Patents by Inventor Mark Kent

Mark Kent 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: 9000929
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing data communication in medical systems are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Alan Hayter, Martin J. Fennell, Lei He, Mark Kent Sloan
  • Patent number: 8993331
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for conserving energy of a power source of an analyte monitoring device. Also disclosed herein are methods and systems for reducing noise during data transmissions to and from the analyte monitoring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventors: Saeed Nekoomaram, Martin J. Fennell, Mark Kent Sloan, Lei He, Jeffery Mario Sicurello
  • Patent number: 8990866
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for data processing in a device with integrated set-top-box and femtocell functionality are provided. Data may be received via an integrated femtocell and set-top-box device and may be synchronously processed, utilizing a common clock, to perform one or more femtocell functions and/or set-top-box functions. The common clock may be derived from global navigation satellite system signals. The integrated femtocell and set-top-box device may convert the received data from a first to a second format. The converted data may be transmitted to a cellular enabled communication device via a cellular transmitter within said integrated femtocell and set-top-box device and/or to a multimedia device via a multimedia interface within said integrated femtocell and set-top-box device. The received data may comprise multimedia content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Victor T. Hou, Xuemin Sherman Chen, Charles Abraham, Wael William Diab, Vinko Erceg, Jeyhan Karaoguz, Mark Kent
  • Patent number: 8982969
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for CQI/PMI feedback for precoded MIMO systems utilizing differential codebooks may include generating one or more feedback messages for one or more Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) reporting units based on at least channel state information associated with the one or more CQI reporting units. One or more differential feedback messages may be generated for one or more Pre-coding Matrix Index (PMI) reporting units based on at least channel state information associated with the one or more PMI reporting units, wherein the one or more PMI reporting units span a useable bandwidth. A bandwidth and a feedback period may be assigned to each of the one or more CQI reporting units and the one or more PMI reporting units to define the one or more CQI reporting units and the one or more PMI reporting units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Kent, Vinko Erceg, Jun Zheng, Sirikiat Ariyavisitakul, Uri Landau
  • Patent number: 8982873
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for preserving content timing across femtocell interfaces via timestamp insertion are provided. In this regard, a femtocell may receive a first time-stamped packet via a first interface and transcode the time-stamped packet. The femtocell may buffer the transcoded packet based on a time-stamp recovered from the packet and may transmit the buffered transcoded packet via a second interface. One of the first interface and the second interface may utilize the Internet Protocol. One of the first interface and the second interface may be a non-cellular interface and the other interface may be a cellular interface. The femtocell may be operable to generate a timestamp corresponding to a time instant at which a time-stamped packet arrived via the first interface or the second interface. The timestamp may be referenced to a clock within a cellular enabled communication devices communicatively coupled to the femtocell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Xuemin (Sherman) Chen, Charles Abraham, Wael William Diab, Vinko Erceg, Victor T. Hou, Jeyhan Karaoguz, Mark Kent
  • Publication number: 20150057606
    Abstract: Method and apparatus including calling, retrieving and/or initiating a programmed function in conjunction with execution of one or more commands related to a closed loop control algorithm, receiving one or more data in response to the one or more commands over a data interface, and executing the one or more commands related to the closed loop control algorithm based on the received one or more data are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Barry Taub, Daniel Milfred Bernstein, Gary Alan Hayter, Mark Kent Sloan, Glenn Howard Berman, Saeed Nekoomaram
  • Patent number: 8964635
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for determining a location of a device using femtocell information are provided. In this regard, a femtocell management entity may be operable to receive global navigation system satellite (GNSS) coordinates of one or more of a plurality of femtocells and one or both of a receive signal strength indication (RSSI) and/or power levels of one or more of the plurality of femtocells, which are managed by the femtocell management entity. The femtocell management entity may be operable to determine a location of a communication device that is derived based on the received GNSS coordinates, RSSI and/or power levels of one or more of the plurality of femtocells and communicate the determined location to a communication device. One or more location based applications and/or services within the communication device may be operable to utilize the received determined location to provide mapping and/or location information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Abraham, Xuemin Chen, Wael William Diab, Vinko Erceg, Victor Hou, Jeyhan Karaoguz, Mark Kent
  • Patent number: 8965364
