Patents by Inventor Peter Darwood
Peter Darwood 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: 20200037296Abstract: A mobile communications unit for communicating data to and/or from base stations, the unit being arranged to communicate data with one or more base stations via a wireless access interface provided by the one or more base stations; arranged to receive transmissions from the one or more base stations via at least one carrier, wherein carriers are logically separate sets of physical resources within a frequency range, the resources of a carrier providing a communication channel; and arranged, upon reception of allocation information comprising an indication of the location of common information within a first carrier, to access the common information in the first carrier, wherein the allocation information is provided in a second carrier and the common information is for at least one mobile unit using the first carrier and for at least one mobile unit using a second carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: SCA IPLA Holdings Inc.Inventors: Peter DARWOOD, Darren MCNAMARA
-
Publication number: 20200037326Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mobile communications system and method for communicating data to and/or from mobile communications devices. The method includes receiving, by a mobile terminal, a signal on a downlink, detecting a reduced bandwidth carrier on the downlink, and receiving downlink communications via the reduced bandwidth carrier, wherein the reduced bandwidth carrier is configured to provide a first set of resource elements within first frequency resources that are within and smaller than second frequency resources that are used by a host carrier to provide a second set of resource elements, wherein the reduced bandwidth carrier is provided in the first frequency resources in a first sub-frame, wherein the reduced bandwidth carrier is provided in third frequency resources in a second sub-frame after the first sub-frame, and wherein the third frequency resources are within and smaller than the first frequency resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: SCA IPLA Holdings Inc.Inventors: Darren MCNAMARA, Andrew LILLIE, Peter DARWOOD, Martin BEALE
-
Publication number: 20190364528Abstract: A telecommunications system communicating data to/from one or more terminals, including one or more transmitters to transmit first and second carriers over respective first and second frequency bandwidths. During a first time period the transmitters can transmit data receivable by first and second classes of terminal on the first and second carriers. During a second different time period, the transmitters can transmit data to the second class of terminal on the first and second carriers in combination. A data transmission format on the first carrier in the first time period is incompatible with a user data transmission format on the second carrier during the first time period. The transmitters can transmit control data on the first carrier in the first time period which is receivable by the second class of terminal to enable the second class of terminal to maintain synchronisation with the first carrier during the first time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Peter DARWOOD, Martin BEALE
-
Patent number: 10462779Abstract: A mobile communications unit for communicating data to and/or from base stations, the unit being arranged to communicate data with one or more base stations via a wireless access interface provided by the one or more base stations; arranged to receive transmissions from the one or more base stations via at least one carrier, wherein carriers are logically separate sets of physical resources within a frequency range, the resources of a carrier providing a communication channel; and arranged, upon reception of allocation information comprising an indication of the location of common information within a first carrier, to access the common information in the first carrier, wherein the allocation information is provided in a second carrier and the common information is for at least one mobile unit using the first carrier and for at least one mobile unit using a second carrier.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Peter Darwood, Darren McNamara
-
Publication number: 20190327044Abstract: A method of allocating transmission resources in an OFDM wireless telecommunication system arranged to communicate data using a plurality of OFDM sub-carriers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Applicant: SCA IPLA Holdings Inc.Inventors: Darren MCNAMARA, Andrew LILLIE, Peter DARWOOD, Martin BEALE
-
Patent number: 10455581Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mobile communications system and method for communicating data to and/or from mobile communications devices. The method includes receiving, by a mobile terminal, a signal on a downlink, detecting a reduced bandwidth carrier on the downlink, and receiving downlink communications via the reduced bandwidth carrier, wherein the reduced bandwidth carrier is configured to provide a first set of resource elements within first frequency resources that are within and smaller than second frequency resources that are used by a host carrier to provide a second set of resource elements, wherein the reduced bandwidth carrier is provided in the first frequency resources in a first sub-frame, wherein the reduced bandwidth carrier is provided in third frequency resources in a second sub-frame after the first sub-frame, and wherein the third frequency resources are within and smaller than the first frequency resources.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Darren McNamara, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
-
