Patents by Inventor Robert Mark

Robert Mark 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: 12120240
    Abstract: An apparatus is described that comprises: communication circuitry configured to receive from a submitter, over a network, a data item being of a first data type and processing circuitry configured to: transform the first data type to a second, different, data type; remove non-significant content from the data item in the second data type; generate a hash of the data item having non-significant content removed to be signed; and provide the hash for signing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: VOCALINK LIMITED
    Inventors: Julian Robert Mark Barnes, Clifford Norman Russell, Erick Lopes Da Silva
  • Patent number: 12114363
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods for user equipment (UE) random access to a cell in a wireless network. Such methods include selecting one of a plurality of available random-access preambles and mapping the selected random-access preamble to one of a plurality of available physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) resource units (PRUs) based on a mapping constraint. In the mapping constraint, one or more of the available PRUs are not used for the mapping and an integer number of the available random-access preambles are mapped to each of the available PRUs that are used for the mapping. Such methods also include transmitting the selected random-access preamble on a random access channel (RACH) and transmitting a data message on the PRU mapped to the selected random-access preamble. Other embodiments include complementary methods for a network node, as well as UEs and network nodes configured to perform such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Krishna Chitti, Andreas Cedergren, Robert Mark Harrison, Zhipeng Lin, Jonas Sedin
  • Publication number: 20240334001
    Abstract: A method for outputting a video stream is described. This method includes: receiving one or more video streams of a real life event; selecting one of the one or more video streams; automatically generating an annotation for the selected one video stream based upon the content of the selected video stream; and outputting the annotation with the selected one of the one or more video streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Mark Stefan PORTER, Paul PRAYLE, William LEATHERS-SMITH
  • Publication number: 20240334499
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for random access. A method performed by a terminal device comprises determining a random access procedure to be performed, the random access procedure being one of a two-step random access procedure and a four-step random access procedure, and transmitting a request message for random access in the determined random access procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Zhipeng LIN, Johan AXNÄS, Robert KARLSSON, Asbjörn GRÖVLEN, Robert Mark HARRISON
  • Patent number: 12102577
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to patient support systems, such as hospital beds, and particularly to reconfigurable patient support systems movable among a number of different positions. The present disclosure further relates to control algorithms and interfaces for use in patient support systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric R. Meyer, Darrell Borgman, Timothy Joseph Receveur, Gregory W. Branson, Sandy Mark Richards, Howard J. Boyd, David W. Hornbach, Robert Mark Zerhusen, James Maurice Allen, Jennifer Fearing, Mark S. Chiacchira, Jonathan D. Turner, Mark Lanning, Aziz A. Bhai
  • Patent number: 12096478
    Abstract: A method is performed by a wireless device for accessing a network. The method comprises performing a two-step random access procedure. This comprises transmitting a preamble in at least one Physical Random Access Channel, PRACH, occasion, and transmitting a Physical Uplink Shared Channel, PUSCH. A position of the at least one PRACH occasion for transmitting the preamble is determined to ensure that a gap between transmitting the preamble and transmitting the PUSCH is less than a predetermined duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Jan Christoffersson, Johan Axnäs, Robert Mark Harrison
  • Publication number: 20240306187
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for downlink control information. A method at a network device comprises determining a format of downlink control information (DCI) used for scheduling of downlink shared channel in a 2-step random access procedure. The method further comprises determining an identifier used for scrambling cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the format of DCI. The identifier comprises at least one of a common identifier or a specific identifier. The method further comprises transmitting information regarding a scheduled downlink shared channel with the format of DCI with the CRC scrambled by the identifier on a downlink control channel to at least one terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Zhipeng LIN, Robert Mark HARRISON
  • Publication number: 20240298773
    Abstract: A haircare appliance has an air inlet, an air outlet, and an airflow generator for generating an airflow from the air inlet to the air outlet. The air outlet is at least partially defined by movable member. Movement of the movable member varies a cross-sectional area of the air outlet, and the movable member is movable in a radial direction relative to a central axis of the haircare appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Ayrton Lloyd Taylor PEEL, Robert Mark Brett COULTON