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for service mobility via a femtocell infrastructure are provided. In this regard, a mobile cellular enabled communication device may detect a femtocell operable to deliver content for one or more services to the mobile cellular enabled communication device, where the one or more services may be provided via a set-top-box communicatively coupled to the femtocell. The mobile cellular enabled communication device may communicate a user profile to the femtocell, wherein information in the profile may be utilized by the set-top-box to authenticate and/or authorize access to the services by the mobile cellular enabled communication device and thus the mobile cellular enabled communication device may receive the content from the set-top-box based on the authentication and/or authorization. The content may comprise voice, video, data, text and/or still images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Jeyhan Karaoguz, Charles Abraham, Xuemin (Sherman) Chen, Wael William Diab, Vinko Erceg, Victor T. Hou, Mark Kent
  • Patent number: 8948156
    Abstract: A mobile device coupled to a common system clock receives a signal comprising a primary synchronization sequence (PSS) and a secondary synchronization sequence (SSS) in a radio frame. Sample counts are generated for timed events based on corresponding operating bandwidths. The timed events are detected at modulo sample counts of the generated sample counts according to corresponding operating bandwidths. PSS symbol timing determined via the PSS synchronization is aligned to the generated sample counts based on corresponding operating bandwidth. The generated sample counts are bit-shifted relative to the aligned PSS symbol timing for other timed events based on corresponding operating bandwidths. The one or more timed events are determined via performing modulo counting after the bit-shifting. Timing operations are performed at the determined timed events and the determined one or more timed events are refined, accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Francis Swarts, Mark Kent
  • Patent number: 8930203
    Abstract: Methods, device and systems including receiving a request for a therapy profile for treating a medical condition, determining using a processor a plurality of therapy profile parameters, assigning a weighted value to each therapy profile parameter based on a hierarchy determined by the medical condition, querying a database to identify a stored therapy profile with therapy profile parameters that most closely correspond to the determined plurality of therapy profile parameters based on the hierarchy, generating an output data corresponding to the identified stored therapy profile, the output data a medication dosage information are provided. Also provided are systems and kits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventors: Namvar Kiaie, Jean-Pierre Cole, Mark Kent Sloan, Frederic Arbogast
  • Patent number: 8929197
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for an OFDM joint timing and frequency tracking system may include tracking carrier frequency and symbol timing in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal based on at least a reference symbol set. A receiver frequency and timing may be adjusted based on the tracked carrier frequency and symbol timing. The carrier frequency may be tracked by generating an output signal as a function of a frequency offset ?f, and the symbol timing may be tracked by generating an output signal as a function of a guard time ?tg. The received OFDM signal may be fast Fourier transformed to generate the reference symbol (RS) set. The receiver frequency and timing may be adjusted coarsely prior to fine adjustment. The coarse receiver frequency and the timing adjustment may be based on processing a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventor: Mark Kent
  • Patent number: 8917704
    Abstract: A mobile device accumulates energy associated with each of successive PSS transmissions received from a base station. Accumulated energy values may be rescaled by a same number of bits whenever a buffer overflow condition occurs within the accumulation buffer. The mobile device may detect a correct PSS timing hypothesis utilizing the rescaled accumulated energy values within the accumulation buffer. A significant bit such as, for example, the most significant bit (MSB) or one of lesser significant bits, of each of the accumulated energy values may be monitored during the energy accumulation process to detect a buffer overflow condition. The mobile device may determine number of bits for rescaling or right shift each of the accumulated energy values in response to the detected buffer overflow condition. The resulting shifted accumulated energy values may be utilized for PSS detection. Either an integrating or filtering method is utilized during the energy accumulation process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Francis Swarts, Mark Kent
  • Patent number: 8903364
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and system for processing and delivery of multimedia content by an integrated femtocell and set-top-box device are provided. In this regard, a cellular enabled communication device may communicate its capabilities, preferences, and/or settings to an integrated femtocell and set-top-box device, wherein the integrated femtocell and set-top-box device may processes multimedia content for the cellular enabled communication device based on the capabilities, preferences, and/or settings of the cellular enabled communication device. Additionally, the cellular enabled communication device may receive the processed multimedia content from the integrated femtocell and set-top-box device by the cellular enabled communication device. The capabilities, preferences, and/or settings may comprise multimedia processing capabilities, preferences, and/or settings, communication capabilities, preferences, and/or settings, and/or power conditions, preferences, and/or settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Abraham, Xuemin Sherman Chen, Wael William Diab, Vinko Erceg, Victor T. Hou, Jeyhan Karaoguz, Mark Kent
