Patents by Inventor Lee Proctor

Lee Proctor 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: 20060282259
    Abstract: Upon receiving (101) a vocoded voice frame and detecting (102) that the received vocoded voice frame comprises an erased frame, one automatically replaces (103) the erased frame with a valid frame having at least one error condition. In a preferred approach this error condition is one that is known to cause a receiving target platform to invoke a corresponding erasure process with respect to the valid frame when received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2005
    Publication date: December 14, 2006
    Inventors: Mark Hetherington, Michael Kirk, Lee Proctor, Zhongwei Zhuang
  • Publication number: 20060115088
    Abstract: A communication system provides a clear channel link for transport of encrypted payload across a network of the communication system. When a source access network receives, via an air interface, a frame that is formatted pursuant to an air interface protocol and that comprises encrypted payload, the source access network demultiplexes the frame to separate the encrypted payload and assembles an Intersystem Link Protocol (ISLP) frame that comprises the encrypted payload. The source access network adds a link layer header to the ISLP frame that identifies one or more of frame type information and a sequence value associated with the frame and conveys the ISLP frame and added header across the network, for example, to a destination access network. Based on the added header, the source and destination access networks are able to perform clear channel synchronization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Publication date: June 1, 2006
    Inventors: Matthew Valentine, John Brophy, Michael Kirk, Harn-Jier Lin, Lee Proctor, Christopher Schmidt
  • Patent number: 7054282
    Abstract: A wireless communications system and methods therein uses information, such as frame sequence numbers to improve DCCH or SCH power control. The system includes a base transceiver station (BTS) (14) with a frame type determinator (32) for determining whether the recovered data frames are good, erased, or non-transmitted data frames. A selector distribution unit (SDU) (16) includes a frame type verification processing block (36) for verifying that the frame type determinations made by the frame type determinator are correct based on the sequence numbers from received good data frames, and a power control block (38) for transmitting subscriber device power control information based on frame type determination verifications made by the verification processing block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Proctor, Eric Tsou, Mark Hetherington, John Harris
  • Patent number: 6962983
    Abstract: A method for the production of diazomethane comprising the steps of a) feeding a base and a diazomethane precursor into a reactor vessel; b) generating gaseous diazomethane by allowing the base and the gaseous diazomethane precursor to react; and c) removing the gaseous diazomethane using a diluent gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Phoenix Chemicals Limited
    Inventors: Antony John Warr, Lee Proctor
  • Publication number: 20050154225
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a continuous process for the enantioselective catalytic hydrogenation of ?-ketoesters comprising providing a catalytic hydrogenation zone and maintaining it under conditions of temperature and pressure effective for the catalytic hydrogenation of ?-ketoesters; continuously supplying to the catalytic hydrogenation zone a substrate comprising a ?-ketoester to be hydrogenated, a catalyst effective for enantioselective hydrogenation of the ?-ketoester and hydrogen; contacting the substrate, the catalyst and the hydrogen in the hydrogenation zone for a residence time effective for at least partial enantioselective catalytic hydrogenation of the ?-ketoester; (d) continuously withdrawing from the hydrogenation zone a reaction product mixture comprising enantioselectively hydrogenated ?-ketoester, unreacted ?-ketoester, catalyst and hydrogen; (e) supplying the reaction product mixture to a separation zone and separating at least some of the enantioselectively hydrogenated ?-ketoester
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Lee Proctor, Antony Warr
  • Publication number: 20050154224
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a continuous process for the cyanation of hydrogenated ?-ketoesters in a cyanation zone maintained under conditions of temperature and pressure effective for cyanation of a hydrogenated R-ketoester. A substrate comprising a hydrogenated ?-ketoester is continuously supplyed to the cyanation zone together with a cyanide. The substrate is contacted with the cyanide in the cyanation zone for a period effective for at least partial cyanation of the hydrogenated ?-ketoester and a product stream is continuously extracted from the cyanation zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Lee Proctor, Antony Warr
  • Publication number: 20050123059
