Patents by Inventor Robert Alderfer

Robert Alderfer 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).

  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ADAPTIVE MITIGATION FOR SHARED ACCESS
    Publication number: 20200015092
    Abstract: A method for managing shared wireless communications in a wireless communication network is provided. The wireless communications network includes at least one cooperative device and at least one non-cooperative device. The method includes the steps of monitoring, by the at least one cooperative device, a selected channel of a shared spectrum of the wireless communication network, detecting, by the at least one cooperative device, a presence of a transmission from the non-cooperative device within a measurable vicinity of the cooperative device, and responding, by the at least one cooperative device, to the detected presence of the transmission from the non-cooperative device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: ROBERT ALDERFER, BERNARD McKIBBEN, GREGORY RUTZ
  • Systems and methods of adaptive mitigation for shared access
    Patent number: 10419940
    Abstract: A method for managing shared wireless communications in a wireless communication network is provided. The wireless communications network includes at least one cooperative device and at least one non-cooperative device. The method includes the steps of monitoring, by the at least one cooperative device, a selected channel of a shared spectrum of the wireless communication network, detecting, by the at least one cooperative device, a presence of a transmission from the non-cooperative device within a measurable vicinity of the cooperative device, and responding, by the at least one cooperative device, to the detected presence of the transmission from the non-cooperative device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Alderfer, Bernard McKibben, Gregory Rutz
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ADAPTIVE MITIGATION FOR SHARED ACCESS
    Publication number: 20170180999
    Abstract: A method for managing shared wireless communications in a wireless communication network is provided. The wireless communications network includes at least one cooperative device and at least one non-cooperative device. The method includes the steps of monitoring, by the at least one cooperative device, a selected channel of a shared spectrum of the wireless communication network, detecting, by the at least one cooperative device, a presence of a transmission from the non-cooperative device within a measurable vicinity of the cooperative device, and responding, by the at least one cooperative device, to the detected presence of the transmission from the non-cooperative device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Robert Alderfer, Bernard McKibben, Gregory Rutz