Patents by Inventor Meghna Agrawal

Meghna Agrawal 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: 11515937
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems of hub communication with a satellite network or a terrestrial network are disclosed. One method includes detecting presence of the satellite network, detecting, by the hub, presence of a terrestrial network, selecting to connect to one of the satellite network or the terrestrial network based on a priority ruleset, estimating a propagation delay between the hub and a base station of the satellite network when the satellite network is selected, adjusting a timing offset between transmit and receive radio frames at the hub based on whether the satellite network or the terrestrial network is selected, and based at least on the propagation delay and a fixed frame offset between uplink and downlink frames at base station, and communicating with the base station of the satellite network or a base station of the terrestrial network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Nuttall, Moshe Noah, Vijay Lewis, Meghna Agrawal, Kalle Ruttik, Yihenew Dagne Beyene, Barry Winata
  • Publication number: 20220360952
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for providing function models to hubs, are disclosed. One method includes sensing, by a hub, local data, collecting the local data from the hub, creating function models based on the collected local data and non-local data collected from non-local data sources, dynamically creating non-local inputs based upon the local data from the hub and the non-local data collected from non-local data sources, transmitting the created function models to the plurality of hubs at a first timing, and dynamically transmitting the non-local inputs to each of the plurality of hubs at a second timing, and applying, by the hub, current locally sensed data and the dynamically transmitted non-local inputs to the created function models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Skylo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Acker, Meghna Agrawal, Andrew Nuttall
  • Patent number: 11489587
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinated access to a wireless link through data profiles are disclosed. One method includes receiving through the wireless link, by each hub associated with a base station, one or more data profiles from a network management element, receiving, by each hub, data from data sources associated with the hub, controlling, by each hub, a timing of communication of the data for each of the data sources from the hub to the base station through the wireless satellite link based on the one or more data profiles, monitoring reporting times of different data sources of different hubs over time, allocating preamble codes to each of the data sources, wherein different preamble codes are allocated to different data sources of different hubs that report within a margin of time of each other, and inserting the allocated preamble codes into packets of each of the data sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Nuttall, Vijay Lewis, Sreedhar Sambangi, Meghna Agrawal
  • Publication number: 20220345138
    Abstract: A circuit includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and a compensation circuit. The DAC has a first terminal and a second terminal. The compensation circuit has a third terminal and a fourth terminal. The third terminal is coupled to the first terminal, and the fourth terminal is coupled to the second terminal. The compensation circuit is configured to source current into the first terminal responsive to an increase in voltage on the second terminal, and to sink current from the first terminal responsive to a decrease in voltage on the second terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Meghna AGRAWAL, Debapriya SAHU
  • Patent number: 11476859
    Abstract: A circuit includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and a compensation circuit. The DAC has a first terminal and a second terminal. The compensation circuit has a third terminal and a fourth terminal. The third terminal is coupled to the first terminal, and the fourth terminal is coupled to the second terminal. The compensation circuit is configured to source current into the first terminal responsive to an increase in voltage on the second terminal, and to sink current from the first terminal responsive to a decrease in voltage on the second terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Meghna Agrawal, Debapriya Sahu
  • Patent number: 11464026
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for data source reporting are disclosed. A method includes receiving, by a base station, a preamble from a set of one or more data sources during a scheduled time slot, receiving, by the base station, a virtual preamble from during the scheduled time slot, wherein the virtual preamble is associated with another set of one or more data sources, generating, by the base station, responses to both the preamble and the virtual preamble, wherein the responses include scheduled time and frequency allocations for uplink communication from the set of one or more data sources and the other set of one or more data sources, and transmitting, by the base station, the responses to the set of one or more data sources and the other set of one or more data sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Meghna Agrawal, Andrew Nuttall
  • Publication number: 20220312260
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for dynamically controlling a local buffer of a modem of a wireless device are disclosed. One method includes receiving and queuing transmission packets in the local buffer of the modem of the wireless device for wireless transmission to a receiving device, purging each transmission packet from the local buffer after receiving an acknowledgement of reception of the transmission packet from the receiving device, and requesting acknowledgement from the receiving device when a queue of the transmission packets within the local buffer exceeds a threshold level, wherein the receiving device aggregates acknowledgment responses to a plurality of unpurged transmission packets in the local buffer and transmits an aggregated acknowledgment to the modem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Skylo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Meghna Agrawal, Yihenew Dagne Beyene, Keijo Tapio Lehtinen, Vijay Lewis, Andrew Nuttall
