Patents by Inventor Mark McDiarmid

Mark McDiarmid 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: 11757765
    Abstract: A telecommunication device configured to select one of a plurality of network connectivities of the telecommunication device to use for transmission of a network packet is described herein. The telecommunication device may select the network connectivity based on user routing criteria, connectivity metrics, or transmission times. The user routing criteria may be dynamically updated during a communication or connection, affecting selection of the network connectivity for further network packets. The network connectivities may be respectively associated with different network operators. Also, the telecommunication device may select a first network connectivity for transmitting a first network packet and a second network connectivity for transmitting a second network packet. Further, the telecommunication device may select a first network connectivity for uplink communications and a second network connectivity for downlink communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongliang Zhang, Pablo Tapia, Mark McDiarmid
  • Publication number: 20220132309
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices can be utilized to verify wireless local area networks (WLANs) using fingerprints. An example method includes identifying a received fingerprint comprised in an advertisement message that is received by a user equipment (UE) at a time and within a coverage area. A source of the advertisement message is determined to be a rogue WLAN by determining that the received fingerprint is different than a verified fingerprint transmitted by an authorized WLAN at the time and in the coverage area. The UE outputs an alert indicating the rogue WLAN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Mark McDiarmid, Andrew Lee Watts
  • Patent number: 11071113
    Abstract: A system, apparatus and method is disclosed for multiband wireless communication. Frequency bands and/or transmission formats are identified as available within a range for wireless communication. The system evaluates signal quality metrics for each frequency band and selects a communication method based on the evaluation. Multiple frequency bands and communication methods can be utilized by the system such that a combination of licensed, unlicensed, semilicensed, and overlapped frequency bands can be simultaneously used for communication. The system monitors communications and can report link performance for adaptive control of the selected communication methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongliang Zhang, Mark McDiarmid
  • Publication number: 20200336414
    Abstract: A telecommunication device configured to select one of a plurality of network connectivities of the telecommunication device to use for transmission of a network packet is described herein. The telecommunication device may select the network connectivity based on user routing criteria, connectivity metrics, or transmission times. The user routing criteria may be dynamically updated during a communication or connection, affecting selection of the network connectivity for further network packets. The network connectivities may be respectively associated with different network operators. Also, the telecommunication device may select a first network connectivity for transmitting a first network packet and a second network connectivity for transmitting a second network packet. Further, the telecommunication device may select a first network connectivity for uplink communications and a second network connectivity for downlink communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Hongliang Zhang, Pablo Tapia, Mark McDiarmid
  • Publication number: 20200288475
    Abstract: A system, apparatus and method is disclosed for multiband wireless communication. Frequency bands and/or transmission formats are identified as available within a range for wireless communication. The system evaluates signal quality metrics for each frequency band and selects a communication method based on the evaluation. Multiple frequency bands and communication methods can be utilized by the system such that a combination of licensed, unlicensed, semilicensed, and overlapped frequency bands can be simultaneously used for communication. The system monitors communications and can report link performance for adaptive control of the selected communication methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Inventors: Hongliang Zhang, Mark McDiarmid
  • Patent number: 10715425
    Abstract: A telecommunication device configured to select one of a plurality of network connectivities of the telecommunication device to use for transmission of a network packet is described herein. The telecommunication device may select the network connectivity based on user routing criteria, connectivity metrics, or transmission times. The user routing criteria may be dynamically updated during a communication or connection, affecting selection of the network connectivity for further network packets. The network connectivities may be respectively associated with different network operators. Also, the telecommunication device may select a first network connectivity for transmitting a first network packet and a second network connectivity for transmitting a second network packet. Further, the telecommunication device may select a first network connectivity for uplink communications and a second network connectivity for downlink communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongliang Zhang, Pablo Tapia, Mark McDiarmid
