Patents by Inventor Michael Peter

Michael Peter 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: 20160173586
    Abstract: A device may communicate with a peer-to-peer (P2P) network prior to associating with that network. The communications prior to association may include information about whether the P2P network is persistent or non-persistent. The information may include a persistent group intent field that identifies whether a device would prefer to join a persistent P2P network and allows a P2P network to advertise whether it is persistent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp, David Philip Hole
  • Publication number: 20160165528
    Abstract: An example method for network selection involves discovering network capabilities by performing an Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) query at a wireless terminal, and receiving a subsequent ANQP response from an access point of a wireless local area network. The network capabilities are indicated in the subsequent ANQP response. The example method also involves comparing the network capabilities with configured capabilities, finding a match between at least a portion of the network capabilities and at least a portion of the configured capabilities, and joining the wireless terminal with the access point based on the at least the portion of the network capabilities matching the at least the portion of the configured capabilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Stephen McCann
  • Publication number: 20160157187
    Abstract: A system, method and device for adjusting a communication parameter for a network communicating with a communication device are provided. The method comprises: monitoring for a condition relating to a first network that has been in communication with the communication device; and determining whether an adjustment is to be implemented on a communication parameter of a second communication network that has been in communication with the communication device based on the condition and if so, implementing the adjustment to the communication parameter for the second communication network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Lizhong ZHU, Rudy Eugene RAWLINS, Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Qingmai ZHOU, Jun XU, Fei HE
  • Publication number: 20160128015
    Abstract: A first device that includes a processor configured to transmit/receive a trigger message to/from a second device based on wireless short-range communication. The trigger message initiates a registration process within a wireless local area network (WLAN).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, Sanjay Nathwani, Roger Paul Durand
  • Publication number: 20160128111
    Abstract: A communication device for establishing wireless peer-to-peer connections includes a network interface, a memory and a processor. The processor receives a command to initiate a wireless peer-to-peer connection with a second device, sets an intent parameter to a default value and stores the intent parameter in the memory. The processor determines whether a link has been established between the network interface and a wireless base station. When a link has been established, the processor adjusts the intent parameter based on a channel type of the link. The processor receives a second intent parameter from the second device via the network interface, and determines whether the intent parameter is greater than the second intent parameter. When the determination is affirmative, the processor configures the communication device as an access point for the peer-to-peer connection; and when the determination is negative, the processor configures the communication device as a client for the peer-to-peer connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Steven PIEDA, Michael Peter MONTEMURRO
  • Patent number: 9332448
    Abstract: An apparatus has a wireless local area network (WLAN) transceiver and one or more sensors. The sensors are monitored. From time to time, a mitigation level applicable to the apparatus is determined as a function of output from the one or more sensors. The mitigation level is one of multiple mitigation levels, each mitigation level corresponding to a set of configuration changes for a Media Access Control (MAC) layer of the WLAN transceiver. Responsive to determining that the applicable mitigation level has increased from a most recent previously determined mitigation level, the MAC layer is configured to effect a decrease in a transmit duty cycle of the WLAN transceiver. Responsive to determining that the applicable mitigation level has decreased from a most recent previously determined mitigation level, the MAC layer is configured to effect an increase in the transmit duty cycle of the WLAN transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Peter Montemurro, Richard Howard Kennedy
  • Patent number: 9319968
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling aspects of network communications from a device to a network are provided. In particular, a method of initiating scans for a network by a communication device for a communication network is provided. The method comprises: monitoring for a first condition relating to a network scan for the communication network; and when the first condition relates to a receipt of at least one request to initiate the network scan and when at least the first condition is satisfied, identifying a first parameter for the network scan and configuring and initiating the network scan at the communication device for the communication network implementing the first parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann, Richard Howard Kennedy
  • Patent number: 9310010
    Abstract: An injection device for administering a reagent into an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine, the injection device having an axis along its length and comprising an outwardly opening valve member having a seating surface which is engageable with a valve seating region. A seating member provided with an internal bore which defines the valve seating region, wherein the internal bore further defines a flow re-directing region downstream of the valve seating region. The seating member has an end face provided with a feature which intersects with at least a portion of the flow re-directing region to define, together with the flow re-directing region, a spray path for reagent exiting the injection device when the valve member is moved outwardly from the bore away from the valve seating region. The spray path has a variable spray angle, relative to the axis, around the circumference of the valve seating region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Delphi International Operations Luxembourg S.A.R.L.
