Patents by Inventor Paul E. Bender

Paul E. Bender 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: 12041404
    Abstract: An audio device with a body configured to be worn on or abutting an outer ear of a user, wherein the body is configured to contact at least one of the outer ear and the portion of the head that abuts the outer ear, at two separate spaced contact locations, and wherein the body is compliant at a body portion that defines one of the contact locations. The device also has an acoustic module carried by the body and configured to locate a sound-emitting opening anteriorly of and proximate the user's ear canal opening when the body is worn on or abutting the ear of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew D. Dominijanni, Nathan A. Jeffery, David W. Beverly, Yang Liu, Christopher A. Pare, Paul T. Bender, Eric M. Wallace, George E. P. Chute
  • Patent number: 9654963
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to providing dynamic assignment of home agent and home address in wireless communications, such that a mobile node away from home may receive local access services from a visited network. In an embodiment, a mobile node accesses a visited network. The visited network authenticates the mobile node with its home network. The visited network then assigns a visited home agent and a home address for the mobile node. The mobile node subsequently performs secure binding with the visitor home agent. The mobile node proceeds with communications using the visitor home agent and home address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peter Anthony Barany, Ramin Rezaiifar, Paul E. Bender, Jun Wang, Sivaramakrishna Veerepalli
  • Patent number: 9173239
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to connected-state radio session transfer in wireless communications. A target access network controller may create a radio session associated with an access terminal, the radio session corresponding with a source radio session at a source access network controller. The target access network controller may also establish a communication route between a data network and the access terminal via the target access network controller. The target access network controller may further receive a frozen state associated with the source radio session from the source access network controller. In an aspect, the frozen state may include a snapshot of any data being communicated through the source radio session when freezing occurred. The target access network controller may subsequently unfreeze the received state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, Parag Arun Agashe, Ramin Rezaiifar, Bibhu P Mohanty, Paul E Bender
  • Patent number: 9001735
    Abstract: In a data communication system capable of variable rate transmission, high rate packet data transmission improves utilization of the forward link and decreases the transmission delay. Data transmission on the forward link is time multiplexed and the base station transmits at the highest data rate supported by the forward link at each time slot to one mobile station. The data rate is determined by the largest C/I measurement of the forward link signals as measured at the mobile station. Upon determination of a data packet received in error, the mobile station transmits a NACK message back to the base station. The NACK message results in retransmission of the data packet received in error. The data packets can be transmitted out of sequence by the use of sequence number to identify each data unit within the data packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Roberto Padovani, Paul E. Bender, Peter J. Black, Matthew S. Grob, Jurg K. Hinderling, Nagabhushana T. Sindhushayana, Charles E. Wheatley, III
  • Patent number: 8977767
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided that may be implemented in various electronic devices to identify at least one current interest topic associated with message content transmitted over a wireless communication network, and affect programming of at least a portion of content for transmission over a multicast network based, at least in part, on the current interest topic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael-David N. Canoy, Paul E. Bender
  • Patent number: 8948395
    Abstract: A novel key management approach is provided for securing communication handoffs between and access terminal and two access points. This approach provides for securely handing off communications between an access terminal and access point without risking exposure a master key for the access terminal. Temporary master keys are derived for low latency handoffs and secure authentication between a new access point and the access terminal. In one aspect, a distributive key management scheme is provided in which a current access point generates a new security key (based on its own security key) that is used by the next access point with which an access terminal communicates. In another aspect, a centralized key management scheme is provided in which a central authenticator maintains, generates, and distributes new security keys (based on a master security key associated with the access terminal) to access points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Vidya Narayanan, Lakshminath Reddy Dondeti, Parag Arun Agashe, Paul E. Bender
  • Patent number: 8780735
    Abstract: Techniques to test performance of terminals and access points in CDMA data (e.g., cdma2000) systems. A framework of protocols and messages is provided to support systematic performance testing of terminals and to ensure interface compatibility. The framework comprises a Forward Test Application Protocol (FTAP) for testing forward channels and a Reverse Test Application Protocol (RTAP) for testing reverse channels. Techniques are also provided to (1) test different types of channels (e.g., traffic channels as well as auxiliary channels), (2) test bursty data transmissions, (3) support “persistence” testing (i.e., continued testing over connection and disconnection), (4) force the settings of certain auxiliary channels (e.g., so that the error rate of the channels may be determined), and (5) collect, log, and report various statistics that may be used to derive performance metrics such as throughput and packet error rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rajeev Krishnamurthi, Rajesh K. Pankaj, Bibhu Mohanty, Paul E. Bender
