Patents by Inventor Robert P. Gilmore
Robert P. Gilmore 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).
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Publication number: 20220330214Abstract: Multiple channels are aggregated. In an example embodiment, first data is transmitted on a first channel to a wireless device, and second data is simultaneously transmitted on a second channel to the wireless device. The first data and the second data are transmitted in a coordinated manner by aggregating the first channel and the second channel. Various example channel characteristics and combinations thereof are described. Different data allocation options for aggregated channels are described. Other alternative implementations are also presented herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Kenneth L. Stanwood, Ramon Khalona, Lei Wang, Yair Bourlas, Gene W. Marsh, Robert P. Gilmore, Ron Porat, Paul W. Piggin
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Patent number: 10192813Abstract: A hard macro includes a periphery defining a hard macro area and having a top and a bottom and a hard macro thickness from the top to the bottom, the hard macro including a plurality of vias extending through the hard macro thickness from the top to bottom. Also an integrated circuit having a top layer, a bottom layer and at least one middle layer, the top layer including a top layer conductive trace, the middle layer including a hard macro and the bottom layer including a bottom layer conductive trace, wherein the top layer conductive trace is connected to the bottom layer conductive trace by a via extending through the hard macro.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2013Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Kambiz Samadi, Shreepad A. Panth, Yang Du, Robert P. Gilmore
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Publication number: 20180110033Abstract: Multiple channels are aggregated. In an example embodiment, first data is transmitted on a first channel to a wireless device, and second data is simultaneously transmitted on a second channel to the wireless device. The first data and the second data are transmitted in a coordinated manner by aggregating the first channel and the second channel. Various example channel characteristics and combinations thereof are described. Different data allocation options for aggregated channels are described. Other alternative implementations are also presented herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2017Publication date: April 19, 2018Applicant: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Kenneth L. Stanwood, Ramon Khalona, Lei Wang, Yair Bourlas, Gene W. Marsh, Robert P. Gilmore, Ron Porat, Paul W. Piggin
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Patent number: 9854577Abstract: Multiple channels are aggregated. In an example embodiment, first data is transmitted on a first channel to a wireless device, and second data is simultaneously transmitted on a second channel to the wireless device. The first data and the second data are transmitted in a coordinated manner by aggregating the first channel and the second channel. Various example channel characteristics and combinations thereof are described. Different data allocation options for aggregated channels are described. Other alternative implementations are also presented herein.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Kenneth L. Stanwood, Ramon Khalona, Lei Wang, Yair Bourlas, Gene W. March, Robert P. Gilmore, Ron Porat, Paul W. Piggin
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Patent number: 9543383Abstract: High-speed high-power semiconductor devices are disclosed. In an exemplary design, a high-speed high-power semiconductor device includes a source, a drain to provide an output signal, and an active gate to receive an input signal. The semiconductor device further includes at least one field gate located between the active gate and the drain, at least one shallow trench isolation (STI) strip formed transverse to the at least one field gate, and at least one drain active strip formed parallel to, and alternating with, the at least one STI strip. The semiconductor device may be modeled by a combination of an active FET and a MOS varactor. The active gate controls the active FET, and the at least one field gate controls the MOS varactor. The semiconductor device has a low on resistance and can handle a high voltage.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2011Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Yang Du, Vladimir Aparin, Robert P. Gilmore
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Publication number: 20160262135Abstract: Multiple channels are aggregated. In an example embodiment, first data is transmitted on a first channel to a wireless device, and second data is simultaneously transmitted on a second channel to the wireless device. The first data and the second data are transmitted in a coordinated manner by aggregating the first channel and the second channel. Various example channel characteristics and combinations thereof are described. Different data allocation options for aggregated channels are described. Other alternative implementations are also presented herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2016Publication date: September 8, 2016Applicant: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Kenneth L. Stanwood, Ramon Khalona, Lei Wang, Yair Bourlas, Gene W. March, Robert P. Gilmore, Ron Porat, Paul W. Piggin
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Patent number: 9344998Abstract: Multiple channels are aggregated. In an example embodiment, first data is transmitted on a first channel to a wireless device, and second data is simultaneously transmitted on a second channel to the wireless device. The first data and the second data are transmitted in a coordinated manner by aggregating the first channel and the second channel. Various example channel characteristics and combinations thereof are described. Different data allocation options for aggregated channels are described. Other alternative implementations are also presented herein.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2012Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Kenneth L. Stanwood, Ramon Khalona, Lei Wang, Yair Bourlas, Gene W. Marsh, Robert P Gilmore, Ron Porat, Paul W. Piggin
