E. Terry, Samian Kaur, Yingxue Li, Janet Stern-Berkowitz, Kenneth Kearney, Douglas Castor
  • Patent number: 11337160
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for changing cell range coverage are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include circuitry configured to transmit subframes of radio frames using a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), where the subframes are divided into first and second sets. The circuity may include a first power control loop utilized for the first set of subframes and a second power control loop utilized for the second set of subframes. The first power control loop may set transmission power levels for transmission over the PUSCH for the first set of subframes, and the second power control loop may set transmission power levels for transmission over the PUSCH for the second set of subframes. The circuitry may be configured with a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for a first eNodeB and a second PUCCH for a second eNodeB to simultaneously communicate with the first and the second eNodeBs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Wang, Yingxue K. Li, Kenneth Kearney, Philip J. Pietraski, Stephen E. Terry, Samian Kaur, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Douglas R. Castor
  • Publication number: 20200305089
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for changing cell range coverage are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include circuitry configured to transmit subframes of radio frames using a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), where the subframes are divided into first and second sets. The circuity may include a first power control loop utilized for the first set of subframes and a second power control loop utilized for the second set of subframes. The first power control loop may set transmission power levels for transmission over the PUSCH for the first set of subframes, and the second power control loop may set transmission power levels for transmission over the PUSCH for the second set of subframes. The circuitry may be configured with a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for a first eNodeB and a second PUCCH for a second eNodeB to simultaneously communicate with the first and the second eNodeBs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Carl Wang, Yingxue K. Li, Kenneth Kearney, Philip J. Pietraski, Stephen E. Terry, Samian Kaur, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Douglas R. Castor
  • Publication number: 20170264476
    Abstract: A resource block (RB)-based multicarrier modulation (MCM) transmitter and receiver structure for spectral agile systems are disclosed. The transmitter and the receiver are capable of sharing opportunistically available and non-contiguous channels with other users. The RB-MCM partitions the available spectrum, contiguous or non-contiguous, into multiple RBs (same or different sizes), applies a baseband MCM or single carrier modulation, or coded single carrier or multicarrier schemes in each RB with a type of spectral leakage reduction technique, and applies RB modulation for each RB to modulate the signal from baseband to the frequency band of that RB. At the receiver, the received signal may be filtered and RB demodulation may be applied to put each RB signal in baseband and a baseband multicarrier or single carrier or coded single carrier or coded multicarrier demodulation may be applied to each RB signal. Different RBs may use different modulation schemes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: IDAC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Rui Yang, Leonid L. Kazakevich, Jialing Li, Erdem Bala, Kenneth Kearney, I-Tai Lu, Juan Fang, Zihao You
  • Patent number: 9692629
    Abstract: A resource block (RB)-based multicarrier modulation (MCM) transmitter and receiver structure for spectral agile systems are disclosed. The transmitter and the receiver are capable of sharing opportunistically available and non-contiguous channels with other users. The RB-MCM partitions the available spectrum, contiguous or non-contiguous, into multiple RBs (same or different sizes), applies a baseband MCM or single carrier modulation, or coded single carrier or multicarrier schemes in each RB with a type of spectral leakage reduction technique, and applies RB modulation for each RB to modulate the signal from baseband to the frequency band of that RB. At the receiver, the received signal may be filtered and RB demodulation may be applied to put each RB signal in baseband and a baseband multicarrier or single carrier or coded single carrier or coded multicarrier demodulation may be applied to each RB signal. Different RBs may use different modulation schemes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: IDAC Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Rui Yang, Leonid L. Kazakevich, Jialing Li, Erdem Bala, Kenneth Kearney, I-Tai Lu, Juan Fang, Zihao You
  • Publication number: 20160255590
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for changing cell range coverage are disclosed. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may include circuitry configured to transmit subframes of radio frames using a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), where the subframes are divided into first and second sets. The circuitry may include a first power control loop utilized for the first set of subframes and a second power control loop utilized for the second set of subframes. The first power control loop may set transmission power levels for transmission over the PUSCH for the first set of subframes, and the second power control loop may set transmission power levels for transmission over the PUSCH for the second set of subframes. The circuitry may be configured with a first physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) for a first eNodeB and a second PUCCH for a second eNodeB to simultaneously communicate with the first and the second eNodeBs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Carl Wang, Yingxue K. Li, Kenneth Kearney, Philip J. Pietraski, Stephen E. Terry, Samian Kaur, Janet A. Stern-Berkowitz, Douglas R. Castor
  • Publication number: 20150304146
    Abstract: A resource block (RB)-based multicarrier modulation (MCM) transmitter and receiver structure for spectral agile systems are disclosed. The transmitter and the receiver are capable of sharing opportunistically available and non-contiguous channels with other users. The RB-MCM partitions the available spectrum, contiguous or non-contiguous, into multiple RBs (same or different sizes), applies a baseband MCM or single carrier modulation, or coded single carrier or multicarrier schemes in each RB with a type of spectral leakage reduction technique, and applies RB modulation for each RB to modulate the signal from baseband to the frequency band of that RB. At the receiver, the received signal may be filtered and RB demodulation may be applied to put each RB signal in baseband and a baseband multicarrier or single carrier or coded single carrier or coded multicarrier demodulation may be applied to each RB signal. Different RBs may use different modulation schemes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Rui Yang, Leonid L. Kazakevich, Jialing Li, Erdem Bala, Kenneth Kearney, I-Tai Lu, Juan Fang, Zihao You