  • Patent number: 8755407
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a new set of radio link protocols (RLPs) configured to provide for efficient data transmission in a multi-link communication system. In an embodiment, an upper-layer packet is segmented into link-layer packets to be transmitted over a plurality of communication links, each including a first sequence number in accordance with a predetermined order. A second sequence number is further added to each link-layer packet to be transmitted for the first time. The second sequence number is configured to be in a sequence space associated with a particular communication link, and may be used for detection of missing packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Ramin Rezaiifar, Parag A. Agashe, Paul E. Bender
  • Patent number: 8730999
    Abstract: Method and System for Utilization of an Outer Decoder in a Broadcast Services Communication System is described. Information to be transmitted is provided to a systematic portion of a plurality of transmit buffers and encoded by an outer decoder communicatively coupled to the transmit buffer. The resulting redundant bits are provided to a parity portion of each transmit buffer. The content of the transmit buffers, is multiplexed and encoded by an inner decoder to improve protection by adding redundancy. The receiving station recovers the transmitted information by an inverse process. Because a decoding complexity depends on the size of a systematic portion of the transmit buffer, reasoned compromise between a systematic portion size and number of transmit buffers yields decreased decoding complexity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Tao Chen, Paul E. Bender, Parag A. Agashe, Ramin Rezaiifar, Rajesh K. Pankaj, Yongbin Wei
  • Patent number: 8713400
    Abstract: Method and System for Utilization of an Outer Decoder in a Broadcast Services Communication System is described. Information to be transmitted is provided to a systematic portion of a plurality of transmit buffers and encoded by an outer decoder communicatively coupled to the transmit buffer. The resulting redundant bits are provided to a parity portion of each transmit buffer. The content of the transmit buffers, is multiplexed and encoded by an inner decoder to improve protection by adding redundancy. The receiving station recovers the transmitted information by an inverse process. Because a decoding complexity depends on the size of a systematic portion of the transmit buffer, reasoned compromise between a systematic portion size and number of transmit buffers yields decreased decoding complexity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Tao Chen, Paul E. Bender, Parag A. Agashe, Ramin Rezaiifar, Rajesh K. Pankaj, Yongbin Wei
  • Patent number: 8644264
    Abstract: Methods and systems for estimating and canceling pilot interference in a wireless (e.g., CDMA) communication system. In one method, a received signal comprised of a number of signal instances, each including a pilot, is initially processed to provide data samples. Each signal instance's pilot interference may be estimated by despreading the data samples with a spreading sequence for the signal instance, channelizing the despread data to provide pilot symbols, filtering the pilot symbols to estimate the channel response of the signal instance, and multiplying the estimated channel response with the spreading sequence. The pilot interference estimates due to a plurality of interfering multipaths are accumulated to derive the total pilot interference, which is subtracted from the data samples to provide pilot-canceled data samples. These samples are then processed to derive demodulated data for each of at least one (desired) signal instance in the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Alessandro Vanelli Coralli, Henry David Pfister, Jilei Hou, John Edward Smee, Roberto Padovani, Brian K. Butler, Jeffrey A. Levin, Thomas B. Wilborn, Paul E. Bender
  • Patent number: 8611311
    Abstract: Methods and systems for estimating and canceling pilot interference in a wireless (e.g., CDMA) communication system. In one method, a received signal comprised of a number of signal instances, each including a pilot, is initially processed to provide data samples. Each signal instance's pilot interference may be estimated by despreading the data samples with a spreading sequence for the signal instance, channelizing the despread data to provide pilot symbols, filtering the pilot symbols to estimate the channel response of the signal instance, and multiplying the estimated channel response with the spreading sequence. The pilot interference estimates due to a plurality of interfering multipaths are accumulated to derive the total pilot interference, which is subtracted from the data samples to provide pilot-canceled data samples. These samples are then processed to derive demodulated data for each of at least one (desired) signal instance in the received signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Alessandro Vanelli Coralli, Henry David Pfister, Jilei Hou, John Edward Smee, Roberto Padovani, Brian K Butler, Jeffrey A Levin, Thomas B Wilborn, Paul E Bender
  • Patent number: 8601130
    Abstract: A network function is configured to maintain a copy of a session state for an access terminal. The network function is further configured to query a session master to determine whether the session state has changed. The session master is configured to generate a response to the query that enables the network function to update the copy of the session state if the session state has changed. The access terminal may be configured to change the session state at a first network function and send a message to a second network function to indicate that the session state has been changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gavin Horn, Fatih Ulupinar, Paul E. Bender, Rajat Prakash