    Inventor: Michael Peter Cooke
  • Patent number: 9313730
    Abstract: A mobile device may retrieve information about a network prior to associating with the network. For example, the information may be related to a public land mobile network (“PLMN”) and compatibility with Extensible Authentication Protocols (“EAPs”).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Patent number: 9307505
    Abstract: A system, method and device for adjusting a communication parameter for a network communicating with a communication device are provided. The method comprises: monitoring for a condition relating to a first network that has been in communication with the communication device; and determining whether an adjustment is to be implemented on a communication parameter of a second communication network that has been in communication with the communication device based on the condition and if so, implementing the adjustment to the communication parameter for the second communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
    Inventors: Lizhong Zhu, Qingmai Zhou, Jun Xu, Rudy Eugene Rawlins, Michael Peter Montemurro, Fei He
  • Patent number: 9301127
    Abstract: A device may communicate with a peer-to-peer (P2P) network prior to associating with that network. The communications prior to association may include information about whether the P2P network is persistent or non-persistent. The information may include a persistent group intent field that identifies whether a device would prefer to join a persistent P2P network and allows a P2P network to advertise whether it is persistent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp, David Philip Hole
  • Publication number: 20160083085
    Abstract: An electrified propulsion system for a rotary wing aircraft includes a flight control computer that receives a signal indicative of a power demand on an engine; an engine control system that is in communication with the engine and is configured to control operation of the engine at a selected operating point; a generator that is in mechanical communication with the engine and is configured to receive mechanical power from the engine and convert the mechanical power to electrical power; an electric motor that is in electrical communication with the generator and is configured to receive the electric power; and a rotor that is in mechanical communication with the electric motor; wherein the electric motor is configured to control rotation and provide the mechanical power demand of the rotor at the selected operating point in response to the received signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Peter Strauss, Mark Denton Bystry, JR., Michael Joseph DeVita
  • Publication number: 20160088505
    Abstract: A mobile station associated with a base station determines a measure of the quality of a communication link between the mobile station and the base station. The measure is determined by comparing either i) an expected data rate for communications over the link and an actual data rate of communications over the link, wherein the expected data rate takes into account radio frequency (RF) power levels of signals received at the mobile station over the link, or ii) an expected RF power level for communications over the link and RF power levels of signals received at the mobile station over the link, wherein the expected RF power level takes into account the actual data rate of communications over the link. This measure of the quality of the link may be a factor in triggering the mobile station to initiate a handoff.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Roger Paul DURAND
  • Publication number: 20160083104
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to selecting, by a computing device comprising a processor, the size of at least one prime mover associated with an aircraft to satisfy a baseline power requirement for operation of the aircraft during a steady state load condition, selecting at least one power source configuration to supplement power provided by the at least one prime mover during a transient load condition associated with the operation of the aircraft, and selecting, by the computing device, a parameter of the at least one power source configuration to provide a total power in an amount that is greater than a threshold during the transient condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Joseph Lawrence Simonetti, Mark Denton Bystry, Michael Joseph DeVita, Matthew J. Tarascio, Michael Peter Strauss, Hayden M. Reeve, Niranjan Desai, Brian St. Rock, Charles E. Lents, Lawrence E. Zeidner, Alfred Russell Smiley
  • Patent number: 9290404
    Abstract: A method to form quartz glass ingots of ultra low contamination and defect levels by firing a high-purity quartz form as the feedstock, wherein the quartz glass ingot is free-formed on a platen rotating concentrically with the feedstock quartz article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Momentive Performance Materials Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Peter Winnen, Todd R. Springer
  • Publication number: 20160080344
    Abstract: An assembly management system allows a software service provider (SSP) to compile and upload client-specific client application code into a repository. The SSP deploys a client application comprising non-client-specific code to various clients. When a user logs in, a call is made to a web service, which queries the repository for code specific to the requesting client. If available, the web service sends a response with the name and version of the assembly to which the client is subscribed. If the locally-saved version does not match the version of the assembly in the repository, and if the SSP has permission to write to the client's disk, the web service retrieves the assembly and commits it to the disk. If the SSP does not have permission, the assembly is streamed to the client device and retained and executed in memory for the duration of the login.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: PASSPORT HEALTH COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Peter Ochs, Edmond Chase Pilkington, Thomas Ryan Sears, David Stephen Phoebus
  • Publication number: 20160080989
    Abstract: A mobile device may transition between Extended Service Set (“ESS”) networks seamlessly, such that a consumer never loses the network connection despite the transition. The communication for enabling a transition may be prior to association with that network. The seamless transition may be enabled through the creation and utilization of a central key holder authority that advertises its identity to mobile devices in a pre-associated state. The mobile device can use the key discovery communication along with a key generation method to authenticate and/or associate with a network and transition from one ESS to another. There may be a common root key across ESSs. At each new access point (“AP”) that the mobile device encounters, ESS and key holder identities may be discovered through discovery communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Patent number: 9288359
    Abstract: An integrated document handling and platen scanning apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a main body; a platen glass positionally fixed to the main body; a CVT glass area positionally fixed to the main body; a first image module attached to the main body, the first image module being movable across the platen glass to scan an image on a first side of a document; a document handler attached to the main body and configured to invert the document and to feed the document across the CVT glass area; and an attachment point on the main body that attaches the main body to a copier body of a photocopier such that the main body, platen glass, first image module, and document handler move as a unit relative to the copier body. The first image module is configured to remain stationary and scan the image on the first side of the document as the document is fed across the CVT glass area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Michael John Wilsher, Michael Peter Golding, Roy Norman Gladwin
  • Publication number: 20160065319
    Abstract: Apparatus and method pertaining to the calculation of at least one value that represents, at least in part, wireless reception signal strength from the perspective of both a local wireless receiver and a remote receiver that receives wireless transmissions from a local wireless transmitter. By one approach the apparatus directly determines the wireless reception signal strength from the perspective of the local wireless receiver and indirectly determines the wireless reception signal strength from the perspective of the remote receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Khaled LAKHDHAR, Stephen McCANN, Lizhong ZHU
  • Publication number: 20160063630
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for dynamically updating a projected cash flow for an investment using a gesture-based graphical user interface. The method comprises displaying in the graphical user interface a graphical representation of the projected cash flow for an investment and performance metrics for the investment based on the projected cash flow; receiving gesture input from a user via the graphical user interface; updating the projected cash flow based on the gesture input; updating the performance metrics based on the updated projected cash flow; updating the graphical user interface to reflect the updates to the projected cash flow and the performance metrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventor: Michael Peter MOLLOY