  • Publication number: 20080056413
    Abstract: A wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) includes a receiver and an automatic gain circuit (AGC). The AGC is configured to acquire a desired signal strength, acquire an interferer strength, and set a gain of the receiver based upon the desired signal strength and the interferer strength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Applicant: INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alpaslan Demir, Kenneth Kearney, Leonid Kazakevich, Tanbir Haque
  • Publication number: 20070232331
    Abstract: A wireless communication system implements wireless communications between a base station and a plurality of User Equipments (UEs) including paging of UEs by initially processing paging indicator information. A first embodiment involves a UE's physical layer L1 being configured for interpreting a paging indicator (PI) to activate a preset decoding configuration to process paging data in a pre-specified paging channel (PCH). A second embodiment involves the physical layer control of a next higher level, L2, interpreting the paging indicator and configuring the physical layer L1 to process paging data in a pre-specified PCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenneth Kearney, George McClellan, Ryan Drummond, Alan Levi
  • Publication number: 20070064662
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing power during discontinuous reception (DRX) mode are disclosed. A DRX mode is defined for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for reducing power consumption of the WTRU. During the DRX mode, the WTRU enters into a sleep state and periodically wakes up for processing paging blocks for detecting a paging indication for the WTRU and a corresponding paging message. If the WTRU is paged the WTRU terminates the DRX mode. If the WTRU is not paged, the WTRU reenters the sleep state. For power management during the DRX mode, a synchronization update period is defined. The synchronization update period is a period for performing automatic frequency correction and/or frame time correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Applicant: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Aykut Bultan, John Haim, Kenneth Kearney, Robert DiFazio, Donald Grieco
  • Publication number: 20070058708
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for automatically correcting the frequency of a local oscillator of a receiver. A primary common pilot channel (CPICH) code sequence is generated by a CPICH code generator based on a reference cell identification signal and a frame start signal. The received despread CPICH code sequence is used to generate an estimated frequency error signal. A control voltage signal is generated by a control voltage generator based on the estimated frequency error signal. The CPICH code generator generates the CPICH code sequence based on signals received from a high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) serving cell when HSDPA is active, or a timing reference cell when HSDPA is not active. The present invention achieves full maximum ratio combining gain when space time transmit diversity (STTD) is used, even without receiving a transmit diversity indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Applicant: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Aykut Bultan, Jung-Lin Pan, Rui Yang, Kenneth Kearney
  • Publication number: 20070049219
    Abstract: In order to compensate for performance degradation caused by inferior low-cost analog radio component tolerances of an analog radio, a wireless communication transmitter employs a control process to implement numerous digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to compensate for deficiencies of such analog components so that modern specifications may be relaxed. By monitoring a plurality of parameters associated with the analog radio, such as temperature, bias current or the like, enhanced phase and amplitude compensation, as well as many other radio frequency (RF) parameters may be implemented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2006
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Applicant: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Alpaslan Demir, Leonid Kazakevich, Kenneth Kearney
  • Publication number: 20060209933
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for compensating for phase noise of symbols spread with a long spreading code are disclosed. To compensate for the phase noise, a phase error estimate is generated from despread symbols with a short spreading code. A phase correcting phasor is applied to chip rate data before despreading the data with a long spreading code. A signal-to-interference ratio (SIR) on a common pilot channel (CPICH) may be calculated by spreading the data with a parent spreading code in an orthogonal variable spreading factor (OVSF) code tree and by combining symbols. Alternatively, a magnitude of the symbols may be used in estimating the SIR. The SIR of a channel using a short spreading code and an SIR of a channel using a long spreading code are measured. The SIR of the channel with the long spreading code may be compensated in accordance with a difference between degradation of the SIRs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Publication date: September 21, 2006
    Applicant: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Philip Pietraski, Mihaela Beluri, Rui Yang, Amith Chincholi, Kenneth Kearney
  • Publication number: 20060142028
    Abstract: A wireless communication system implements wireless communications between a base station and a plurality of User Equipments (UEs) including paging of UEs by initially processing paging indicator information. A first embodiment involves a UE's physical layer L1 being configured for interpreting a paging indicator (PI) to activate a preset decoding configuration to process paging data in a pre-specified paging channel (PCH). A second embodiment involves the physical layer control of a next higher level, L2, interpreting the paging indicator and configuring the physical layer L1 to process paging data in a pre-specified PCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2006
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Applicant: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Kearney, George McClellan, Ryan Drummond, Alan Levi
  • Publication number: 20050226184
    Abstract: A wireless communication system implements wireless communications between a base station and a plurality of User Equipments (UEs) including paging of UEs by initially processing paging indicator information. A first embodiment involves a UE's physical layer L1 being configured for interpreting a paging indicator (PI) to activate a preset decoding configuration to process paging data in a pre-specified paging channel (PCH). A second embodiment involves the physical layer control of a next higher level, L2, interpreting the paging indicator and configuring the physical layer L1 to process paging data in a pre-specified PCH.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Publication date: October 13, 2005
    Applicant: InterDigital Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Kearney, George McClellan, Ryan Drummond, Alan Levi