  • Publication number: 20220303815
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for data source reporting are disclosed. A method includes receiving, by a network provider, data types a customer user is to have reported from one or more data sources of the customer user, wherein the reporting is from data sources, and wherein the wireless reporting is through a wireless uplink between the data sources to a base station, providing, by the network provider, options of data packages to the customer, wherein the options of data packages are selected from the set of data packages based on the data types provided by the customer user, and receiving, by the network provider, from the customer user, a selection of a data package from the provided options of data packages, wherein the selected data package includes one or more data types, and when data within the selected data package are to be reported.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Skylo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Cooper, Andrew Nuttall, Meghna Agrawal
  • Publication number: 20220303146
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for configuring multicast communication, are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Skylo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Meghna Agrawal, Andrew Nuttall, Vijay Lewis, Yihenew Dagne Beyene, Keijo Tapio Lehtinen
  • Patent number: 11451288
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for control of antenna steering of a wireless device, are disclosed. One method includes selecting beamforming direction settings of a multiple antenna array of a radio, retrieving spatial relationships between each of different beamforming directions, receiving, by the radio, a wireless signal from a base station and measuring signal metrics of the wireless signal, sensing motion of the wireless device, identifying a wireless connection direction for establishing a wireless connection with the base station based on the signal metrics, the plurality of beamforming direction settings used while receiving the wireless signal, and an orientation of the wireless device determined based on the sensed motion of the wireless device, and selecting a one of the plurality of beamforming direction settings for communicating with the base station based on the wireless connection direction, a beamforming setting that corresponds with the wireless connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Acker, Meghna Agrawal, Andrew Nuttall
  • Patent number: 11452059
    Abstract: A system includes: an interface; and a processor configured to: receive one or more search criteria from the interface, the one or more search criteria being a first portion of a search query; determine a second portion of the search query based on the first portion of the search query and an association of the first portion of the search query with an entity, the search query being a request for a location of a target device associated with the entity; cause a transceiver of the interface to transmit the search query wirelessly in one or more outbound electronic signals to a first intermediate device; receive one or more inbound electronic signals from the first intermediate device via the interface, the one or more inbound electronic signals including a location of the target device; and cause the interface to provide an indication of the location of the target device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ju-Yong Do, Sai Pradeep Venkatraman, Weihua Gao, Meghna Agrawal, Gengsheng Zhang
  • Patent number: 11451935
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for providing function models to hubs, are disclosed. One method includes sensing, by a plurality of hubs, local data, collecting the local data from the plurality of hubs, creating function models based on the collected local data and outside data collected from outside data sources, dynamically creating non-local inputs for each of the plurality of hubs based upon the local data from the plurality of hubs and the outside data collected, a location of the hub, a time, and an application the hub serves, transmitting the created function models to the plurality of hubs at a first timing, and dynamically transmitting the non-local inputs to each of the plurality of hubs at a second timing, and applying, by one or more of the plurality of hubs, current locally sensed data and the dynamically transmitted non-local inputs to the created function models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Acker, Meghna Agrawal, Andrew Nuttall
  • Publication number: 20220294526
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinated satellite and terrestrial channel utilization, are disclosed. One wireless system includes a plurality of base stations, a plurality of hubs, and a controller. For an embodiment, the controller is operative to determine discrete communication delays for each base station based upon a maximum propagation delay between each base station and the one or more of the plurality of hubs, generate a channel sharing map that includes a timing of communication between each base station and the one or more of the plurality of hubs, communicate the channel sharing map to the plurality of base stations. Further, each of the plurality of base stations operates to time wireless communication with the plurality of hubs based on the channel sharing map, the discrete communication delays of the base station, and a communication delay of a preceding base station according to the channel sharing map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Skylo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Nuttall, Meghna Agrawal, Vijay Lewis