  • Patent number: 8588777
    Abstract: A communication system that allows a soft handoff to be completed, even when the communications link between the active base station and the mobile station deteriorates before the mobile station has received the handoff direction message. The mobile station maintains a list of base stations that the mobile station is in communication with, referred to as an “Active Set”. In addition, the mobile station maintains another list of base stations that are proximate to the base stations in the active set. This list is referred to as the “Neighbor Set”. In accordance with the disclosed method and apparatus, the mobile station places a base station in the active set upon including the base station in a pilot strength measurement message (PSMM). The mobile station monitors transmissions from all of the base stations on the active set to receive a handoff direction message (HDM).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Matthew Stuart Grob, Roberto Padovani, Paul E. Bender, Gadi Karmi, Robert H. Kimball, Greg M. Hoagland
  • Publication number: 20130303222
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to connected-state radio session transfer in wireless communications. A target access network controller may create a radio session associated with an access terminal, the radio session corresponding with a source radio session at a source access network controller. The target access network controller may also establish a communication route between a data network and the access terminal via the target access network controller. The target access network controller may further receive a frozen state associated with the source radio session from the source access network controller. In an aspect, the frozen state may include a snapshot of any data being communicated through the source radio session when freezing occurred. The target access network controller may subsequently unfreeze the received state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, Parag Arun Agashe, Ramin Rezaiifar, Bibhu P. Mohanty, Paul E. Bender
  • Patent number: 8565217
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for communicating packets from a remote access node assembly by way of a serving access node assembly are described. An inter-route tunneling protocol module which interfaces with a radio link protocol module is used to recover a tunneled route protocol packet. Information to be communicated to the access terminal from the remote access node assembly by way of the serving access node assembly is subject to two levels of radio link protocol (RLP) processing operations. The first level of RLP processing being performed by the remote access node assembly. The second level of RLP processing being performed by the serving access node assembly. The access terminal, in recovering information performs the inverse of the two levels of RLP processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rajat Prakash, Fatih Ulupinar, Gavin Bernard Horn, Paul E. Bender
  • Patent number: 8565216
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for communicating packets of information from an access terminal to a remote access node assembly by way of a serving access node assembly are described. An inter-route tunneling protocol module which interfaces with a radio link protocol module is used to tunnel route protocol packets. A first radio link protocol stream is associated with an application resident on the access terminal. A second radio link protocol stream is associated with an inter-route tunneling protocol module. Information to be communicated to a remote access node assembly by way of a serving access node assembly is subjected to two different radio link protocol processing operations. A first one of the RLP processing operations corresponds to the remote access node assembly while the second RLP processing operation corresponds to the serving access node assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Rajat Prakash, Fatih Ulupinar, Gavin Bernard Horn, Paul E. Bender
  • Patent number: 8526975
    Abstract: In communications networks, network elements require knowledge of other network elements such as when they are added to or deleted from the network configuration and the resources they have available. The protocol allows network elements to communicate resource information dynamically and directly. The protocol also allows direct exchange of network configuration information between network elements for determining wireless communications network paging areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventor: Paul E. Bender
  • Patent number: 8515424
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to connected-state radio session transfer in wireless communications. A source access network controller may lock a source radio session associated with an access terminal (e.g., in response to detecting a handoff condition associated with the access terminal), where the source access network controller may be in communication with a data network. The source access network controller may also instruct a target access network controller to create a target radio session corresponding with the source radio session, and to establish a communication route between the data network and the access network via the target ANC. The source access network controller may then freeze a state associated with the source radio session and transmits the frozen state to the target access network controller. The target access network controller may subsequently unfreeze the received state and further unlock the radio session, hence resuming control of the access terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, Parag Arun Agashe, Ramin Rezaiifar, Bibhu P. Mohanty, Paul E. Bender
  • Patent number: 8452107
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for face recognition that is occlusion tolerant and scale/shift invariant based on a combination of hierarchical maximization and adaptive representation technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Zheng, Yinyin Liu, Paul E. Bender