Patents by Inventor Paul Richard Ellis

Paul Richard Ellis 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).

  • Apparatus and method for inheriting a non-secure thread context
    Patent number: 9342688
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for inheriting a non-secure thread context. In the method, a first secure monitor call associated with a first non-secure thread of a non-secure environment of a processing system is received. A first secure thread is created, in response to the first secure monitor call, that inherits a first interrupt state of the first non-secure thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Samar Asbe, Tero M. Kukola, Paul Richard Ellis, Qazi Y. Bashir, Suresh Bollapragada
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INHERITING A NON-SECURE THREAD CONTEXT
    Publication number: 20140259101
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for inheriting a non-secure thread context. In the method, a first secure monitor call associated with a first non-secure thread of a non-secure environment of a processing system is received. A first secure thread is created, in response to the first secure monitor call, that inherits a first interrupt state of the first non-secure thread.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Samar Asbe, Tero M. Kukola, Paul Richard Ellis, Qazi Y. Bashir, Suresh Bollapragada
  • Application programming interface (API) for restoring a default scan list in a wireless communications receiver
    Patent number: 8645976
    Abstract: A signal may be received in accordance with a protocol stack having a first portion (400) that contains a control layer and a stream layer, and a second portion (401) that contains a physical layer and a MAC layer. The first portion may invoke an application program interface (API 1402) to instruct the second portion to replace a current set of signal acquisition parameters with an initial set of signal acquisition parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shusheel Gautam, Michael DeVico, Robert Stacey, Phani Bhushan Avadhanam, Ying Gao, Jian Zhang, Paul Richard Ellis, Viktor Filiba, Tong Tang
  • APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) FOR HANDLING ERRORS IN PACKETS RECEIVED BY A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVER
    Publication number: 20090019460
    Abstract: Packets of information may be received in accordance with a protocol stack having a first portion (400) that contains a control layer and a stream layer, and a second portion (401) that contains a physical layer and a MAC layer. The second portion also maintains a group of inbound packets and respectively associated error statuses. The first portion invokes an application programming interface (API 1301,1302,1401,1402) to instruct the second portion to perform an action with respect to at least one of the inbound packets, which action is related to the error status associated with that packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shusheel Gautam, Michael DeVico, Rob Stacey, Phani Bhushan Avadhanam, Ying Gao, Jian Zhang, Paul Richard Ellis, Viktor Filiba, Tong Tang
  • APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) FOR RESTORING A DEFAULT SCAN LIST IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVER
    Publication number: 20090019461
    Abstract: A signal may be received in accordance with a protocol stack having a first portion (400) that contains a control layer and a stream layer, and a second portion (401) that contains a physical layer and a MAC layer. The first portion may invoke an application program interface (API 1402) to instruct the second portion to replace a current set of signal acquisition parameters with an initial set of signal acquisition parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shusheel Gautam, Michael DeVico, Rob Stacey, Phani Bhushan Avadhanam, Ying Gao, Jian Zhang, Paul Richard Ellis, Viktor Filiba, Tong Tang
  • APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE (API) FOR A RECEIVER IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE
    Publication number: 20080176546
    Abstract: An apparatus is configured to receive a signal in accordance with a protocol stack comprising a physical layer, MAC layer, control layer and stream layer. The apparatus includes a receiver stack processing system configured to provide the control and stream layers, a media processing system configured to provide the physical and MAC layers, and an application programming interface (API) to support service requests from the receiver stack processing system to the media processing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Publication date: July 24, 2008
    Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Michael Devico, Phani Bhushan Avadhanam, Rob Stacey, Shusheel Gautam, Tong Tang, Viktor Filiba, Ying Gao, Jian Zhang, Paul Richard Ellis