Patents by Inventor Michael Peter Montemurro

Michael Peter Montemurro 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: 11647449
    Abstract: A method within a network of facilitating identification and usage of alternative communication channels by a wireless device operating using a first communication channel is described. The method enables use of as secondary channel by non-primary users of that channel for prescribed times and within prescribed geographic locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • Patent number: 11632710
    Abstract: In some examples, a headless device that is without an available user interface and that is to be provisioned for access to a network receives information relating to provisioning of the headless device from a network node. The headless device sends, to a mediator device with a user interface, at least a portion of the received information. The headless device receives, from the mediator device, information to proceed with the provisioning of the headless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • Publication number: 20230098549
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus related to NDPA frame indication. An aspect of the disclosure provides a method. The method includes sending, to one or more stations (STAs), a request for channel state information (CSI). The request includes a null data packet announcement (NDPA) frame including a first field and a second field. The first field indicates presence of the second field, and the second field indicates a variant of the NDPA frame. The method further includes receiving, from the one or more STAs, a CSI feedback response based on the request. In some embodiments, the first field is one of a sounding dialog token field and indicates the presence of the second field via at least two bits. In some embodiments, the first field is a frame control field and indicates the second field via a 4-bit subtype subfield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Jung Hoon SUH, Osama ABOUL-MAGD, Stephen MCCANN, Yan Xin, Kwok Shum Au
  • Patent number: 11617127
    Abstract: A service type announcement element indicates one or more service types offered by an access point (AP) that supports station a wireless network. The service type announcement element is generated by the AP and included in a beacon frame or in a probe response frame. The beacon frame or the probe response frame is transmitted by the AP and received by a mobile device prior to the mobile device being associated with the AP. The mobile device makes a determination whether any of the one or more service types can assist with an operation of an application on the mobile device and implements a network selection algorithm based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Patent number: 11611934
    Abstract: A method at a module within a sensor system for updating a timing profile, the method including: turning on a radio of the sensor module for a first time duration; detecting signals from other modules within the sensor system; for each signal, storing data comprising a time such signal is received and an identifier for a module sending such signal; sending the data to a server; and receiving the timing profile from the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Hashim Mohammad Qaderi, Edward Snow Willis, Yuhui Liu, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Patent number: 11570251
    Abstract: In some examples, a system includes a plurality of network controllers, a WI-FI wireless local area network (WLAN) over which at least a first network controller and a second network controller of the plurality of network controllers are to communicate, wherein a link between the first network controller and the second network controller through the WI-FI WLAN is a synchronized link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • Publication number: 20220394474
    Abstract: Methods and systems of segmenting computing devices in a wireless network having an access point broadcasting in a single domain are described. In an exemplary method, a request to join the wireless network is received from a computing device. The request is associated with an identifier. When the identifier is not associated with a virtual network within the wireless network, a virtual network is configured within the wireless network and the identifier is associated thereto and the computing device is assigned thereto. When the identifier is associated with an existing virtual network within the wireless network, the computing device is assigned to the existing virtual network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter LEPP, Stephen McCANN, Michael Peter MONTEMURRO
  • Publication number: 20220369209
    Abstract: A mobile device may retrieve service information about a network prior to associating with the network. Utilizing an advertisement protocol to transmit service query messages, a mobile device may receive service query responses from a network that identify the services available prior to establishing network capability. In other words, the messaging is prior to the exchange of any authentication parameters between the device and the network as well prior to the establishment of a recognized session between the device and the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Publication number: 20220322153
    Abstract: An access point advertises a management frame quality of service (MFQ) policy that defines an access category used for transmitting a first type of management frame. Each mobile station associated with the access point is to prioritize transmission of management frames according to the MFQ policy advertised by the access point, unless a policy configuration request for the mobile station to prioritize transmission of management frames according to a different MFQ policy has been accepted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Publication number: 20220322218
    Abstract: In some examples, a wireless device includes a communication interface to communicate with a wireless network, and at least one processor configured to, receive, from an access point (AP), information including a network address policy of the wireless network. The at least one processor is configured to further, in response to the information including the network address policy, use an address of the wireless device according to the network address policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • Publication number: 20220321410