  • Patent number: 10595317
    Abstract: A system, apparatus and method is disclosed for multiband wireless communication. Frequency bands and/or transmission formats are identified as available within a range for wireless communication. The system evaluates signal quality metrics for each frequency band and selects a communication method based on the evaluation. Multiple frequency bands and communication methods can be utilized by the system such that a combination of licensed, unlicensed, semilicensed, and overlapped frequency bands can be simultaneously used for communication. The system monitors communications and can report link performance for adaptive control of the selected communication methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongliang Zhang, Mark McDiarmid
  • Publication number: 20200067645
    Abstract: Described herein is a radio access provider configured to communicate with wireless access devices over frequency bands. The radio access provider receives service priorities associated with active applications of the wireless communication devices. Based at least in part on the service priorities, the radio access provider selects blocks or channels from one or more of the frequency bands for a radio communication link for each of at least a subset of the wireless communication devices. The selecting may include selecting block or channels from multiple ones of the frequency bands for the radio communication link for at least one of the subset of the wireless communication devices. The selecting may also be based at least in part on signal quality metrics for the frequency bands, cross-correlations of the frequency bands, or power capacities of the wireless communication devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Hongliang Zhang, Mark McDiarmid, Adeel Ahmad
  • Patent number: 10498377
    Abstract: A computing system may utilize interfering signals of two or more wireless devices for improving communications involving the two or more wireless devices. These techniques and architectures may allow for improved spectral efficiency that enables a relatively large number of wireless devices to communicate among one another via receivers that share overlapping or adjacent frequencies. Such utilization of interfering signals may help solve a general problem involving, for example, co-channel interference (CCI) arising from densely deployed relatively small wireless communication cells for increasing communication throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongliang Zhang, Jeff Ahmet, Dinesh Arcot Kumar, Egil Gronstad, Brian Allan Olsen, Mark McDiarmid
  • Patent number: 10469205
    Abstract: Described herein is a radio access provider configured to communicate with wireless access devices over frequency bands. The radio access provider receives service priorities associated with active applications of the wireless communication devices. Based at least in part on the service priorities, the radio access provider selects blocks or channels from one or more of the frequency bands for a radio communication link for each of at least a subset of the wireless communication devices. The selecting may include selecting block or channels from multiple ones of the frequency bands for the radio communication link for at least one of the subset of the wireless communication devices. The selecting may also be based at least in part on signal quality metrics for the frequency bands, cross-correlations of the frequency bands, or power capacities of the wireless communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongliang Zhang, Mark McDiarmid, Adeel Ahmad
  • Publication number: 20190319654
    Abstract: A computing system may utilize interfering signals of two or more wireless devices for improving communications involving the two or more wireless devices. These techniques and architectures may allow for improved spectral efficiency that enables a relatively large number of wireless devices to communicate among one another via receivers that share overlapping or adjacent frequencies. Such utilization of interfering signals may help solve a general problem involving, for example, co-channel interference (CCI) arising from densely deployed relatively small wireless communication cells for increasing communication throughput.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Hongliang Zhang, Jeff Ahmet, Dinesh Arcot Kumar, Egil Gronstad, Brian Allan Olsen, Mark McDiarmid
  • Patent number: 10448330
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described herein for adaptively adjusting the power level of a wireless transceiver and a cellular transceiver in a telecommunications device to correspond to the usage and data throughput of the device. The device can also dynamically enter different modes of operation based at least in part on network activity data usage on a wireless data network provided by the telecommunications device. By controlling the power levels, the power usage of the device can be reduced in order to increase efficiency of battery usage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: T-MOBILE USA, INC.