  • Publication number: 20240305419
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a method and communication device for transport block size determination for a multi-slot transport block transmission and a method and communication device for code block segmentation for a multi-slot transport block transmission. The method for determining a size of a multi-slot transport block (TB) for a multi-slot TB-based transmission includes: determining a number of resource elements (REs) for the transmission; determining a number of information bits at least partially based on one or more of the determined number of REs, a modulation order for the transmission, a target coding rate for the transmission, and a number of layers for the transmission; and determining the size of the multi-slot TB for the transmission at least partially based on the determined number of information bits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Ling SU, Zhipeng LIN, Yuande TAN, Robert Mark HARRISON
  • Publication number: 20240298772
    Abstract: An attachment for a haircare appliance, the attachment including an air inlet, an air outlet. The attachment has a curved surface adjacent to and downstream of the air outlet. A radius of curvature of the curved is at least 16 mm. A haircare appliance having an air inlet, an air outlet, and an airflow generator for generating an airflow from the air inlet to the air outlet. The haircare appliance has a curved surface adjacent to and downstream of the air outlet. A radius of curvature of the curved surface is at least 16 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Thomas Christopher PURNELL, Ayrton Lloyd Taylor PEEL, David Andrew TIBBETTS, Stephen Benjamin COURTNEY, Robert Mark Brett COULTON
  • Publication number: 20240305421
    Abstract: A method of transmitting an uplink transmission by a wireless device is disclosed. The method comprises a wireless device receiving signaling configuring the wireless device with a plurality of Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) resources. The wireless device subsequently receives an indication, in a physical layer downlink control channel, of a selected plurality of SRS resources selected from among the plurality of configured SRS resources and transmits a plurality of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) layers of a PUSCH transmission. The selected plurality of SRS resources map to respective ones of the plurality of MIMO layers and the indication of the selected plurality of SRS resources includes SRS resource indexes with a fixed order that corresponds to an order in which the SRS resources of the selected plurality of SRS resources are mapped to the MIMO layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Mark Harrison, Sebastian Faxér, Andreas Nilsson, Sven Petersson
  • Patent number: 12089259
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for determining radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) in a two-step random access procedure. A method of a terminal device, comprising: determining a request message for random access, wherein the request message comprises a preamble and a physical uplink shared channel, PUSCH, message and the PUSCH message is determined based on a first radio network temporary identity, RNTI; transmitting the request message; and obtaining a response message for random access based on a second RNTI, wherein the first RNTI and the second RNTI are the same or different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Zhipeng Lin, Andres Reial, Jan Christoffersson, Henrik Enbuske, Johan Axnäs, Robert Mark Harrison
  • Patent number: 12088381
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method for use in a network node of transmitting channel state information reference signals (CSI-RS) comprises: transmitting, to the wireless device, an indication of the subset of PRBs that the wireless device should use to measure CSI-RS; and transmitting CSI-RS on the indicated subset of PRBs. According to some embodiments, a method for use in a wireless device of receiving CSI-RS comprises: receiving an indication of a subset of PRBs that the wireless device should use to measure CSI-RS associated with an antenna port; and receiving CSI-RS on the indicated subset of PRBs. In some embodiments, the indication of the subset of PRBs that the wireless device should use to measure CSI-RS comprises a density value and a comb offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Siva Muruganathan, Mattias Frenne, Shiwei Gao, Stephen Grant, Robert Mark Harrison
  • Publication number: 20240297647
    Abstract: An RF switch to controllably withstand an applied RF voltage Vsw, or a method of fabricating such a switch, which includes a string of series-connected constituent FETs with a node of the string between each pair of adjacent FETs. The method includes controlling capacitances between different nodes of the string to effectively tune the string capacitively, which will reduce the variance in the RF switch voltage distributed across each constituent FET, thereby enhancing switch breakdown voltage. Capacitances are controlled, for example, by disposing capacitive features between nodes of the string, and/or by varying design parameters of different constituent FETs. For each node, a sum of products of each significant capacitor by a proportion of Vsw appearing across it may be controlled to approximately zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventor: Robert Mark Englekirk