Patent number: 10412693Abstract: A telecommunications system communicating data to/from one or more terminals, including one or more transmitters to transmit first and second carriers over respective first and second frequency bandwidths. During a first time period the transmitters can transmit data receivable by first and second classes of terminal on the first and second carriers. During a second different time period, the transmitters can transmit data to the second class of terminal on the first and second carriers in combination. A data transmission format on the first carrier in the first time period is incompatible with a user data transmission format on the second carrier during the first time period. The transmitters can transmit control data on the first carrier in the first time period which is receivable by the second class of terminal to enable the second class of terminal to maintain synchronization with the first carrier during the first time period.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2012Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
-
Publication number: 20190239228Abstract: A network element for use in a mobile communications system and a method of using a network element for communicating data to/from mobile communications devices in a mobile communications system. The network element can provide a wireless access interface for communicating data to/from the mobile communications devices, the wireless access interface including: on a downlink a host carrier, the host carrier providing plural resource elements across a first frequency range; transmit data for a first group of mobile communications devices, wherein the data is distributed within the plural resource elements across the first frequency range; a virtual carrier via the wireless access interface, the virtual carrier providing one or more resource elements within a second frequency range which is within and smaller than the first frequency range; and transmit data for a second group of mobile communications devices via the virtual carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: SCA IPLA Holdings Inc.Inventors: Darren MCNAMARA, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
-
Patent number: 10361824Abstract: A method of allocating transmission resources in an OFDM wireless telecommunication system arranged to communicate data using a plurality of OFDM sub-carriers.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Darren McNamara, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
-
Patent number: 10299274Abstract: A network element for use in a mobile communications system and a method of using a network element for communicating data to/from mobile communications devices in a mobile communications system. The network element can provide a wireless access interface for communicating data to/from the mobile communications devices, the wireless access interface including: on a downlink a host carrier, the host carrier providing plural resource elements across a first frequency range; transmit data for a first group of mobile communications devices, wherein the data is distributed within the plural resource elements across the first frequency range; a virtual carrier via the wireless access interface, the virtual carrier providing one or more resource elements within a second frequency range which is within and smaller than the first frequency range; and transmit data for a second group of mobile communications devices via the virtual carrier.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Darren McNamara, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
-
Publication number: 20180359757Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mobile communications system and method for communicating data to and/or from mobile communications devices. The method includes receiving, by a mobile terminal, a signal on a downlink, detecting a reduced bandwidth carrier on the downlink, and receiving downlink communications via the reduced bandwidth carrier, wherein the reduced bandwidth carrier is configured to provide a first set of resource elements within first frequency resources that are within and smaller than second frequency resources that are used by a host carrier to provide a second set of resource elements, wherein the reduced bandwidth carrier is provided in the first frequency resources in a first sub-frame, wherein the reduced bandwidth carrier is provided in third frequency resources in a second sub-frame after the first sub-frame, and wherein the third frequency resources are within and smaller than the first frequency resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2018Publication date: December 13, 2018Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Darren McNamara, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
-
Patent number: 10070440Abstract: The present disclosure provides a mobile communications system and method for communicating data to and/or from mobile communications devices. The method includes receiving, by a mobile terminal, a signal on a downlink from a base station, detecting a virtual carrier on the downlink, and receiving downlink communications via the virtual carrier, wherein the virtual carrier is configured to provide a first set of resource elements within first frequency resources that are within and smaller than second frequency resources that are used by a host carrier to provide a second set of resource elements, wherein the virtual carrier is provided in the first frequency resources in a first sub-frame, wherein the virtual carrier is provided in third frequency resources in a second sub-frame after the first sub-frame, and wherein the third frequency resources are within and smaller than the first frequency resources.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Darren McNamara, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
-
Publication number: 20180227895Abstract: A mobile communications unit for communicating data to and/or from base stations, the unit being arranged to communicate data with one or more base stations via a wireless access interface provided by the one or more base stations; arranged to receive transmissions from the one or more base stations via at least one carrier, wherein carriers are logically separate sets of physical resources within a frequency range, the resources of a carrier providing a communication channel; and arranged, upon reception of allocation information comprising an indication of the location of common information within a first carrier, to access the common information in the first carrier, wherein the allocation information is provided in a second carrier and the common information is for at least one mobile unit using the first carrier and for at least one mobile unit using a second carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2018Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Peter Darwood, Darren McNamara