  • Publication number: 20140347186
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to an analyte monitoring device having a user interface with a display and a plurality of actuators. The display is configured to render a plurality of display screens, including a home screen and an alert screen. The home screen is divided into a plurality of simultaneously displayed panels, with a first panel displays a rate of change of continuously monitored analyte levels in interstitial fluid, a second panel simultaneously displays a current analyte level and an analyte trend indicator, and a third panel displays status information of a plurality of components of the device. When an alarm condition is detected, the display renders the alert screen in place of the home screen, the alert screen displaying information corresponding to the detected alarm condition. Furthermore, the actuators are configured to affect further output of the analyte monitoring device corresponding to the detected condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventors: Wesley Scott Harper, Annie C. Tan, Timothy Christian Dunn, Mark Kent Sloan, Kenneth J. Doniger, Michael Love, Phillip Yee, Gary Alan Hayter, R. Curtis Jennewine, Glenn Howard Berman
  • Patent number: 8897338
    Abstract: A receiver receives multipath signals in a W-CDMA system. Channel estimates and timing reference signals are generated utilizing the received multipath signals. Timing correction signals indicating a location of the received multipath signals may be generated and the received multipath signals may be combined based on the computed channel estimates and/or the generated timing reference signals. The multipath signals may be combined as a signal cluster. Circuitry may be provided that computes channel estimates based on at least one of a plurality of received multipath signals, and generates timing reference signals indicating a location of at least one of the plurality of received multipath signals. Circuitry may also be provided that combines at least a portion of the plurality of received multipath signals based on at least a portion of the computed channel estimates and/or the generated timing reference signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Kent, Vinko Erceg, Uri M. Landau, Pieter Van Rooyen
  • Publication number: 20140341136
    Abstract: Aspects of a method and apparatus for user equipment (UE) channel acquisition in the presence of large frequency uncertainty in wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) signals are provided. An efficient time-frequency domain search that may be utilized in cell communications may be performed by devising criteria that eliminates the unlikely frequencies hypotheses. An estimate for the frequency offset may be estimated in the remaining subset. For WCDMA applications, a UE may comprise a baseband processor that is enabled to detect a primary synchronization channel (P-SCH) code (PSC) for initial network synchronization. A portion of the baseband processor may generate a plurality of signal peak-to-noise-floor-average ratios associated with a plurality of test frequencies produced by a crystal oscillator. A highest of the signal peak-to-noise-floor-average ratios may be selected to determine the frequency offset of the crystal oscillator for use in power up operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Uri M. LANDAU, Francis SWARTS, Mark KENT
  • Patent number: 8891606
    Abstract: Methods and systems for processing signals in a receiver are disclosed herein and may include updating a plurality of filter taps utilizing at least one channel response vector and at least one correlation vector, for a plurality of received clusters, based on initialized values related to the at least one channel response vector and the at least one correlation vector. At least a portion of the received signal clusters may be filtered utilizing at least a portion of the updated plurality of filter taps. The update may be repeated whenever a specified signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the received signal clusters is reached. The initialized values may be updated during a plurality of iterations, and the update may be repeated whenever a specified number of the plurality of iterations is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Kent, Uri Landau, Severine Catreux-Erceg, Vinko Erceg, Ning Kong, Pieter Roux
  • Patent number: 8876755
    Abstract: Method and apparatus including calling, retrieving and/or initiating a programmed function in conjunction with execution of one or more commands related to a closed loop control algorithm, receiving one or more data in response to the one or more commands over a data interface, and executing the one or more commands related to the closed loop control algorithm based on the received one or more data are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Barry Taub, Daniel Milfred Bernstein, Gary Alan Hayter, Mark Kent Sloan, Glenn Howard Berman, Saeed Nekoomaram
  • Publication number: 20140323960
    Abstract: Method and system for providing data monitoring and management including RF communication link over which a transmitter and a receiver is configured to communicate, the transmitter configured to periodically transmit a data packet associated with a detected analyte level received from an analyte sensor, and the receiver configured to identify the transmitter as the correct transmitter for which it is configured to receive the data packets, and to continue to receive the data packets from the transmitter once the transmitter identification has been verified, is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Kent Sloan
  • Patent number: D721951
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: F. Balwyker Investments, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Kent Williams, Kenneth Garnet Fry