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Patent number: 9164729Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating random binary sequences from a physical entropy source having a state A and a state B by detecting whether the physical entropy source is in the state A or in the state B, attempting to shift the state of the physical entropy source to the opposite state in a probabilistic manner with less than 100% certainty, and producing one of four outputs based on the detected state and the state of the physical entropy source before the attempted shift. The outputs are placed in first and second queues and extracted in pairs from each queue. Random binary bits are output based on the sequences extracted from each queue.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Wenqing Wu, Peiyuan Wang, Raghu Sagar Madala, Senthil Kumar Govindaswamy, Kendrick H. Yuen, Robert P. Gilmore, Jung Pill Kim, Seung H. Kang
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Patent number: 9167560Abstract: Multiple channels are aggregated. In an example embodiment, first data is transmitted on a first channel to a wireless device, and second data is simultaneously transmitted on a second channel to the wireless device. The first data and the second data are transmitted in a coordinated manner by aggregating the first channel and the second channel. Various example channel characteristics and combinations thereof are described. Different data allocation options for aggregated channels are described. Other alternative implementations are also presented herein.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Wi-LAN Inc.Inventors: Kenneth L. Stanwood, Ramon Khalona, Lei Wang, Yair Bourlas, Gene W. Marsh, Robert P. Gilmore, Ron Porat, Paul W. Piggin
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Patent number: 9135976Abstract: A probabilistic programming current is injected into a cluster of bi-stable probabilistic switching elements, the probabilistic programming current having parameters set to result in a less than unity probability of any given bi-stable switching element switching, and a resistance of the cluster of bi-stable switching elements is detected. The probabilistic programming current is injected and the resistance of the cluster state detected until a termination condition is met. Optionally the termination condition is detecting the resistance of the cluster of bi-stable switching elements at a value representing a multi-bit data.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2013Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wenqing Wu, Kendrick Hoy Leong Yuen, Xiaochun Zhu, Seung Hyuk Kang, Matthew Michael Nowak, Jeffrey Alexander Levin, Robert P. Gilmore, Nicholas Ka Ming Yu
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Publication number: 20140254810Abstract: In a particular embodiment, a system includes a controller configured to receive proximity data associated with a first device of a plurality of devices. The proximity data indicates a relative location of each of one or more devices of the plurality of devices with respect to the first device. The controller is further configured to determine an estimated intermodulation product. The estimated intermodulation product is calculated based on the proximity data. The controller is further configured to initiate transmission of one or more commands, based on the estimated intermodulation product, to at least one device of the plurality of devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2013Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Victor A. Abramsky, Andrzej Partyka, Robert P. Gilmore
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Publication number: 20140222880Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating random binary sequences from a physical entropy source having a state A and a state B by detecting whether the physical entropy source is in the state A or in the state B, attempting to shift the state of the physical entropy source to the opposite state in a probabilistic manner with less than 100% certainty, and producing one of four outputs based on the detected state and the state of the physical entropy source before the attempted shift. The outputs are placed in first and second queues and extracted in pairs from each queue. Random binary bits are output based on the sequences extracted from each queue.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Wenqing Wu, Peiyuan Wang, Raghu Sagar Madala, Senthil Kumar Govindaswamy, Kendrick H. Yuen, Robert P. Gilmore, Jung Pill Kim, Seung H. Kang
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Patent number: 8779824Abstract: Clock signals are distributed on a chip by applying an oscillating magnetic field to the chip. Local clock generation circuits including magnetic field sensors are distributed around the chip and are coupled to local clocked circuitry on the chip. The magnetic field sensors may include clock magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) in which a magnetic orientation of the free layer is free to rotate in the free layer plane in response to the applied magnetic field. The MTJ resistance alternates between a high resistance value and a low resistance value as the free layer magnetization rotates. Clock generation circuitry coupled to the clock MTJs senses voltage oscillations caused by the alternating resistance of the clock MTJs. The clock generation circuitry includes amplifiers, which convert the sensed voltage into local clock signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2012Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wenqing Wu, Kendrick H. Yuen, David W. Hansquine, Robert P. Gilmore, Jeff A. Levin
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Publication number: 20140167831Abstract: Clock signals are distributed on a chip by applying an oscillating magnetic field to the chip. Local clock generation circuits including magnetic field sensors are distributed around the chip and are coupled to local clocked circuitry on the chip. The magnetic field sensors may include clock magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) in which a magnetic orientation of the free layer is free to rotate in the free layer plane in response to the applied magnetic field. The MTJ resistance alternates between a high resistance value and a low resistance value as the free layer magnetization rotates. Clock generation circuitry coupled to the clock MTJs senses voltage oscillations caused by the alternating resistance of the clock MTJs. The clock generation circuitry includes amplifiers, which convert the sensed voltage into local clock signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Wenqing Wu, Kendrick H. Yuen, David W. Hansquine, Robert P. Gilmore, Jeff A. Levin