-
Publication number: 20180167176Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system including mobile terminals of first type and second type configured to transmit uplink data to a network over a radio interface using plural sub-carriers. The mobile terminals of first type configured to transmit uplink data on a first group of the sub-carriers over a first bandwidth and the mobile terminals of second type configured to transmit uplink data on a second group of the sub-carriers within the first group of sub-carrier over a second bandwidth smaller than the first bandwidth. The mobile terminals of first type transmit random access request messages to a base station of the network requesting uplink radio resources on a first random access channel. The mobile terminals of second type transmit random access request messages to the base station of the network requesting uplink radio resources on a second random access channel on sub-carriers within the second sub-carrier group.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2018Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Darren MCNAMARA, Andrew LILLIE, Peter DARWOOD, Martin BEALE
-
Patent number: 9974069Abstract: A mobile communications system for communicating data to and/or from mobile units, the system comprising one or more base stations arranged to communicate data to or from the mobile units via a wireless access interface within one or more frequency bands, and one or more of the base stations is arranged to provide a plurality of logically separate carriers for transmitting data to mobile units, wherein each of the logically separate carriers comprises physical communications resources within the one or more frequency bands of the wireless access interface; a first group of one or more mobile units arranged to communicate with the one or more base stations via at least a first carrier of the plurality of carriers; and a second group of one or more mobile units arranged to communicate with the one or more base stations via at least a second carrier of the plurality of carriers.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Peter Darwood, Darren McNamara
-
Patent number: 9967869Abstract: A mobile communications unit for communicating data to and/or from base stations, the unit configured to communicate data with one or more base stations via a wireless access interface provided by the one or more base stations; configured to receive transmissions from the one or more base stations via at least one carrier, wherein carriers are logically separate sets of physical resources within a frequency range, the resources of a carrier providing a communication channel; and configured, upon reception of allocation information including an indication of a location of common information within a first carrier, to access the common information in the first carrier, wherein the allocation information is provided in a second carrier and the common information is for at least one mobile unit using the first carrier and for at least one mobile unit using a second carrier.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2012Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Peter Darwood, Darren McNamara
-
Publication number: 20180109363Abstract: A method of allocating transmission resources in an OFDM wireless telecommunication system arranged to communicate data using a plurality of OFDM sub-carriers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Darren MCNAMARA, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
-
Patent number: 9912450Abstract: A mobile telecommunications system including mobile terminals of first type and second type configured to transmit uplink data to a network over a radio interface using plural sub-carriers. The mobile terminals of first type configured to transmit uplink data on a first group of the sub-carriers over a first bandwidth and the mobile terminals of second type configured to transmit uplink data on a second group of the sub-carriers within the first group of sub-carrier over a second bandwidth smaller than the first bandwidth. The mobile terminals of first type transmit random access request messages to a base station of the network requesting uplink radio resources on a first random access channel. The mobile terminals of second type transmit random access request messages to the base station of the network requesting uplink radio resources on a second random access channel on sub-carriers within the second sub-carrier group.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Darren McNamara, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
-
Patent number: 9860032Abstract: A method of allocating transmission resources in an OFDM wireless telecommunication system arranged to communicate data using a plurality of OFDM sub-carriers.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2016Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INCInventors: Darren McNamara, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale
-
Publication number: 20170325232Abstract: A network element for use in a mobile communications system and a method of using a network element for communicating data to/from mobile communications devices in a mobile communications system. The network element can provide a wireless access interface for communicating data to/from the mobile communications devices, the wireless access interface including: on a downlink a host carrier, the host carrier providing plural resource elements across a first frequency range; transmit data for a first group of mobile communications devices, wherein the data is distributed within the plural resource elements across the first frequency range; a virtual carrier via the wireless access interface, the virtual carrier providing one or more resource elements within a second frequency range which is within and smaller than the first frequency range; and transmit data for a second group of mobile communications devices via the virtual carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2017Publication date: November 9, 2017Applicant: SCA IPLA HOLDINGS INC.Inventors: Darren MCNAMARA, Andrew Lillie, Peter Darwood, Martin Beale