Patents by Inventor Lawrence C. Spaete, Jr.

Lawrence C. Spaete, Jr. 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: 9787398
    Abstract: An OBI manager provides the reduction/elimination of optical beat interference (OBI). As will be described in more detail below, the OBI manager identifies OBI partners through an identification process performed via an RFoG network. An OBI partner may be two optical networking units (ONUs) that may interfere with one another when transmitting in the same time slot. Once the OBI partners are identified, the OBI manager may perform a mitigation process to mitigate possible OBI. For example, the OBI manager may organize the OBI partners to reduce OBI, such as by guaranteeing no OBI partners transmit at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Ayham Al-Banna, Lawrence C. Spaete, Jr., Sebnem Zorlu Ozer, John Ulm, Amarildo Vieira, Zoran Maricevic, Douglas Pieri
  • Publication number: 20170149501
    Abstract: An OBI manager provides the reduction/elimination of optical beat interference (OBI). As will be described in more detail below, the OBI manager identifies OBI partners through an identification process performed via an RFoG network. An OBI partner may be two optical networking units (ONUs) that may interfere with one another when transmitting in the same time slot. Once the OBI partners are identified, the OBI manager may perform a mitigation process to mitigate possible OBI. For example, the OBI manager may organize the OBI partners to reduce OBI, such as by guaranteeing no OBI partners transmit at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Ayham Al-Banna, Lawrence C. Spaete, JR., Sebnem Zorlu Ozer, John Ulm, Amarildo Vieira, Zoran Maricevic, Douglas Pieri
  • Patent number: 9577756
    Abstract: An OBI manager provides the reduction/elimination of optical beat interference (OBI). As will be described in more detail below, the OBI manager identifies OBI partners through an identification process performed via an RFoG network. An OBI partner may be two optical networking units (ONUs) that may interfere with one another when transmitting in the same time slot. Once the OBI partners are identified, the OBI manager may perform a mitigation process to mitigate possible OBI. For example, the OBI manager may organize the OBI partners to reduce OBI, such as by guaranteeing no OBI partners transmit at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Ayham Al-Banna, Lawrence C. Spaete, Jr., Sebnem Zorlu Ozer, John Ulm, Amarildo Vieira, Zoran Maricevic, Douglas Pieri
  • Publication number: 20150288543
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to dynamically determine an optimal number of equalizer taps to be used at an upstream receiver based upon existing conditions on an upstream channel. Pre-equalizer coefficients associated with an upstream channel can be used to determine an optimal number of equalizer taps to be used at an upstream receiver. The number of equalizer taps can be dynamically determined for an individual customer premise equipment device or for a plurality of customer premise equipment devices using the same upstream channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence C. Spaete, Jr., Ayham Al-banna, Dmitriy Fridman, Carl L. Daun
  • Publication number: 20150280816
    Abstract: An OBI manager provides the reduction/elimination of optical beat interference (OBI). As will be described in more detail below, the OBI manager identifies OBI partners through an identification process performed via an RFoG network. An OBI partner may be two optical networking units (ONUs) that may interfere with one another when transmitting in the same time slot. Once the OBI partners are identified, the OBI manager may perform a mitigation process to mitigate possible OBI. For example, the OBI manager may organize the OBI partners to reduce OBI, such as by guaranteeing no OBI partners transmit at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Ayham Al-Banna, Lawrence C. Spaete, JR., Sebnem Zorlu Ozer, John Ulm, Amarildo Vieira, Zoran Maricevic, Douglas Pieri
  • Patent number: 9137056
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to dynamically determine an optimal number of equalizer taps to be used at an upstream receiver based upon existing conditions on an upstream channel. Pre-equalizer coefficients associated with an upstream channel can be used to determine an optimal number of equalizer taps to be used at an upstream receiver. The number of equalizer taps can be dynamically determined for an individual customer premise equipment device or for a plurality of customer premise equipment devices using the same upstream channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence C. Spaete, Jr., Ayham Al-banna, Dmitriy Fridman, Carl L. Daun
  • Patent number: 9065735
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to calculate modulation error ratio using feedback from error correction processing. An error correction value obtained through an error correction process can be added to a measured slicer error in order to calculate a modulation error ratio. An error correction value associated with a correctable error can be based upon the difference between a received symbol and a correct symbol. An error correction value associated with an uncorrectable error can be based upon a measured slicer error and the distance between constellation symbols in a constellation diagram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl L. Daun, Lawrence C. Spaete, Jr., Ayham Al-Banna
  • Patent number: 5940863
    Abstract: An apparatus for re-rotating and deinterleaving data includes (i) a first memory for storing D elements of rotated and interleaved data in D storage locations, (ii) a first addresser for addressing the first memory in order to read de-rotated and interleaved data out of the D storage locations and to write rotated and interleaved data into the D storage locations, (iii) a second memory for storing mD elements of the de-rotated and interleaved data read out of the first memory, wherein the de-rotated and interleaved data read out of the first memory are stored in mD storage locations of the second memory, and (iv) a second addresser for addressing the second memory in order to read de-rotated and de-interleaved data out of the mD storage locations and to write de-rotated and interleaved data from the first memory into the mD storage locations. The first addresser may include an address counter, an offset generator, and a modulo adder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Zenith Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Fimoff, Lawrence C. Spaete, Jr.