    Abstract: A method for balancing sensors within a sensor system, the method including receiving, at a gateway, data from a plurality of sensors, each of the plurality of sensors being connected to one of a plurality of sensor modules or the gateway; determining, at the gateway, that a signal strength from a first sensor falls below a threshold, the first sensor being one of the plurality of sensors; and based on the determining, allocating the first sensor to connect to a different one of the plurality of sensor modules, or to the gateway if connected to one of the plurality of sensor modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Stephen John MCCANN, Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, James Randolph Winter LEPP
  • Patent number: 11451960
    Abstract: Methods and systems of segmenting computing devices in a wireless network having an access point broadcasting in a single domain are described. In an exemplary method, a request to join the wireless network is received from a computing device. The request is associated with an identifier. When the identifier is not associated with a virtual network within the wireless network, a virtual network is configured within the wireless network and the identifier is associated thereto and the computing device is assigned thereto. When the identifier is associated with an existing virtual network within the wireless network, the computing device is assigned to the existing virtual network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Patent number: 11432190
    Abstract: In some examples, a device aggregates data frames into an aggregated data frame for communication in an Outside the Context of a Basic Service Set (OCB) mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • Patent number: 11415454
    Abstract: A method at a computing device, the method including obtaining sensor data for a vehicle providing one or both of displacement or acceleration information for the vehicle; calculating a vibration frequency for the vehicle; retrieving calibration data for the vehicle, the calibration data comprising at least a first known mass; a second known mass; a vibration frequency for the vehicle at the first known mass; and a vibration frequency of the vehicle at a second known mass; and using the calibration data and the vibration frequency for the vehicle, calculating a load estimation for the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Peter Montemurro, Shouxing Qu
  • Patent number: 11405857
    Abstract: A mobile device may retrieve service information about a network prior to associating with the network. Utilizing an advertisement protocol to transmit service query messages, a mobile device may receive service query responses from a network that identify the services available prior to establishing network capability. In other words, the messaging is prior to the exchange of any authentication parameters between the device and the network as well prior to the establishment of a recognized session between the device and the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Patent number: 11405828
    Abstract: In some examples, a wireless device selects a selected rate bucket of a plurality of different rate buckets, where a rate bucket of the plurality of different rate buckets comprises a plurality of coding rates. A higher-level layer in the wireless device sends, to a lower-level layer in the wireless device, an indication of the selected rate bucket. The lower-level layer uses the selected rate bucket in a wireless communication by the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann
  • Patent number: 11394615
    Abstract: A method for balancing sensors within a sensor system, the method including receiving, at a gateway, data from a plurality of sensors, each of the plurality of sensors being connected to one of a plurality of sensor modules or the gateway; determining, at the gateway, that a signal strength from a first sensor falls below a threshold, the first sensor being one of the plurality of sensors; and based on the determining, allocating the first sensor to connect to a different one of the plurality of sensor modules, or to the gateway if connected to one of the plurality of sensor modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • Patent number: 11375440
    Abstract: In some examples, a wireless device includes a communication interface to communicate with a wireless network, and at least one processor configured to, while the wireless device is in a pre-associated state, receive, from an access point (AP), information including a network address policy of the wireless network. The at least one processor is configured to further, in response to the information including the network address policy, use an address of the wireless device according to the network address policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • Publication number: 20220200810
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprises sending, to a first device, a request for a signed certificate, the request for the signed certificate comprising a signed hash of data associated with a user, a corresponding public key of the user, and the data associated with the user; sending, to a second device different from the first device, a request for the signed certificate, the request comprising information to retrieve the signed certificate; and obtaining, from the second device, a signed certificate, the signed certificate comprising the public key of the user, the hash of the data associated with the user, and information indicating a health status of the user, the data associated with the user being absent from the signed certificate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen John BARRETT, James Robert ALFRED, Ming Chee TSANG, Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Adam Richard SCHIEMAN, Neil Patrick ADAMS, Robert Joseph LOMBARDI
  • Publication number: 20220198344
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprises obtaining data associated with an event ticket and data associated with a digital health certificate of a user; generating a scannable code that includes the data associated with the event ticket and the data associated with the digital health certificate of the user, the scannable code configured to be scanned by a relying party device and causing the relying party device to display at least a notification indicating a ticket status and information associated with the user; and provide the scannable code to memory of a user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen John BARRETT, James Robert ALFRED, Ming Chee TSANG, Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Adam Richard SCHIEMAN, Neil Patrick ADAMS