  • Patent number: 11438859
    Abstract: A method of registering a target device includes: receiving a first indication to initiate a registration; and determining a suggested registration location and/or or a suggested registration name. The method further includes: providing a second indication of at least one of the suggested registration location or the suggested registration name; providing a third indication requesting at least one of whether the suggested registration location is accepted or whether the suggested registration name is accepted; receiving a fourth indication indicating at least one of whether the suggested registration location is accepted or whether the suggested registration name is accepted; and registering the target device by storing target device information based on the fourth indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ju-Yong Do, Sai Pradeep Venkatraman, Weihua Gao, Meghna Agrawal, Gengsheng Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220272663
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for communicating through a wireless link are disclosed. A method includes scheduling, by a server, communication between a base station and a plurality of hubs, receiving, by the base station, the scheduled communication, providing, to each hub, a data profile that includes a periodicity, an offset, and a carrier frequency based on the scheduled communication, receiving, by the base station, uplink wireless communication from each of the plurality of hubs according to the data profile of each of the hubs and according to the scheduled communication, and simultaneously broadcasting, by the base station, acknowledgements of reception of uplink wireless communication from each of the plurality of hubs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: SKYLO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Meghna Agrawal, Andrew Nuttall, Vijay Lewis
  • Patent number: 11424756
    Abstract: A successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter includes a capacitive digital-to-analog converter (CDAC), a comparator, and a SAR control circuit. The comparator is coupled to an output of the CDAC. The SAR control circuit is coupled to an input of the CDAC and to an output of the comparator. The SAR control circuit is configured to provide a feedback signal to the CDAC. The CDAC is configured to apply the feedback signal to form an infinite impulse response filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Debapriya Sahu, Pranav Sinha, Meghna Agrawal
  • Patent number: 11411760
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for configuring multicast communication, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Meghna Agrawal, Andrew Nuttall, Vijay Lewis, Yihenew Dagne Beyene, Keijo Tapio Lehtinen
  • Publication number: 20220232652
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for coordinating wireless communication are disclosed. One method includes generating, by a wireless radiator, a plurality of selectable directional wireless communication links capable of providing connectivity across a plurality of cells, wherein each of the cells is spatially different from other cells, and wherein each of the cells covers a cell area, wherein a plurality of hubs are located within the cell area, generating, by a controller, a cell map, wherein the cell map maps which of the directional wireless links, which of the plurality cells, and which of the hubs are active as a function of time, thereby supporting a wireless communication link between the base station and the hubs of the cell area corresponding with the active directional wireless link, and providing the cell map to the base station and the hubs of each of the cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Skylo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay Lewis, Meghna Agrawal, Keijo Tapio Lehtinen, Yihenew Dagne Beyene, Christopher Acker, Rounak Salim, Andrew Nuttall
  • Patent number: 11381992
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for data source reporting are disclosed. A method includes receiving, by a network provider, data types a customer user is to have reported from one or more data sources of the customer user, wherein the reporting is from data sources, and wherein the wireless reporting is through a wireless uplink between the data sources to a base station, providing, by the network provider, options of data packages to the customer, wherein the options of data packages are selected from the set of data packages based on the data types provided by the customer user, and receiving, by the network provider, from the customer user, a selection of a data package from the provided options of data packages, wherein the selected data package includes one or more data types, and when data within the selected data package are to be reported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Skylo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jennifer Cooper, Andrew Nuttall, Meghna Agrawal
  • Publication number: 20220200719
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for dynamically estimating a propagation time between a first node and a second node of a wireless network are disclosed. One method includes receiving, by the second node, from the first node a packet containing a first timestamp representing the transmit time of the packet, receiving, by the second node, from a local time source, a second timestamp corresponding with a time of reception of the first timestamp received from the first node, calculating a time difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, storing the time difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, calculating a predictive model for predicting the propagation time based the time difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp, and estimating the propagation time between the first node and the second node at a time by querying the predictive model with the time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Skylo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Meghna Agrawal, Andrew Nuttall