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Publication number: 20140131885Abstract: A hard macro includes a periphery defining a hard macro area and having a top and a bottom and a hard macro thickness from the top to the bottom, the hard macro including a plurality of vias extending through the hard macro thickness from the top to bottom. Also an integrated circuit having a top layer, a bottom layer and at least one middle layer, the top layer including a top layer conductive trace, the middle layer including a hard macro and the bottom layer including a bottom layer conductive trace, wherein the top layer conductive trace is connected to the bottom layer conductive trace by a via extending through the hard macro.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2013Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Kambiz Samadi, Shreepad A. Panth, Yang Du, Robert P. Gilmore
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Publication number: 20140098602Abstract: A probabilistic programming current is injected into a cluster of bi-stable probabilistic switching elements, the probabilistic programming current having parameters set to result in a less than unity probability of any given bi-stable switching element switching, and a resistance of the cluster of bi-stable switching elements is detected. The probabilistic programming current is injected and the resistance of the cluster state detected until a termination condition is met. Optionally the termination condition is detecting the resistance of the cluster of bi-stable switching elements at a value representing a multi-bit data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Inventors: Wenqing Wu, Kendrick Hoy Leong Yuen, Xiaochun Zhu, Seung Hyuk Kang, Matthew Michael Nowak, Jeffrey Alexander Levin, Robert P. Gilmore, Nicholas Ka Ming Yu
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Patent number: 8611820Abstract: Techniques for designing a communications unit including a signal separation module for energy harvesting. In an exemplary aspect, the signal separation module includes first and second quadrature hybrids coupled by band-pass filters (BPF's). Incoming signals within the pass-band of the BPF's are directed through the quadrature hybrids and through the BPF's, and emerge as a desired pass-band signal to be processed by an RX processing module. Incoming signals lying outside the pass-band of the BPF's are reflected from the BPF's back to the first quadrature hybrid, and output as a non-pass-band signal to be processed by an energy harvesting module. In a further exemplary aspect, the signal separation module resides in a detachable module coupleable to a wireless communications device, and a signal transmitted by the wireless communications device is coupled to the signal separation module for energy harvesting.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2009Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Robert P. Gilmore
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Publication number: 20130114546Abstract: Multiple channels are aggregated. In an example embodiment, first data is transmitted on a first channel to a wireless device, and second data is simultaneously transmitted on a second channel to the wireless device. The first data and the second data are transmitted in a coordinated manner by aggregating the first channel and the second channel. Various example channel characteristics and combinations thereof are described. Different data allocation options for aggregated channels are described. Other alternative implementations are also presented herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2012Publication date: May 9, 2013Applicant: WI-LAN INC.Inventors: Kenneth L. Stanwood, Ramon Khalona, Lei Wang, Yair Bourlas, Gene W. Marsh, Robert P Gilmore, Ron Porat, Paul W. Piggin
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Publication number: 20120211812Abstract: High-speed high-power semiconductor devices are disclosed. In an exemplary design, a high-speed high-power semiconductor device includes a source, a drain to provide an output signal, and an active gate to receive an input signal. The semiconductor device further includes at least one field gate located between the active gate and the drain, at least one shallow trench isolation (STI) strip formed transverse to the at least one field gate, and at least one drain active strip formed parallel to, and alternating with, the at least one STI strip. The semiconductor device may be modeled by a combination of an active FET and a MOS varactor. The active gate controls the active FET, and the at least one field gate controls the MOS varactor. The semiconductor device has a low on resistance and can handle a high voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2011Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: QUALCOMM INCORPORATEDInventors: Yang Du, Vladimir Aparin, Robert P. Gilmore
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Patent number: 8223688Abstract: Multiple channels are aggregated. In an example embodiment, first data is transmitted on a first channel to a wireless device, and second data is simultaneously transmitted on a second channel to the wireless device. The first data and the second data are transmitted in a coordinated manner by aggregating the first channel and the second channel. Various example channel characteristics and combinations thereof are described. Different data allocation options for aggregated channels are described. Other alternative implementations are also presented herein.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2007Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Wi-LAN, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth L. Stanwood, Ramon Khalona, Lei Wang, Yair Bourlas, Gene W. Marsh, Robert P. Gilmore, Ron Porat, Paul W. Piggin