    Inventors: Mark McDiarmid, Pablo Tapia, Hongliang Zhang
  • Patent number: 10433229
    Abstract: A handover procedure can be implemented using a codec-specific threshold as a triggering event for the handover procedure. A mobile device can initiate a communication session with a serving access point (AP). The mobile device can receive a codec established for the communication session, access a set of codec-specific thresholds stored in memory of the mobile device to determine a handover triggering threshold that is specific to the codec used for the communication session. The mobile device can measure a parameter of a radio signal from the serving AP, and when the measured parameter falls below the codec-specific threshold, a handover procedure can be initiated to transition the communication session to a target AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark McDiarmid, Jun Liu, Ming Shan Kwok
  • Patent number: 10355727
    Abstract: A computing system may utilize interfering signals of two or more wireless devices for improving communications involving the two or more wireless devices. These techniques and architectures may allow for improved spectral efficiency that enables a relatively large number of wireless devices to communicate among one another via receivers that share overlapping or adjacent frequencies. Such utilization of interfering signals may help solve a general problem involving, for example, co-channel interference (CCI) arising from densely deployed relatively small wireless communication cells for increasing communication throughput.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongliang Zhang, Jeff Ahmet, Dinesh Arcot Kumar, Egil Gronstad, Brian Allan Olsen, Mark McDiarmid
  • Publication number: 20190007079
    Abstract: A computing system may utilize interfering signals of two or more wireless devices for improving communications involving the two or more wireless devices. These techniques and architectures may allow for improved spectral efficiency that enables a relatively large number of wireless devices to communicate among one another via receivers that share overlapping or adjacent frequencies. Such utilization of interfering signals may help solve a general problem involving, for example, co-channel interference (CCI) arising from densely deployed relatively small wireless communication cells for increasing communication throughput.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Hongliang Zhang, Jeff Ahmet, Dinesh Arcot Kumar, Egil Gronstad, Brian Allan Olsen, Mark McDiarmid
  • Publication number: 20180302903
    Abstract: A system, apparatus and method is disclosed for multiband wireless communication. Frequency bands and/or transmission formats are identified as available within a range for wireless communication. The system evaluates signal quality metrics for each frequency band and selects a communication method based on the evaluation. Multiple frequency bands and communication methods can be utilized by the system such that a combination of licensed, unlicensed, semilicensed, and overlapped frequency bands can be simultaneously used for communication. The system monitors communications and can report link performance for adaptive control of the selected communication methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Hongliang Zhang, Mark McDiarmid
  • Patent number: 10057393
    Abstract: A codec-specific radio link adaptation procedure can be implemented at the radio access network (RAN) level. A process includes receiving, from a mobile device, a bitstream carrying speech data as part of a communication session, determining, based at least in part on a result of inspecting packets of the bitstream or a notification message from an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) core, that the bitstream is associated with a codec that provides improved performance of the mobile device as compared to legacy codecs in similar radio conditions; and adapting a radio link for the communication session according to the codec.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Ming Shan Kwok, Mark McDiarmid, Jun Liu
  • Patent number: 10028280
    Abstract: A system, apparatus and method is disclosed for multiband wireless communication. Frequency bands and/or transmission formats are identified as available within a range for wireless communication. The system evaluates signal quality metrics for each frequency band and selects a communication method based on the evaluation. Multiple frequency bands and communication methods can be utilized by the system such that a combination of licensed, unlicensed, semilicensed, and overlapped frequency bands can be simultaneously used for communication. The system monitors communications and can report link performance for adaptive control of the selected communication methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongliang Zhang, Mark McDiarmid
  • Publication number: 20180132156
    Abstract: A handover procedure can be implemented using a codec-specific threshold as a triggering event for the handover procedure. A mobile device can initiate a communication session with a serving access point (AP). The mobile device can receive a codec established for the communication session, access a set of codec-specific thresholds stored in memory of the mobile device to determine a handover triggering threshold that is specific to the codec used for the communication session. The mobile device can measure a parameter of a radio signal from the serving AP, and when the measured parameter falls below the codec-specific threshold, a handover procedure can be initiated to transition the communication session to a target AP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Mark McDiarmid, Jun Liu, Ming Shan Kwok
  • Patent number: 9867106
    Abstract: A handover procedure can be implemented using a codec-specific threshold as a triggering event for the handover procedure. A mobile device can initiate a communication session with a serving access point (AP). The mobile device can receive a codec established for the communication session, access a set of codec-specific thresholds stored in memory of the mobile device to determine a handover triggering threshold that is specific to the codec used for the communication session. The mobile device can measure a parameter of a radio signal from the serving AP, and when the measured parameter falls below the codec-specific threshold, a handover procedure can be initiated to transition the communication session to a target AP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark McDiarmid, Jun Liu, Ming Shan Kwok