Patents by Inventor Ric Senior

Ric Senior 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: 8369356
    Abstract: Techniques for dynamically managing receiver resources to achieve good latency and throughput performance are described. A receiver may have various types of receiver resources such as demod resources for demodulating packets, decode resources for decoding packets, packet processing resources, etc. These various types of receiver resources may be dynamically assigned to packets. In one design, receiver resource usage by each packet to be processed by the receiver may be estimated. The available receiver resources may be assigned to packets based on the estimated receiver resource usage by each packet and one or more assignment criteria such as priority, latency requirements, etc. The latency of each packet may be determined based on the receiver resource assignment. If the latency requirements of any packet are not met, then receiver processing may be skipped or deferred for one or more packets such that the latency requirements of each packet to be processed can be met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ming-Chang Tsai, James J. Wu, Pillappakkam Srinivas, Ric Senior, Vinayak Chowdiah
  • Publication number: 20080232282
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices that facilitate finite-precision data accumulation by utilizing precision binning and queuing are provided. A precision range of a data element received into a queue can be determined. Further, a stored data element of like precision can be selected. The stored data element can be added with the data element received into the queue to generate a resultant data element. The resultant data element can be stored in a memory location or the queue as a function of like precision range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ming-Chang Tsai, Pillappakkam Srinivas, Ric Senior
  • Publication number: 20080232400
    Abstract: Techniques for dynamically managing receiver resources to achieve good latency and throughput performance are described. A receiver may have various types of receiver resources such as demod resources for demodulating packets, decode resources for decoding packets, packet processing resources, etc. These various types of receiver resources may be dynamically assigned to packets. In one design, receiver resource usage by each packet to be processed by the receiver may be estimated. The available receiver resources may be assigned to packets based on the estimated receiver resource usage by each packet and one or more assignment criteria such as priority, latency requirements, etc. The latency of each packet may be determined based on the receiver resource assignment. If the latency requirements of any packet are not met, then receiver processing may be skipped or deferred for one or more packets such that the latency requirements of each packet to be processed can be met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2008
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ming-Chang Tsai, James J. Wu, Phillappakkam Srinivas, Ric Senior, Vinayak Chowdiah