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).
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Publication number: 20240007960Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: 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
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Patent number: 11716693Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Philip Pietraski, Carl Wang, Stephen E. Terry, Samian Kaur, Yingxue Li, Janet Stern-Berkowitz, Kenneth Kearney, Douglas Castor
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Publication number: 20220272640Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Philip Pietraski, Carl Wang, Stephen E. Terry, Samian Kaur, Yingxue Li, Janet Stern-Berkowitz, Kenneth Kearney, Douglas Castor
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Patent number: 11337160Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 8, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: 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
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Publication number: 20200305089Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: 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
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Publication number: 20170264476Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2017Publication date: September 14, 2017Applicant: IDAC Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Rui Yang, Leonid L. Kazakevich, Jialing Li, Erdem Bala, Kenneth Kearney, I-Tai Lu, Juan Fang, Zihao You
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Patent number: 9692629Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: IDAC Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Rui Yang, Leonid L. Kazakevich, Jialing Li, Erdem Bala, Kenneth Kearney, I-Tai Lu, Juan Fang, Zihao You
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Publication number: 20160255590Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2016Publication date: September 1, 2016Applicant: 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
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Publication number: 20150304146Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2013Publication date: October 22, 2015Applicant: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Rui Yang, Leonid L. Kazakevich, Jialing Li, Erdem Bala, Kenneth Kearney, I-Tai Lu, Juan Fang, Zihao You
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Publication number: 20080056413Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2007Publication date: March 6, 2008Applicant: INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Alpaslan Demir, Kenneth Kearney, Leonid Kazakevich, Tanbir Haque
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Publication number: 20070232331Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2007Publication date: October 4, 2007Applicant: INTERDIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Kenneth Kearney, George McClellan, Ryan Drummond, Alan Levi
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Publication number: 20070064662Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2005Publication date: March 22, 2007Applicant: InterDigital Technology CorporationInventors: Aykut Bultan, John Haim, Kenneth Kearney, Robert DiFazio, Donald Grieco
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Publication number: 20070058708Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2005Publication date: March 15, 2007Applicant: InterDigital Technology CorporationInventors: Aykut Bultan, Jung-Lin Pan, Rui Yang, Kenneth Kearney
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Publication number: 20070049219Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2006Publication date: March 1, 2007Applicant: InterDigital Technology CorporationInventors: Alpaslan Demir, Leonid Kazakevich, Kenneth Kearney
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Publication number: 20060209933Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2005Publication date: September 21, 2006Applicant: InterDigital Technology CorporationInventors: Philip Pietraski, Mihaela Beluri, Rui Yang, Amith Chincholi, Kenneth Kearney
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Publication number: 20060142028Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2006Publication date: June 29, 2006Applicant: InterDigital Technology CorporationInventors: Kenneth Kearney, George McClellan, Ryan Drummond, Alan Levi
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Publication number: 20050226184Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2005Publication date: October 13, 2005Applicant: InterDigital Technology CorporationInventors: Kenneth Kearney, George McClellan, Ryan Drummond, Alan Levi