Patents by Inventor Peter Michael Deane

Peter Michael Deane 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).

  • Method and apparatus for candidate list generation for uplink V-MIMO
    Patent number: 9392578
    Abstract: A method selects mobile station candidates for use with virtual multiple-input multiple-output (“V-MIMO”) in a communication system. The communication system includes at least one base station and a plurality of mobile stations. At least one downlink metric is determined for a first mobile station. The at least one downlink metric is used to determine eligibility for uplink V-MIMO candidate list selection. Responsive to determining that the first mobile station is eligible for uplink V-MIMO candidate list selection, the first mobile station is paired with a second mobile station eligible for uplink V-MIMO candidate list selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shankar Venkatraman, Ashvin Chheda, Peter Michael Deane, Patrick Lie Chin Cheong
  • Method and apparatus for candidate list generation for uplink V-MIMO
    Patent number: 9161335
    Abstract: A method selects mobile station candidates for use with virtual multiple-input multiple-output (“V-MIMO”) in a communication system. The communication system includes at least one base station and a plurality of mobile stations. At least one downlink metric is determined for a first mobile station. The at least one downlink metric is used to determine eligibility for uplink V-MIMO candidate list selection. Responsive to determining that the first mobile station is eligible for uplink V-MIMO candidate list selection, the first mobile station is paired with a second mobile station eligible for uplink V-MIMO candidate list selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Shankar Venkatraman, Ashvin Chheda, Peter Michael Deane, Patrick Lie Chin Cheong
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CANDIDATE LIST GENERATION FOR UPLINK V-MIMO
    Publication number: 20120207114
    Abstract: A method selects mobile station candidates for use with virtual multiple-input multiple-output (“V-MIMO”) in a communication system. The communication system includes at least one base station and a plurality of mobile stations. At least one downlink metric is determined for a first mobile station. The at least one downlink metric is used to determine eligibility for uplink V-MIMO candidate list selection. Responsive to determining that the first mobile station is eligible for uplink V-MIMO candidate list selection, the first mobile station is paired with a second mobile station eligible for uplink V-MIMO candidate list selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: ROCKSTAR BIDCO, L.P.
    Inventors: Shankar VENKATRAMAN, Ashvin CHHEDA, Peter Michael DEANE, Patrick Lie Chin CHEONG
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CANDIDATE LIST GENERATION FOR UPLINK V-MIMO
    Publication number: 20110034206
    Abstract: A method selects mobile station candidates for use with virtual multiple-input multiple-output (“V-MIMO”) in a communication system. The communication system includes at least one base station and a plurality of mobile stations. At least one downlink metric is determined for a first mobile station. The at least one downlink metric is used to determine eligibility for uplink V-MIMO candidate list selection. Responsive to determining that the first mobile station is eligible for uplink V-MIMO candidate list selection, the first mobile station is paired with a second mobile station eligible for uplink V-MIMO candidate list selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: NORTEL NETWORKS LIMITED
    Inventors: Shankar Venkatraman, Ashvin Chheda, Peter Michael Deane, Patrick Lie Chin Cheong
  • Method for limiting the dynamic range of a CDMA signal
    Patent number: 6278702
    Abstract: The invention is a method and system for reducing the dynamic range of a signal input to a power amplifier in a CDMA forward-link transmission system. This is achieved by introducing a controllable amount of code-domain distortion to the data prior to spreading by Walsh codes. The amount of distortion is calculated by creating a data vector, applying a transform to the data vector to obtain a sequence, distorting the result to obtain a distorted sequence, applying an inverse transform to the distorted sequence to obtain a distorted data vector and comparing the distorted data vector to the original data, thereby to obtain the amount of code-domain distortion to be added to the data. The resultant, “corrected” spread-spectrum waveform can be controlled to the extent that it is guaranteed never to exceed a prescribed voltage range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Limited
    Inventors: Peter Michael Deane, Paul Newson