Patents by Inventor Kieran G. A. Boland

Kieran G. A. Boland 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).

  • Determining a physical location of a wireless mobile device
    Patent number: 9077637
    Abstract: Determining the physical location of a mobile wireless device. A computer receives 1-hop and 2-hop neighbor information from a mobile wireless device for neighbor devices of the mobile wireless device responding to a discovery request transmitted by the mobile wireless device in an ad hoc wireless communications protocol. The computer determines a physical location of the mobile wireless device based in part on stored fixed physical locations of responding devices; an area in which the mobile wireless device is in range of responding 1-hop neighbors associated with a fixed physical location; and an area in which the mobile wireless device is in range of responding 1-hop neighbors not associated with a fixed physical location, which are in the range of 2-hop neighbors associated with fixed physical locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kieran G. A. Boland, Telemaque Ndizihiwe, Stephen Renwick, Mark E. Wallace
  • Determining a physical location of a wireless mobile device
    Patent number: 8755331
    Abstract: Determining the physical location of a mobile wireless device. A computer receives 1-hop and 2-hop neighbor information from a mobile wireless device for neighbor devices of the mobile wireless device responding to a discovery request transmitted by the mobile wireless device in an ad hoc wireless communications protocol. The computer determines a physical location of the mobile wireless device based in part on stored fixed physical locations of responding devices; an area in which the mobile wireless device is in range of responding 1-hop neighbors associated with a fixed physical location; and an area in which the mobile wireless device is in range of responding 1-hop neighbors not associated with a fixed physical location, which are in the range of 2-hop neighbors associated with fixed physical locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kieran G. A. Boland, Telemaque Ndizihiwe, Stephen Renwick, Mark E. Wallace
  • DETERMINING A PHYSICAL LOCATION OF A WIRELESS MOBILE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20140126419
    Abstract: Determining the physical location of a mobile wireless device. A computer receives 1-hop and 2-hop neighbor information from a mobile wireless device for neighbor devices of the mobile wireless device responding to a discovery request transmitted by the mobile wireless device in an ad hoc wireless communications protocol. The computer determines a physical location of the mobile wireless device based in part on stored fixed physical locations of responding devices; an area in which the mobile wireless device is in range of responding 1-hop neighbors associated with a fixed physical location; and an area in which the mobile wireless device is in range of responding 1-hop neighbors not associated with a fixed physical location, which are in the range of 2-hop neighbors associated with fixed physical locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kieran G. A. Boland, Telemaque Ndizihiwe, Stephen Renwick, Mark E. Wallace
  • PHYSICAL MAPPING OF WIRELESS NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20130148573
    Abstract: A computer to identify wireless enabled neighbors while connected to a network via an Ethernet or wireless infrastructure mode communications protocol. The computer switches to a first ad hoc wireless protocol and performs a discovery operation, then switches to a second ad hoc wireless protocol and performs a discovery operation. The computer switches back to the Ethernet or wireless infrastructure mode communications protocol and transmits the neighbor information to a storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kieran G. A. Boland, Telemaque Ndizihiwe, Stephen Renwick, Mark E. Wallace