  • Publication number: 20240297690
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for transmitting multiple layers of an uplink physical channel comprises transmitting to a network node an indication of a capability to operate according to a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation. In the first mode a codebook subset comprises precoding matrices with at most one non-zero elements per column, and in the second mode the codebook subset comprises precoding matrices with at most two non-zero elements per column. The codebook subset is in a codebook for use when transform precoding of a physical channel is disabled. The method further comprises receiving a configuration from the network node for a selected mode of operation, and transmitting the physical channel using transform precoding and, at least when transmitting with two layers, using the codebook subset comprising the precoding matrices of the selected mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Mark HARRISON, Ling SU, Zhipeng LIN
  • Patent number: 12081382
    Abstract: Systems and methods relating to frequency-selective Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) precoding and uplink transmission are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a wireless device comprises transmitting SRS on a first set of frequency-domain resources, and receiving an uplink scheduling assignment for an uplink physical channel comprising a resource allocation of a second set of frequency-domain resources comprising: (a) one or more frequency-domain resources that are also included in the first set and (b) one or more frequency-domain resources that are not included in the first set. In order to form a precoded uplink channel, the method further comprises: for each frequency-domain resource in (a), applying a same precoding as applied to the SRS on the frequency-domain resource; and, for each frequency-domain resource in (b), applying a same precoding as applied to the SRS on a different frequency-domain resource. The method further comprises transmitting the precoded uplink channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Sebastian Faxér, Andreas Nilsson, Robert Mark Harrison
  • Publication number: 20240277545
    Abstract: A transport system for a medical facility includes a support apparatus including a frame assembly. The frame assembly includes a frame connector. A care cart assembly includes a cart connector selectively coupled with the frame connector. The care cart assembly includes a body defining receiving spaces that are configured to receive care modules. Wheels are coupled to the body and configured to engage an underlying floor surface. A power drive system includes a power drive wheel operable between a retracted position spaced from the underlying floor surface and a deployed position engaging the underlying floor surface. The care cart assembly is configured to drive movement of the support apparatus with the power drive system when coupled with the support apparatus and when the power drive wheel is engaging the underlying floor surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Nicholas Mann, David C. Newkirk, Todd P. O'Neal, Travis A. Pelo, Jack Barney Sing, Neal Wiggerman, Robert Mark Zerhusen
  • Publication number: 20240272664
    Abstract: Circuits and methods that compensate for the problems created by low-dropout regulator (LDO) leakage current, particularly when stressed. Embodiments include an improved LDO configured to provide a load current, and which includes a leakage current compensation circuit. The leakage current compensation circuit generates a compensating current that offsets the leakage current through the pass device of the LDO during conditions that induce such leakage. More specifically, the leakage current compensation circuit can replicate the leakage current of the pass device of the LDO and feed a compensating current back into the LDO from a current mirror circuit while drawing zero-power during normal use, when leakage current is absent. LDO circuits that include a leakage current compensation circuit are particularly useful as voltage sources for positive or negative charge pumps, but are also quite useful in applications requiring a regulated voltage output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventor: Robert Mark Englekirk
  • Patent number: 12063083
    Abstract: A User Equipment (UE) receives, from a network node, codebook subset restriction (CBSR) signaling comprising a bitmap. The bitmap comprises a plurality of sets and each set comprises a plurality of bits. Each of the bits indicates whether a respective vector in a first set of vectors is restricted. Each set of bits indicates whether a respective vector in a second set of vectors is restricted. The UE restricts precoders selectable from a plurality of codebooks based on either a first vector in the first set of vectors or a second vector in the second set of vectors being indicated as restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Sebastian Faxér, Shiwei Gao, Robert Mark Harrison, Siva Muruganathan
  • Patent number: 12052773
    Abstract: A method in a terminal device. The method includes determining a DeModulation Reference Signal (DMRS) configuration for a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) and transmitting to a network device the PUSCH using the DMRS configuration along with a preamble, in a random access message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Zhipeng Lin, Robert Mark Harrison, Mattias Frenne