Patents by Inventor Paul Stephen Norridge
Paul Stephen Norridge 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).
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Patent number: 9819616Abstract: An apparatus for use in a SpaceWire-based network is configured to send and receive data packets, and process data included in a received data packet. A header of the received data packet is stored in a buffer while the data is being processed, a processed data packet including the stored header and the processed data is generated, and the processed data packet is transmitted. The header of the received data packet may be modified, and the modified header attached to the processed data to generate the processed data packet. When the data packet is received via a first port, the processed data packet may be transmitted via the first port, or may be transmitted via a second port.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2014Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: ASTRIUM LIMITEDInventors: Paul Stephen Norridge, Wayne Sullivan, Mikael Stig Collin
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Publication number: 20160248705Abstract: An apparatus for use in a SpaceWire-based network is configured to send and receive data packets, and process data included in a received data packet. A header of the received data packet is stored in a buffer whilst the data is being processed, a processed data packet including the stored header and the processed data is generated, and the processed data packet is transmitted. The header of the received data packet may be modified, and the modified header attached to the processed data to generate the processed data packet. When the data packet is received via a first port, the processed data packet may be transmitted via the first port, or may be transmitted via a second port.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2014Publication date: August 25, 2016Applicant: ASTRIUM LIMITEDInventors: Paul Stephen NORRIDGE, Wayne Sullivan, Mikael Stig Collin
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Publication number: 20150350070Abstract: An apparatus for use in a SpaceWire-based network is configured to send and receive data packets, and process data included in a received data packet. A header of the received data packet is stored in a buffer whilst the data is being processed, a processed data packet including the stored header and the processed data is generated, and the processed data packet is transmitted. The header of the received data packet may be modified, and the modified header attached to the processed data to generate the processed data packet. When the data packet is received via a first port, the processed data packet may be transmitted via the first port, or may be transmitted via a second port.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2012Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: ASTRIUM LIMITEDInventors: Paul Stephen NORRIDGE, Wayne SULLIVAN, Mikael Stig COLLIN
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Publication number: 20140362861Abstract: An apparatus for use in a SpaceWire-based network is configured to send and receive data packets, and process data included in a received data packet. A header of the received data packet is stored in a buffer whilst the data is being processed, a processed data packet including the stored header and the processed data is generated, and the processed data packet is transmitted. The header of the received data packet may be modified, and the modified header attached to the processed data to generate the processed data packet. When the data packet is received via a first port, the processed data packet may be transmitted via the first port, or may be transmitted via a second port.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Applicant: ASTRIUM LIMITEDInventors: Paul Stephen NORRIDGE, Wayne Sullivan, Mikael Stig Collin
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Patent number: 8489055Abstract: The invention relates to active interference suppression in a satellite communication system, particularly but not exclusively to an apparatus and method for using active interference suppression in order to suppress co-channel interference between user signals in the communication system. The communication system includes a receive or transmit antenna having a plurality of antenna elements, each antenna element associated with a respective antenna element signal. The method includes the steps of calculating complex weighting values for one or more of a plurality of beam signals, adjusting the beam signals in accordance with the calculated complex weighting values and cancelling co-channel interference in at least one of the beam signals using the one or more adjusted derived beam signals to provide an interference suppressed output signal. The complex weighting values can be calculated based on a constant modulus algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2010Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Astrium LimitedInventors: Antony Duncan Craig, Paul Stephen Norridge, David Michael Howe
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Patent number: 8339307Abstract: A digital method of determining and correcting beam-pointing for a communications spacecraft that has a digital beam-forming architecture for defining multiple spot transmit and receive beams, the antenna system of the spacecraft including a receive antenna (DRA, AFR) having antenna elements providing respective antenna element signals, and wherein at least one of the uplink signals to the spacecraft includes a beacon signal, and wherein the method comprises digitally weighting components of said beacon signal present in antenna element signals, combining such weighted beacon signal components such as to derive beam-pointing error signals, and employing the error signals to adjust beam-forming weight values of the receive antenna, in order to adjust the pointing direction of at least one signal beam. The digital weights for the beacon signal define difference radiation patterns for x, y axes of the antenna which vary rapidly in a range corresponding to the pointing errors most commonly occurring.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2008Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Astrium LimitedInventors: Anthony Duncan Craig, Paul Stephen Norridge
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Publication number: 20100231442Abstract: A digital method of determining and correcting beam-pointing for a communications spacecraft that has a digital beam-forming architecture for defining multiple spot transmit and receive beams, the antenna system of the spacecraft including a receive antenna (DRA, AFR) having antenna elements providing respective antenna element signals, and wherein at least one of the uplink signals to the spacecraft includes a beacon signal, and wherein the method comprises digitally weighting components of said beacon signal present in antenna element signals, combining such weighted beacon signal components such as to derive beam-pointing error signals, and employing the error signals to adjust beam-forming weight values of the receive antenna, in order to adjust the pointing direction of at least one signal beam. The digital weights for the beacon signal define difference radiation patterns for x, y axes of the antenna which vary rapidly in a range corresponding to the pointing errors most commonly occurring.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2008Publication date: September 16, 2010Inventors: Anthony Duncan Craig, Paul Stephen Norridge
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Publication number: 20100221997Abstract: The invention relates to active interference suppression in a satellite communication system, particularly but not exclusively to an apparatus and method for using active interference suppression in order to suppress co-channel interference between user signals in the communication system. The communication system includes a receive or transmit antenna having a plurality of antenna elements, each antenna element associated with a respective antenna element signal. The method includes the steps of calculating complex weighting values for one or more of a plurality of beam signals, adjusting the beam signals in accordance with the calculated complex weighting values and cancelling co-channel interference in at least one of the beam signals using the one or more adjusted derived beam signals to provide an interference suppressed output signal. The complex weighting values can be calculated based on a constant modulus algorithm.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2010Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: Astrium LimitedInventors: Antony Duncan Craig, Paul Stephen Norridge, David Michael Howe
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Publication number: 20100123621Abstract: The invention relates to active interference suppression in a satellite communication system, particularly but not exclusively to an apparatus and method for using active interference suppression in order to suppress co-channel interference between user signals in the communication system. The communication system includes a receive or transmit antenna having a plurality of antenna elements, each antenna element associated with a respective antenna element signal. The method includes the steps of calculating complex weighting values for one or more of a plurality of beam signals, adjusting the beam signals in accordance with the calculated complex weighting values and cancelling co-channel interference in at least one of the beam signals using the one or more adjusted derived beam signals to provide an interference suppressed output signal. The complex weighting values can be calculated based on a constant modulus algorithm.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2009Publication date: May 20, 2010Applicant: ASTRIUM LIMITEDInventors: Antony Duncan Craig, Paul Stephen Norridge, David Michael Howe