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for accurately identifying discontinuous transmissions (DTX) and enabling the utilization of a dedicated control channel (DCCH) by determining if the frame satisfies a quality check, analyzing at least a portion of bits within the frame if the frame does not satisfy the quality check, determining if the bits analyzed exceed a threshold and identifying the frame as a DTX if the bits fail to exceed the threshold. Some embodiments further count a number of zero bits in a tail end of the frame, determine if the number of zero values exceed the threshold, determine if the frame includes an expected sequence of bits if the number of the zero bits does not exceed the threshold, and identify the frame as the DTX if the frame does not include the expected sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2003
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: John Harris, Lee Proctor, Robert Battin
  • Publication number: 20050089003
    Abstract: A method for operating a vocoder system comprising receiving a first negative acknowledgement from a receiving communication device 120 indicative of a corrupted first speech packet transmission (S702) and retrieving a first speech packet associated with the first negative acknowledgement (S706), compressing the first speech packet to form a replacement speech packet (S714-S720), encoding a current segment of speech responsive to the first negative acknowledgement to form a current speech packet (S704, S808), combining the current speech packet with the replacement speech packet to form a combined speech packet (S720) and transmitting the combined speech packet (S814).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Lee Proctor, James Ashley
  • Patent number: 6836504
    Abstract: A spreader (216) comprises a code generator (301) and exclusive OR circuitry (303). In the preferred embodiment of the present invention the code generator (301) generates a code having a length and value dependent upon the current transmission rate. This code is then exclusive OR'd with the incoming data stream to produce spread data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Proctor, William K. Morgan, Mark Hetherington, Naisum Wong
  • Publication number: 20040100965
    Abstract: A wireless communications system and methods therein uses information, such as frame sequence numbers to improve DCCH or SCH power control. The system includes a base transceiver station (BTS) (14) with a frame type determinator (32) for determining whether the recovered data frames are good, erased, or non-transmitted data frames. A selector distribution unit (SDU) (16) includes a frame type verification processing block (36) for verifying that the frame type determinations made by the frame type determinator are correct based on the sequence numbers from received good data frames, and a power control block (38) for transmitting subscriber device power control information based on frame type determination verifications made by the verification processing block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Applicant: MOTOROLA, INC.
    Inventors: Lee Proctor, Eric Tsou, Mark Hetherington, John Harris
  • Publication number: 20020188112
    Abstract: A method for the production of diazomethane comprising the steps of a) feeding a base and a diazomethane precursor into a reactor vessel; b) generating gaseous diazomethane by allowing the base and the gaseous diazomethane precursor to react; and c) removing the gaseous diazomethane using a diluent gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2002
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventors: Antony John Warr, Lee Proctor
  • Publication number: 20020186752
    Abstract: A spreader (216) comprises a code generator (301) and exclusive OR circuitry (303). In the preferred embodiment of the present invention the code generator (301) generates a code having a length and value dependent upon the current transmission rate. This code is then exclusive OR'd with the incoming data stream to produce spread data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2001
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Applicant: MOTOROLA, INC
    Inventors: Lee Proctor, William K. Morgan, Mark Hetherington, Nai Sum Wong
  • Patent number: 6034971
    Abstract: Forward link communication capacity of a communication system, which is providing from a base station to a number of mobile stations a number of forward communication links corresponding to the plurality of mobile stations, is controlled by receiving gain setting associated with at least one of the forward communication links, comparing the gain setting with a gain threshold, and adjusting a first encoding rate of at least one of the forward communication links to a second encoding rate based on the comparing. A gain offset attunes the gain threshold to update the gain threshold according to a latest condition of the communication system. The gain offset further is used to determine blocking of an incoming call to the communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2000
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert T. Love, James P. Ashley, Lee Proctor, Anil Barot, Arnie Cohen
  • Patent number: D332178
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1993
    Inventors: Lee A. Proctor, Yogi R. Woolwine